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Google has just opened up its Photovine iPhone app to the masses but the photo-sharing app has a surprising lack of Google in it. That’s both good and bad. The Photovine iPhone app was made by the Slide team, which has been acquired by Google and operates somewhat independently. The app had been live before…
Verizon still commands a huge chunk of the Android market share in the U.S., but it showed some slow decline over the past few months while AT&T picked up a few percentage points. Chitika, the online advertising network, has always been in a unique position to dish out figures like these because of its presence…
I went to the Outside Lands music festival this weekend in San Francisco and was a bit worn down when I woke up for work on Monday. I walked over to my kitchen to make some coffee while checking some e-mails and then I saw the news that Google wanted to buy Motorola Mobility for…
Remember Firefox and how cool it felt to be one of the few people you knew who used a browser other than Internet Explorer? Those days are long gone now thanks to people using either Chrome or Safari, both incredibly more polished and modern browsers, but that hasn’t broken the spirits of the folks at…
With the back to school season shortly coming to a close, it’s the holiday shopping season that usually brings about the wireless industry’s most exciting devices. Case in point, there’s a rumored smartphone from HTC due to hit T-Mobile on October 26th codenamed “Ruby”. It’s going to be marketed as the “Amaze 4G”, and for…
We’ve been fans of the custom MIUI ROM ever since we saw it debut some time ago. The ROM has come a long way, and while it’s still limited to only a handful of phones today, the following for MIUI has only gotten stronger. Today, Xiaomi announced a new Android smartphone with MIUI pre-installed as…
We’re living in litigious times in the tech world: Apple is suing Samsung, Samsung is suing right back, and HTC and Apple are going back and forth, too. Let’s not forget everyone else thrown into the mix, or those looking to get into the fight, but it’d just cause our heads to spin. This time…
The LinkedIn apps have always been good ways to keep track of your professional social networks but the apps kind of seemed like the service: It’s useful but it doesn’t blow you away. With new apps for the iPhone and Android, that has changed a bit as the LinkedIn apps have been completely redesigned and…
The Google, Motorola deal is going to have a huge impact on Android but it may also unintentionally supercharge some of its competitors and I believe that HP’s webOS could use this as a much-needed opportunity to boost its platform. The GoogMoto combination will provide Google with many patents that it needs to defend Android…
Victory for Samsung! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which Apple has accused of being a copy of its iPad tablet, can now go on sale in Europe except in Germany. The two companies have been suing each other for patents and design over the past few months, and it seemed like Apple was gaining the…