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Right after Apple released its Q3 2012 earnings today, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer announced statistics for iOS — including the App Store, iCloud, etc. — in the earnings call. The numbers just keep getting bigger. There are now over 650,000 apps in the App Store, which is up from the 600,000 announced in April.…
Microsoft confirmed the release date for the next major release of the Windows operating system today. Windows 8 will be available on October 26, 2012, almost exactly three years after the Windows 7 debut. Steven Sinofsky broke the news at Microsoft’s annual sales meeting and Brandon LeBlanc wrote on the Windows Team Blog to confirm…
Roughly a year ago we talked about eBay’s acquisition of mobile payment company Zong with the idea to integrate some of its capabilities into PayPal. A year later, we have PayPal announcing acquisition of card.io, the company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. Instead…
The maker of popular iOS apps Fotopedia is teaming-up with online travel agency Expedia to allow its users to book hotels from within select apps, namely Fotopedia Paris and Fotopedia Japan. This ad deal — cause we’re sure Fotopedia will make some money out of it — requires that your iOS-based device also has the…
We’ve already seen the Motorola Atrix HD floating around the net but it doesn’t get much better than an official handset announcement. The device is now official, going to AT&T, and will only cost $99 on contract. At that price, the handset must be underwhelming, right? Wrong. The Atrix HD is just as powerful as…
Motorola announced the first member of its Defy family of smartphones with a QWERTY keyboard. The new Defy Pro comes with a 2.7-inch Gorilla Glass display (HVGA or QVGA – we’re not sure) and it’s also a rugged (or at least semi-rugged) device made for folks leading an active lifestyle. In that sense, it comes…
T?Mobile USA is teaming-up with Dollar General to bring its low-cost phones, prepaid and Monthly4G No Annual Contract service to more than 6,400 Dollar General stores. Beginning in July, Dollar General customers will see T-Mobile’s offering on display in a bright end cap at the front of the store, featuring a variety of units and…
We’ve been hearing about military plans to use Android for quite some time now. The latest story to fit this picture comes from Invincea, which scored a $21.4 million contract from DARPA to make Android more secure. The company that presents itself as an “innovator in advanced malware threat detection, network breach prevention, and pre-breach…
LG Ukraine announced a dual-SIM version of its low-end L3 smartphone. The device that’s part of the Korean’s company L-series (which we’ve check out at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona) is also listed on LG Russia’s website, hinting us it’s slated for parts of (Eastern) Europe and most likely Asia. Aside from boasting…
Just in time for the Olympics, the last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight is no longer limited to folks in North America – it opened the office in the UK and has started offering hotels in London. At the moment, users are able to book rooms at top hotel brands like Morgans Hotel Group, Thompson Hotels,…