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I know it’s a lovely summer Friday and many of you already are eyeing the weekend but get ready for some hardcore mobile news coming next week, as the MobileBeat 2011 conference is coming to San Francisco July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel. It’s going to filled with thought leaders from the leading handset makers,…
The much-anticipated Toshiba Thrive 3.1 Android tablet will be available to purchase from Best Buy July 10. The news comes from Best Buy, as I’m still waiting on official word from Toshiba but it looks like you’ll be able to head to the electronics store on Sunday to plunk down some cash for the tablet.…
The pieces are slowly coming together about Apple’s Fall plans, as a new report from Thisismynext suggests that we will see a new iPad in a few months that will be called the iPad HD. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we just heard another report which suggests that an iPad 2 Plus will be…
We’ve covered the mobile payment company Zong many times here and it’s been fun to watch this company grow along with the smartphone boom. It looks like all of its hard work will be paying off, as eBay plans to purchase the company for about $240 million. Zong specializes in letting consumers purchase digital and…
Boost Mobile is continuing to provide some high-quality discount telephony, as the company is now offering a $5 a month international package which will give you unlimited calls to Mexico and more. In order to get this unlimited call plan to Mexico, you have to add it on to your existing unlimited plan which costs…
Facebook just made a big announcement that it would be teaming with Skype to provide free, one-to-one video calling on the world’s largest social network but you won’t be able to use this feature in the mobile apps yet. The Facebook Skype video calling service was the major feature of today’s announcement but it also…
Verizon is rolling out tiered data plans July 7 and new users won’t be able to get an unlimited data plan. Instead, users will get to choose four different plans for their mobile data needs and this could be a good or bad thing depending on your usage. We’ll lay out what the IntoMobile team…
The rumors of the iPad 3 coming out this Fall have been bouncing around for a while now but an analyst is lending a bit more credence to the fact that we may see a followup to the Apple tablet soon and it may have a boosted screen. “We hear Apple could migrate the iPad’s…
If you were wondering if the Apple iPad is a fad or not, you should know that the folks at NetMarketShare said the Apple tablet accounts for more than 1 percent of the global web traffic and 2.1 percent of all U.S. traffic. While that may not seem like much in the grand scheme of…
When you think of cutting-edge technology and tablets, you probably think of Russell Brand, right? Wait, you don’t. Well, that makes sense but HP is tapping the movie star to promote its just-released TouchPad with webOS. Calling it his “robot butler,” Russell Brand does his usual cheeky bits about why you should get this tablet…