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After a few months of testing, Google’s plans for using Android to power purchases are finally coming to fruition. Google Wallet is now available to Samsung Nexus S owners on Sprint, enabling tap-and-go payments through PayPass sensors at Radio Shack, Foot Locker, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Sunoco, CVS/pharamacy, and a bunch of other retail locations. American…
The BlackBerry Curve 9360 has been out in Canada for a couple of weeks now, but we’re still waiting for a U.S. release. T-Mobile may be getting theirs soon, though, as briefing materials have begun arriving at retail locations. The last firm-ish date we had for T-Mobile in particular was September 14, but since that’s…
Is that a hadouken in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? LG will be the first to host an Android version of Capcom’s classic 2D fighter game franchise, Street Fighter. For the first three months of its launch, Street Fight IV for Android will be available exclusively through the LG World…
Earlier this year in the spring, a little-known manufacturer called Kingmax was first to announce a 64 GB microSD memory card, but the first one to actually start selling one is SanDisk. For the low, low price of $219.99 (plus shipping), you get a class 6 64 GB card that can read data at 30…
The updated 1.5 GHz dual-core version of the Samsung Galaxy S II heading to T-Mobile is finding its way into Canada as the “4G Samsung Galaxy S II X” – because that name was just begging for more crap to be tacked onto the end. No mention of pricing or release date, but it’s probably…
During RIM’s quarterly conference call tonight, execs announced that developer QNX handsets and platform tools will be available at their annual dev conference next month. (Update: The replay just went live, which clarified things a bit… The QNX platform will be demonstrated at DevCon and prototype phones available “in the not too distant future”. Whether…
During RIM’s Q2 conference call tonight, Mike Lazaridis talked up an update to the BlackBerry PlayBook, which will include a new Video Store. It will offer around 10,000 movies and TV shows for rent or sale, often available on the same day as DVD releases. RIM moving into selling movies isn’t a huge surprise, considering they’ve already…
RIM just posted their fiscal Q2 2012 results prior to a conference call starting at 5 PM EST. Here are the highlights, according to the release. Revenue in the second quarter was $4.2 billion and service revenue surpassed $1 billion for the first time GAAP net income of $329 million or $0.63 per fully diluted…
AT&T CFO John Stephens confirmed at a Bank of America conference today that they would be flipping the switch on LTE this Sunday. Opening markets will include Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, with a total of 15 markets expected to have coverage by the end of the year. The Acer Iconia Tab will…
Sad that the Samsung Galaxy Note and Tab 7.7 aren’t coming to the U.S.? Well, at least you’ll have the Tab 8.9 coming your way, and sooner than you think. Best Buy has just put up their preorder page for the Android Honeycomb tablet listing a $469.99 pricetag for the 16 GB model. This is,…