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In a rather unexpected bit of news, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion this morning and we asked you lovely readers what you thought of the deal. You’ll find the answers below thanks to Storify. Instagram was about 551 days old at the time of the acquisition and it could be the first billion-dollar app…
Facebook is acquiring Instagram and the team will be joining the world’s largest social network, according to a status update from Mark Zuckerberg. Reports suggest that the deal is worth up to $1 billion in cash and shares. Instagram blew up as an iPhone-only way to share photos with various filters. The service attracted nearly…
BlackBerry PlayBook owners will soon lose the ability to sideload applications onto their tablets. RIM will be pushing an update to all existing PlayBooks that will remove this option to prevent application piracy. RIM’s VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders broke the news via Twitter, stating that the move is geared at curbing application piracy,…
The Nokia Lumia 900 officially became available yesterday and some of the early returns look promising. The folks over at Laptop Mag noticed that the flagship Windows Phone climbed to the top of Amazon’s sales list, ahead of some high-end Android devices. No doubt, the price has to help as you can get the Lumia…
Despite the release of the Lumia 900, industry analysts are still painting a dark picture when it comes to Windows Phone’s 2012 outlook. Market research company ABI Research claims that the Windows Phone platform will only account for 2% of the estimated 36 billion applications downloaded in 2012. Though this represents nearly double Windows Phone’s 2011…
Samsung’s flagship device this year is going to be the Galaxy S III. HTC has the One X. Nokia has the Lumia 900. And Apple will have whatever they end up calling the next iPhone. But what about LG? At Mobile World Congress in February, the South Korean company announced the “world’s first” quad core…
Youm. How the hell do you pronounce that? We don’t know, but we better polish up on our Korean, because that’s what Samsung intends to call their new AMOLED screens. What makes them special compared to the Super AMOLED Plus displays currently on the market? Instead of the display using glass, it’ll use film. The…
You’ve heard it here before and now we have the dates to share. The popular shooter with Bullet Time effects is heading to the two most popular smartphone platforms – iOS and Android. Those of you with Apple-branded devices will get Max Payne first on April 12, while folks with smartphones and tablets running Google’s…
You’ve probably heard folks have problems with GPS on their Asus Transformer Prime tablet turned netbook. Moreover, you probably already know the Taiwanese company acknowledged the problem and has tried fixing it with software updates. That, however, hasn’t solved the issue and now they’re going for the hardware fix in a form of the GPS-improving…
Hipmunk updated its iOS and Android apps to make them even smarter. Thanks to the new calendar integration, the application knows your schedule and will include that information in the flight and hotel booking process. So when you conduct your flight search, calendar events will appear as vertical lines under the flights that conflict. Moreover,…