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According to the Wall Street Journal, Google’s rumored smartwatch may become a reality sooner than we expected. The WSJ is reporting that the advertising giant is in talks with Asian suppliers in a bid to begin production of the device. The smartwatch will be heavy on Google Now integration, and still needs to communicate with…
BlackBerry has Alicia Keys, Verizon has J.Lo and now Lenovo has hired their very own celebrity, none other than the face of Steve Jobs, Ashton Kutcher. Lenovo sent out a tweet this morning announcing the acquisition, complete with a photo of Kutcher’s employee badge. Kutcher’s title at the company is listed as product engineer. Say…
Sprint continues its rollout of 4G LTE coverage by lighting up 45 new markets today, including Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island N.Y. This brings the number of U.S. markets covered by Sprint’s 4G LTE to 230. Sprint lit up the following markets with 4G LTE today: Abilene, Texas Lakeland/Winter Haven, Fla. Adrian, Mich. Laurel, Miss.…
Amazon has launched a cool new program for its Kindle book store, as it will roll out a service called MatchBook. The new program allows customers to buy a heavily discounted Kindle copy of physical books they’ve purchased from the online retailer. Prices aren’t bad, as discounted digital copies will range from free to $2.99.…
Starbucks with the help of Twitter announced that it will begin allowing users to send gifts to friends by way of a tweet. The new service being brewed up by both companies is called “Tweet a Coffee.” This new service is rolling out as a beta program that will start letting Twitterers send five dollar…
Motorola announced Project Ara, the open hardware concept that promises to revolutionize the way we shop for phones. Instead of buying products “as is”, Moto wants to allow us to customize our phones, selecting only the components we want. Here’s what you should know: 1. Project Ara has been in work for over a year.…
We know Samsung is on fire, having managed to gain and retain the world’s largest phone maker title. As I’m writing this, the Korean company is selling whopping 1 million mobile device per day. These include both phones and tablets! Going forward, Samsung hope to get all of these devices talking to each other. “We…
HTC used to rule the smartphone market and today it’s having hard time competing with Samsung and Apple. The Taiwanese company knows it needs to change and is apparently preparing a plan to get back on its feet. According to the Taiwanese media citing Nomura Securities, HTC’s plan is based on 4 major changes: 1.…
The newly announced Nokia Lumia 1520 will be available in China in December, ePrice is reporting. That’s a month after the phablet debuts in the West. It is said that the 1520 will cost 4,999 CNY, the amount that translates into some $829 or €595. Those of you who missed the last week should know…
Folks who bought the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from Sprint were unpleasantly surprised to learn that their brand-new phablet doesn’t deliver decent call quality. Something was wrong with the software that made phone calls awful. Moreover, keyboard handwriting mode was also broken potentially causing some funny auto-correct failures. We’re not sure how these two bugs…