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Nearly four years after Apple launched the iPhone and two years after Google open-sourced the code for its Android operating system, Microsoft is finally set to re-enter the mobile market this holiday season in a serious way with Windows Phone 7. It is trying to catch up to those more modern smartphones the only way

Interesting way to look at the Social groups and the tools that we use. Click on picture for the bigger version. The Geosocial Universe – An Infographic

Motorola Droid 2 Teardown Teardown Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. Is this the Droid we’re looking for? Why yes! Yes it is! We’ve acquired the latest smartphone on the market, the Motorola Droid 2. Join us as we break down this Droid into its most

Not that it’s been a very well kept secret, but Motorola and Verizon have officially announced the Droid 2, the Froyo-outfitted, Flash 10.1-equipped successor to the original Droid. It goes on sale tomorrow for $199, after a $100 rebate. The Droid 2 retains the slide-out QWERTY keyboard of the original (though it’s supposedly improved) and

, Aug 6, 2010 07:21 AM Governments want to read your email !!!!  Look what happens when they cant. Kevin Ignoring RIM CEO Mike Lazardis’ threat that this would lead to bigger things, the Saudi Arabian government went ahead and turned off the BlackBerry data services as of about 4am EST today. This has not

BlackBerry Torch 9800 Teardown Photos and Video of Slider Mechanism in Action! By

By: Brandon Miniman | Date: 6-Aug-10 We don’t have much information on this (yet) but it looks like an ASUS device running on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted in Pakistan. Unlike the LG Panther and Samsung Taylor devices that are only intended to be development devices for Windows Phone 7, this ASUS device looks

Seems it piss’s off  Governments when they cant read your email Kevin The rumors are true: Saudi Arabia has become the second country inside of a week to block access to Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices on grounds of national security. The ban goes into effect on August 6 after a “grace period” in which

Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Malatesta Filed Under: News; Tags: wp7, Windows phone 7, paper, humor, development, cutout Just can’t wait for a Windows Phone 7 device? Here’s the next best thing: use this paper cutout made by Swedish software developer Jayway. Simply download and print out the .pdf file (other formats available)

When the World Trade Center collapsed, it took out a critical AT&T switch, crippling service. It was restored in 52 hours—including the time to drive a caravan of eighteen-wheelers from Atlanta to a lot in Jersey City. It’s hot, and muggy, like it usually is in Georgia at the end of July. There’s no AC

A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything that’s said. The attack Chris Paget showed Saturday illustrates weaknesses in GSM, one of the world’s most widely used cellular communications technologies. His attack was benign; he showed how he could intercept

By Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan Jul 30, 2010 06:40 PM In this week’s multitouch empire-expanding app round-up: images, kaleidoscope’d on the iPad; news, given the Pulse treatment on Android; iPhone cameras, Photo Booth’d; alarm clocks, beautified; Scrabble, made hexagonal; and helicopters, steered into battle on the iPhone, and much more! iPhone To view these

Jailbreaking — modifying the software of an iPhone or other device to run programs and utilities not approved by the vendor — has always been considered the domain of hackers and hobbyists, not serious enterprise IT. One reason is that device vendors have done their best to cast the practice as dangerous or even illegal.

HTC has finally rolled out Android 2.2 Froyo for HTC EVO 4G on Sprint. The image is available as direct download from HTC’s website. Here is the official description from Sprint: Just like your computer, your phone’s software needs to be updated periodically to make sure you have all the latest fixes and enhancements to

“There’s lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain A number of reports over the weekend surfaced referencing a statistic from my latest report, “Why iPhones Matter“. An article in CNN Money was the first to start this meme, stating in his article that: “The iPhone is also the gift that keeps on giving: 77%

Apples iPhone 4 has been a runaway success, but Android phones are also selling like hotcakes with over 160,000 device activations per day. Most of the high-end Android phones are similar to each other in terms of hardware. They feature the usual 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM, and an AMOLED/TFTscreen with its size

Android seems ready to leapfrog competitors to grab dominance in China, the world’s largest mobile market. A combination of drastic price drops on Android phones and custom Chinese mobile apps supported by the massive domestic market is bound to push Android past the entrenched leaders, setting the tone for how the mobile internet is built

If you’ve got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It’s a major upgrade from the old mobile web app, with a more polished UI and better load times. It also uses plenty of

Wow, this might give the iPhone 4 a run for there money. I like the HDMI output port !! GENERAL 3G ANDROID™ PLATFORM Android 2.1 CDMA CDMA 800/1900, EVDO rev. A TOUCH TABLET CAMERA CAMERA MEGAPIXELS 8 MP DIGITAL ZOOM FLASH Dual LED FOCUS Automatic IMAGE EDITING TOOLS Cropping, rotating, Geo Tagging MUSIC & VIDEO

By: BETH FOUHY NEW YORK (AP) – Alarmed by the use of hard-to-track prepaid cell phones by terror suspects, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have introduced legislation requiring consumers to produce identification before buying such phones. The bill has been praised by law enforcement and has bipartisan support, even as

Sprint’s newly launched HTC Evo 4G – the nation’s first 4G cellphone – is perhaps the most significant development in the wireless industry since Apple’s revolutionary iPhone hit stores in 2007. 4G refers to Sprint’s broadbandlike WiMax network, offering download speeds that are up to 10 times faster than existing 3G networks. Sprint says average

New Wireless Data Plans We have thought long and hard about how to come up with a data pricing structure that serves the largest number of people and brings the benefits of the mobile broadband revolution to those who have been, until now, unable to afford it. Here’s where we started: 98% of our customers

Nice idea, I bet I can convert that to my iPhone and other electronics on my bike. ie: Lights, GPS, Stereo, TV (Grin) The charger and phone holder for the Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit attach to a bike’s front handlebars. (Credit: Nokia) Nokia unveiled on Thursday a bicycle-powered phone charger. The Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit,

How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsofts Plan for Us All By John Herrman, Jun 5, 2010 10:00 AM Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it’s Microsoft—not Google—that’s best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here’s why. It’s common for writers to trot out the Google/Apple binary. It’s

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He’s one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 friends on Foursquare. Here he writes about what the location-based world could look like in 2012 and what might keep it from

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’re probably familiar with the fact that Adobe Flash doesn’t run on any mobile Apple device. Moreover, it looks like Apple is never going to let Flash onto the iPhone/iPod/iPad empire. These two facts paint a bleak picture for mobile advertising. Many people still want to use their existing

- Just in time for the release of a new iPhone, AT&T will stop letting new customers sign up for its unlimited Internet data plan for smart phones and iPads and charge more for users who hog the most bandwidth. AT&T hopes to ease congestion on its network, which has drawn complaints, particularly in big

2 Jun Now that AT&T has decided to implement their tiered data plans to overcome their lacking network, I’ve heard that T-Mobile may have a one-two punch of their own. File this as speculation for now, but from what I’ve been told by one of the weed carriers is that T-Mobile will be opening 2

AT&T makes sweeping changes to data plans, iPhone tethering coming at OS 4 launchYou might think that AT&T would hold off for a national HSPA+ deployment or a full-on LTE launch before tweaking its data pricing strategy, but not so much — the carrier is coming out swinging today with some significant changes that should

What to Expect From Apple’s iPhone-centric WWDC 2010 News outlets may have spoiled the big surprise for Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference by publishing early photos and details of the next-generation iPhone. Nonetheless, in a recent e-mail, Steve Jobs promised a customer that “You won’t be disappointed” by the announcements to come. What else might