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A new report from the Yankee Group says that Android piracy is a major problem, Google isn’t doing enough to help police it and that this is having a material impact on developers’ bottom line. “Android apps are living in the Wild West without a sheriff,” said Carl Howe, Yankee Group director of research and…
Microsoft’s Build Conference is next week and we’ll see if Windows 8 on a tablet can give the iPad a run for its money. Now, rumors suggest that Samsung will have a quad-core tablet ready for the event and these will likely be given away to attendees. Lucky me. The report suggests that the quad-core…
The Verizon Motorola Droid Bionic is finally available after a long, strange trip. The dual-core, 4G LTE smartphone debuted all the way back in January at CES, faced delays and a brain transplant, and is now available to the masses for about $300 on a two-year contract. Is it worth the wait? We’ll have a…
Yahoo is in turmoil right now with Carol Bartz sent out on her f**king behind and the company potentially being up for sale. We thought it would be a good time to take a look at the company’s mobile apps and see if these are any good and how Yahoo can improve on the mobile…
HTC is hitting Apple with another patent infringement lawsuit but this time it’s using patents that it obtained from Apple rival Google just last week. According to Bloomberg: “HTC sued Apple today in federal court in Delaware, claiming infringement of four of those patents that originally were issued to Motorola. Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC also amended…
The HTC Radar is aimed at Windows Phone users who want a sleek and elegant device but the aptly-named HTC Titan is aimed at those who want more. More screen size, more horse power, more everything. The HTC Titan sports a massive 4.7-inch display and the WVGA resolution looks good but you would really have…
The HTC Radar was officially introduced last week and HTC was nice enough to give us a look at the new Windows Phone Mango device in San Francisco this morning and I’m very glad it did. The HTC Radar is a beautifully-designed smartphone that looks and feels great. The phone feels like HTC throughout. I…
By this time next week, I’ll be in Anaheim schmoozing with Mickey Mouse and the good folks at Microsoft during its Build conference and we should get a much better idea of how the next version of Windows will look like and operate. We should also finally get to see Microsoft’s real answer to the…
While Samsung has already publicly said it won’t buy webOS don’t be surprised if the rumor mill says LG, Amazon or some other company will buy up the operating system. I hope the madness stops and we can just webOS die already. WebOS has already kind of died twice now. When HP bought Palm for…
Not content to let the government get its digs in, Sprint is suing to block the AT&T, T-Mobile merger because it says the deal would violate Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Sprint says the deal would harm consumers and it would also disturb competition. In particular, it said the AT&T, T-Mobile deal would: Harm…