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In news that should shock absolutely no one, T-Mobile said in its earnings report that the lack of the iPhone 4S may make some customers defect to other carriers in the future. The company actually had positive news out of its third-quarter earnings, as it added 126,000 net new customers, had 10.1 million customers using…
If you were hoping to get a Nokia Lumia 800 but live in the United States, you’re out of luck this year unless you want to pay an arm and a leg for the thing. Fear not though, as an exclusive report from The Verge says that the Nokia Windows Phone should be landing on…
Amazon has reportedly acquired Yap and this could be the beginning of it creating a voice-recognition system that will take on Siri. The Atlantic dug through an SEC filing which shows that the company “Dion Acquisition Sub” purchased the speech recognition company Yap and Dion just happens to be located in an Amazon building. Yap…
Yelp has hired Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to lead its initial public offering, The New York Times reports, and the move could happen in early 2012 and it is expected that the company will be valued up to $2 billion. I’m not sure if this would have been possible without the iPhone and the rise…
Fresh off leaks of the HTC Edge, our friends over at BGR have an exclusive report on another new HTC smartphone which should be quite an appealing device. The HTC Ville will reportedly have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Sense 4.0 and it will be thinner than the iPhone at 8 mm. The report also…
From time to time, I like to spotlight apps that I’m digging lately but the truth is, I’ll generally stop using them after a week or so unless it has something really valuable to offer. I do have a core set of apps that I use every single day and these are the ones that…
We’ve looked at the T-Mobile Springboard 4G tablet before but now that we have the retail unit in our hands, we’re able to take a deeper look at this 7-inch tablet with Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Overall, it looks like a good, if uninspired tablet but there are still questions about where a 7-inch tablet will…
The world’s largest social network has acquired the mobile app developer Strobe and this should lead to an even stronger HTML5 Facebook experience on your mobile devices. According to GigaOm, Strobe focuses on getting mobile apps built with HTML5 and the Stobe team (one guy, essentially) confirmed the deal on its blog and laid out…
It’s election day in many parts of the United States and Oregon is looking to the iPad to help some vote. Could this be the future of elections? According to an Associated Press report, election workers are bringing iPad and portable printers around to certain communities to help those with disabilities cast their votes. Technically,…
It’s no secret that HP is looking to sell its webOS division and a new report suggests that Oracle may be one of the interested parties. While it’s likely not to happen, if Oracle did buy webOS, don’t expect the enterprise-data company to launch into the commercial or enterprise mobile and tablet space, as it…