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Just in time for the London Olympics, the same-day hotel booking service/app HotelTonight released its market data to give insight into Android and iOS users’ hotel booking habits. The key finding is that iOS bookers take the lead on spend and speed of booking, while those with Android devices win on spontaneity and length of…
It’s quarterly earnings week and now it’s Samsung’s turn to chime in with its Q2 2012 financial report. In the quarter, Samsung reported a record operating profit of $5.9 billion (6.72 trillion won), most of which was the result of strong smartphone and display sales. This figure is up 79 percent year over year. Samsung’s…
During its Q2 2012 earnings call today, Sprint outed the soon to be released Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE. I know, these guys just can’t get enough of these long-ass names. The Photon Q runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), along with The Now Network’s newly-launched LTE network, and looks just like its Photon 4G brethren.…
NVIDIA’s uber-fast Tegra 3 quad-core processor is stepping into some new terrain in the future, as it will soon power Miracast wireless displays. Integrating the Tegra 3 into said wireless display technology will provide a faster experience with lower touch latency and more. Miracast is the WiFi-Alliance’s lovechild, which is aiming to making its specifications…
Path, a small San Francisco based social networking company, has come through with more improvements. Today the company announced version 2.5 of its iPhone and Android app, which is the first major update its released since 2.0 hit in November 2011. This news comes after the app’s recent addition of Nike+ Fuelband integration. Now Path…
GetJar recently shared some new stats pertaining to an application that got on board with the company’s virtual currency program. And just in case that you don’t necessarily believe that virtual currency is the way to go, the company also just announced some very impressive details on the program’s growth in a short amount of time. If…
We’ve almost forgot about US Cellular’s version of the HTC Flyer, thinking it got its Honeycomb update along with the rest of the pack (last year’s December). Wrong – it’s still running Gingerbread. For like a dozen of you who own US Cellular’s version of the Flyer, you’ll be glad to know that now you…
Sony is sending invites for its Berlin press event that takes place on August 29th. There will be an exclusive booth unveiling after the press conference when members of the media will be able to get their hands on the newly unveiled products for the first time. Speaking of which [new products], we expect to…
Remember Lenovo’s Transformer-like tablet which we first saw at CES in Las Vegas? The IdeaTab S2 as it used to be know — and now it’s called IdeaTab S2110 — is now available from Lenovo’s website for $343. That money gets you the 16GB model, with the one packing 32 gigs of built-in storage costing…
It’s time for the Olympics and SwiftKey prepared updates for two its most-used language packs, UK English and US English. As a non-sponsor of the big event, they’re not allowed to use the “O” word — their blog post only hints their intention was to update language packs with words that will be used during…