Android Fragmentation Gets Visualized [Infographic]
There have been six smartphone distribution updates since Android was released: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and most recently, Ice Cream Sandwich. One man, Michael…
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Class-Action Suit Filed Against RIM After BlackBerry Outage
BlackBerry users have filed a class-action lawsuit against Research In Motion after the company's massive service outage earlier this month, the Financial Post reported on…
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Apple's Newsstand Causes Surge In Magazine Subscriptions
Apple's Newsstand application, which allows iOS 5 users on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to subscribe to and purchase magazines, has resulted in a…
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Motorola DROID RAZR Available For Pre-Order From Verizon Tomorrow For $299.99
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday reaffirmed that the Motorola DROID RAZR smartphone will be available for pre-order starting tomorrow, October 27th. The hotly anticipated smartphone revives the…
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Apple In Talks To Power North Carolina Data Center Site With Solar Farm
Apple's massive billion-dollar North Carolina data center, which received a failing rating in a Greenpeace report earlier this year, may soon be powered by a…
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Sprint Issues Security Fix For HTC Phones
Sprint on Tuesday confirmed that it has released an over-the-air security update for several HTC smartphones. In a statement posted to Sprint's community forum by…
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Sprint To Roll Out LTE-Advanced Network By Mid-2013
Speaking during the 4G World conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Sprint's vice president of network development and engineering Iyad Tarazi confirmed that Sprint will begin…
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Sprint Denied Access To AT&T Documents In Fight Against Merger
U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle recently shot down Sprint's request to access a number of documents related to AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. "You…
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Android Said To Have Overtaken Apple In Global Mobile App Downloads
Applications downloaded to Android devices in the second quarter surpassed the number apps downloaded from Apple's iOS App Store. New data from market research and…
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Netflix Beats Street But Loses 800,000 Subscribers In Q3; DVD Decline To Continue
Shares of Netflix stock plummeted more than 27% in after-hours trading as the company revealed it lost more than 800,000 customers in the third quarter.…
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NFC Chip Shipments May Surpass 1.2 Billion Units By 2015
Market research firm In-Stat released a report on Monday that suggests NFC chip shipments will grow dramatically during the next several years as an increasing…
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ViewSonic ViewPad 7e 7-Inch Android Tablet Landing In October For $200
ViewSonic announced on Monday that its ViewPad 7e Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) tablet will be available in North America by the end of October for $199.99.…
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Android Usage Poised To Pass Symbian In Nokia's Backyard; iOS Already No. 1
Usage of Android-based devices has exploded in Nordic countries over the past few months and is set to push Symbian into the No. 3 spot…
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Samsung Announces Android-Powered Transform Ultra For Sprint
Samsung announced the Transform Ultra for Sprint on Monday, an Android 2.3-powered smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The Transform Ultra is powered by a…
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Hacker Group Anonymous Now Targeting Child Porn Sites
Anonymous, the "hacktivist" group that waged war on the U.S. government and large companies such as Apple, has shifted its focus from cracking corporations to…
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Verizon 4G LTE Rolling Out Ahead Of Schedule, More Than 186 Million Americans Covered
Verizon Wireless announced on Monday that its 4G LTE network is rolling out faster than originally planned. The carrier provides 4G access to more than…
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M-CAM: Microsoft Is 'Like A Deranged Easter Bunny' With Android Bullying Strategy
Microsoft's alleged strategy of forcing Android partners into intellectual property licensing deals with threats of legal action is once again under fire. In a report…
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Apple's Smart TV To Feature 'Unmatched Aesthetics,' Could Be Game-Changer For Gaming
Reports have suggested for more than a year that Apple is working on a smart TV product, and those reports were firmed up last week…
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UBS: Apple To Ship 42.5 Million iPhones In Q4
Spurred by the iPhone 4S launch, several analysts expect sales of Apple's iPhone lineup to explode during the fourth quarter of this year. "The timing…
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ABI: Global LTE Connections To Approach 80 Million In 2013
LTE networks in the United States are expanding at a remarkable pace — after less than a year, the U.S. is already the global 4G…
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Apple's MacBook Pro Line Gets Quiet Spec Bump
Apple on Monday quietly updated its line of MacBook Pro notebook computers with faster processors and more storage. The late-2011 MacBook bump comes a bit…
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Steve Jobs's Biography Suggests Apple Has TV In The Works
Steve Jobs's biography, written by Walter Isaacson and due on store shelves on Monday, has a passage that suggests Apple has a TV up its…
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ABI: Tablet Shipments Exploded In Q2 To Surpass Netbooks For The First Time
Global tablet sales into channels exploded in the second quarter of 2011 to surpass netbooks for the first time in the emerging category's young history.…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Launches November 13th For $399.99
Samsung announced on Friday that pre-orders for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus will begin on October 23rd for $399.99. The device will then be available from…
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BBX 2.0 Demo Shows Android Apps Running On BlackBerry PlayBook [Video]
Earlier this week, Research In Motion introduced the developer beta of BBX OS 2.0, which supports the Eclipse Android development platform on the company's BlackBerry PlayBook.…
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Android Market Surpasses 500,000 Published Apps
The total number of published applications in Google's Android Market climbed past the half-million mark in September. According to data from mobile app market intelligence…
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'Tremendous Demand' For Free iPhone 3GS, AT&T CEO Says
During AT&T's third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Ralph de la Vega discussed the continued success his company still sees from the iPhone 3GS. "We have…
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