Verizon Wireless added more than 800,000 new subscribers during the fourth quarter as it prepares for the launch of the Verizon iPhone. The company, which is jointly owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone, today reported that it added 872,000 contract customers during the last quarter of 2010, bringing it to a total of 102.2 million …
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25 January
White Google Nexus S set to embarrass Apple’s iPhone
The Google Nexus S by Samsung could soon be available in white, cocking a snook at a certain fruit-flavoured competitor. Google’s second smart phone is currently on sale in black, but leaked photos show an icy makeover. The front of the phone stays black, and the back is white, for a classy two-tone effect. That’s according to German website Bestboyz. …
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T-Mobile USA’s new CEO, Philipp Humm, has been on the job a little over six months and he’s already made some aggressive moves to get the smallest of the four major U.S. operators back in the game. Last week, Humm joined Rene Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, to present the company’s turn-around plan to Wall Street. He …
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25 January
Native Union Moshi Moshi 04 makes your phone look less mobile
Most if us have ditched our landlines for mobiles by now, but as convenient and as affordable as our BlackBerrys, iPhones and Android handsets might be, they’ll always be a tad too fiddly for a proper extended natter while you’re milling around the house — until now. The Moshi Moshi 04 (MM04) is a standalone handset that connects to your …
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25 January
Rumored HTC Flyer specs paint a very Galaxy Tab
At first glance, the HTC Flyer could be mistaken for the Galaxy Tab. amobil.no After first breaking cover less than a week ago, the first details for the upcoming HTC Flyer are starting to emerge. And as it turns out, the 7-inch tablet will feature hardware very similar to the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Norwegian site Amobil was the first to …
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25 January
IRS launches iPhone, Android apps for taxpayers
Everyone’s favorite government agency, the Internal Revenue Service, has launched its own mobile application. The IRS’s new iPhone app Released last week to iPhone and Android users, the free IRS2Go provides a few tidbits of information that could make April 15 a bit less stressful. Those of us fortunate enough to qualify for a refund can find out exactly when …
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25 January
Apple App Store? There’s a Twitter feed for that…
Given Apple’s well-known preference for keeping things close to its chest, you might not think Twitter’s an ideal fit, but that hasn’t stopped it setting up an official Twitter account for the App Store. Sadly, it hasn’t turned it into a hilarious character like the spoof iTunes 10 icon from last year. Instead, @AppStore encourages people to “follow us for …
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25 January
Game Boy emulator created for Windows Phone 7
Developer Samuel Blanchard has coded a Game Boy emulator in Silverlight that runs on Windows Phone 7 smart phones. The question is whether you’ll ever be able to use it. One of Windows Phone 7‘s strengths is gaming, thanks to Microsoft throwing its Xbox Live weight behind its new smart-phone operating system. What it’s missing, though, is Game Boy games. …
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25 January
Adobe Photoshop Express 1.5: Retina support, multitasking, and image capture
It’s been well over a year since Adobe first rolled out Photoshop Express, an iPhone app with basic image-editing and online storage features. Yesterday, the company took the wraps off Photoshop Express 1.5, bringing a couple of much-needed features to the app and a couple of minor improvements. For starters, Photoshop Express now lets you capture photos right within the …
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25 January
Black Eyed Peas’ new video is an augmented
When the Black Eyed Peas shoved a Daft Punk-esque rocket up Dirty Dancing‘s theme tune for their single The Time, it was deeply horrifying. The silver lining is it’s now spawned one of the more nifty music apps for iPhone and iPad. The app is called BEP 360, and it’s just gone live on Apple’s App Store. At its core …
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