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Sprint seems to be learning a bit from Verizon as to how to market your network compared to AT&T.  Rather than focusing on 3G or 4G coverage (since Sprint doesn’t have much to boast on either front), however, Sprint is taking aim at the network’s speed, specifically the speed of… Continue Reading »

Android continues to add apps at a high rate, yesterday Google officially confirmed 30,000 apps in it’s App Market for the Android operating system.  The number is a great deal higher than 10,000 confirmed back in September 2009, at the dawn of the Verizon Droid launch.  Clearly, having a phone… Continue Reading »

Is RIM losing the attraction it once held so proudly?  Maybe, according to a study by Crowd Science that looked at mobile phone owners and asked what their next device will be.  While customer preference before a purchase might be radically different from what they actually buy, the study is… Continue Reading »

Although the iPad’s 3G version is targeted for AT&T users only, Verizon is seeing a golden opportunity in the device’s upcoming release. Sales documents leaked to Engadget show Verizon is prepping it’s staff to encourage customers to buy the WiFi only version instead and then pick up a MiFi and… Continue Reading »

What the heck is a “weblication?”  The answer is in Riverturn’s new Google Voice web application that looks more like a native app, in fact, it fooled everyone I showed it to.  The new app brings the Google Voice experience to your iPhone, allowing you to place calls, send and… Continue Reading »

Insiders say Verizon will launch a Microsoft branded phone next month. Code named Pink, the phone is an oddly shaped slider designed by Danger, makers of the popular and sometimes cursed Sidekick for T-Mobile. A year ago the Pink was positioned as an iPhone killer, but then the Droid and… Continue Reading »

In an effort to generate additional revenue, some newspapers publish all their content online but charge for membership access.  Personally, I can find my news elsewhere and I wouldn’t be spending my money for a paid subscription, but that’s a separate story.  The Washington Post has recently announced plans to… Continue Reading »

Yesterday, the world was abuzz with Apple’s lawsuit targeting 20 alleged patent violations by HTC.  Many of these devices named in the suit run Google’s Android operating system.  Google preemptively sent a statement regarding the issue, refusing to sit idly by while HTC took the punches. “We are not a… Continue Reading »

It seems at the beginning of every year, almost like clockwork, someone has to declare the next year to be “the year of the Linux desktop.”  We haven’t yet reached the point, and it is doubtful if we’ll ever reach that point.  There are always new reasons for some people… Continue Reading »

Apple has admitted in a report on their website that child labor was used in the facilities of some of the suppliers that manufacture the iPhone. The specific locations of the offending factories were not named, but the inspectors that discovered the violation visited facilities in China, the Czech Republic,… Continue Reading »