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The geeks are descending onto Moscone West this morning, and some of them have iPhones unlocked to run on T-Mobile’s network. As you may recall, T-Mobile announced that they’ve installed a microCell tower inside the Moscone West building for Apple’s WWDC conference this week, which has T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network running on the iPhone-compatible 1900 MHz…
After a few false starts, the tablet computer market is fully taking off. The surge is led by Apple’s iPad tablet, which debuted in 2010 and single-handedly comprises a significant majority of the tablets found in consumer households today. While we know tablets are a hot-commodity item, a new report out of comScore indicates just…
The Droid Incredible was announced earlier this year by Verizon Wireless without a solid launch date. Rumors point to a June 21st launch, but there has been no solid information supporting this estimated launch date until now. According to Droid-Life, select Verizon Wireless stores received marketing materials for the next generation Incredible handset over the weekend.…
In less than a month I’m going to celebrate my five year anniversary in Finland. When I landed here in the summer of 2007 I had no idea I’d stay for this long, but life has a way of throwing surprises at you. Now one of the key survival skills you absolutely must have to…
Dish Network owns 40 MHz worth of spectrum that they want to use to launch an LTE-Advanced network. Before they can do that though, they need to get permission from the government to use that spectrum for terrestrial use. That should happen by the end of this year. They also need to wait for the…
Gigabyte used the Computex 2012 to show the world it’s still in the smartphone-making game. As a small player in this highly competitive market, they know the differentiation is a key to success. So if it can’t have the fastest devices, Gigabyte can offer the ones for specific user niches, namely those who use more…
If you can’t get enough of Apple and their forthcoming spaceship campus, you may want to check out the official documents the tech giant submitted to the City of Cupertino. The revised plans for the Apple Campus 2 are now available for download, with the city’s website listing following documents: Introduction, Site Plan & Landscaping,…
Remember Google Wallet? Announced in May 2011, the goal Google set out to achieve was to get you to pay for things using your mobile phone instead of the piece of plastic you’ve been carrying around for decades. The service launched on one phone, the Nexus S, on one operator, Sprint, and came with support…
Twitter is now apparently making more money from mobile users that those accessing the service from their computers. At the conference hosted by The Economist Group in San Francisco, the company’s CEO Dick Costolo said that Twitter has generated more ad revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the…
Freemium games are obviously working for large gaming publishers like Glu Mobile and Gameloft when EA wants to join this trend. Up until this point, Electronic Arts only offered premium titles such as Need for Speed, The Sims 3, Madden NFL and Tiger Woods. And while that strategy is still working for the company, freemium…