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Verizon Wireless is rolling out a new prepaid broadband option and it is going to be about double the cost of what the competition is offering. We’re a little late on this one, as PhoneScoop said these have been available since the beginning of August but Verizon’s prepaid broadband now tops out at 5 GB…
Virgin Mobile hit us up to let us know that its new $40 unlimited Broadband2Go plan is temporarily delayed. Minor technicalities have forced the carrier to delay the launch until Thursday at the latest. This unlimited plan will not appear on Virgin Mobile’s website and you will not be able to sign up for a new…
If prepaid broadband usage is your thing, and you secretly yearn for truly unlimited plans, perhaps you’ve been anticipated that Virgin Mobile Broadband2go plan we recently uncovered. Currently, you can get 100MB of data for $10 all the way up to 5GB of data for $60 with options in between. Starting tomorrow, however, you can…
If you’ve been rocking Android 2.2, otherwise known as “Froyo,” on your Motorola Droid but have been wondering where the heck Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is, you’ll be happy to know that Verizon should be pushing out a software update tomorrow (August 24) which will enable your Droid to play nice with Flash content on…
We had the scoop late last week about Virgin Mobile’s new Broadband2Go plans, including the very exciting $40 unlimited option. Spotted on the mobile broadband section of Virgin’s Facebook page was the above graphic which details and unofficially confirms Virgin’s new $10/100MB and $40/unlimited Broadband2Go plans. This image reportedly made its debut without any fanfare…
In an interview with Fortune, Best Buy’s Shawn Score, the president of the retailer’s wireless retail unit, confirmed that the national retailer will be carrying a cornucopia of tablets this coming holiday season. In much the same way netbooks took the computing world by storm a few years ago, tablets are expected to supersede netbooks…
In a bit of exclusive news, we just found out that Virgin Mobile plans to change its Broadband2Go prices and the new rates should make the prepaid broadband a more attractive option. According to our tipster, Virgin Mobile will offer only two Broadband2Go plans beginning August 24: $10 for 10 days with a 100 MB…
Yahoo has lost one of its top mobile engineers, TechCrunch first reported and confirmed by Yahoo, as Sandeep Gupta will be leaving the company. Gupta was the company’s senior director of application development and there’s no word on where he will be heading to next but he is just the latest departure from Yahoo’s mobile…
By now, you should know that Facebook flipped the switch on its location-based sharing service and I really think Facebook Places will have a big impact on smartphone users. The service is not incredibly innovative, really, as you check in to locations and share this with your friends. This is what companies like Loopt, Foursquare…
Intel plans to spend $7.7 billion to buy McAfee and its security products and you can be sure that mobile phones and smartphones play a big role in this acquisition. Smartphones have generally been free of major viruses that plague the desktop but, as smartphones continue to grow market share, most experts think it is…