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People who travel often, whether it’s a part of their job description or they simply prefer to live a nomadic lifestyle, have no doubt heard of Boingo, a company that provides users with WiFi internet access from over 211,000 hotspots in over 100 countries. As of September 2010 Boingo had 191,000 subscribers paying a monthly…
Each and every time we had to write an article about Modu it has always left a bad taste in our mouths. From the beginning we knew that the company was created merely to swindle investors out of their money and that the products they showed off not only made very little sense, but were…
Looking for a smartphone that isn’t going to break the bank? Look no further than Dell.com who from now until the end of January is selling the Nokia E5, fully unlocked, for just $150. It usually retails for $240, so this is one heck of a bargain. For that amount of cash you get a…
Ever been in a situation where you notice that an absolutely brilliant song is playing over the loudspeakers at whatever establishment you may be in, and you’ve said to yourself “damn, I wish I knew what that song was!” Shazam was one of the first applications to help make answering that question just a little…
Apple has just seeded a development build of the next version of iOS, version 4.3, to developers. It’s labeled beta, meaning this isn’t meant for everyday consumers to toy with, but there are enough new features in there for both the iPad and iPhone that we thought we’d make a quick guide explaining everything you…
Samsung’s popular Galaxy S smartphone that goes under different names depending on which operator you bought it from is due to get an upgrade that’s going to be exclusive to T-Mobile USA. Today T-Mobile sells the Galaxy S and calls it the Samsung Vibrant. Soon there’s going to be a refresh called the Vibrant 4G.…
Network infrastructure firm Ericsson is trying to let everyone know that this whole mobile thing is a big deal. So big in fact that the number of mobile broadband connections, which at the end of 2010 measured roughly 400 million, is set to double to over 1 billion by the end of 2011. Around 400…
America’s four largest operators have started claiming that they each have a 4G network, but do Americans actually know what that even means? Nielsen surveyed over 2,131 adults to find out if they could break beyond the hype, and the results are surprisingly not too shabby. Of all the people surveyed around 83% have heard…
Qualcomm and their industry respected Snapdragon platform has been shoved inside more Android smartphones than anyone can count. With the announcement of so many NVIDIA Tegra 2 devices at CES, many of us have been asking: where’s Qualcomm’s dual core solution? The Tegra 2 packs 2 ARM Cortex A9 processors clocked at a blistering 1…
Samsung’s Galaxy S, and the many other names it goes under in America where all four of the major operators launched it, has been a massive success. The South Korean firm announced that they’ve shipped more than 10 million of them in just 7 months. How are you supposed to follow that act? By announcing…