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After months of contentious debate, the CTIA and FCC have come to an agreement on cellphone unlocking policies in the United States. The CTIA has issued six principles regarding cellphone unlocking, which will be included in CTIA’s Consumer Code for Wireless Service, and has been adopted my the nation’s five larger carriers, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T,…
Get ready for some new features to be hitting Instagram later today, as the Facebook owned company has just announced a new feature called Instagram Direct, which will allow you to send videos and photos directly to friends or any user of your choice. It’s a welcome feature for some, and will add another layer…
Indian importation tracking site Zauba.com has caught a new, still unannounced Nokia Lumia device, marked as RM-964. Aside from the fact that it has a 5.2-inch screen, we’re pretty much clueless what this phone is all about. However, judging by its quoted value of INR 34,524 (about $560) – it’s likely a high-end smartphone with…
Skype has announced another update to its Windows Phone app that adds some much-requested features. Skype version 2.13 is live now on the Windows Phone store and it adds several bug fixes as well as the ability to copy and paste IMs. The users have spoken and the dev team has listened. Copy and paste for…
They are everywhere, we just can’t see them. Ghosts? Spirits? No, something way more interesting, cell phone signals. With cell phone penetration at an all time high in the United States and the world, the signals that are constantly being sent to and fro blanket the globe in an invisible cloak. But what if we…
The day has finally come for us to go karting with our favorite birds. Rovio today released its long-awaited Angry Birds Go! game to the masses worldwide. The new racing game mimics that of the super-popular Mario Kart games played on Nintendo game consoles. Angry Birds Go! is free-to-play and is available now for Android,…
Normally, you wouldn’t leave capturing your wedding pictures and video up to a smartphone camera, but one adventurous couple did just that. At a wedding in Capella Pedregal in Cabo, Mexico, celebrity photographer Joy Marie Smallwood photographed an entire wedding using the Nokia Lumia 1020. The Windows Phone powered device touts a 41 megapixel camera,…
2013 was one heck of a year for tech news, and it’s not even over yet! Apple surprised us all by releasing not just one new iPhone but two, the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S. Samsung launched its Galaxy S4 at a very snazzy launch party, and HTC enlisted Robert Downey Jr. to head…
Nokia’s Asha phones may not be well-known in the U.S., where smartphones dominate the cellphone market. The Asha is a colorful Lumia-esque feature phone, that is going on sale in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Nokia introduced an infographic showing the evolution of the companies feature phones, from the 1990’s brick…
The Latest bombshell from NSA leaker Edward Snowden should worry anyone who uses a cellphone, but it specifically concerns cellphone users outside of the United States and US citizens travelling abroad. Snowden released documents that show that the NSA is tracking cellphone locations the world over. The agency is also tracking domestic phones which means…