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Despite solid handset sales, and a wide selection in the Android Market, Google’s Eric Chu said in a recent interview that they’re still “not happy” with app sales. He outlined that carrier billing, in-app purchases, and third-party stores are all a part of their mission to improve the situation. As is, Android supports AT&T and…
Verizon BlackBerry owners, your wait for OS 6 on the Curve 3G 9330 and Bold 9650 is at an end. At 8 PM EST tonight, RIM and Big Red are rolling it out to everybody. The biggest addition in the OS is universal search, which lets you pull up local content, like contacts and e-mails,…
RIM has announced BlackBerry OS 6.1 as the introduction of augmented reality functions, but there will be a few more subtle goodies included. In some of the first leaked screenshots of the software, the home screen options will allow you to pare down down which panes are displayed, minimizing time spent flipping from one to…
HP Palm’s upcoming tablet sure looks good, but for all we know, the “Topaz” monicker is just a codename. Some digging around has revealed that HP has recently filed the trademark for a bevvy of names, including “Touchpad”, “Touchcanvas”, “Duopad”, “Palmpad” and “Touchslate”, any of which seem as likely candidates for the tablet. It’s just…
About a year ago, Kodak opened up both barrels of legal action on RIM and Apple for infringing on an image preview patent. Though they haven’t quite lost yet, an International Trade Commission judge has ruled the complaint invalid, prior to a full ITC ruling in May. RIM had actually counter-sued to avoid paying licensing…
RBC Capital Markets did a survey of some 1000-odd consumers at CES, where 6% said they were likely to buy a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Although that might not sound like much, RBC’s Mike Abramsky said the data backed up his estimate that RIM would sell six million PlayBooks in fiscal 2011, or four million in…
RIM VP Jeff McDowell recently estimated that their upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would have 4,000 apps available for it in March at launch. McDowell also had some bold words to say about the battery life, which had come under fire; he says that the PlayBook would have equal or better life than the iPad. I…
The traditionally stoic Apple has opened up another Twitter account to join their smattering of existing iTunes accounts. @AppStore went live recently, with the express goal of helping folks “discover new apps, get exclusive offers, and share with friends.” The account isn’t verified quite yet, so it could in theory be fake, but it seems…
Also included in the Topaz leak this morning was a variety of plans for the webOS tablet user interface. Obviously there are some changes to be made for the bigger screen, but how exactly they go about upscaling webOS will be particularly interesting. Keep in mind that this is all from a planning document from…
Last week we got a glimpse of HP Palm’s plans for a tablet, but got little info on specs. A planning document from last year just surfaced, however, giving the whole detailed run-down of the Topaz (or at least what Palm is aiming for). Let’s bust out some bullets, shall we? 190 x 240 x…