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While it’s no secret that I now use an iPhone more than I did before, I still have a soft spot in my heart for Windows Phone 7. With the app marketplace booming, I thought I’d take some time to tell you the 10 Windows Phone 7 apps I can’t live without. I honestly can’t…
Google just rolled out a revamped Android Market that includes a radical redesign and gives mobile users access to books and movies in the same store and we decided to point our camera at it to show you what to expect. This will slowly roll out over the next month or so but there are…
T-Mobile continues to expand its HSPA+ 42 network, as the super-fast 4G network will be coming to 56 more markets starting today. We’re still waiting on some handsets which can actually take advantage of these speeds but the USB stick that’s out now has performed admirably in a few tests we’ve seen. On the bright…
While it’s easy to assume that everyone has a smartphone and can browse the web with ease, there are still millions (or billions) or people around the world still on a feature phone. Facebook wants those users to be able to poke each other too, so its Facebook for Every Phone app makes it easier…
Well, it looks like the rumors were true, as EA announced its intentions to buy PopCap Games for about $750 million. Make no mistake, this move is all about mobile and social gaming. TechCrunch originally reported that PopCap Games would be acquired for about $1 billion a few weeks ago and it looks like it…
We all know that NFC is the next big thing and that mobile payments will lead the charge, right? Well, if you ask Square COO Keith Rabois, the technology is overrated for real businesses. “I think NFC is a technology in search of a value proposition,” Rabois said during the MobileBeat 2011 conference. To be…
Well, you can say a lot of things about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer but you can’t say the man doesn’t have a sense of humor. At a recent Microsoft partner event, Ballmer acknowledged that Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been the smash hit the company had been hoping for. “Phones, we’ve gone from very small to…
It’s tough to go to a restaurant or any public setting and not see a parent hand their kid an iPhone or iPod touch in order to keep them quiet, so I guess it was just a matter of time before someone decided to use iOS to create a baby monitor. The Evoz app has…
Apple iOS 5 beta 3 dropped a few hours ago and we weren’t expecting to find too much in it but we’re happy to report a few new goodies including enhanced gesture controls which could eventually lead to an iPhone without any physical buttons. You’ll be very happy to know that the Apple iOS 5…
Starting tomorrow, we’ll be at the MobileBeat 2011 conference in downtown San Francisco and there’s still time for some last-minute tickets if you want to be a part of the action. With multiple thought leaders in the mobile industry, MobileBeat is a great way to see what’s coming down the road, check out the next…