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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,…
Americans might find this hard to believe, but in Finland people usually take one month off during the summer. We’re not making this up, people get four weeks of paid holiday to do whatever they want. You’d have to live here for one whole year and experience what six months of winter can do to…
Prisons face a growing problem of cell phone usage among inmates with 2,000-3,000 handsets being confiscated each year in some facilities. A variety of means allows inmates to obtain handsets which are then used from within prison to arrange for drug deals, organize gang activity and even order hits on prison staff members and their…
Amazon jumped head first into the music streaming market with the debut of its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player for Android. The online retail giant was rumored to be working on a music storage and streaming service and the cloud-based system is now available for customers to try. Amazon’s system uses Cloud Drive, an online…
Looking to root your new Motorola Xoom, but don’t want to go through the command line? Luckily for you, there’s a nifty little Android app that will allow just that, with little know-how of command line or Android hacking required. Of course, by using this method, or any other for that matter, you take full…
During CTIA 2011 in Orlando, Florida last week, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse really showed his colors by taking solid jabs at each of the other carriers during a CEO round table moderated by Jim Cramer. And during Sprint’s unveiling of the EVO 3D, Hesse quipped that the other carriers have “faux-G” rather than actual 4G.…
A little over a week ago, we heard that iOS 4.3.1 was in the works and that it might patch up any jailbreak solutions that have been made for the new iPhone, iPod touch and iPad operating system. Days later, Apple released the update to the masses.Unfortunately, it’s not an untethered jailbreak, which means you’re…
Although I can’t consider myself a HUGE fan of The Joy of Tech, every once and awhile one of their comics will catch my eye, and make me laugh. Case in point today comes to us in the form of a new BlackBerry PlayBook comic. Check it out above. If you’re waiting patiently to get…
It has been like clockwork for Apple and the iPhone every year, but this year we might not see an iPhone in the summer. Instead, there is a possibility it won’t come until the fall. Apple has announced this morning that WWDC 2011 will take place on June 9, and the main focus will be…
The earlier rumor was that Apple may unveil the iOS 5 and MobileMe at some point in early April. Now we have a new tidbit of information, suggesting the next-generation of Apple’s mobile platform will be launched at some point this fall. There’s more: iOS 5 is said to be a major revamp of the…