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A report from AllThingsD suggests Google may be interested in acquiring Waze, the popular, crowd-sourced navigation service out of Israel. According to Globes, the deal could be worth up to $1.3 billion. Sources close to the situation claim Waze will remain an independent company and will likely continue to operate out of Israel. This latest rumor comes…
Kaspersky Lab expert Roman Unuchek recently detailed a new, malicious trojan targeting Android phones and tablets. This trojan exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in Android and is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware to target the mobile operating system, Unuchek said in a blog post published Thursday. The trojan is distributed as an…
Apple is kicking off its WWDC 2013 conference today in San Francisco with a keynote speech slated to begin at 10am PT. Like it did last year during its iPad mini event, the company will be live streaming the event on the Apple TV and over the web. Apple today brought back its “Apple Events”…
While we have our doubts about the Windows RT prospects, Microsoft keeps investing resources in this (what we think is) destined-to-fail platform. As part of the upcoming Windows 8.1 update, the Redmond giant will also launch Outlook 2013 for Windows RT tablets. For some reason, Office 2013 for Windows RT didn’t come included and Microsoft…
ColorWare is known for making custom versions of many popular devices, allowing its customers to customize their phones (and tablets) with colors they want. Their latest gig is the Samsung Galaxy S4, providing users with 46 paint colors to choose from including solid and metallic, as well as matte and gloss finishes. Sammy’s super-phone has…
What we have here is the first glimpse of the upcoming Windows Phone Blue that will likely be released later this year. Microsoft is (obviously) still quiet about what we can expect in the next version of Windows Phone though they’re not hiding that the notification center will be included as part of the update…
Can’t say we’re surprised or something. After all, HTC is a Taiwanese company that won an award at the Taiwanese show. Moreover, the HTC One is indeed an awesome device so it wasn’t that hard to predict it will win over all other phones that were at display in Taipei. The judges agreed that the…
Looks like HTC and Canada’s Bell Mobility are preparing to further grow the sales of the HTC One. The carrier will apparently bundle a free $25 Google Play gift card with every One purchase. Here’s how that sounds in Bell’s own words: New postpaid customers activating an HTC One on any term with any plan…
When Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, it only had a white model to show us. We did think it will be available in other colors and voila, today we have the tablet in golden brown leaked, compliments to the ever-savvy EVleaks. Aside from a different paint job, this should be the same-as-white device,…
The new BlackBerry Q5 has been caught at the FCC while getting approved for the sale in the U.S. That said, while this particular model is ready to sing along AT&T’s 3G network (850 and 1900 MHz), we’re not sure it will actually be available with the carrier’s contract. Rather, this could be just a…