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RIM’s stock jumped yesterday on the rumour that Vodafone is considering acquiring the maker of BlackBerry. RIM’s market share is continuing to dwindle, and if the launch of QNX-powered smartphones early next year doesn’t pan out, they may very well be in the market for acquisition. I find the rumour a little hard to swallow. Sure,…
Let me preface this by saying I’m not an Apple guy. My problem with their products was never quality – that would be absurd. They’re polished, functional, and a pleasure to use. For me, it’s just been that Apple limits options, and to me the joy of technology is playing with and learning about the…
Poynt, my favouritest location-based search app in the whole wide world, has just updated for Windows Phone 7.5, better known as Mango. The new version now has dedicated tiles for each category, so you can jump right into restaurant, gas, movie, weather, business, or people search right from the home screen. Poynt also plugs into…
Siri, the “humble personal assistant”, took center stage at the iPhone 4S announcement yesterday, and though it might be easy to brush off the feature as something Apple just plugged in following its acquisition of the app developers, speech recognition is actually something they’ve been thinking about since 1987. This video shows the Knowledge Navigator,…
One of the fluffier bits to come out of the Apple event today was a new app called Cards. It lets you make greeting cards on an iPhone, and Apple will ship it anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99, or $4.99 outside of the U.S. Push notifications are included in the app, so you know…
Eager to hear about Apple’s iPhone announcement today? So are we, and so are some of Apple’s Japanese webmasters, by the looks of things. Official information about Apple’s Ginza store in Tokyo is announcing the iPhone 4S will be available starting 8:00 AM local time on October 14. That’s a date we’ve been hearing a…
Tomorrow is set to be the big unveiling of Apple’s next smartphone, and if this rumour pans out, it may be a doozy. Sprint has reportedly scored exclusive rights to sell the iPhone 5, while Verizon and AT&T will have a lower-end iPhone 4S. Sprint managed to pull this off by promising to buy $20…
When Google acquired Motorola over the summer, the biggest concern was that the relationship balance would shift away from the other manufacturers. Google reassured us that Motorola wouldn’t automatically be first in line to work on Nexus handsets, and Google ex-CEO (now Chairman) Eric Schmidt recently reiterated the sentiment in an interview. “The Android ecosystem…
You might remember that there was talk awhile back about RIM’s well-known instant-messaging client, BBM, would be making its way to Android and eventually iOS. The first signs of such an app have just surfaced, showing the standard BlackBerry Messenger profile page, but not much else. The app icon doesn’t look great right now, but…
After about a year of offering a social network for beer check-ins exclusively through a web app, Untappd has finally made the switch over to native apps for iPhone and Android, enabling a bunch of new features. You can now attach pictures to your check-ins, for one. There’s also notifications for whenever someone gives one…