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Samsung and Apple have been going at it for quite some time now, making some pretty interesting legal claims that the other is stealing their technology, but rumor has it they might settle out of court. After Apple just settled a deal with Nokia to pay them for their technology being used in their iPhones,…
Canadian carrier Telus today announced a rather progressive change in how they handle early-termination fees (or ETFs). Normally, you pay a premium based on how many months are left on your three-year contract, which traditionally could get as high as $500. They’ve changed that around a little bit so now you only have to pay…
Samsung has been working hard to create quality ads for their new Galaxy S II, but this one leaves me questioning its intention. This new ad was posted just a few days ago, and it comes with a slightly different flow than the usual Galaxy S II commercials. Generally, Galaxy S II ads have gone…
It’s 2011 and as more and more people opt to get their news fix from digital sources, main stream media is forced to adopt to the new world, often making decisions that make them look … how should we put this kindly, foolish. Enter The New York Post, one of the more sensational newspapers you…
BMW launched a neat app in the Android Market. Called BMW EVolve, it’s designed to get drivers actively involved as “Collective Engineers” in creating the Electric Vehicles (EV) of tomorrow. As a user, you simply launch the app when driving and then let it do its magic in the background. The application will log and…
It wasn’t Sony Ericsson but NXP Semiconductors which announced scoring the Swedish-Japanese handset maker as a client for its NFC technology. As part of the deal, Sony Ericsson will integrate NXP’s PN65 NFC solution in its future Xperia smartphones, allowing for contactless payments, ticketing and other services. The mentioned solution includes the NFC radio controller,…
HTC is a company known for listening to how their customers feel and always work hard to fix the issues they might be facing. That’s just what they’re doing with the Desire’s Gingerbread update. After saying they will not be pushing out an official update for the original Desire, thousands of negative replies got them…
Angry Birds. Who ever would have thought that more than a year later, that addicting little mobile game would be so huge that we can’t stop yapping about it? The iPhone version of the game has just been updated with 15 new levels, and unlimited use of the Mighty Eagle when you purchase it just…
For the last few years mobile innovation of the conventional form factor and layout of a phone has not changed very much, but today a new LG device (possibly the Optimus Android slider we’ve been hearing about) will change that up a bit. LG fitted a color display between a split QWERTY keyboard, which hosts…
Simple Mobile, one of the lesser known players in America’s wireless space, is a mobile virtual network operator that piggybacks on T-Mobile’s network. Their whole selling point is that they don’t do subsidies, instead they only sell SIM cards. For many Europeans and Asians this is totally fine, but lots of Americans still have trouble…