It was another great year for Samsung. The Korean electronics giant maintained its tight grip on the Android smartphone market, increased its sales of tablets and other devices, and continued to make inroads against Apple. Samsung began the year strongly with the hype around the Galaxy S4, and it’s closing the year with the rumor…
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Steam Holiday Sale Kicks Off – Daily Discounts on the Hottest Games!
The Steam Holiday sale is one of the brightest lights in the season of bargains. It’s a great time to pick up the games you’ve been waiting to buy – on the cheap! Also, with the ability to gift games to your friends on Steam, the sale makes last-minute presents a cinch! Valve’s Steam platform provides…
Swiftkey Rings in the Holidays with Fun Winter Theme
Popular Android keyboard Swiftkey is currently pushing its latest update. Aside from the usual upgrades and bug fixes, the update comes with a blast of winter cheer! Swiftkey now includes a fun theme that fits with the winter season. To celebrate the holidays, the keyboard comes in an icy blue with snowy flurries which fly…
Black Friday – Gamestop Reveals its excellent Gaming Deals!
GameStop has big plans for Black Friday, offering up some excellent deal on games, systems and accessories. The retailer of all things gaming announced its Black Friday line-up of sales today and the bargains are hot! GameStop’s Black Friday ad was leaked over a month ago, but never confirmed by the retailer. Today, the company’s…
5 tips for getting the most out of your new iPad
If you’re like many other people who received an Apple iPad or iPad mini this year for the holidays, let me first congratulate you. It’s always fun to get a shiny new gadget and as an iPad owner for almost two years now, I can tell you that you will most likely be able to…
Track down Santa’s every move with Google’s Santa Tracker via apps or web
If you’re looking to stalk old St. Nick as he’s on his way to deliver gifts to all the good girls and boys of the world, it just got easier with Google’s app on the Play Store. If don’t have an Android phone, Google is offering up a number of different ways to follow the…
Essential Android apps for the holiday shopping season
The holiday season is here, and if you’re looking to do some mobile shopping, then we have some great applications for you to choose from. Whether you need a simple shopping app, a gift list, or package tracking applications, the list of applications below will ensure that you have an end to end solution! Gift…
There were over 1 billion app downloads over the holidays
It looks like many of you got new smartphones for the holidays and that also means many of you were busy downloading apps. According to Flurry Analytics, you were very busy, as smartphone users downloaded more than 1.2 billion apps from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise,…
iOS probably had more device activations than Android on Christmas
Flurry Analytics released its findings a few days ago for the number of collective iOS and Android activations made on Christmas Day this year. The statistics were impressive, but they didn’t represent the accomplishments of each individual operating system, and what would the mobile industry be today without some friendly competition between iOS and Android?…
Pope Benedict XVI lights up a Christmas tree using Sony Tablet S
Pope Benedict XVI clearly embraces new technology, especially tablets. He sent out his first tweet earlier this year using an Apple iPad and he recently lit a Christmas tree completely made up of lights using a Sony Tablet S. The gigantic tree of lights can easily be spotted on Mount Ingino in Gubbio, Italy. Apparently,…