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The holiday shopping season is almost upon us and that means retailers are getting ready for the Black Friday (the Friday following Thanksgiving) craziness that comes with super shopping deals. They’re also making it easier to navigate Black Friday this year with iPhone and Android apps that put various deals in the palm of you…
Angry Birds has found itself on millions of handsets between the iOS, Android and Symbian platforms, and after all the death and destruction, a peace treaty was called to resolve the great avian/swine war. With all the talk of crashing through wood, glass and concrete and eggs being stolen, the birds and the pigs met…
Acer is stepping up its Android presence next year with tablets and a new 4.8-inch beast of a smartphone. For now, the Android handset coming from Acer doesn’t have a proper name yet, but on paper it looks pretty impressive. The near-five-inch display will have a 1024 x 480 resolution, 1GHz processor, 8MP rear camera…
So you wanted a Dell Streak, but you don’t like AT&T and would rather sit around for the next great, giant Android phone before taking that plunge. You’re in luck as the Dell Streak is now available unlocked here in the U.S. It also comes with Android 2.2 right out of the box, so you…
If you thought Skyfire was happy making a few million on its iPhone app, you’d be wrong because the mobile browser maker has just released Skyfire 3.0 Facebook edition for Android phones. Dubbing it the “world’s first social browser,” the Skyfire Facebook browser gives you one-click access to the world’s largest social network. Another cool…
Next year we’re going to see two things in smartphones that are genuinely new and exciting: dual core processors, which will enable performance increases that we’ve yet to fully understand the ramifications of, and near field communication, an enabler of mobile payments and a totally new way of interacting with the real world. NVIDIA, looking…
Just in time for the Thanksgiving travel season, FlightView launched a more powerful version of its mobile app FlightView Elite for Android users. The application keeps the core elements of the original FlightView app, allowing users to track their flights in real-time, plan for delays and call the airline directly to re-book flights. In addition,…
Snapfinger has added two restaurant chains with more than 700 locations combined to its online and mobile ordering platform – Bob Evans and Mimi’s Cafe. Bob Evans’ 569 restaurants operate in 18 states across the U.S, primarily in the midwest, mid-atlantic and southeast regions. Mimi’s Cafe is known for its French-inspired meals and “quaint cafe…
Acer is scheduled to have a press conference in New York today and according to Taiwanese rumor site Digitimes they’re going to reveal a 10 inch Windows 7 tablet and a smaller 7 inch Android 2.2 tablet. Samsung, with their consumer polarizing Galaxy Tab, is finally going to get some competition, but we’ve got to…
Do a search for “Gingerbread” on Twitter and prepare to be jealous at the mass of people who are reporting that Google just pushed an update to their Nexus One with the latest version of the Android operating system. We’ve written about Gingerbread before, many times, but here’s pretty much all you need to know…