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Research in Motion’s two CEOs have to go. The company has lost investor–and increasingly customer–confidence over the last year. Its latest, greatest savior OS is behind schedule. The PlayBook is a disaster. And RIM could be circling the porcelain rim if it isn’t careful. Nevertheless, RIM carries on with its current management. Co-CEOs James Balsillie …

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Google offering new tools for aspiring Android developers

Google has long offered Android developers a number of resources for creating quality applications and games. Indeed, whether it’s the oft-updated platform version chart or a member of the team dropping by the developer blog to share some code or best practices, there’s plenty of official information available. If that wasn’t enough, today brings another valuable set of tools for …

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BlackBerry superphones delayed as profits plunge

BlackBerry maker RIM has been forced to delay its next smart phones, as company profits plunge, our sister site CNET News reports. RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis has confirmed that smart phones running BB10, the latest version of the BlackBerry operating system, won’t be arriving until late next year, giving Android, Apple and Windows Phone devices even more time in the …

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Nokia Lumia 900 arriving in February?

The hills are alive with the sound of mobiles. The latest clue to the launch of the hotly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 has come from the land of cuckoo clocks and chocolate, with a Swiss phone network revealing the Windows Phone will arrive in Europe in February. Swisscom revealed the date in a tweet to a customer asking after the …

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Verizon buys Cox wireless spectrum for $315M

Verizon Wireless is scooping up more wireless spectrum from another cable provider. On Friday, Cox Communications said it will sell Verizon Wireless its 20MHz slice of wireless spectrum for $315 million. As part of the deal, Verizon and Cox will resell each others residential and commercial services. The deal is similar in scope to one Verizon announced a couple of …

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Buy the Samsung Galaxy Nexus now or wait for something better?

The trickiest thing about technology is that six months after you buy the hottest gadget, another product is introduced that makes your once-cutting-edge device look like yesterday’s news. And in the smartphone world, it seems like that cycle of hot-to-not is rapidly increasing. So what’s a cell phone aficionado to do? The perfect smartphone Dear Maggie, I need your help. …

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Google Wallet seen running on Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Well, well, looks like if you really want Google Wallet on your shiny new Verizon Galaxy Nexus it’s yours for the taking. This is despite Verizon and the Isis group from saying you can’t. Images posted by tech site BGR allegedly show the Google Wallet software up and running on Samsung’s latest superphone. If you recall, rumor has it that …

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Samsung’s latest weapon against Apple: An emoticon

Samsung Electronics is hoping to kill Apple in the courtroom with a smile. Samsung tacked on four new patents in fresh complaints brought against Apple in a German court, according to legal blog FOSS Patents. One of the patents involves a method of entering an emoticon on the screen. The patents were brought up amid deliberations in two separate trials …

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Siri gains access to entire Best Buy catalog

Because of Apple’s partnership with search comparison engine Wolfram Alpha, Siri now has the ability to search the entire Best Buy catalog, a feature added to Wolfram Alpha today. Best Buy has public APIs that have allowed Wolfram Alpha to leverage the data from more than 35,000 products that Best Buy sells. Because Wolfram Alpha was built on a natural-language …

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