Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Rubinstein no longer webOS head at HP; Palm name gone for good

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 05:18 AM PDT

HP has announced a switch-up in its executives roles, as it has moved Jon Rubinstein off of webOS and placed him in the Personal Systems Group. Stephen DeWitt has been named the senior vice president of the company's webOS group, and he will head up everything from the engineering down to the marketing of the platform. Oh, and HP killed the Palm name once and for all, as it changed the acquired company from "Palm" to the much more boardroom-friendly "webOS Global Business Unit".
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1 million third-party apps now support Twitter

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 02:35 PM PDT

Twitter has announced that there are now over 1 million third-party apps from 750,000 developers registered to use the service. A new app gets registered every 1.5 seconds. Just one year ago, the platform laid claim to 150,000 third-party apps, so the growth is truly tremendous. In response to this growth, Twitter has set up a new developer website to help new and seasoned developers alike get help with their apps and connect with Twitter engineers. This is in stark contrast to the stance Twitter took just a few months ago, when it requested that developers no longer duplicate services already covered by Twitter's in-house apps.
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T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide hits shelves July 27

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:40 PM PDT

T-Mobile's next iteration of the myTouch family, the myTouch 4G Slide, will be available in stores on July 27 according to the carrier. The myTouch 4G Slide is said to have the world's most advanced camera on a smartphone, with zero shutter lag and impressive low-light capabilities. Like the myTouch 3G Slide before it, the myTouch 4G Slide has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard below it's now larger, 3.7-inch touchscreen. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. Customers can expect to pay $199 for the myTouch 4G Slide, with a new two-year agreement, when it hits shelves on the July 27, or during an online-only pre-order on July 19
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Study says 25 percent of smartphones provide primary internet access

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:11 PM PDT

A study from Pew Research on smartphone ownership in America has revealed that a quarter of smartphone owners use their phones as their primary means of internet access.
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Android Honeycomb update to include zoom-to-fit app scaling

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 12:30 PM PDT

A future release of Android Honeycomb for tablets will include a new button at the bottom to choose between stretching an app to fit or zooming it to fit a larger screen. This will be for apps that do not natively scale to the larger screen sizes that Honeycomb supports. If the zoom option is selected, the app will be emulated in a 320 x 480 pixel window, and then scaled up to fit the size of the screen. The result will certainly be pixilated, but it should be useable, much like iPhone apps are when scaled up on the iPad. Google says this release of Honeycomb is coming in the near future, but unfortunately does not offer an exact release date. Could this be part of Android 3.2 Honeycomb that is rumored to show up very shortly?
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Apple-led purchase of Nortel patents approved by courts

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:50 AM PDT

The purchase of Nortel's smartphone and wireless patents by a consortium of companies led by Apple has been approved by the courts. The group of companies that banded together to beat Google in the auction of the patents includes Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Ericsson, EMC, and Sony. The winning purchase price was $4.5 billion.
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HTC Status hits AT&T July 17 for $49.99

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 11:15 AM PDT

The recently-announced HTC Status "Facebook phone" will be available from AT&T on July 17 according to a release from the carrier. The Status is the American version of the HTC ChaCha that was released to European markets earlier this year. It runs Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense and Facebook-specific widgets. Below the 2.6-inch touchscreen is a full QWERTY keyboard and a special Facebook share button. The Status is available for pre-order now for $49.99 with a new two-year agreement, though if you go through Best Buy you can get the Status in an exclusive mauve color.
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Amazon to offer $15 worth of incentives to Android smartphone buyers

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:42 AM PDT

Amazon is featuring a promotion for the next few months that gives credits for Amazon services to anyone who buys an Android smartphone through its Amazon Wireless store.
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Virgin Mobile will raise price on Pay-Lo plan, eliminate BlackBerry fee

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:07 AM PDT

Virgin Mobile has confirmed to Fierce Wireless that it plans to raise the price of its Pay-Lo plan by $10 this week. Not all is bad news though, as it also will drop the BlackBerry surcharge fee that it used to charge.
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Apple iOS users buying more, paying more for apps says analyst

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:48 AM PDT

According to a Piper Jaffray analyst, Apple iOS users are buying more apps and paying more per app than they have ever before.
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Apple fires second volley against HTC with another ITC complaint

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:18 AM PDT

Despite being knee-deep in a patent battle with Samsung, Apple has decided to file a second complaint against HTC, claiming patent infringement and seeking to block imports of smartphones and tablets from HTC to the U.S.
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Analyst: 3G tablet sales suffer because of data's high cost

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:55 AM PDT

According to an IDG analyst speaking to Computerworld, sales of 3G-equipped tablets have been less than stellar because of the high cost of the data plans that go with them.
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Philadelphia newspapers to sell subsidized Android tablets

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:36 AM PDT

In an experiment to study the adoption of digital editions of newspapers, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer have announced that they will be selling subsidized Android tablets with their newspaper apps pre-loaded on them.
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Google pairs up with iRiver for first Google Books e-reader

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:04 AM PDT

Google has announced a new partnership with hardware manufacturer iRiver for the first e-reader that is integrated with the Google Books platform. The Story HD looks strikingly similar to the original Amazon Kindle, but it has the ability to purchase and read Google Books over a Wi-Fi connection.
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CoPilot Live Premium navigation app makes debut for iPhone, iPad

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 07:30 AM PDT

CoPilot, developer of navigation software and apps primarily for the UK market, has released the latest version of its iPhone and iPad apps into the App Store. CoPilot Live Premium offers a number of new features and enhancements over older versions of the software.
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Samsung Telecommunications America CTO Omar Khan leaving for Citibank

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:39 AM PDT

The Chief Technology Officer over at Samsung Mobile's USA group, Omar Khan, has announced that he is leaving the company for a position at Citibank heading up the financial company's global mobile efforts. Khan led the unveiling of the revised Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 tablets on stage at CTIA for Samsung earlier this year, as he has done for many of Samsung's mobile devices over the past three years. Khan formerly worked as a VP for Motorola before joining Samsung.
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Groupon changes up mobile app location data policy

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:15 AM PDT

Popular daily deal peddler Groupon has sent out an email to its users with new terms of service for how it will use location data collected from mobile apps.
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UK Samsung Galaxy Tab to get Gingerbread in matter of weeks

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:48 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy Tab on Sprint may have just received its update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but there are many Tabs across the world that have yet to see the update. It looks like users in the UK will be able to enjoy the benefits of Gingerbread in only a few weeks if new information from Samsung is to be believed.
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HTC to unlock bootloader for Sensation 4G, EVO 3D by September

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 05:21 AM PDT

HTC took to its Facebook page last night to update fans on the status of the unlocked bootloaders that, back in May, it promised would be coming. According to the new info, a few of HTC's top-tier smartphones should be getting their bootloaders unlocked as early as September.
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