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There were some big adjectives being thrown out at the opening of the stunning Verizon Application Innovation Center in San Francisco, as executives kept saying how this center would enable app makers to utilize 4G LTE for “transformative,” “phenomenal” and “once-in-a-lifetime” apps. I was troubled though. How innovative can mobile developers really be on Verizon’s…
Motorola would be “open” to using Windows Phone, particularly if it could get as good of a deal from Microsoft that Nokia go, CEO Sanjay Jha said at the Oppenheimer Technology & Communications Conference. “I would have to consider whether defocusing from Android to Windows will be the right thing for us to do, but…
When I moved from Android to the iPhone, the app ecosystem was a big reason why, so I thought I’d periodically point out some apps that I’m digging. These aren’t the Apps I Can’t Live Without but are neat programs which I’ve been using a lot lately. I’ll try and do this as often as…
If you were hoping to get your hands on the Nokia N9, you’re going to have to do some hardcore searching because the company’s first MeeGo phone won’t be coming to the United States or the United Kingdom as the company focuses on its Windows Phone initiative. In a statement to the press, Nokia said:…
Visa said that it will be ramping up its contactless mobile payment plans, so it looks like NFC payments will actually be a big force in the United States. We’ve been talking about mobile payments for a long time here but nothing has really happened to make paying for a train ride as easy as…
While the rest of you may be watching your portfolios crumble as the stock market goes haywire, Apple briefly passed Exxon Mobile today to become the largest publicly-traded U.S. company in terms of market capitalization and this was primarily due to the company’s success in the mobile space. Reuters reports that Apple was valued at…
The folks at Boxee have just released a new media manager app for the iPad and this aims to turn your Apple tablet into an even stronger media machine. Boxee is a company which creates software which finds most video content on the web and organizes it into a pretty interface. The company fist gained…
Who says BlackBerry is irrelevant? Research In Motion said it would be working with police on investigating what role, if any, the BlackBerry Messenger service had in organizing the recent riots. London has been under siege by some looting and rioters and authorities say that the BBM service is being used to help coordinate this.…
Good news for you Inspire 4G owners, as the giant-sized Android smartphone is getting 2.3 Gingerbread as an over-the-air update as we speak. You should know the drill by now but if you want to check if your device gets the update, go into Settings, hit the AT&T Software Update, HTC WiFi software update and…
Microsoft is losing its Windows Phone general manager as 21-year-vet Charlie Kindel is leaving the company to work on an unnamed startup in the Seattle area. On his blog, Kindel says that the new project will have to do with sports, advertising, mobile, social networking and the cloud. He posted his good-bye e-mail to the…