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As a web browser, Opera gets its bacon cooked when its stacked up against anything like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but as a mobile browser, Opera fairs well against heavyweights: Apple and Google. Sparingly, Opera is ahead depending on certain statistics (that favors them). Well, according to a new Opera white paper, in which…
Last week, a company paid for a “Wake Up” protest to be held in front of an Apple Store in Sydney Australia. Reports immediately swept the internet that Samsung was behind the campaign. A Samsung-backed Wake Up protest certainly made sense, as Samsung has been very loudly biting at Apple with its “Dude, you’re a…
Let the cloud storage wars begin … LG is joining the party of phone makers offering its own cloud storage services. It’s funny because LG tried this thing months ago with its 50GB promotion it ran alongside Box. Now the Korean handset maker will go it alone with its new product called LG Cloud, and…
Anyone who has been following the LightSquared case closely knows that the company is just one bad move away from Chapter 11. LightSquared is seeking a one-week extension on a debt-terms violations waiver that expires this morning, so the company can negotiate a longer-term extension that will cover the company for 18 to 24 months.…
Barnes and Noble has gained an unlikely suitor to help it compete in the ebook market. The company has just announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft that will see Barnes and Noble create a new subsidiary that will house its nook and College business lines. Microsoft will be forking over $300 million for a 17.6%…
Real estate marketplace Zillow launched a dedicated mobile app for renters – Zillow Rentals. Available for Android smartphones, it is said to be optimized for “renters who need to make decisions quickly,” providing them [renters] with access to Rent Zestimates which are Zillow’s estimated rent prices on more than 100 million U.S. homes and apartments.…
Sony is apparently preparing a new low-end Android smartphone marked as ST21i. The information comes from the TechBlog.gr, which was kinda enough to share two photos of the device. We don’t have all the information about this little fella’ but we do know it’s an entry-level device that rocks a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, 800MHz processor,…
If you or someone from your company need a real tough push-to-talk phone and you also happen to live or work in Canada, check out Bell’s latest device – Sonim XP5520 BOLT. As you may’ve heard before, this is one of the toughest phones in the world. In fact, the XP5520 BOLT is built on…
Mobile VoIP and messaging service/app Line2 updated its iOS app with support for MMS, which was apparently one of the most asked-for features by Line2’s users. Despite being ready to launch since the Fall of 2011, the carriers (Verizon is especially mentioned) have been blocking MMS interconnect for Over the Top (OTT) services like Line2,…
Sony’s Tablet S is getting its serving of Ice Cream Sandwich as we speak. At the moment we’re not sure which markets are included in the first queue, but since the new software is there, it’s likely that every Tablet S owner in the world will get the update during the next couple of days…