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Evernote released a major update to its Android app, adding a bunch of features and improvements along the way. As soon as you tap the Evernote icon, you’ll notice a new homescreen from where you can not only create new notes, but also quickly search and browse for existing ones by Notebooks, Tags and Places.…
Anything The Wall Street Journal reports regarding Apple rumors is usually true, so we’re excited that their latest piece says that the sixth generation iPhone will have a screen that’s “at least” 4 inches diagonal. Considering that the iPhone will turn 5 years old next month, and for all those years it’s stayed at 3.5…
Deloitte Digital released a neat infographic illustrating modern digital disruption and the impact that digital technologies have on the way we do business. Some of the key stats include: 4.8 billion people worldwide own mobile phones, whereas only 4.2 billion people have a toothbrush. 77% of consumers interact with brands on Facebook, with the popular…
Telefonica has unveiled a pan-European data roaming tariff for smartphone subscribers, offering 25MB of data usage for 2 EUR a day. The Spanish-owned operator group said the new tariff protects customers from “bill shock” and is also significantly below the new price caps announced by the European Union last week. As a reminder, EU ruled…
Security experts at MobileIron announced a deal with HTC through the Taiwanese company’s HTCPro program, which provides mobile solutions for companies and their employees while ensuring that HTC’s entire portfolio is business-ready. HTCpro delivers “consistent enterprise enablement across all HTC devices,” and combined with MobileIron software – it gives IT departments essential enterprise features to…
Apple and Samsung have an interesting relationship. They compete against each other in the smartphone space, but when it comes to components, Apple simply can’t make anything without buying screens, processors, and memory chips from Samsung. Now Apple knows this, so they’ve been doing their best to wean themselves off the Samsung tit. According to…
Analyst Shaw Wu issued a note to investors yesterday that says according to his sources, Apple is going to make between 20% and 25% less iPhones in Q2 2011 because the company is preparing their factories for the upcoming sixth generation iPhone. Should we believe Shaw? Absolutely. Apple shipped 35 million iPhones during the first…
Operators need to buy spectrum, usually from governments, in order to build their networks. How do governments price spectrum? They have an auction, so the guy who is willing to pay the most money is also going to get the most spectrum. Verizon won an auction back in 2008 for some of that invisible gold,…
Mozilla is a stubborn company. They’ve been supporting Android for well over a year now, but they’ve been developing their app using their own XUL engine instead of using Android’s native user interface elements. What the hell does that mean in plain English? Mozilla put a wrapper around Firefox so that they’d have to do…
OpenSignalMaps is an Android application that shows you which cell towers you’re connected to, how strong your connection to said tower is, and provides users with maps that show which towers they happen to be near. Useful if you plan on moving to a new city and want to know which operator to sign-up with.…