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That screen you love to poke, prod, and swipe, is made up of several components that the average man on the street shouldn’t even care about, but we do for some strange and slightly odd reason. The first and most obvious is the screen itself, usually either LCD or OLED, the latter becoming more common…
Tru aka Truphone announced new voice and data plans for U.S.-based business travelers. Called Tru for Business Elite, the new plans are actually bundles of minutes, data and texts that can potentially save businesses tons of cash on their international roaming bills (when compared to business roaming rates). Included in the deal are data, minutes…
Verizon Wireless announced that it has collected more than 1.1 million mobile phones through its HopeLine program in 2010 and awarded more than $2.1 million grants to nearly 450 domestic violence prevention and awareness programs. Moreover, the operator provided 25,392 phones with a total of 75 million free minutes of service to shelters and agencies…
Well folks, it’s about that time – time to find out what HP and Palm have been up to with WebOS. We’re not exactly sure what we’ll see at tomorrow’s HP press conference, but we have a few good guesses.. One thing we can be almost positive about is that HP will announce their WebOS…
Qualcomm has a habit of inventing proprietary technology that they then try to sell to vendors in order to build an ecosystem whereby they’re the only supplier of components therefore giving them free reign when it comes to dictating prices. Remember FloTV? It failed, and Qualcomm ended up selling the spectrum they bought for that…
The last time I purchased a printer was during my last year of High School. It was the cheapest enterprise grade HP LaserJet I could find, and that thing spit out pages for years without needing any replacement toner. I loved that thing, but it’s 2011 now and printing just seems a tad ridiculous. We’ve…
We know News Corp is looking for ways to sell its once-Facebook-competitor – MySpace. Among the possible candidates to acquire the “once popular” social destination, I always envisioned some other media company like Sony or EMI. Apparently, those folks don’t want to repeat Rupert Murdoch’s mistakes and are leaving it to other players to jump…
Communology announced that its Visual Voicemail (VVM) solution can now be used with Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry smartphones. The voice-to-text enabled solution is also available as a widget, making it accessible for almost every internet enabled device imaginable. Obviously, Communology will use the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to showcase the latest VVM…
Sprint has officially announced the Kyocera Echo, a dual-screen smartphone running Android 2.2 Froyo. We honestly don’t know what to make of the handset itself and would have been more impressed with something a little more on the 3D side of things, but the Echo is an interesting device nonetheless. The Echo will be available…
The last we heard, TELUS had let it be known that customers would soon have the option to unlock their devices for a fee. This news hit us late last year, and thankfully, with February upon us, we’re finally getting official word on this one. The latest from TELUS has the company set to offer…