Streaming music services like Spotify seem like n0-brainer winners. You get unlimited access to a virtually unlimited catalog of music for a nominal monthly fee. How could streaming music not be a runaway success? By not catching on with the all-important youth/student demographic, that’s how. A new survey of 10,000 university students, conducted by the…
Parker’s Car Price Checker Application launches
Entropy Digital has announced the launch of Bauer Media’s first iPhone Application for Parker’s Car Guide – the Parker’s Car Price Checker Application – which is now on-sale globally across 88 counties in iPhone’s App Store. The first deployment for Parker’s Car Guide was developed in conjunction with developer, Mobikats, and allows car buyers and…
Sprint plans to slash 2,500 jobs
When times gets tough, big corporations get to slashing jobs. Sprint Nextel knows this all too well. Following a round of job cuts that gave thousands of Sprint Nextel employees the dreaded pink slip, Sprint has announced that it plans to lighten their employee-load by another 2,000 to 2,500 by the end of the year.…
Clearwire secures $1.5 billion in funding, mostly from Sprint
Clearwire finally looks poised to go nationwide with their 4G WiMAX network. The company announced today that it has secured an additional $1.5 billion in funding from its partners to help build out the Clearwire network. Clearwire has been pushing to get their 4G WiMAX network up and running throughout the US, but it’s been…
Nokia starts shipping the Nokia N900!
The Nokia N900 inches closer to a retail launch today with Espoo’s announcement that they’ve started shipping their N900 to distributors and retailers. Nokia recently missed its initial October 2009 window for shipping the N900, so today’s announcement is great news for fans of the N900’s 3.5-inch touchscreen, powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 5-megapixel Car Zeiss…
Qik beta bringing high-res video streaming to Motorola Droid
The Motorola Droid isn’t just the first Android phone to run the latest Android 2.0 OS, it’s also the first Android phone to record video in DVD-quality 720×480 resolution. Putting clarity and video-quality arguments aside for a second, the Motorola Droid’s video camera is as high-res as you can expect in a smartphone today. Qik,…
Google giving FREE WiFi access to 47 airports in the US!
Travel much? Google’s got an amazing holiday gift for you. The cash-bloated search giant has announced that the company will pay for your WiFi use in any of the 47 participating airports throughout the country! Beginning Tuesday, Google will be providing FREE WiFi access in 47 airports in the US. The offer is good through…
Motorola Announces the Android-Powered Milestone… Available on TELUS ‘Early 2010’
Motorola Canada has made it all official. They’ve announced the launch of their first Android device north-of-the-border… the Motorola Milestone (aka Motorola DROID). The device will run on TELUS’ new HSPA+ network, and will join a host of other new devices coming to the Canadian carrier. TELUS has really stepped-up their game over the past…
AT&T announces 2010 Developer Summit to be held in Las Vegas in conjunction with 2010 CES
AT&T Developer Summit has been announced recently. The event will be held at the Palms resort in Las Vegas on January 6 in conjunction with the 2010 CES, targeting developers who want to reach AT&T’s 81.6 million customers. Among the AT&T people who will attend the conference are CEO – Ralph De la Vega, CTO…
Holiday shopping season is here, keep your hands on your phone!
The holiday shopping season is nigh, and you know what that means. Yup, you’ve got weeks of frenzied shopping to look forward to. It also means you’re going to open yourself up to more opportunities to lose track of your mobile phone. In fact, NYC cabbies say that they see more people leaving their cellphones…