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Rhapsody has wrapped up its BlackBerry beta and is now offering its streaming music service on App World. After signing up for a $10/month subscription, you can get access to 10 million tracks on demand over either Wi-Fi or 3G, tune in to tailor-made radio stations, listen to what’s popular, browse through categories of music,…
Urbanspoon, the location-based restaurant-finding app cross-bred with a slot machine, has just added the ability to add pictures and reviews to individual menu items. That also means you can see what dishes look like at particular restaurants, and see if they taste as good as they look. The app’s also available for iPad, Android, and…
Today the FCC discussed the future of the open internet, and how service providers will be able to control access and speed of access to particular sites, services, and apps – policies collectively referred to as “net neutrality.” Google and Verizon have a vested interest in wireless internet, and together defended it as separate from…
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Kaufman Brothers, says that Verizon sees iPhone as “essential to its future success,” even though AT&T isn’t all that bothered about losing exclusivity. Wu also says that BlackBerry 6-enabled devices will be landing between January and March, which he speculates could be a CDMA version of the BlackBerry Torch (though…
As suspected, Sony Ericsson’s upcoming PlayStation phone will be launched under the Xperia brand – specifically as the Xperia Play. Sony Ericsson’s PR firm, Jung Relations, have apparently registered several domains containing “XperiaPlay” in the name, which corroborates with trademark filings for the same. From what we know of the unannounced device, the Xperia Play…
NEC has already dabbled in Android tablets in Japan, but soon (at CES, to be precise) they’ll be showing off something for the North American crowd. The NEC Dual Screen Cloud Communicator Tablet will run Android, have two 7-inch screens, include 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS, and be stylus-compatible. NEC didn’t mention how exactly those screens…
Samsung’s own operating System, bada, is due for a 2.0 upgrade in 2011, which will host a bunch of new features. The most notable among them is near-field communications, a feature Android recently adopted for 2.3 Gingerbread, but Bada 2.0 will include a lot of other stuff, like multitasking, SDKs for Mac and Linux, FlashLite…
Although it’s kind of hard to tell, this is apparently the HTC Desire HD, and it’s heading to Telus sometime in January/February next year according to tipsters. It’s good to see those wishy-washy rumours last month gaining some more concrete proof. No mention of pricing, but I wouldn’t expect it to be more than $200…
A few months ago Qualcomm’s foray into mobile TV was axed, and now they’re offloading spectrum in the lower 700 MHz range that they were using for Flo TV to AT&T for a cool $1.9 billion. What does AT&T plan to do with it? 4G, of course. Apparently this spectrum has the capability to cover…
A few weeks ago, Loopt was updated on iPhone with a new UI and geo-based texts, and on Tuesday they applied the same update to their Android client. A lot of the same features were there, like Ping to send texts to nearby friends and see where they are, notifications for when your friends are…