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O2 UK has struck a deal with the Costa Coffee chain to offer free Wi-Fi service to coffee drinkers. The deployment has already started with the idea to make all Costa stores set up for festivities planned this summer across the capital (i.e. Summer Olympics and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee). In order to connect to Wi-Fi…
Banjo has updated its iOS app to make it even easier to keep up with your friends, expand your networks and beef up your privacy within the Banjo community. Here’s what’s new: By popular request, a new feature has been added showing a map view of your friends around the world. You can access this…
LG has recently said that they’re going to focus on Android and that they have no Windows Phones in the pipeline. They didn’t say they’ll abandon Microsoft’s platform altogether, but just read between the lines. According to FierceWireless, who interviewed Chris Weber, Nokia’s President for the Americas, LG’s decision isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He…
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment released an update to its popular iHeartRadio for iPad, featuring a completely refreshed design with new functionality. Available as a free download, the application now includes the following features: Custom Stations – allowing users to create their own personalized stations by simply entering an artist or song, and iHeartRadio will…
Telefónica, better known as O2 in the UK, has just launched an iOS application called “TU Me”. If you know what Skype does, then you know what TU Me does. It has free voice over IP calling, it has instant messaging, photo sharing, and you’ll even be able to share your location. The catch? It…
We just spent some time with the Samsung Galaxy S III here at CTIA in New Orleans and wanted to share some hands on pictures (and soon to be video) with our readers. Here are just a few short initial impression. From the little time we had with the device, we walked away pretty impressed,…
PCWorld went on a bit of an adventure recently to put AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon’s 3G and 4G networks to the test. They traveled to 13 cities across the United States — Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. — and…
New on the list of cell phones US Cellular offers is the Pantech Verse, a green little mobile phone with a good price and decent features. The fact that its named with a word in the English dictionary instead of a random mix of letters and numbers might suggest this is a smartphone, but it’s…
Months of waiting and listening to vague public remarks from AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega have led us to this moment. Finally we have confirmation that AT&T family data plans are coming soon — still vague, but something is better than nothing. Such a plan would allow families already living in an all-smartphone world…
Nokia is partnering with several big-name developers to release their apps exclusively for Nokia’s Lumia handsets. The smartphone maker is partnering with ESPN to launch the ESPN Hub and an ESPN Fantasy Football app, only on the Lumia. The Hub app, an exclusive until May 2013, will feature sports scores as well as coverage of…