Apple’s stock has done quite well by new CEO Tim Cook. Josh Lowensohn/CNET Apple shares hit an all-time high today, underscoring the growing hype and anticipation over the company’s next major product. The stock reached a peak of $413.23 before retreating slightly to $411.63–still up nearly 3 percent from the previous day–at the close of …
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Electronista There were whispers about the upcoming Samsung Illusion for Verizon, but a slip-up last week demonstrates that the phone is most definitely real, according to Electronista. Apparently, it was an ill-timed Flickr image that cut through Samsung and Verizon’s customary smoke and mirrors to reveal an image of an Android handset for Verizon, and confirmation that this is in …
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iPhone 5 rumour update number 7,268. The latest entry to this already bulging tome says there are two new iPhones coming, which is nothing new in itself, but the big news is the iPhone 5 is delayed. That’s right, delayed. Which, if true, is going to be very annoying to those of us eager to get our mitts on one. …
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Samsung is sharpening the knives for a carefully timed raid on the iPhone 5. Sources say the Korean company is saving a legal challenge until Apple announces its next-generation smart phone — potentially killing the entire launch of the iPhone 5. Samsung will aim for a total ban on the new iPhone, the Korea Times reports. The two companies are …
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If you were cursing your BlackBerry last night, take some solace from the fact you weren’t the only one. Research in Motion, owner of BlackBerry, suffered an outage to its instant messenger, email and browsing services, cutting off customers. But stay calm, it was nothing to do with riots. Customers took to Twitter to voice their complaints, as you would. The …
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Samsung Electronics has appointed a former Sprint Nextel executive to help its U.S. mobile arm plan and launch new phones. Samsung tapped Kevin Packingham as its new senior vice president of product innovation, the company said today. Packingham was most recently chief executive of Amerilink Telecom, a small private company created to usher Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei in as a …
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The Google Nexus Prime is being shopped around by Samsung to show off the next generation of Android phones. According to an anonymous source, the forthcoming flagship Android smart phone is “blazingly fast” and its Ice Cream Sandwich software is a “major facelift”. Oh, and a Samsung Galaxy S3 is in the works too. The anonymous leaker posted to 4Chan …
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LG is smashing a bottle of champagne against the hull of another smart phone, welcoming the LG Optimus Q2 into its Android armada. Packing a 4-inch display, the Optimus Q2 wants to be a slim slider phone. That’s no mean feat — we’ve found mobiles with sliding Qwerty keyboards such as the HTC Desire Z are much bulkier than their …
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A new Motorola tablet, spotted in a video obtained by This Is My Next, appears to be both thinner and smaller than the company’s 10.1-inch Xoom. Looking more in line with tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 or HTC Flyer, this unannounced Motorola device looks to be half the thickness of its predecessor. Details are scarce at this …
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LG has introduced the latest member of its Optimus family today with the Optimus Q2. Expected to debut in the coming week, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone features midrange to high-end specifications that should bolster LG’s smartphone reputation. Details include a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera on the rear, and a front-facing VGA camera. Digging …
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Just in time for Google Wallet’s official launch, Samsung has prepped an update for the Nexus S 4G so you will soon be able to use the smartphone to pay for items at participating stores. The Samsung Nexus S 4G for Sprint is currently the only handset to support Google Wallet and features an embedded NFC chip that allows you …
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Sony Ericsson and Vodafone today announced their exclusive partnership on the new Xperia Ray handset — the first smartphone to launch with Sony’s video rental service out of the box. (Credit: Sony Ericsson) The Ray will launch in Australia on 28 September on Vodafone, with the cheapest plans being AU$5 per month on either an AU$29 plan or AU$45 Infinite …
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This month, Verizon will be making good on its threat to choke data speeds for the most active 5 percent of its 3G data customers. If you use 2GB of data or more each month and have a 3G unlimited plan, there’s a good chance this slow-down applies to you. It isn’t “throttling,” of course, Verizon wants you to know. …
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Are you a fan of adventure games? Monkeys? Terrible puns? How about pirates? Then today be your lucky day, mateys. In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day (which is today, scallywags), Telltale Games is offering Monkey Island Tales HD for iPad for just $2.99 per episode. (There are five that make up the complete game.) Normally, each episode would …
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Mounting piracy is the dirty little secret in the world of mobile applications. The Android market is facing a growing problem in app piracy. Piracy isn’t talked about a lot, but it has quietly grown into a major problem for many developers. It’s more of an issue in Android because its open nature and loose authentication tools allow pirates to …
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