Foursquare and similar location-based check-in apps might sound silly to some, but they’re gaining in popularity nonetheless. A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that at least 28 percent of U.S. adults have found a liking for mobile and social location-based services. Kathryn Zickuhr, a Pew Internet Project research …
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Sony’s Tablet S is landing a week on Friday, over at Dixons. That’s just 10 days till you can get your hands on the oddly shaped Android 3.1 tablet, which lists among its skills the ability to play PlayStation One games. While you could pre-order direct from Sony, this is the first time the tablet has been given a release date. …
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Deutsche Telekom said today it would be entitled to a breakup fee if AT&T’s planned purchase of T-Mobile USA falls apart, refuting an earlier report that it could potentially end up with nothing. Reuters, citing anonymous sources, reported yesterday that AT&T may be off the hook for paying a $6 billion breakup fee to Deutsche Telekom under certain conditions. But …
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HTC’s Flyer tablet is soon to be receiving the Android update it so heartily deserves after screenshots surfaced showing it running the tablet-specific version of Android — Honeycomb 3.2. On the surface, the HTC Flyer wasn’t a bad piece of kit at all — its 7-inch size fit snugly in our hands and we even found ourselves enjoying using its …
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It’s dog-eat-dog in the world of tech. Just check this graph to see who’s suing who in the telecoms trade alone. Well now we can add Sprint Nextel to that list, as it’s suing to stop AT&T buying T-Mobile USA. Handbags at the ready. Sprint joins the U.S. Department of Justice in opposing the $39billion (£24billion) deal, claiming it would …
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HTC’s 7-inch Flyer tablet, yet to be released in Australia, is on the verge of an update to the Android Honeycomb 3.2 platform, which is a big change from the Gingerbread platform it launched on. Honeycomb Flyer: the home screen, note pad for Scribe and the lock screen. (Credit: This is my next) The team over at This is my …
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Research in Motion should look into selling itself or its treasure trove of patents, an investor tells Bloomberg today. Vic Alboini, chief executive of merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp. and an investor in RIM, said in an interview with Bloomberg today that RIM should create a committee made up of independent directors to evaluate its potential strategic options. Albioni said …
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You might not think of the Kindle as a marketing vehicle for a new TV show, but ABC is promoting its new TV series “Revenge” with an e-reader twist: you can download the pilot script for free on your Kindle and a code at the end will allow you to watch the pilot online before the show hits the airwaves. …
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A pair of unannounced high-powered HTC phones were spied in the wild over the long weekend, tipping the hands of both AT&T and T-Mobile. Featuring cutting-edge hardware specifications, the HTC Holiday and HTC Amaze 4G should find themselves near the top of the smartphone food chain later this year. T-Mobile customers will have their choice of two super phones come …
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Add Sprint to the list of big names choosing to speak now rather than hold their peace on AT&T and T-Mobile’s dreams of corporate matrimony. Saying it would violate the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Sprint today filed a lawsuit opposing the deal before the same Washington, D.C.-based federal judge who received a related suit filed last week by the Department of …
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Nvidia, best known for its high-end graphics chips, will generate a vast majority of its revenue from its now burgeoning mobile-processor business, according to outspoken Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang. Huang, speaking to a roundtable of reporters today, said he expects the mobile-chip business to grow tenfold, to $20 billion by 2015. In comparison, the graphics processor business is expected to …
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Screenshot by Jason Cipriani Video editing on the iPhone was first introduced with the iPhone 3GS, yet some iPhone owners still don’t realize how easy this feature is to use. It is incredibly simple to quickly edit a video you just shot so that you can send a specific moment to friends and family members. This can also come in …
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The auction that would see slices of the radio spectrum doled out to make a 4G phone network — speeding up our mobile data — has been delayed again, following legal threats from O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile. The UK may not see 4G phones until 2013 as a result. The three main providers (Orange and T-Mobile are combined as …
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It’s not a good time to be a Clearwire investor, according to Morgan Stanley. The 4G wireless provider faces several problems, the investment firm says, including the need to obtain further funding, a rapidly vanishing lead in the 4G race, and the potential of a Sprint iPhone. Such a device would run on a competing network and cut into sales …
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The iPhone 5 inches closer to shops with the news that its camera is set to roll off production lines in Taiwan ready for a launch any day. The Taiwan Economic News reports that two Taiwanese companies are to build the 8-megapixel camera on the next generation of Apple’s smash-hit smart phone. Largan Precision and Genius Electronic Optical are the …
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