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Apple iOS4.3 Goes Social

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Apple’s mobile operating system is soon to be updated and with that update comes new surprises. After releasing the second version of the beta of iOS 4.3 on Wednesday, developers have been discovering many new little interesting features. A developer by the name of 9to5mac found a file named “Media Stream”. It took a little [...]

Apple Reports Record Earnings

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On Wednesday, January 19, Apple Inc. shares soared after the company announced its record figures for the December period and predicted strong results for the current quarter. Trading was restrained due to worries of Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, who announced he was taking a leave of absence on medical grounds. Apple and Jobs have not [...]

Sprint Raises Data Plan Pricing By $10

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A $10 charge per month is being added to Sprint Nextel’s new Smartphone as of the end of January. Sprint is the third-biggest carrier in the US. The charge is called a Premium Data add-on. Many believe that this add-on charge was inevitable considering that Sprint is the US’s cheapest carrier for unlimited plans. The [...]

Tablet Success May Cause Component Shortage

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Apple has upped the ante for tablet makers and the word on the street is that every manufacturer will be coming out with a tablet of their own this year. But the increase in tablet production is straining the capabilities of component manufacturers. These manufacturers are warning about disruptions in worldwide supplies. The DigiTimes of [...]

Verizon Gets iPhone As Widely Anticipated

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Verizon Wireless has won the contract for the iPhone and AT&T has lost its major advantage over the market, a shift in dynamics that will make 2011 any carriers game. Apple is the clear winner, their partnership will give them 93 million Verizon Wireless customers. This increase doubles Apple’s user base. Verizon President, Lowell McAdams [...]

Google Revamps Goggles To Solve Sudoku And Read Barcodes

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Google Goggles has been relaunched on Tuesday as an iOS and Android application. Version 1.3 of Google Goggles can read print ads in media such as magazines. It can also solve difficult problems such as sudoku puzzles. It can also view and process QR codes and barcodes with its camera. The new version is quicker [...]

Google Launches Digital Newsstand

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Apple and Google are already competitors on several fronts – such as the e-reader front – and now the war has moved to media distribution as the two computer-age giants battle to gain dominance on the table magazine and newspaper distribution industry. Google is currently publicizing their newest initiative, Google Newsstand. The store offers e-media [...]

Toshiba Announces Toshiba Tablet

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With the Consumer Electronics Show coming up fast, a lot of companies have taken to announcing their products early to get the hype up. It seems that tablets are huge point of interest this season, with at least half a dozen companies being rumored to announce tablets. Toshiba has decided to announce it will be [...]

Europe Approves Cellphone Charger Standard

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A universal European smartphone charger standard was announced on Thursday 30 The decision was made by the regulatory authorities at the EU’s European Commission. The standard charger was designed and developed alongside 14 of the EUs handset manufacturers, including Nokia, Apple, Samsung and Research in Motion. The standard is intended to reduce e-waste within the [...]

Windows Phone 7 Reaches 5000 Apps In 2 Months

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Although the Windows Phone 7 is still well short of matching Apple’s 300,000 apps, Microsoft proudly announced that their product has reached the 5,000 app mark. The Windows Phone 7 now matched the Palm webOS for amount of applications that have been written for it. Microsoft has achieved this goal in only 2 months, which [...]