Target
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2013
Well, you can't say they didn't give it a good run. A couple years after they first got hitched, Target and Radio Shack have called it quits in the mobile business, with their divorce taking...
Android Central
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by Richard Devine
Nov 09, 2012
Nvidia released their Q3 earnings today and while boasting record numbers, the full story is more than just how much cash they made. The recent numbers saw 30 percent of the company's earnings c...
Android Central
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 01, 2012
What does your mobile carrier know about you? Just how much information do they collect? And what the hell does it look like? German Green politician Malte Spitz has a brilliant TED talk showing wha...
Android Central
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by Anndrew Vacca
May 17, 2012
T-Mobile announced today that it is reshaping its no-contract mobile broadband packages for its 4G tablets, hotspots, and laptop sticks. Beginning May 20, customers will be able to choose between th...
Firefox for Android
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by Phil Nickinson
May 15, 2012
Late last year Mozilla announced that it'd be moving its Firefox browser to a native Android user interface, instead of using XUL, and it's been pushing nightly builds since November. Today,...
LG Optimus Elite
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by Anndrew Vacca
Apr 19, 2012
Sprint and LG were at tonight's Pepcom event in New York City, where the theme was eco-friendly technology. On hand was the upcoming Optimus Elite, the entry-level "green" device sched...
Another Browser
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 12, 2012
Update: The name of the app is changing from "Another Browser" to "Flashify." Here's one that's going to make life a little easier for you folks who want to use Chrome f...
Android Central Forums App
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by Android Central
Apr 01, 2012
Just a quick heads up that the Android Central Forums app is now available in the Amazon Appstore, for those of you who roll like that. It's all the same incredible forums content you get right ...
The Inquisition
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
Oy vey! According to a report from Reuters (via Phonescoop), U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "reports that applicati...
Google Chrome for Android
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 07, 2012
So we've now got Google Chrome for Android, eh? How's about that. And one of the shining features Google's pimping is the ability to sync your desktop tabs over to your phone or tablet. ...
Google movie search
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by Anndrew Vacca
Dec 09, 2011
Google has improved searching for movies and theaters through your mobile browser by implementing a new interractive "ribbon" at the top of search results. Now, by searching "mov...
LenovoThinkPad
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 23, 2011
Lenovo this morning announced a pretty cool option for its Android-based ThinkPad Tablet, adding the Qualcomm Gobi 3000 chipset so you can get online on any network in the world, be it GSM or CDMA. ...
Google
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 01, 2011
Google apparently is set to open a new office on the Gulf Coast, according to the Mobile Press-Register newspaper. We're not talking a sprawling, Mountain View-type campus, Dan Murtaugh writes o...
Firefox beta for Android
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 16, 2011
The fellows at Mozilla have updated Firefox for Android to Version 6, and it comes with a huge changelog full of fixes, improvements, and features.  Things like a visual update for phones running...
GUN BROS
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by Joshua Munoz
Aug 08, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingInside of every man, woman, and child is a tiny little urge to shoot comically large guns and single-handedly stop a force of bad guys doing ... bad guy stuff. While the...
Google Maps
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 27, 2011
Another Google Maps update is now available in the Android Market bumping it up to v5.8. This update according to the change log covers some requested features surrounding the use of 'Places'Upload ph...
Mobile World Congress
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 22, 2011
Allow us just a little bit of inside baseball here: Mobile World Congress -- Europe's premier mobile event -- has announced that it's staying in Barcelona, Spain, through 2018. We've attended th...
Ryan Bidan
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
RIM's loss is Samsung's gain, apparently, as BlackBerry senior product manager Ryan Bidan apparently has taken a job with Samsung as director of product marketing, according to his LinkedIn profile. ...
dealnews
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by Joshua Munoz
Jul 14, 2011
If any of you are as gung-ho about saving money as I am, I'm sure you've heard about dealnews. Their slogan is "Where every day is Black Friday" and as such, they 're constantly trying ...
Google+
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2011
Android app gives full access, but it's currently in private beta Google's just taken the wraps off Google+ -- its answer to Facebook, more or less. More, actually, we believe, though for all the deta...
Verizon data plans
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 22, 2011
Having a hard time wrapping your head around the upcoming changes to Verizon's smartphone data plans? We just got all the dirty details dropped in our laps. Charts, e-mails, the whole kit and ka...
New mobile search
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 14, 2011
Earlier today Google held its "Inside Search" event in California, where they showed us a lot of cool new features built in (or being built in) to Google.com, both on the desktop and mobile....
Motorola Triumph
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jun 10, 2011
If you’ll recall, we reported yesterday that the Motorola Triumph, that surprise little powerhouse headed to Virgin Mobile this summer, will be Blur-less. That’s right: Vanilla Froyo on a ...
Article
by Joshua Munoz
Apr 22, 2011
Popular music streaming service company mSpot is jumping into the video streaming arena, and in a big way.They're introducing the mSpot Movies Club, a monthly subscription based streaming service for ...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 10, 2011
Samsung has sent out a press release about something we all love -- fast CPUs for mobile products.  They will be changing the name of their product line to "Exynos" -- from the Greek sm...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 01, 2011
  Google has updated Google Maps for Android to version 5.1 today, bringing big changes to Latitude.  Where Latitude once was just a pin on a map, now there are check-ins, to connect a place...
Article
by Sean Brunett
Jan 12, 2011
Sony Ericsson has admitted making mistakes in the mobile realm in 2010 and has insisted that they have learned from them. Steve Walker, who is the acting Global Head of Marketing for Sony Ericsson, ga...
Article
by Jesse Potter
Dec 21, 2010
Wireless networks are expanding nearly every day, and the mobile phone as we knew it half-decade ago is dead and gone.  Today, a substantial percentage of consumers carry an always-on internet d...
Article
by Jesse Potter
Dec 13, 2010
Feeling a bit under the weather, have a Walgreens prescription you need filled, and wish that Android powered device of yours could magically fill said prescription?  Well, it can't produce any p...
Article
by Jesse Potter
Dec 03, 2010
Due to the overwhelming success of their Free Phone Friday promotion, Best Buy Mobile is giving away new phones (on contract) every day this month.  Every day throughout December, Best Buy Mobile...