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GetGlue, the check-in app for just about everything, has made their first steps into location-based check-ins. By plugging into your Foursquare account, you can now simultaneously share where you’re watching a movie, reading a book, playing a game, and now catching whatever sport you happen to enjoy. You can check in with your team, and…
At launch, RIM’s first tablet, the PlayBook, will require a Bluetooth pairing with a BlackBerry smartphone in order to get access to core native apps like e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and memos. It isn’t ideal, but there are a lot of reasons RIM would go with this set-up. A recent Verizon training webinar went through…
IDC recently published their forecast for the worldwide smartphone market, and they foresee 450 million units shipping in 2011 compared to 303 million last year; that translates to 49% growth, which is four times more than the overall mobile market. IDC claims Android will snatch up 45% of the worldwide smartphone market share by 2015,…
Slacker’s various mobile apps for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry are due for an update in a few weeks, and will include the ability to listen to individual music tracks on demand. The feature is a long time coming, having been announced about six months ago, but it should finally be landing in mid-April. This is…
The Sony Ericsson LiveView accessory has been out in the U.S. for about a month, so thought we should check it out after spending some more quality time with the Xperia Play. If you haven’t heard of it, the LiveView is a Bluetooth accessory wearable thanks to a clip on the back that connects to…
At CTIA, OtterBox was showing off their work-in-progress case for the Motorola Xoom tablet. As usual, it’ll have the three layers of protection (silicon skin, hard plastic frame, and splash-resistant screen protector no additional screen like on the handset Defend Series, unfortunately), and the extra outer hard case can act as a stand just like…
American Express just launched a new initiative called Serve, which will allow users to link their American Express or other debit cards to a single account, and pay for goods and services solely with an iPhone or Android handset. As you might expect, you can send and request money from your contacts in the app,…
Heralding the launch of NFC and augmented reality-enabled BlackBerry handsets, an updated version of RIM’s desktop software companion has broken cover. BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.1 has a few new features by the looks of it, like forgetting a previously synced device if you don’t want to have extraneous backup data cluttering your computer, and launching…
Back in January, it was looking like Kodak’s outstanding camera patent lawsuit against BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and Apple was on its way out the door empty-handed, but the fight’s not over yet. The International Trade Commission has pledged to review Kodak’s case, which has already earned them $550 million from Samsung and $414 million…
One new app to launch at CTIA 2011 was Gogobeans, which at first blush looks an awful lot like Bump. Basically, you have a locker of content (called beans) stored in a cloud, and so long as you and your friend are running either the iPhone or upcoming Android app, you can share file access…