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After a lengthy beta process, Slacker is now offering on-demand mobile music streaming for $10/month. Previously, Slacker would simply generate stations based on your tastes, and let you cache songs on your phone, skip tracks as much as you want, and get rid of ads for $3.99/month. In addition to those features, the new Slacker…
It’s not only individual Apple store employees that are providing exceptional support to the people of Japan after a rocky couple of weeks; Apple will be offering free repairs for iPhones, iPads and other products until June 30 in affected areas. Deliveries are included in the service, but there may be delays (which is to…
You might have heard that Plants vs. Zombies is coming to Android, but you won’t be finding it in the official Market any time soon. Developer PopCap Games has just struck an exclusivity agreement with Amazon to sell both Chuzzle and PvZ through their app store instead. Both will be available for free on their…
Anonymous sources within the European Commission say that within the next couple of weeks, they’ll be pushing to lower the pricing cap on voice, data, and texting charges while roaming within the European Union. This is a cause the EU has been championing for years, and though there has been significant progress last year when…
NTT DoCoMo has recently announced what some may call a Frankensteinian perversion among smartphones; the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C is a landscape slider with 4-inch 1024 x 600 display (!), HDMI-out, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GB of RAM, 1.2 GHz processor, and 32 GB of storage. The real kicker? It dual-boots into Symbian or the desktop…
After a decent amount of pre-launch buzz, the white HP Veer is now sale at AT&T for $99.99 with a two-year contract. The thing is adorably tiny, with a mere 2.6-inch 320 x 240 display, while still packing a resp[ectable 5 megapixel camera, 8 GB of internal storage, 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM,…
Staples has issued an internal memo detailing a recall of some 935 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. There isn’t any info on what’s wrong specifically, but it does say that faulty units may not operate at all. To help the recall process, there’s a list of serial numbers of affected PlayBooks. The PlayBook is RIM’s…
The HSPA+ enabled MyTouch 4G is finding its way north of the border soon, care of Mobilicity. Dubbed the HTC Panache, it keeps the same 3.8-inch display, 5 megapixel camera, universal search hardware key, and clever motion recognition features to help you easily mute incoming calls. OS-wise, it’ll be bumped up to Android 2.3, versus…
Google has just upgraded their browser-based news service so Android and iPhone devices can serve up items based on where you are. All you have to do is authorize Google News to use your location when you visit the site on your phone, and it will automatically pull up local news in a new section…
A fresh study from the Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology is suggesting that the dramatic decline in the world’s honey bee population may be related to cell phone signals. This study observed the reactions of a hive of Carniolan honey bees when cell phones were off, on standby, or in an active call. During a…