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Apple has 375 stores around the world, which tend to be focused in large, metropolitan areas. This makes it difficult for customers in rural areas to receive the same level of training and attention unless they’re willing to travel (sometimes several hundred miles) to get to their nearest Apple Store. Recognizing these issues, Apple is…
Popular last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight announced that it reached a major milestone today, hitting three million app downloads. While that’s impressive figure (and announcement) by itself, the company is going one step forward unveiling 10 new cities in the US and UK where its service is available, including Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, St. Louis,…
Cricket Wireless has made a change to its Android smartphone plans. Starting today, the MVNO will package its streaming music service called Muve as a standard part of its Android smartphone plans. Now customers will be able to reap the benefits of having unlimited text, picture and video messaging, mobile web and a big catalog…
Sears is offering the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 along with a free keyboard dock for $400. As you probably already know, the TF300 isn’t cool as the Infinity Pad, but it’s pretty awesome nevertheless, sporting NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels screen, Wi-Fi, dual cameras, while Ice Cream Sandwich Jelly Bean is running…
TomTom will be previewing its Android app at IFA in Berlin. The popular navigation service provider said that the application will launch at some point in October of this year. Price was not unveiled though we guess they can’t be much more expensive than what other companies are charging for. From the press release: TomTom’s…
LG unveiled a new member of its L-series of devices – L9. As you can imagine, this particular smartphone is more powerful than previous devices (L3, L5 and L7) announced at Mobile World Congress. It comes with a 4.7-inch IPS display (screen resolution was not mentioned), 1GB of RAM, 1GHz dual-core processor, 5-megapixel rear camera,…
You may’ve heard about Google Play’s change of the developer policy which will take into effect on September 1st, 2012. Each developer will have to meet individual compliance in order to avoid the risk of suspension with Google Play. The idea is to better monitor apps, avoid spam and malware apps, and eventually provide end-users…
It’s amazing how yesterday’s hot hardware becomes cheap so fast. Take the Motorola XOOM 2 Media Edition for instance. It was announced less than a year ago and its price is already heavy slashed, with Expansys offering the Wi-Fi only 16GB model for 149 GBP. In U.S. dollars that translates into $235, making for quite…
Firefox for Android received an update that brought speed and power enhancements to tablets powered by the green robot. For those of you out there who still use Firefox as your browser of choice, this update is much-needed. The new version brings a slew of fixes which include the following: Native UI for tablets, including…
MetroPCS is on the verge of offering its customers many more options than it has in the past. Recently, the small regional carrier illustrated its plans of releasing a handful of phones in a roadmap, many of which carried LTE technology. One of those phones called the CoolPad Quattro was announced today. The company did…