If you don’t love TiVo PVRs, then you’ve never used one. But, if you live in the UK, you’ve a pretty good excuse — although TiVo launched in Blighty a while ago, it sank without a trace for reasons we’ve explained before. The good news is that Virgin is bringing it back to the UK …
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As part of Sprint‘s acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the carrier will cease providing postpaid service by May 25 of this year. While current Virgin Mobile postpaid subscribers won’t be automatically transferred to Sprint, the company is giving a whole bunch of incentives for people to switch over. They include a $50 credit toward a Sprint postpaid handset with a new …
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Earlier this morning, Apple revealed that it had filed suit against smartphone manufacturer HTC, accusing it of infringing on 20 Apple patents tied to the iPhone. Named as exhibits in the litigation, a handful of Android and Windows Mobile devices including Google’s Nexus One, the T-Mobile G1, the Droid Eris, the Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro2, and the Imagio. Mobile …
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Apple is suing phone maker HTC and has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, alleging that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, …
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Motorola Backflip (photos) +7 more See all photos On March 7, AT&T will release its first Google Android smartphone, the Motorola Backflip, for $99.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Backflip made its debut at CES 2010 where it earned our Best of CES award for the cell phones and smartphones category because of its …
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A tiny tweak to search results in Google’s mobile site could help some users, and proves once again that advertising is Google’s core business at least as much as search itself. Starting Tuesday, Google.com users on the iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android smartphones may notice that they can click a phone number in a sponsored ad to call an advertiser’s …
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Handmark brings a satisfying Twitter environment to the Android operating system with its new TweetCaster Pro application. Now available in the Android Market and on Handmark’s site for $4.99, TweetCaster Pro offers everything you’d expect from Twitter in a user-friendly design. We have just a couple of suggestions to make it better, though we think it’s worth the price. You …
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Live traffic data comes to the TomTom iPhone app with the new version 1.3 update. TomTom GPS device manufacturer TomTom continues to put its weight behind its TomTom app for iPhone with a new version 1.3 update. This revision, which has just been submitted to Apple for review, will add real-time traffic speed and incident reports for more accurate routing …
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Alarm clock. Metronome. Guitar tuner. TV remote. The list of real-world items the iPhone can replace just keeps getting longer. The latest entry: wireless headset. Shape Services’ Mobiola Headset app turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless headset, suitable for use with Skype, MagicJack, or any other VoIP-powered applications. (I’m assuming it would work with games as well, …
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We’ve known for some time that a new group of Nokia handsets was on its way, and Tuesday the company spilled the first handset in its C series. We spotted the C6 on the FCC database last week, but today’s news concerns the C5. The minimalist candy bar design is very Nokia. No, the gray and white color schemes aren’t …
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