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Google Plus for iPhone, iPad Waiting for Apple's Approval
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Google Plus has been all the rage the past week, with some users saying that it’s a pretty formidable alternative to Facebook. The social network already has a fully working Android app, but the iOS app has yet to land in the iTunes store. On the bright side, it seems to be waiting on Apple’s approval, so it’s pretty much ready to go. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing the app on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad in just weeks.
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HTC Sensation 4G heads to Canada, available for $150 on Bell
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Do our friends across the border have a hankerin' for a top-of-the-line Android phone? Consider your desires addressed. Not only is Bell coming out with the Samsung Galaxy S II in the near future, the HTC Sensation 4G is now officially in stock for $150 on a three-year commitment. The "4G" moniker remains since the device is compatible with Bell's 14.4 Mbps HSPA+ network. Aside from this, however, we can expect the same goodies seen in the US version: a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, Gingerbread, 4.3-inch qHD display with 960 x 540 resolution, and an 8 megapixel camera (just to name a few). This does unfortunately mean that you'll now have two very capable "superphones" to choose from -- although the...
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Nokia breathes new life into Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 devices
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It may not always act like it, but Nokia still cares about your old Symbian phones. The handset giant announced last week that it's rolling out updates for some older Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 devices, including the E72, E52, E5, C5-00, 6700, C6-00, C5-03, 5230, 5235, 5250,X6, N97 mini, 5800 XpressMusic, and 5530 XpressMusic. At the top of the list of updates is the v7.3 browser, the version found in Symbian Anna. Ovi Maps is getting an upgrade on the devices as well, with Ovi Maps 3 SR4 coming to the 3.2 devices and Ovi Maps 3 SR6 hitting Symbian 5.0. Also on the list: new emoticons for MMS, surely enough to bring a vaguely enthusiastic smiley face to even the most callous of Nokia owners. The C6...
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Google Nexus One on Vodafone finally getting its Gingerbread
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Owners of the Google Nexus One smartphone that are locked to Vodafone have been waiting a long time for the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to become available. Well, today is their lucky day, as Vodafone has finally announced that the update is pushing out to users. Among the many benefits of Android 2.3 Gingerbread are a new and improved interface and a much-improved keyboard. Users will get a notification on their phones when the update is ready to be downloaded and installed.
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Another Chinese company to develop its own OS
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is planning to release its own operating system through its Alibaba Cloud Computing unit. This follows news from last week that Baidu, the dominant search provider in China, would be developing its own OS as well.
Alibaba's OS is said to be entirely cloud-based, with users accessing applications on a remote server instead of installing them directly to their phones. There weren't many other details provided, but Alibaba intends to launch the OS in the third quarter of this year. The initial plan is to target the Chinese market, though representatives have said that nothing is preventing them from branching outsi...
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Nokia drops prices on smartphones to rejuvenate sales, Nokia N8 price slashed by 15%
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Nokia has slashed the prices of smartphones in Europe in an attempt to rejuvenate weak sales of its high-end devices, according to industry insiders quoted by Reuters. One of the insiders noted that Nokia's current flagship, the Nokia N8, will see its price drop by 15%. The same price cut will also come to the multimedia-centric C7 and the business-oriented E6.
The prices of other Nokia devices will also be decreased, but the biggest drop will be for those high-end handsets.
"There are no very big cuts per model, but the scale -- across the portfolio -- is unseen for a very, very long time," an employee of a European telecoms operator added. But Nokia denied the price cut to be something ou...
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Apple manufacturing partners may build 5 million iPad 2 units in July
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Apple’s manufacturing partners are slated to build 5 million iPad 2 units in July alone, DigiTimes reports. The new claim follows an earlier report stating Apple will ship between 12 million and 14 million iPad 2 tablets in the third quarter of 2011, doubling the Cupertino-based technology giant’s second-quarter shipment volume. DigiTimes claims Cando, Sintek Photronic, Chimei Innolux, TPK Holding and Wintek will combine to supply 5 million touch sensors this month, matching the volume they reportedly filled in June. Apple’s iPad 2 remins one of the best-selling consumer electronics devices on the market, and Apple may launch an updated version of the tablet later this year according to rumo...
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Verizon Data Plans Leaked, No More Unlimited Packages
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We already knew that Verizon was abandoning its unlimited 3G and 4G data plans in favor of tiered packages, and a leaked customer brochure details the new options. Of course, if you’re currently a Verizon customer with an unlimited data plan, it will be grandfathered indefinitely or for as long as you keep your Verizon line.
These data packages apply to smartphones and basic phones. If you go over your allotted plan for the $10/75MB package, you’re charged an additional $10 per 75MB, and you’ll be charged $10 for every 1GB over the higher-tiered plans. And, as expected, you won’t be able to use that data for mobile hotspot or tethering capabilities. If you want to use your device to tether, ...
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LightSquared gets $265 million shot in the arm
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LightSquared has announced a new round of funding for its upcoming 4G LTE network that totals $265 million. According to the announcement, the funds came from both existing investors and new investors to the company. LightSquared has raised $2.3 billion in funding over the last year. Apparently the company's ongoing battle with the GPS industry has not scared investors away, and LightSquared's promised fixes for any interference issues seem to be enough for investment firms to continue to put money into the company.
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AT&T offering standard insurance for all iPhone models from July 17th
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The iPhone has been an AT&T exclusive since day one, but unlike other phones on the carrier, the original iPhone couldn't be insured. Things have changed with later models, but you still weren't eligible for standard insurance and had to pay a whopping $12 a month and $199 in deductibles if you used the iPhone.
This however is set to change once and for all as AT&T has updated its standard insurance policy now including all iPhone models. The monthly mobile insurance price runs at the much lighter on the pocket $4.99, which covers pretty much everything: loss, theft, accidental physical or liquid damage and mechanical or electrical failure. The deductible should be set at $125, if we are to ...
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iPhone 5 rumor claims 15 million units to come out of the assembly line; shipping to start in September
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Few would disagree with us if we say that the iPhone 5, or whatever it will be called when it hits the market, is among the most anticipated smartphones right now. Just look at all the speculation that Apple's next greatest creation is being subjected to – everybody is trying to guess what it will look like, how much it will cost, and, most importantly, when it will be up for sale.
Once again, the latest iPhone 5-related rumor comes from our favorite hit-or-miss source DigiTimes, which means that you might want to take it with a grain of salt. It is said that Pegatron Technology, a Taiwan-based notebook manufacturer, has received an order to produce 15 million iPhone 5s and is expected to st...
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Samsung installs 20 new redesigned mobile charging stations at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport
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Samsung installed 20 newly designed charging stations in all of the terminals at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). The new charging stations allow travelers to charge their mobile phones, laptops and other devices for free. Each station rocks 6 electrical outlets compatible for U.S. voltage (120 volts), two USB charging outlets, four micro USB mobile phone charging plugs, as well as a touchscreen display that provides travelers with access to news, weather, flight information, along with information about Samsung’s products.
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HTC breaks yet another record, sales up 88% year on year in June 2011
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When HTC made the decision to support Android and put Microsoft’s Windows Mobile on the sideline, no one knew how things would turn out. Less than 3 years later, after shipping the first Android device, the T-Mobile G1, the Taiwanese handset maker is now making money hand over fist and they’ve just announced that sales for June 2011 are 88% higher than they were in the same month last year. This bit of news bumped up their stock price a smidgen, which, oddly enough, has dropped 19% since the beginning of June. Many financial analysts thought that HTC would stop growing at their current pace and that their June results would be flat year on year. Looks like they’ve been proven wrong, but ther...
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Google Realtime Search Vanishes as Twitter Deal Ends
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Over the weekend, Google’s experimental Realtime Search page mysteriously vanished, and now we know why. It tuns out that the search giant’s deal with social networking service Twitter expired, leaving Realtime with a real lack of data. Google says the feature will be coming back, but has not said when or in what form.
Back in 2009, Google inked a deal with Twitter to pipe all its data into Google for use in Realtime. While the direct feed has been shut off, Google has stressed that its web crawlers can still index all the public posts on Twitter. It just won’t be so much real time.
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Intel Releases New Open Source Packages
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Intel's research division Intel Labs recently released a pair of open source software packages, including a distributed scene graph package to increase the maximum number of participants in 3D Web applications, like virtual worlds, by more than 20 times, and an advanced offline ray tracing package to help speed up rendering of photorealistic images on Intel-based systems by 100 percent.
The first is an open source solution for Scalable Virtual Environments called Distributed Scene Graph (DSG). According to Intel, DSG breaks the environment into separately executable components, and when combined with a cloud computing model, it allows applications to scale user experiences far beyond existin...
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