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In 3 weeks Apple’s new guidelines for in app purchases are due to go into effect and section 11.13 of the infinitely long document of legal jargon has been causing a lot of scandals. It stated that publishers, and in this case they list creators of magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, had to offer…
Back in October 2008 Nokia acquired a Canadian company called OZ Communications with the goal of putting their instant messaging client on all future Nokia handsets. Roughly 2.5 years later you can see bits and pieces of OZ’s software on Nokia’s low end feature phones, but devices running Symbian^3, the latest version of Symbian, only…
Richard Green, Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2010, has announced that he’s going to take a leave of absence for an unspecified amount of time due to “personal reasons”. After just 1 year on the job, he’s out, and Reuters say his departure is due to disagreements with what Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO,…
Nokia’s Research Center, filled with some of the best minds in the mobile industry working on things like materials science, battery research, and radio technology, have released a video demoing what they’re calling “Explore and Share”. Sadly, they don’t provide any background information whatsoever about the tech that powers their demo, but we think we…
Last month we saw an interesting Motorola handset leak called the EX130. We knew it was going to be a budget feature phone, but what made it unique compared to every other boring feature phone we tend to cover was the tiny little secondary screen on the bottom of the device. We’re used to seeing…
Forget anonymous tipsters and WikiLeaks like scandals, these days it’s often companies themselves that blow the lid off their own announcements. From Microsoft announcing Mango in Romania before their official press conference in New York to Motorola accidentally showing off their product portfolio for the second half of 2011, we’re overjoyed that there are webmasters…
While many of you upgrade your mobile phone every 6 months and tend to go for the high end handsets that cost over $500, there are some people out there who due to their current economic situation, or simply their refusal to be bleeding edge, opt for lower cost feature phones. It’s a market that’s,…
If you’re a Sprint customer then we’ve got some good news for you. Starting June 10th, which is tomorrow, your upload speed is going to get a small boost to 1.5 Mbps; currently it’s capped at 1 Mbps. It may not be much, especially compared to the 6 Mbps speeds you can get if you…
For those of us that live in cities with an extensive network of public transportation, owning a car seems like a ridiculous idea. To live in such a city however, and be so dependent on buses, trains, subways, and trams, you need to know routes and schedules. Some cities have plenty of information, be it…
Interactive billboards are nothing new. The advertising industry has been coming up with new and innovative ways to get your attention when walking past large screens for years. Some let you tweet a message that’ll appear on said screen, others let you manipulate the display with a text message. Over in Sweden, McDonald’s tried something…