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It looks like Google may be looking to make some more job cuts at Motorola. When the acquisition of Motorola Mobility was officially a done deal, it was announced that quite a few job cuts were impeding. The decision ended with more than 20 percent of Motorola employees being laid off. According to the Wall…
Sony has started rolling out Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update for its entry-level Xperia J (model number ST26i). The device will get a new firmware (version 11.2.A.0.21) along with an updated kernel (version 3.4). As usual, this is one of those staged updates that won’t affect all users immediately. In other words, if your Xperia…
The Nokia Lumia 520 has been once again spotted at the FCC. However, this time we’re talking about a model (marked as RM-915) that can sing along GSM-based networks of AT&T and Canada’s Rogers Wireless, namely 850 and 1900 MHz bands. The earlier version (RM-914), in case you wonder, was made for European and Asian…
While most of us wait for the Samsung Galaxy S IV, Canada’s TELUS is preparing to add Sapphire Black version of the Galaxy S3 to its offering. Such a device has been spotted on the leaked price cards that have started arriving to the carrier’s stores. We don’t know when TELUS will launch the black…
Last time we’ve talked about Inq, they were releasing a personalized news app called MATERIAL. This time they’re out with an Android launcher that wants to bring popular social networks closer to your homescreen. In fact, the newly unveiled SO.HO is a launcher app that will allow you to interact with Facebook buddies and Twitter…
Verizon and LG are preparing to launch a maintenance update for the LG Intuition, which is known as Optimus Vu outside of the US. While this isn’t the full-blown Jelly Bean update, it does bring many useful changes, updating some of the apps while at the same time squashing the known bugs. Among the things…
In-flight wireless provider GoGo put together an infographic that details device usage at 36,000 feet. According to its metrics, travelers are more likely to use tablets (35 percent) than laptops (33 percent) or smartphones (32 percent) while flying. A whopping 84 percent of devices used on their service run iOS, while only 16 percent are…
Egnyte, a paid service geared toward “enterprise file sharing” across devices, did an experiment tracking which mobile operating systems a sample of 100,000 of its paying customers were using to access it. While Android’s market share remained at a standstill for the majority of 2012, the iPhone (iOS) has started thinning out Android’s slice of…
What’s possibly the sleekest Android tablet today is set to get the LTE treatment in Japan on March 22nd. That tablet would be the Sony Xperia Tablet Z, if you were unaware. Sony announced its new flagship tablet for Japan in late January, and more recently announced global availability for the rest of the world…
PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak conducted a driving directions test between Apple Maps, Google Maps, and the crowd-sourced Waze app to see which of the three performed best at least in his own area: California. It turns out that despite the controversy surrounding Apple’s contender, Apple Maps actually bested Google and Waze in Dvorak’s…