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Many of you T-Mobile fans are anxiously awaiting the Galaxy S II and we’re happy to tell you that a leaked roadmap says it should launch at the end of October. TMoNews got its hands on the leaked schedule for the next few months and it shows that the Android superphone from Samsung should be…
Since it’s the Friday before a long weekend, I thought I’d take a little time to share some of the apps that I’m digging. As I mentioned in previous posts, these apps aren’t necessarily new or cutting edge but these are the ones I wind up using and clicking more often. I do tend to…
Oh, patents. The thing that most average consumers don’t care about is has become a major issue in the mobile world and the good folks at BusinessInsurance.org have thrown together an infographic to help explain what is is and how the patent wars started. With nearly every mobile company involved in some form of patent…
Remember that story about the iPhone 5 prototype being lost in a bar? Well, the San Francisco Police Department is saying that it doesn’t have any record of this happening. The original CNET story cited anonymous sources which said an Apple employee lost the prototype at a San Francisco bar, the San Francisco police helped…
Google Chairmain Eric Schmidt was at the keynote speech yesterday during Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce convention and he swatted away a bit of conventional wisdom by saying that Google bought Motorola for more than just patents. Google plans to spend $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility and many believed this was due to the patents Motorola owns…
I rolled on over to Amazon.com this morning and was surprised to see the redesigned image you see above but then it all made sense: Amazon is testing out a more tablet-friendly design. This isn’t just for its rumored upcoming tablets, as Amazon understands that devices like the iPad are becoming more and more prevalent…
It looks like postcards are the new hip thing in mobile technology, as a new app company lets you use your iPhone to create and send postcards while you’re out and about. Postcard On The Run does exactly what the title implies: the iPhone app will let you use your phone’s camera to create postcards…
This isn’t much of a surprise given how adamantly Sprint has opposed the AT&T, T-Mobile merger but a new Sprint-commissioned study said that the potential mega-merger could lead to jobs losses. AT&T is saying that the merger could lead to up to 5,000 new jobs in the United States but the study, done by Professor…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about tablets lately and I’m genuinely curious: What’s your favorite tablet and why? If we’re going by sheer sales numbers, I’d imagine many of you would say the iPad, as it has sold more than 22 million units and pretty much kickstarted this whole category. The original iPad…
I was at the Dreamforce conference today in sunny San Francisco checking out all the latest and greatest in enterprise software and I couldn’t help but notice that tablets were all over the place. Well, not tablets, just the iPad. I counted at least 30 tablets on the show floor and they were all iPads.…