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Facebook for Windows Phone 7 just received an update that will allow the app to support Mango’s, or Windows Phone 7.5, new features. Now that Mango makes the WP7 experience feel a little more complete, it’s good to see apps like Facebook – a service most of us use with some frequency – updated to…
Apple is teaming-up with the government of Zimbabwe to distribute solar-powered iPads to rural schools around the country. Zimbabwean minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart announced the news after meeting with Apple employees in Paris. In his Facebook post, Coltart noted that he had a “great meeting with Apple” and unveiled a…
Microsoft premiered a concept video that illustrates what the company believes technology is prepared to evolve over the next five to ten years. The software giant’s vision is inspired by trends its researchers and engineers are seeing in software, devices, displays, sensors, processors and intelligent systems. In the video you’ll notice some awesome futuristic capabilities like special…
Fifty-year-old Brit Trevor Prideaux has embedded his Nokia C7 into prosthetic arm, allowing him to more easily use the Symbian-powered smartphone. First, he tried to embed the iPhone, but Apple wasn’t that interested to provide him with the “blank iPhone casing” during development. Then he contacted Nokia and the Exeter Mobility Centre, a disability service…
If you’re looking to pick up a Square credit card reader for your smartphone, you shouldn’t have trouble finding one these days. That’s because you can buy them from just about anywhere except your local bodega. Next time you’re at Apple, Best Buy, RadioShack, Target or Wal-Mart, you can grab a Square card reader and…
Since many of us our glued to our cell phones throughout the day, it’s natural to worry whether all those radio waves and the radiation are harming us. For every handful of studies that show no correlation between heavy cell phone use and brain cancer, there are a few that do. However, a 15-year study…
The latest study conducted by Nielsen shows that 40 percent of people use their tablets and smartphones while watching TV. This survey illustrates how users are increasingly multitasking when it comes to multimedia, and justifies a lot of the work DirecTV is doing with smartphone and tablet linking to their set-top boxes. All of this information…
Hasn’t it been your dream to drive around and stay connected to the Internet just about wherever you are? You might want to take a look at a few Audi cars (the A6, A7 and A8), it has partnered with RACO Wireless to effectively turn their cars into giant mobile hotspots and connected devices. Powered…
In the latest infographic created by [x]cube Labs, shows 79 percent of people out there use their smartphones to help them shop. The survey tracks some new interesting habits in shopping regimens illustrated by today’s consumer using data pulled from “various research reports”. Of that 79 percent, 70 percent of the consumers use the smartphone…
CTIA announced today that the number of American wireless subscriber connections has officially exceeded the population the United States and its territories, which are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The total population is 315.5 million inhabitants, while the number of wireless subscriber connections is 327.6 million. That translates to a penetration of 103.9…