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BlackBerry is going to lose two more senior level executives. Chris Wormald and Rick Costanzo, the company’s EVP overseeing global sales will be gone within the next few weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal. All this news is surfacing as BlackBerry begins gearing up for the release of its earnings report for its November…
LG today announced that it is going to add a Spotify application to all its 2013 Smart TVs. The service will only be available to those subscribed to a Premium account, even though the popular music service just added free streaming on the web and on mobile. LG is requiring folks to be paid subscribers…
LG will be rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat to LG G2 units across the world soon, according to a post from LG’s Korean blog. Android 4.4 graces a few of LG’s recent Android devices such as the Nexus 5 and the recently announced LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition. LG will be releasing KitKat…
Microsoft for months has waged war against Google attacking the search giant for the way they do advertising. The company has also sniped at Google’s popular Chromebooks, with snarky commercials on the web and on TV. So instead of going after Microsoft using similar tactics, the maker of Android has decided to hit Mr. Softy…
LG has announced a new Android device today, the LG Gx. We heard rumors of the Android smartphone becoming reality just a few days ago, and weren’t exactly thinking it would make an appearance so quickly. Well, the LG Gx is now reality, at least in Korea for now. From the naming scheme, one would…
Google is entering the robotics market, big time. What we used to know as search giant may soon turn into an overall giant, spanning a number of industries while trying to make our lives easier. As part of that mission, the Mountain View-based corporation acquired Boston Dynamics, the firm behind such cool robots as Big…
Microsoft may soon end-up owning Nokia, but it doesn’t want to be the only game in (Windows Phone) town. Rather, it wants a live eco-system, consisting of a number of different handset makers from all around the world. And if it really wants to succeed – it should corner Samsung. And that’s exactly what it’s…
Google’s success with Chromecast didn’t come unnoticed by others, Huawei included. So they’ve launched a similar, though a bit different device in its own backyard. Called Mango Pie 2 TV Stick, it’s an Android-based dongle which is selling in China for 299 Yuan (about $49), integrating content from Hunan TV, Phoenix TV, CETV, SBS and…
It seems there’s a subset of users in China who can’t imagine owning a non-clamshell smartphone. Samsung has thus far served this community best and now Phillips wants a bigger slice of the pie. The newly launched Xenium W9588 isn’t exactly an easy sell, quite the contrary. It’s a super-expensive mid-range smartphone with specs that…
Verizon Wireless is about to start pushing update for its version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini to make it compatible with Galaxy Gear smart watch. Furthermore, software version JDQ39.I435VRUAMK5 also promises to introduce few apps and services preloaded like MyInfoZone widget, VMware and Verizon Cloud. In addition, the following changes and issues have been…