AT&T has recently announced the pricing for its mobile tethering plan as tethering will be a feature that will be available as an option on the company’s upcoming HSPA+ 4G smartphones, such as the HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Atrix 4G, and the Samsung Infuse 4G. The company had previously charged for tethering on the iPhone, [...]
At the launch of the iPad-specific news magazine, The Daily, Reuters is reporting that its eyewitness had witnessed an Apple iPad shown with a front-facing camera, suggesting that Apple may have toted an iPad 2 to the debut of News Corp.’s app launch. While it is possible that Apple may have been carrying around un-released [...]
HP is teasing a new webOS device in advance of the company’s webOS press event scheduled to happen next week. The company has posted a teaser video on YouTube on Palm’s channel. After its acquisition of Palm, HP has stated its commitment to integrate webOS into more of the company’s products. HP is rumored to [...]
According to Liliputing, the Asus Eee Slate EP121, which debuted earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is now shipping from Amazon.com, but is currently listed as out of stock. The 12-inch Windows tablet comes in either a 32 GB SSD configuration for $999 or a 64 GB SSD configuration for [...]
It’s unclear if RIM and Google will also clamp down on in-app purchases with some of their third-party e-reader apps like Apple has recently done, but the two competing platforms to iOS have unveiled their versions of in-app purchases. Research in Motion has unveiled BlackBerry App World 2.1, the platform’s app store, which will now [...]
The folks making the Kno, the giant pen + touch tablet for education, are serious about pen input. So serious, they test it with toys. Robots made of Lego to be exact. Sounds like fun and games, but it’s all for science and product testing. Now, let’s see those Lego robots in action.
Google took the wraps off Android 3.0 Honeycomb today, showing off a redesigned interface for tablets, high-performance graphics, and web access to the Android Market. Most of it looks really impressive. Some of it looks kind of familiar. All of it means more heated competition in the tablet market.
Comcast is hoping that you won’t begin to cut the cord when it comes to cable subscriptions, and the company is now making good on its promise to allow users to watch cable content on an iPad via the Xfinity app. At this point, though, only video on demand programming is available and users still [...]
According to Kevin Tofel of GigaOm Mobile who has reviewed the Dell Streak 7 for T-Mobile USA as the carrier’s first 4G HSPA+ tablet, the Android 2.2 Froyo slate has a lot of potential, but Dell had not made use of the potential resulting in a device that’s more of a miss than a hit. [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change journalism on Tablets debuted today on the iPad. Called The Daily, it probably should be called the Yester Daily given the currency of the news, at least in the debut issue. There are some big stories out there in the world of news including Egypt, the snowstorm hitting the US [...]
The New York Times will soon be launching its own daily news app to compete with News Corp.’s The Daily app, which will be a daily newspaper designed specifically for the iPad and may launch Apple’s subscription plan for periodicals and magazines. The New York Times competing version will be called News.me and will differentiate [...]
Samsung has gone on record to state that the company was misinterpreted in its statement earlier, which the media has been reporting as ‘small‘ sales of Galaxy Tab Android tablets. According to Samsung reps, the statement should have read that sales were smooth. Despite all the PR efforts in ironing out its sales number, the [...]
Well, it’s one thing to be absent from the fray because of other duties and miss some news. It’s another thing to miss a full out donnybrook between Microsoft and Google. Google is accusing Microsoft of using Bing to steal Google’s search results and Microsoft is fighting back. Both are using blog posts and Twitter [...]
The Motorola Droid Pro represents Motorola’s latest attempts to take Android into the enterprise space and tackle incumbent Research in Motion. Positioned as a BlackBerry challenger, the Motorola Droid Pro brings the consumer-based Android ecosystem along with a BlackBerry-inspired keyboard design that Motorola hopes will seduce corporate users into switching to its design, and for [...]
Although Motorola and Verizon Wireless are saying that the Motorola user interface that’s found on the carrier’s Droid-branded Motorola Android smartphones is not in fact the MOTO BLUR UI that’s been seen on phones from T-Mobile and AT&T, leaked screenshots reveal a Motorola UI that’s designed for the Droid X and is said to be [...]
Google is rolling out a new feature for Google searches in iOS Safari browsers, allowing users to see a preview of the page content in search results through a feature called Instant Preview. In the search results in the Safari browser on mobile Apple devices, users will now see a magnifying glass, which when tapped [...]
I don’t mind paying for what I use when it comes to software, web services and data pipes. So when I first heard that Canadians were going to have to pay for data by the GB I didn’t think it’d be that big of a deal. Then I read into the details on some of [...]
AllThingsD has a response from an Apple spokesperson on the in-app/out-of-app purchasing situation with Sony’s rejected Reader app. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it does nothing to address the concern that out-of-app purchases have been disallowed and appears to be in violation of Apple’s iOS developer agreement.
GadgetTrak is a $0.99 app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that uses geolocation information to help users track their lost, stolen, or misplaced iOS device with the end goal of being able to recover it. The latest update to GadgetTrak brings the app up to version 2.5 and adds support for push notifications, [...]
The HTC Inspire 4G is an Android smartphone with the HTC Sense user interface and a 4.3-inch display that debuted earlier this year at CES. AT&T has now just released availability on the 4G HSPA+ device, stating that it will be available beginning on February 13 for $99 on a two-year service agreement. The device [...]
The International Electronics Commission, IEC, has recently announced that micro USB will be the universal mobile phone charging standard used. The surprise here is that Apple, known for pushing its own standards, is throwing its support behind the micro USB charging push. Having a common charging standard will be beneficial for the environment as the [...]
After relaxing its App Store guidelines for iOS apps, Apple may be tightening control of the platform. The move has recently resulted in Sony’s Reader app, which would have brought digital books tied to the Sony Reader ecosystem to be available on the iOS platform, being denied entry into Apple’s applications store. According to the [...]
According to sources to TmoNews, the HTC Mozart is said to be coming to U.S.-carrier T-Mobile USA. The device, unlike the HTC HD7 already available on the carrier, will sport a more compact 3.7-inch display rather than the 4.3-inch screen with a WVGA resolution. The Mozart will be powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm single-core [...]
After rumors of a 3D smartphone coming from LG, the handset-maker has confessed to its ambition of delivering a 3D-capable smartphone prior to the device’s debut at February’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Though not a lot of details are revealed at present through the company’s press release, LG is saying that its Optimus 3D [...]
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