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Report: Samsung Not Looking to Buy RIM

Jeff Baker — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:52:41 +0000

RIM has come under fire as of late from consumers and investors alike as their BlackBerry line up of smartphones have fallen out of the spotlight only to be replace by Android and iOS powered devices. This is quite a change from just a few years ago when the BlackBerry was the premiere smartphone for [...]

Nintendo Wii U tablet to have app store?

Paul Briggs — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:24:12 +0000

Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U console and tablet controller might have a fully fledged app store, much like Apple’s iOS app store and Android’s app store marketplace as well. The interesting part here is that the app store won’t just feature mini-games, it’ll have non-gaming apps, meaning we’ll probably see many iOS and Android developers porting [...]

AT&T Gives Up on T-Mobile Merger

Jeff Baker — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:00:46 +0000

If you’ve been paying attention to pretty much any tech publication you’ll know that AT&T was eyeballing T-Mobile for a merger. This would have given AT&T a significant advantage over competitors such as Sprint and Verizon,. Well, if you were for some reason looking forward to this merger you better look away. It was just made known today that AT&T [...]

British Telecom sues Google over Android

James Hyde — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:11:16 +0000

British Telecom has filed a patent lawsuit against Google for breaching BT’s patents in its Android mobile operating system. BT filed the suit in Delaware, claiming that Google breached patents on several Android features, including Maps, Music apps, and more. This isn’t the first time Google has been sued over Android — a number of [...]

Verizon buys 20MHz wireless spectrum from Cox

James Hyde — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:55:34 +0000

Verizon and Cox Communications have announced a deal where Cox will sell its 20MHz wireless spectrum to Verizon for $315 million. Like many deals of this kind, it has to be approved by the FCC first, just to clear all the rules and regulations regarding fair competition on the market etc. This is just one [...]

Sprint: we’ve removed Carrier IQ from phones

James Hyde — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:48:20 +0000

Carrier IQ has been in the hot seat over the past few weeks for tracking all sorts of user data on as many as 100 million smartphones. Now the first carrier has removed the software from its phones, as Sprint announced that they’ve disable Carrier IQ on all of their phones. Sprint said that it [...]

Google acquires “Alfred” app maker

James Hyde — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:22:19 +0000

Google has announced that they’ve acquired mobile app maker Clever Sense, makers of the popular “Alfred” Android app, which lets users search for nearby restaurants, clubs, bars etc., with a built in recommendations engine and many more bells and whistles. Google plans to integrate the new app directly into Android, but no word on how [...]

Meizu opens Hong Kong store

James Hyde — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:17:08 +0000

Meizu, the company that so hard tries and tried to copy Apple and its iOS devices, even managed to open a few minimalist, Apple-like Meizu stores in China. Now the company has announced that they’ve opened their first store outside of mainland China: Hong Kong. With Hong Kong’s lower taxes, the flagship Meizu MX handset [...]

Carrier IQ says its software isn’t a threat to privacy

Paul Briggs — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:41:35 +0000

It’s been a rough week for Carrier IQ, makers of software that tracks almost all activity on user’s smartphones. The Carrier IQ software is present on a vast majority of Android handsets, and iPhones as well. In fact, the company boasts that over 140 million smartphones have Carrier IQ installed. Last week it was revealed [...]

Apple rejects ESRB game ratings for iOS games

Paul Briggs — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:28:15 +0000

Videogames, when released on most of the major platforms like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Wii, have to go through an ESRB certification, Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which gives each game a rating (and which you can find on the box of virtually every game shipped). Since Apple has become a big-time player in [...]