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Asus picked an excellent name for its upcoming Android tablet. Too bad the name, Transformer Prime, is very similar to a series of toys created by Hasbro. As it turns out, the toy company owns trademarks for the word “Transformers” and “Transformers Prime”, which is terrible news for Asus. Hasbro threatened to vigilantly defend its…
Verizon announced that it will soon release a software update for the Galaxy Nexus and it hopes to relieve concerns from users over the device’s poor signal strength. Brenda Raney, a spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless, said the software update will “adjust the signal strength indicator to more closely match other Verizon Wireless devices.” Doesn’t that…
CES 2012 is only a few weeks away and among the announcements that we’ll see, we’re pretty excited for what Intel is going to announce. After a lot of talk, Intel looks like it will be officially breaking into the mobile space with a new reference design handset and a couple of more announcements along…
With Xmas just days away, Google’s Android team has thrown together a video wishing everyone Happy Holidays. Of course, you’ll find the Galaxy Nexus throughout the entire video along with some of the handset’s nifty features. Since we’ve already gone through the all the features found on the Galaxy Nexus and in Ice Cream Sandwich…
The makers of the YouMail visual voicemail app released a fresh new calling tool in the Android Market today. It’s WhoAreYou, and this creatively titled app answers that question by bringing visual caller ID to smartphones at last. There’s a number of handy features in WhoAreYou. The main one, of course, is seeing who called.…
It’s been a month since the Kindle Fire launched and no one knows the exact sales figures (except for Amazon) but a new report from Millennial Media sheds some light on the success of the Amazon tablet. Millennium, a company which bases its monthly data on mobile ads distributed across its multi-platform network, says that…
At one point, every carrier that wasn’t AT&T and didn’t have the iPhone had an Android smartphone as its flagship device and there was a good chance that said handsets were coming from HTC. Much of this remains true today but the likes of Motorola and Samsung have become much more prominent. HTC has been…
The International Trade Commission said Motorola was infringing on one smartphone patent Microsoft was suing it for but the preliminary decision didn’t find violations in six other patents Microsoft had issue with. The patent in question involved syncing of calendars across devices and the ruling may give Microsoft more leverage in signing a licensing agreement.…
I get the feeling that many of you will be playing Angry Birds over the holidays on your new gadgets but I’ll bet that you haven’t decorated your house with these birds and pigs in Christmas light form. That’s what the video below shows and it’s either really, really cool or an obsession taken too…
While Siri isn’t perfect, the voice-controlled assistant is definitely an innovative feature of the iPhone 4S and it’s something that may make Android fans jealous. While we’ve seen some Siri competitors on Android before, we’ve been fans of Vlingo for a long time and the company just put out an infographic about why it offers…