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Meetings are boring but necessary. We all know that. Cisco’s WebEx has been a good way to conduct meetings with people all over the world and the company has just introduced a lower-cost package that should be perfect for small and medium businesses. The best thing is that the mobile apps are included. The new…
Apple faced a bit of legal controversy and some parody over the location-tracking capabilities in iOS but it appeared to pretty much blow over. Until now. Thousands of South Koreans are suing Apple in a class-action lawsuit and said that the iOS location-tracking is a violation of their privacy. The Los Angeles Times reports that…
Google has just opened up its Photovine iPhone app to the masses but the photo-sharing app has a surprising lack of Google in it. That’s both good and bad. The Photovine iPhone app was made by the Slide team, which has been acquired by Google and operates somewhat independently. The app had been live before…
MetroPCS and Rhapsody Music are teaming up to offer the prepaid carrier’s customers free, unlimited mobile music when you subscribe to its $60 monthly plan. While I failed to include Rhapsody in my mobile music roundup, it offers more than 12 million tracks and does deliver a cool service. MetroPCS users with the Unlimited Music…
I went to the Outside Lands music festival this weekend in San Francisco and was a bit worn down when I woke up for work on Monday. I walked over to my kitchen to make some coffee while checking some e-mails and then I saw the news that Google wanted to buy Motorola Mobility for…
Glam Media is diving into the mobile advertising space and going after iOS with the launch of GlamMobile, a global advertising platform that has been optimized for these mobile devices. Along with the GlamMobile ad network, it is also introducing GlamEnable, which offers tools for publishers to create their own native iPhone and Android apps…
The LinkedIn apps have always been good ways to keep track of your professional social networks but the apps kind of seemed like the service: It’s useful but it doesn’t blow you away. With new apps for the iPhone and Android, that has changed a bit as the LinkedIn apps have been completely redesigned and…
The Google, Motorola deal is going to have a huge impact on Android but it may also unintentionally supercharge some of its competitors and I believe that HP’s webOS could use this as a much-needed opportunity to boost its platform. The GoogMoto combination will provide Google with many patents that it needs to defend Android…
We’re all anxiously awaiting the rollout of AT&T’s 4G LTE network and the carrier has just introduced its first devices to utilize it: a 4G USB modem called the USBConnect Momentum 4G and a mobile hotspot known as the Hotspot Elevate 4G. Both devices will be available Aug. 21. The company also laid out how…
A new survey from Pew Internet said that more than one third of adults rock a smartphone and that these devices can be life savers when you’re bored or to help you avoid talking to people. Not surprisingly, the survey also found that more than half of the respondents used their cell phone to look…