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A little late to the game, AT&T now has its very own MiFi Mobile Hotspot. It’s perfect timing for AT&T who recently announced that eighty percent of its network now has HSPA+ coverage. Verizon, Sprint and Virgin Mobile aren’t the only ones with these pocketable data cards now, so if you’re on AT&T and you…
If you were anxious to try out the Hulu Plus app but were wary of the price, then you’ll be happy to know that the company has slashed the cost of the service to $7.99 a month. The media-streaming company will even refund users who have been paying the $9.99 on the next billing cycle.…
The ACCESS NetFront Life Android browser just hit the Android Market and this web browser offers some unique user interface qualities which helps it stand out from the crowd. The NetFront browser is HTML5-compliant and it’s actually pretty nice for one-handed operations. One of the coolest things about it is that it will actually tilt…
The iPod touch-compatible ZTE Peel made its official début on Sprint this weekend. The 3G sleeve fits the second and third generation iPod touch and provides internet connectivity via Sprint’s 3G network. The sleeve functions as a WiFi hotspot that supports two simultaneous connections so you can share your mobile broadband with a friend, family member,…
The popular BlackBerry application, Tether, is now available for Android handsets. Formerly known asTetherBerry, Tether lets you share your mobile broadband connection with your laptop. The application installs a conduit on your laptop that connects to the tethering application on your handset. The two work together to make the install and configuration drop dead easy. Speeds…
My lovely home town, Los Angeles, is going to be covered with Sprint WiMax goodness by December 1. So to all my friends and family back home, I say, “Awesome!” While most Angelenos are probably seeing pockets of WiMax coverage here and there already, the official launch should see more stable and perhaps wider coverage…
Well, it looks like Windows Phone 7 devices can tether after all but it only appears to work with Samsung smartphones and it does take a few jumping through hoops. We initially thought tethering would be supported in Windows Phone 7 but the carriers would determine if this is possible and how much extra it…
Doing what I do for a living, I spend a lot of time looking at Google News on my various smartphones. That’s why I’m happy to say the search giant has improved Google News for smartphone devices that run on the Android OS, iPhone (iOS) OS and webOS. Google has updated the way Google News…
Verizon unveiled its first television commercial for the Apple iPad that it is now selling in bundles with its MiFi mobile hotspot creator. The ad emphasizes the strength of Verizon’s mobile data network, as it shows an Apple iPad users in a house that slowly turns into a field. The point of the spot is…
We all know that mobile data usage in the U.S. is skyrocketing, but the recent figures from analyst Chetan Sharma are staggering. Mobile data in the U.S. brought in $14 billion in service revenue in Q3 2010 alone and the data market grew 25% year over year. Smartphones lead the way but connected devices like tablets…