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Verizon Wireless has announced plans to start charging a $30 upgrade fee for new handsets as of April 22nd. It was the last main US carrier to have an upgrade fee in place, but alas, now everyone must suffer henceforth. Verizon is supposedly making up for the decline in profit margins last quarter due to…
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is poking fun at the latest technology news once more. This time, he’s left quite confused over why Google Glasses is beneficial and why Facebook would ever spend $1 billion on something as stupid as Instagram. First talking about Google’s Glasses technology, he initially seems enthusiastic that “the Google…
Yeah, we know you do it. We do it, too. Still, that doesn’t make texting and walking a safe habit, and this story highlights just this. No, no one fell into a manhole or walked off of a pier this time around but a man almost walked right into a bear that has been stalking…
Appreciate, the personal Android Market that’s incredibly easy on the eyes has just released a nifty little chart pertaining to OMGPOP’s (Now Zynga’s) application, Draw Something. By now, you’ve probably heard of the app but it looks like the Appreciate guys wanted to see if it was all hype and how much people are actually…
T-Mobile is sending out invitations to a press event on the night of April 18th. The headline for that shindig will the HTC One S, a 4.3-inch phone with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Details about the launch date and pricing are not available, but a recent rumor pegs the 25th as the date the One S…
BlackBerry has announced a handful of applications that will become BBM connected over the next few weeks. Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry Travel, BlackBerry App World, and BlackBerry Music will all see apps updated in the next 10 days that will allow users to interact with BBM friends within these applications. You’ll be able to do things…
Apple finds itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit today, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. Following reports that the company was involved in an e-book price-fixing scheme surrounding books for Apple’s iPad, the US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Macmillan Publishing today in New York District…
Nokia is going to announce their Q1 2012 financial results on April 19th, today though they issued a press release that gives investors and analysts a hint of what sort of numbers they should be expecting. Here are the important figures: 83 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter, of which 71 million were…
Intel’s desperate to get into the mobile game. Their chips power desktops and laptops, but the future is obviously smartphones and tablets. When it comes to that space, Intel has 0% market share. Now that’s going to change this year thanks to Orange, an operator who has committed to launching a smartphone based on an…
Google is steadily conquering the world with its Android platform. It’s not just the Western hemisphere that’s under the strong influence of the search giant – users on the Far East love it, too. In fact, at the end of last year, Android had 68.4 percent of the Chinese smartphone market by the number of…