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Dolphin Browser, which is my favorite mobile web browser and the most popular third-party browser on Android and iOS, keeps getting better. The new thing, though still in beta, is the whole new Dolphin Engine that makes for the fastest browsing experience around, rendering HTML5 up to 5-10 times faster than the default browser on…
You’ve heard about fanboys, right? Apple has one of the most dedicated following in the world with some of their users bashing any other platforms and devices (not made by the Cupertino-based company) by default. To be fair, Apple does make some rock-solid products and is — unlike many of its competitors — well-known for…
Social travel website Trippy now has an iPad app, allowing users to share their own and access other people’s travel experiences on the iPad’s big screen. Available as a free download, the application builds on the iPhone app‘s interface while at the same time taking advantage of the extra screen estate to show more information…
Draw Something will soon be jumping from smartphones to TV screens, with CBS securing the rights to make a pilot based on the popular drawing game. Despite the game’s declining popularity — though it still has millions of users — CBS had to compete with other media companies for the privilege, including Sony Pictures Television,…
Smartphones will drive $20 billion in aftermarket accessory revenues this year, accounting for more than half of the $36 billion that all aftermarket handset accessories will produce. By 2017, smartphone accessories will grow to $38 billion in revenues, with feature phone accessory revenues declining to $12 billion. Feature phone consumers will spend an average of…
Siri, which was founded as a company during the same year that the first iPhone launched, was acquired by Apple in April 2010. When the iPhone 4S was unveiled 18 months later, Siri was one of the key features demoed on stage. What is it? In case you’ve been living under a rock, Siri is…
SanDisk is launching a pair of new memory cards today. The marketing department went wild with the product names. They’re officially called the “SanDisk Extreme Pro microSDHC UHS-I” cards. What makes them special? They let you capture photos and videos at up to 90 megabytes per second, which is bananas considering that most folks have…
Way back in 1997 the FCC auctioned off licenses for the 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Service (WCS) band. AT&T owns some of those licenses, but they never actually did anything with them because companies that own WCS spectrum are required to follow some archaic rules that make it nearly impossible to operate a terrestrial network.…
Watching a company launch innovative new products and services is easily one of the best parts of this job. On the flip side, watching a company’s competitors race to copy said new innovative products and services is hands down the most depressing thing we encounter on what sadly feels like a daily basis. Apple’s voice…
The first version of Windows Phone, launched in the fall of 2010, didn’t have a codename. The update that was released several months later, the one that added copy and paste support, was called NoDo. Then Mango came, and with it Nokia’s first devices to run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Now the newest version of…