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Windows 8 won’t release to the general public until later this year, but it has entered the consumer preview stage where anyone brave enough to encounter a few bugs can test for themselves. Windows 8 will bring the Metro UI to both PCs and tablet computers, and developers are quickly building metro applications that will…
Ah, LightSquared. What once was part of Sprint’s grand scheme to bring an LTE network to the masses is now in desperate need of saving. LightSquared has invested billions of dollars into plans for a nationwide 4G LTE network, only to find the chosen spectrum has a good chance of interfering with critical GPS devices…
Microsoft is going to release two major pieces of software this year: Windows 8, the desktop and tablet operating system; and Windows Phone 8, codenamed Apollo, their smartphone operating system. We’re eager to find out what’s new in Apollo, because Mango, today’s version of Windows Phone, just doesn’t cut it for us. We’re not alone…
Verizon Wireless will soon push a software update to the plum colored HTC Rhyme. Unfortunately, it won’t bring Ice Cream Sandwich, but a number of bug fixes and improvements, instead. Here’s what software version 2.20.605.3 710RD brings to the table: Device Features “Ringtones” has been replaced with “Edit Home” when the Menu key is pressed…
Even IRS has its mobile app to help citizens pay their dues more easily. The cartoon, which is a part of CA Technologies’ Chief & Chuck series, was penned by nationally renowned cartoonist Dave Blazek. As you can see from the image above, it doesn’t take a single tap on your behalf to use this…
Sony Xperia Sola is at the FCC, allowing government-paid engineers to check out its guts and make sure it’s safe to be used by the general public. If you recall from our previous post on the phone, it’s an Android smartphone that finds its place somewhere between the Xperia U and Xperia P. The Sola…
Canada’s SaskTel will join the HTC One craze by adding the One S model to its portfolio in the near future. We don’t know when exactly that will happen, but my guess is you’ll be able to get your unit by the end of this month. And if you don’t live in SaskTel’s coverage area…
In its new report, Juniper Research is examining the mobile ticketing business, forecasting that the number of tickets delivered to mobile phones worldwide will more than quadruple to 23 billion by 2016, compared with 4 billion tickets estimated to have been delivered last year. The research company says that mobile ticketing solves key problems for…
By now you’ve probably realized Starbucks doesn’t want to wait for the contactless payments and is already allowing its customers to pay for their coffee with nothing but their phone. Savvy coffee drinkers obviously dig what the company is doing since it has thus far processed more than 42 million mobile payments, which are available…
Booking.com is launching what it says is the world’s first global last-minute hotel app for iPhone. In comparison, Hotel Tonight and Hotel Negotiator are focused on the U.S. market only, while Booking.com also covers other markets, including London, Hong Kong and Dubai. The application is expectedly very easy to use. One tap retrieves all the…