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There’s a big shakeup at HP concerning webOS as former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein will be stepping aside to allow HP’s Stephen DeWitt to drive the growth of webOS. Jon Rubinstein has been the public face of webOS since its introduction with the original Pre and he was even the person who unveiled the Pre…
Just a few weeks after the last one landed, Apple iOS 5 beta 3 is now available to developers and it brings a few new features. The major new things in iOS 5 like the notification bar and the Twitter integration came out with the original beta and the second one brought things like WiFi…
Android fans, I have some bad news: I finally crossed over to the dark side this weekend and got an iPhone 4 to be my main device. My two-year upgrade came up with Verizon from the original Motorola Droid and I decided that it was finally time to pull the trigger and become a part…
Samsung Mobile has just lost a key executive, as its CTO Omar Khan will be leaving the company starting next week. Khan is widely considered to be responsible for Samsung making a huge push into Android and he was also kind of the public face for the original Galaxy Tab tablet. Khan is going over…
There’s potentially some bad news if you’re a webOS fan on Sprint, as a new rumor suggests that the Pre 3 won’t be coming to Sprint and that HP has no immediate plans to produce webOS products for this carrier in the immediate future. The report comes from unnamed sources at Thisismynext and its a…
Apple continues to try and keep other companies from using the term “App Store” and it just sent GetJar a cease-and-desist letter for using that term, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apple has been quite successful with its App Store, as it just recently reached more than 15 billion downloads and has been raking…
The Motorola Xprt for Sprint just landed in stores and in our hands, so we thought we’d take a quick look before we hit you with the full review next week. Does this full QWERTY device help you get more things done on the go or is it just a warmed over Droid Pro? Despite…
The HTC Thunderbolt was the first phone to hit the market with Verizon 4G LTE and a new report from iSuppli suggests that the high-speed mobile data capabilities greatly added to the cost. In fact, the company said it was the most expensive phone to make that is has torn down yet. In a report,…
In another sign that Zynga is taking the mobile space seriously, the social gaming company just announced it has purchased Toronto-based Five Mobile. As the name indicates, Five Mobile is well known for creating mobile apps and it will also give Zynga a nice foothold into Canada. The company said: Five Mobile, now Zynga Toronto,…
The Amazon Android tablets are almost definitely coming soon and a new report from DigiTimes suggests that the company is preparing to have 1.2 million tablets ready by the third quarter. This would put it behind only one other tablet maker: Apple. DigiTimes has been hit or miss with these types of things before but…