After yesterday’s big, if expected, announcement that Verizon Wireless will start offering Apple’s iPhone, competing with AT&T, it is also confirmed that Verizon is going to offer a version of the iPad which connects directly to its network.
The current …
The tablet war is heating up. Fresh from revealing its Xoom tablet at CES, Motorola has ordered 700,000 to 800,000 units for the first quarter of 2011, as reported by DigiTimes today.
According to the report, this could mean Motorola …
While Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the dominant Web browser, Google’s Chrome has been growing consistently, as is evident from a new report from NetApplications. The report shows that Chrome’s slice of the market more than doubled during the past …
In a successful end-of-the-year push, the South Korean phonemaker Samsung says it sold 10 million Galaxy S smartphones globally in 2010. The announcement means that the Galaxy S is the first Android phone (or, rather, a family of phones) to …
Apple is opening the Mac App Store, the online download store that will provide apps for personal computers that use Mac OS X, on January 6, 2011, as expected. The Mac App Store will be much like the company’s current …
It’s no surprise that video is the most popular type of content shared on the controversial peer-to-peer protocol BitTorrent – according to one report, at the height of its popularity each episode of the TV show Heroes was downloaded five …
Nokia, the Finnish cellphone maker, said on Tuesday that it will delay the rollout of the E7 smartphone to early 2011, missing the holiday shopping season.
Originally, the enterprise user-oriented smartphone was meant to be out in December. According to …
TripTrace, an online travel planning service, went live today after a stint as a private, invitation-only test run. The service has had a rocky time of things until now, running into controversy even before it launched.
TripTrace was formerly called …
Get your iPads ready to kick back on the couch. Motorola intends to bring streaming video to tablets and mobile phones in the home via a set-top box, according to Reuters.
At first, the idea is to provide streaming video …
Devoted Windows smartphone hackers had just one week of blissful operating-system freedom.
That was the length of time that ChevronWP7, the first jailbreak tool to be released for Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, was live before being …
In the latest blow to Google’s ever-expanding online ambitions, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s practices in online advertising. According to allegations made by Microsoft‘s German subsidiary Ciao.de, British …
Microsoft’s fledgling mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, managed to be live for little over a month before somebody released a jailbreak tool for the OS. Three men have just done that, as Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh and Long Zheng …
It is true: People will pony up remarkable amounts of money for Apple’s products.
This is evident by the lines of pundits that snake around Apple Stores the world over whenever a new, sleek Apple product hits the shelves. But …
Ever wish you could strike up a conversation with that cute redhead on the commuter train? Well, a startup called Bumped.in may finally give you the courage.
The service is a social network for daily commuters and travelers that shares …
The biggest promise location-based services offer for merchants is that they are going to bring in the pundits en masse. Location companies and brands have been experimenting with rewarding users with discounts and other special offers (like cutting the price …
Location-based service The Hotlist aggregates Facebook and Twitter feeds to tell its users where the hottest spots in town are – as defined by where their friends are going. The service was solely available online for the past year. But …
Working in the mobile advertising business, New York City-based Xtify has been building its platform for brands and other app developers, allowing for geo-targeted notifications — most often, ads — that are pushed to consumers when they are within a …
PlacePop, a company that allows any company to create and maintain virtual loyalty cards, launched its iPhone app today. It also announced fresh funding of $1.4 million from a number of angel investors.
PlacePop wants to replace the clumsy, physical …
The check-in game as popularized by location-based services Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and others, desperately needs something more tangible than just the mere exclamation of a user’s location. One way to bring more value – and thus more interest – to …
Booyah, the San Francisco-based company most famous for its location-based game MyTown, launched a new feature over the weekend for its service called the product check-in. In short, it means users can “check in” with a T-shirt, much like they …
