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I consider myself a pet lover. Since my early years there’s always been a pet or two around the house, from birds to fish to dogs… they’ve all found a spot in the family house… and as years past they found their way into my house. That’s why, whenever something pet-related pops onto my radar,…
If you were anxious to try out the Verizon 4G LTE network but didn’t want to be saddled with a new, two-year contract, you’ll be happy to know that the no-contract prices will be quite reasonable for service. According to PC World’s Sasha Segan, the no-contract prices for the 4G LTE service will be the…
The Skyfire iPhone browser has only been available in eight countries before today but the company announced that it will be bringing its Adobe Flash-enabled browser to the Apple App Stores in France, Germany and Italy. As you should know by now, the biggest appeal of the Skyfire iPhone browser is the ability to play…
In two separate press releases, Opera Software announced that it has signed deals with carriers in Chile and Angola to bring Opera Mini to their [carriers’] users. Entel Chile, in association with Vodafone, will be first operator in Latin America to offer Opera Mini with widgets on handsets. Included in the deal is a customized…
MetroPCS has turned on its 4G LTE service in the San Francisco area and users will now be able to get next-generation mobile data without a contract. MetroPCS offers 4G LTE service for as little as $55 with voice and texting service and that’s significantly cheaper than some of the competitors. This also includes taxes…
While we were looking at the numbers that Pingdom had commissioned from StatCounter regarding global smartphone OS marketshare based on web usage by region, we noticed that StatCounter also had some more recent mobile web usage data that showed BlackBerry being more popular than iOS (which includes iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) in the U.S.…
Last month, MySpace promised that they would be bringing their redesigned socidal network to mobile, and today they’re delivering with a new iPhone app and an updated mobile site. By pulling information of your music tastes from your iPhone’s iTunes library, the app will populate your news stream with information from the artists you listen…
Bitstream was all proud to announce that their BOLT mobile browser is the first such solution to fully support Indic languages. More precisely, BOLT supports nine languages spoken as a first language by an estimated 1.3 billion people living in India and the surrounding regions — including Hindi (India’s official language), Bengali, Gurumukhi, Telugu, Tamil,…
If you thought Skyfire was happy making a few million on its iPhone app, you’d be wrong because the mobile browser maker has just released Skyfire 3.0 Facebook edition for Android phones. Dubbing it the “world’s first social browser,” the Skyfire Facebook browser gives you one-click access to the world’s largest social network. Another cool…
I’m not sure we need another browser for the iPhone (iPod Touch or iPad), but what do I know. Lunascape, which is the company behind the triple engine browser, released an iPhone version of its browser called iLunascape Lite for iPhone. The new application features “desktop-class tab browsing” that is designed specifically for the iPhone,…