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Bit.ly is completely rebranding its service from a website to shorten URLs to what appears to be a direct competitor to StumbleUpon, Delicious, or even Instapaper for saving and sharing links from around the web. As part of the big changes, Bit.ly is out with an iPhone app. The revamp revolves around what Bit.ly is…
Samsung has been on fire ever since it announced its long anticipated Galaxy S III device, when Vodafone proclaimed it the “most pre-ordered Android smartphone ever.” Today the company launched its new flagship phone in 28 countries including the UK, France, UAE, Saudi Arabia and parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Apparently, all…
Australian hardware vendor Kogan released a new Android tablet with impressive specs, but the most notable of all is its price tag — the Agora tablet starts at just AUD$179. What’s a tad peculiar about the low price of the Kogan Agora is the fact that it doesn’t give any impressions of being cheap or…
With the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S III available today, all eyes are turning to the US variants, which have been rumored to land sometime in late June. The guys over at TMONews just received some release dates for a handful of upcoming handsets and the Galaxy S III was in that select…
GameStop announced that it’s now selling a select number of Android tablets in over 1,600 of its retail stores across the country. The news broke on Friday as a promotion to “experience a new way to game” for Memorial Day weekend. The move is a clever acknowledgment from GameStop of the evolutionary shift in gaming…
Imaging experts at Scalado launched a new iPhone app and web service called Scalado PhotoBeamer. Touted as a “new innovative and easy way to show your photos on any screen,” it allows iPhone users to show photos to friends and family by pointing their beloved smartphone at any screen displaying www.photobeamer.com. In other words, it’s…
Let it be known that May 29 seems to be the new unofficial date to leak upcoming Apple products. First, alleged images of the next iPhone’s casing hit the web and now BGR claims it has received access to the rumored 3D Maps app in iOS 6. It’s been all but confirmed by Apple for a while…
Apple released the final schedule for WWDC so attendees can start planning which sessions they want to attend. The highlight of the event will be the keynote speech slated for June 11 at 10 am Pacific time. Apple did not reveal who would be delivering the keynote, but it will likely be CEO Tim Cook.…
We knew that that Sprint’s iDEN network was on its way out but the Now Network has given it an official death date: as early as June 30, 2013. The move paves the way for Sprint to push forward with its 4G LTE ambitions. Sprint got the iDEN network after it merged with Nextel (it’s…
We already knew that Apple’s WWDC would be held June 11-15 but the company has officially set the keynote for 10 a.m. PST on that first day. This will likely be our first official taste of the next generation of iOS. There’s a slim chance we may get the next iPhone during the keynote but…