Best Buy is beefing up its recently launched wireless broadband service in a deal with 4G provider Clearwire. Through its Best Buy Connect service, which debuted just a few weeks ago, the electronics retailer plans to offer customers a new 4G tier starting in 2011. The company says Connect network coverage is currently available in …
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The London Cycle Hire scheme begins tomorrow, and developers have already filled up the iTunes store with iPhone apps to help us get in the saddle. We’ve taken a look at the top apps to separate the carbon-fibre forks from the training wheels — so strap on your helmet, tuck up your trouser legs, and read on. London Cycle Hire …
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Virgin Media Player, the company’s long-awaited online catch-up service, launches today for the Web and mobile phones. It’s initially a beta test, and will be available to customers with its most expensive XL TV package, as long as they also have a Virgin broadband connection. Registration will happen via the beta site, which you can find at virginmedia.com/player. The company …
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Verizon Wireless smartphone customers use 25 percent more data than AT&T iPhone customers, thanks in large part to new Verizon’s new Android smartphones, a recent study indicates. Validas, a company that analyzes cell phone bills and usage for consumers and corporate customers, analyzed 20,000 consumer phone bills between January and May of 2010 and discovered that Verizon Wireless smartphone customers …
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Motorola turned in a solid second quarter, with both revenue and earnings outpacing analysts’ expectations. The company also said it foresees good results for the current quarter, in part on the expected strength of sales of its new Droid X smartphone, which went on sale in mid-July and quickly sold out at many stores. “The Droid X launch has been …
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Updates to the Firefox Home app for iPhone and to the Firefox Sync add-on for Firefox (Windows|Mac) fix the top three problems users reported for each program, says Mozilla. The new version of Firefox Home (1.0.1), a companion app for the Firefox browser on iPhone, now supports usernames with upper-case letters for logging in to the URL viewer. It also …
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Savvy iPod Touch users already know how to make phone calls on their devices: plug in a headset, find a Wi-Fi hot spot, and fire up a VoIP app like Skype or Fring. I can find at least two hassles in that process. Wouldn’t it be cool–no, awesome–if you could pop a SIM card into your Touch and use it …
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A wallpaper app that steals your personal info, piracy controls coming to the Android Marketplace, and a look into the world of Android gaming. Plus, Jeff Bakalar shares an awesome tip on creating itineraries for Google Maps Navigation, and Jessica Dolcourt helps us pronounce the death of the Android phone that started it all. Updated: The wallpaper app discussed in …
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Editor’s note: Though Froyo also can add Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, the update will not change the Evo’s current hotspot feature. Sprint announced Thursday that starting next week it will push the Android 2.2 “Froyo” update to the HTC Evo 4G. The Evo will be the first Sprint device to get the much-anticipated upgrade, which adds a selection of new features …
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It’s not just the iPhone 4 and its incredible disappearing phone signal that’s drawing the wrath of consumers down upon Apple. US iPad owners have launched a lawsuit over the tablet’s penchant for shutting down when it gets a bit warm, soon after a CNET reader told us his iPad had wilted in the blistering heat of a Welsh summer’s …
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The summer has been dominated by Android and Apple news, but RIM’s not about to let them have all the fun. The BlackBerry maker is set to make an announcement at an event in New York next Tuesday that might have a little something to do with all those BlackBerry OS 6 previews we’ve been seeing lately. We take a …
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Few things are certain in the cell phone world, but one is the regular J.D. Power and Associate study on wireless customer care performance. And after finishing behind Verizon Wireless in the February study, T-Mobile has again risen to the top of the rankings. In the latest study, which was released Thursday, T-Mobile garnered a score of 777 points out …
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There’s nothing like a friendly contest to stir the blood, and the CNET 100 was no different. Every day for two business weeks, CNET editors presented their 10 favorite iPhone apps for you, our readers, to endorse with a vote or smack down by averting your eyes. We even gave you a final chance to vote on all 100 submissions, …
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Motorola has just announced two new handsets for Boost Mobile: the Motorola Rambler and the Motorola Bali. Both are clamshell handsets, but the Rambler has a QWERTY keyboard while the Bali just has the standard number keypad. As you might imagine, Moto built the Rambler with messaging in mind. It comes with the usual messaging features like SMS, MMS, e-mail, …
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Sprint Nextel’s hot new phones are helping boost the number of subscribers for the first time in a long time. Even so, the company’s second-quarter results were down. For the quarter ended June 30, the wireless carrier reported a net loss of $760 million, compared with a loss of $384 million in the year-ago quarter. Sales dipped to $8.025 billion, …
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