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With it’s earnings report delivered earlier today, Facebook is showing positive progress in its ad revenue since adopting its current monetization model last year. Due to the announcement that Facebook is now pulling in 41% of its ad revenue through mobile advertising, the company’s stock rose more than 17% in afterhours trading today. “”We’ve made…
Some rumors of a new plastic-covered HTC device have been floating around lately, and thanks to a report from LlabTooFer some more details of the mid-range device have emerged. The HTC Zara is expected to be manufactured in plastic instead of HTC’s signature aluminum, and will tout specs close to those of the HTC One…
Earlier today, Google unveiled the new Nexus 7 tablet as well as Android 4.3 and a host of other innovations. Wasting no time, Google has started pushing the Android 4.3 open source code to AOSP. The code is listed under the android-4.3_r2.1 tag, and is expected to be available in full form within a few hours.…
At its Breakfast with Sundar event in San Francisco today, Google unveiled a service that will save starving students some money when it comes to textbook access, dubbed Play Textbooks. Starting in August, students will be able to purchase and rent textbooks from the Google Play Store and access them on Android devices. Google has…
Making good on its promise to update its Exynos 5 Octa processor, Samsung announced today the Exynos 5420. The new Exynos 5420 delivers twice the 3D graphic processing abilities of the previous Exynos Octa thanks to an architecture based on ARM Mali MP6 cores. The Exynos 5 Octa 5420 comes with two sets of four…
The government of India has approved plans to allow full foreign ownership of local mobile networks hoping that foreign shareholders will pump increased investment into the market. Under the new regulations, foreign companies can grab 49% of any mobile network without conditions, while raising the stake above that will be subject to approval by the…
BitTorrent has been working tirelessly to create a new file sync service that utilizes the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol, dubbed BitTorrent Sync. An Alpha version of the service debuted back in April, and now BitTorrent Sync has entered the Beta stage. An Android app is now available, bringing the cloud syncing platform to the mobile realm.…
With its video service still in its infancy, Instagram has taken a note from Vine in debuting a teaser trailer for the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic on its service. Vine, the Twitter owned six-second video clip sharing service, which has been around since January, showcased a teaser for the upcoming Wolverine movie back in March.…
A phone insurance company created a dedicated “mobile graveyard” website for the public to honor their old handsets and how they met their bitter end. The site also highlights various facts about mobile phone loss, theft and breakages, and includes a counter representing the estimated total cost of mobile phone replacements in the UK in…
Microsoft continues to update its Windows Phone 8 software, detailing today the ‘Amber’ or GDR2 update. The update adds a slew of functionality to the OS, such as FM radio support and an improved Xbox Music and Skype app. Here’s what’s new in versions 8.0.10327.77 and 8.0.10328.78: Xbox Music. It’s now easier to select, download, and…