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Last night while watching the Grammys, one of the ads to actually catch my attention (aside from the Herbal Essences commercial in which the woman seemed to be a little too sexually aroused by her shampoo) was from none other than Microsoft. It was the new Surface Pro commercial the company put out to advertise…
We’ve always had an idea that Google paid Apple an obscene amount of money to make its search engine the default search engine of choice for all iDevices. According to Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt, Google pays Apple $1 billion for the right to be its default search engine, with that cost only to go…
Vodafone, the UK’s largest cellular provider, has warned iPhone 4S owners to avoid the iOS 6.1 upgrade until Apple has figured out what is causing a reduction in service on the handset. The company flat out told those who haven’t upgraded to iOS 6.1 to “delay doing so until Apple has confirmed that their problem…
If you’re into the hacking thing, we have great news for you. T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II now officially has support for the wildly popular CyanogenMod 10.1 builds. The new ROM is only a nightly build, so it isn’t stable. For those of you who don’t know, Magenta’s Samsung Galaxy S II carries a Qualcomm processor instead…
Apple fans waking up this Monday morning were greeted with a barrage of headlines promising a sneak peek at the upcoming iPhone 5S being assembled in a Foxconn plant. The series of photos were posted on a Chinese website and allegedly show the outer housing and the innards of the next generation iPhone. Not surprisingly, these…
Here we go. In something similar to a Rolling Stones song, users find themselves getting no satisfaction with their iPhone 5. Apple’s iPhone 5 is trailing behind four other Android phones when it comes to user satisfaction, according to a new survey conducted by mobile research firm OnDevice Research. The research firm polled 320,000 smartphone…
Google aired its latest Nexus 4 commercial during the Grammy’s last night, and the focus of the ad this time is Google Now. The ad, similar to the first Nexus 4 commercial, shows how people from around the world and different walks of life are using Google Now. [Via Mashable and YouTube]
Wikipad announced that its 7-inch gaming tablet will be available this Spring for $249. Leading retailers will selling the device, which is far more powerful than Archos’ GamePad (hence it costs more). Wikipad’s power comes from NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor that will make sure games run smoothly. Of course, there’s also a dual-analog stick controller…
Microsoft is looking to unify its various Windows products. The Redmond giant has posted a job ad looking for a person that would help them solve the “Windows puzzle” and allow Windows Phone apps to run on Windows RT devices, and vice versa. The ad explains the Windows Phone team was “…leading the charge to…
Neither Google nor LG have released the Nexus 4 figures, but that doesn’t mean some people can’t make their own estimates. In fact, an XDA-Developers forum member put some time into this task and concluded that the two companies have thus far moved 1 million Nexus 4 smartphones. Relying on a crowd-sourced method of finding…