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Rovio, the wildly popular mobile game maker, recently announced on its Twitter page that its latest Angry Birds installment, Angry Birds Space, was downloaded 50 million times in 35 days. Wow. This makes Angry Birds Space the fastest growing mobile game in history. Angry Birds Space launched March 22 with a legion of loyal fans…
Originally released for the iPhone and other smartphones in August 2011, Facebook has been silent about bringing its Messenger app to the iPad. Today, the folks at 9to5Mac got their hands on a prototype of an iPad-optimized Facebook Messenger app which means yes, it exists and yes, it’s coming. Right now in the beta stages, it’s…
The Advertising Standards Authority is questioning Apple’s use of 4G LTE as a legitimate feature of the iPad in the United Kingdom. While the rollout of LTE technology is moving along quickly in the United States and Canada, in the UK, almost no one has access to it yet Apple still advertises certain models of…
Ting, the new mobile network I personally called the one “we’ve all been waiting for” and is self-proclaimed “Mobile That Makes Sense,” launched a sweepstakes that wants to pay for your early termination fee so you can release the shackles and join Ting. It’s called Dump Your Contract Month and it’s a very straightforward contest.…
Samsung has become the new ruler of smartphones, snatching the reigns away from the world’s previous number one Apple, according to two separate reports. Today Research firm IDC estimated that Samsung shipped a record 42.2 million smartphone units during the first quarter of 2012, a 267 percent increase from 11.5 million during the same quarter last…
We got our first look at the BlackBerry 10 platform at BlackBerry World this morning and we’re torn on it mainly because we can’t really use it fully. We got a taste of what’s to come but it’s too early to judge it now. Still, that doesn’t mean people aren’t entitled to their opinions, so…
Research In Motion just showed off its next-generation operating system and BlackBerry 10 could be quite nice on a phone. The intuitive user interface, excellent mobile keyboard and interesting camera software may finally bring BlackBerry users into the modern smartphone age. I fear it may be too late to reverse RIM’s slide, though. “We’re taking…
When it comes to app stores, nobody can argue that quality is much more important than quantity; we generally don’t want to install useless applications on our devices. Microsoft has announced via a blog post that they’re actively working to improve the quality of applications available on the Windows Phone Marketplace, and will soon roll…
Google is working on changing the look of the Galaxy Nexus with the addition of a slider, according to some patents Google filed with the USPTO in January. In the is filing, a series of three patents were submitted, which listed lead Android developer Andy Rubin as the main inventor. Each patent showed innovative techniques…
Research in Motion showed off its BlackBerry 10 operating system at BlackBerry World today and there was a lot of excitement because it delivered a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device to those attending. We spent a little time with it and you can check out the pictures below, unfortunately they weren’t allowing videos. The strange…