Today’s the day, friends! Samsung will be unveiling the Galaxy S III in a few hours and you can watch it live at the link below. You can check out our exhaustive preview for the latest details but we’re expecting at least a 4.7-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen with at least 720p resolution, a quad-core…
BOKU brings its mobile payments to Sprint
Online payments specialist BOKU has scored a deal with Sprint, allowing users to charge online purchases to their Sprint wireless bill through a simple two-step authorization process. Among the participating merchants are such companies as Electronic Arts, Riot Games, Jagex, Stardoll, Kingisle and Gaia Online, making sure every (gamer) will find something of interest. Purchases…
AT&T: Blocked T-Mobile deal will lead to higher prices
AT&T’s Randall Stephenson said that customers can expect wireless service prices to go up thanks to the feds’ blocking of the $36 billion T-Mobile deal. It all boils down to bandwidth, or lack thereof. He said one of the major reasons it was trying to buy T-Mobile was to get more wireless spectrum and without…
Survey: Most devs not making money from apps, spend $0 on marketing
If you spend it, they will come. That’s the message App Promo received loud and clear in their First Annual Development Survey. A whopping 52% of developers have absolutely no money set aside for marketing their applications, and the same percentage spends 5% of their time or less promoting their applications. This is despite 91% of…
Conspiracy Theory: No one is supporting Windows Phone because everyone wants to see Nokia die
Earlier today I wrote about a leaked image of an as yet to be announced Windows Phone from Samsung called the Mandel. Think of it like the South Korean version of the Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T. As I was wrapping that piece up, something clicked in my head regarding the state of Nokia and…
Leak: Samsung Mandel, the 4G LTE enabled Windows Phone that never was
Last month we reported on a rumor that said Samsung would release three Windows Phones this year. Two of them are supposedly going to run the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Apollo, and one of them will run Mango, the version that’s currently out on the market. That Mango phone, codenamed Mandel, is a…
Motorola RAZR MAXX hitting Sweden, Norway in mid-May
Motorola issued two press releases to announce that its RAZR MAXX smartphone will hit Sweden and Norway in mid-May. In Sweden, the device is expected to be available from Telia, Netonnet and other Motorola authorized resellers; while in Norway interested folks will have to check out local Motorola authorized resellers. As you probably know, the…
Google Play direct carrier billing added for books, music and movies
Google turned to its own social network (Google+) to share the good news. Users in select countries on (again) select mobile networks will be able to pay for mobile content without their credit cards thanks to the wonder of direct carrier billing (which consequently adds all purchases to your monthly phone bill). The first batch…
Marvel-themed Zen Pinball tables offered with a 50% discount in honor of The Avengers movie
Don’t say you don’t want a Marvel-themed pinball, cause you do especially if these are made by Zen Studios. And that’s exactly the case here, with the famous pinball game maker offering Marvel tables with a 50% discount to celebrate the release of The Avengers movie. In other words, Captain America, Wolverine and Thor tables…
Tweetbot 2.3 for iPad brings a bunch of changes, including new tweet view, gestures and Storify support
Arguably the single-best Twitter app for iPad, Tweetbot, just got better. Version 2.3 packs a number of new features and changes, including: New tweet detail view with inline conversations and replies – swipe right to left on a tweet for quick access New gesture in tweet detail to get back to the timeline – swipe…









