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The iPad’s battery issue began when a DisplayMate report said the tablet’s battery continued to charge after the meter on the screen read 100 percent. This opened up a can of worms that led to reports that excessive charging would damage the iPad’s battery. Vice President of product marketing Michael Tchao finally put an end to this iPad battery…
The payment space is in an extremely transformational period but the widespread adoption of mobile payments may be four to six years away, according to comments from American Express executives. At a dinner in San Francisco, Dan Shulman, group president of enterprise growth, spoke about the exciting opportunities and challenges of this brave new world…
Harry Potter fans have waited for the book series to launch as ebooks ever since J.K. Rowling unveiled the Pottermore website last year. It’s been a long wait, but today it’s finally over. Pottermore has flicked the switch and is now selling both a digital version and an audio version of the popular fantasy book…
While we already knew that T-Mobile would eventually carry the HTC One S at some juncture, we weren’t expecting to see the handset so soon in the wild. Actually, scratch that. What you see is indeed a HTC One S but it’s not a T-Mobile branded device. Still, the software on the screen looks mighty…
Camera Awesome, a recently popular photography app for the iPhone made by photo-sharing website SmugMug, hit the 4-million-user milestone today in less than one month and, to celebrate, is announcing some great new features. Among the most exciting: Instagram integration — instagration, if I may. Camera Awesome launched at the beginning of March with very…
Google confirmed it is in talks with other carriers besides Sprint to integrate its Google Voice service as core functionality in phones, but Group Product Manager for Google Voice Vincent Paquet would not confirm which ones specifically. So far the partnership with Sprint has worked out rather well. “We have, since Day One, had a…
When it comes to the American consumer and 3D handsets, LG and Samsung refuse to take no for an answer, as both South Korean manufacturers aren’t ready to throw the towel in on mobile 3D technology just yet. Samsung’s Nick DiCarlo is a dreamer who envisions smartphones that can simultaneously power 3D HD video streams…
I’ve always been a fan of DoTA style games ever since the first DoTA mods made their way to World of Warcraft III. The combination of RPG elements with real-time strategy gameplay kept me entertained for hours on end. That’s why when I hear Gamevil published a DoTA style game for iOS at the extremely…
We know that there are a lot of people who missed out on Google I/O registration this year, as the whole conference sold out in under 30 minutes. Well, if you’re still desperate to go and you have a nice chunk of money to spare, you can still grab a ticket. For $4,000.. With Google’s…
Siri is supposed to be dubbed as your “personal assistant,” one that helps you command many special voice over task, like set reminders in your calendar, find local businesses, send email, etc. Well, according to a new consumer survey that examines Apple iPhone 4S users satisfaction with features, Siri isn’t being used for nearly as…