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After the smartphone version, Mint.com is out with an Android tablet app, allowing its users to more easily manage their money and visualize their spending on interactive graphs. Available as a free download (though with a Mint.com account), the application is touted to deliver a “clear picture of their overall spending by category or by…
Mac and PC users are probably familiar with the Humble Bundle. It’s a series of game bundles sold online using a donation-based system. You pay what you want, and a portion of the funds are given to the Child’s Play Charity or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Previous bundles include popular indie and mainstream titles like World of Goo by 2D Boy and Shadowgrounds from Frozenbyte. They are…
If you haven’t already noticed, today is the first of February! For those of us in the mobile industry it’s our favorite month of the year. It’s when nearly every company (except Apple) that makes up one of the most exciting fields in consumer electronics gets together and shows off the devices that we’ll be…
Amazon UK is now selling the unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus for 449.41 GBP, which is some 50 GBP off the phone’s launch price. That’s still a lot of money (about $707) and the reason why we don’t call it a “hot deal” but only “deal.” However, it’s a well known fact that Europeans are used…
At first you may think that having the Samsung Galaxy Note will make you somehow unique. However other folks also grabbed the huge smartphone/tablet and suddenly your device uniqueness was lost – what can you do about it? Well you can personalize your particular Galaxy Note unit by engraving your name (or whatever else you…
If Glu can do it, so can Gameloft. Yep they’re launching their own Sprint ID packs on the Now Network to provide gamers with an “entirely new mobile experience through a customized bundle of widgets, applications, wallpapers and more.” The two ID packs Gameloft and Sprint launched are: HD Games ID Pack – features access…
ARM reported excellent financial results for calendar year Q4 2011 and it likely has Samsung and Apple to thank more than any other companies. Revenue last quarter rose 21 percent to $217 million while profits leaped 45 percent to roughly $90 million. Since public statements almost never dive into details, ARM accordingly gave credit to…
The European Commission is beginning a formal investigation on Samsung’s use of its mobile patents. Specifically, the EU is trying to decide whether Samsung abuses some of the broad patents it holds to “distort competition in European mobile device markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules.” Basically, this will determine if Samsung uses patents to…
Amazon just announced its 4th quarter earnings and dropped a few pieces of information pertaining to its growing Android application store. Even if it’s not your go-to Android application portal, Amazon’s App Store is worth having around just for the free app of the day and according to its latest earnings report, its application store…
Amazon announced its quarterly at the end of the trading day on Tuesday. Though it missed its revenue expectations, the electronics retailer had a banner quarter for Kindle devices. Amazon didn’t release exact sales figures but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement, “We are grateful to the millions of customers who purchased the Kindle Fire and Kindle e-reader devices this holiday season,…