Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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RIM comments on recent BlackBerry outages in Europe, Africa, Middle East

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Millions of BlackBerry users across the globe have seen their beloved smartphones turn into little more than feature phones over the past couple of days, thanks to the repeated BlackBerry service outages in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other parts of the world. The outage has prevented users from sending or receiving email, browsing the web, or using RIM's BlackBerry Messenger service. RIM has released a statement on the outage, and points the blame on a hardware failure within its own infrastructure.
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New X1 app lets iPhone and iPad users search desktop documents

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:59 PM PDT

A new app is available for the iPhone and iPad that lets users search documents stored on their Mac or PC while they are away from their desks. The X1 Mobile Search app will search for file names and within documents, and provides detailed viewing of documents that are stored on the desktop computer.
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Android Market blocked by Chinese government

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:45 PM PDT

New reports are saying that Google's Android Market is currently being blocked by the government in China. Google and China have had their differences in the past, so this is nothing new for the search company.
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WildTangent app rental service launched for T-Mobile customers

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:20 PM PDT

WildTangent has partnered with T-Mobile to offer its new app rental service for Android users on the fourth-place carrier. WildTangent's program lets users try out an app for a nominal fee before committing to a complete purchase.
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Twitter app for iOS updated with image sharing, iOS 5 support

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Twitter is prepping for the big release of iOS 5 tomorrow, and it has updated its official app for the iPhone and iPad with better support for iOS 5. Additionally, the app now supports uploading images to Twitter's own image hosting service, an improved view of Direct Messages for the iPad, and the ability to view nearby tweets. Version 3.5 of Twitter for iOS is free and available in the iTunes App Store now.
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Amazon hit with lawsuit over Kindle Fire patent violation

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:30 PM PDT

Though the Kindle Fire tablet won't be available to consumers until November 15, Amazon has already been hit with a patent violation lawsuit for the device. Smartphone Technologies LLC, a known patent collector, claims that the Kindle Fire violates four of its smartphone-related patents.
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PrivacyStar app users have filed 200,000 FTC complaints against telemarketers

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:08 PM PDT

PrivacyStar, an app that lets users report possible Do Not Call Registry and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violations, has announced that users have filed over 200,000 complaints with the Federal Trade Commission with its app.
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Opera Mini, Mobile for Android updated with data usage monitor

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 11:39 AM PDT

Opera has updated its popular Opera Mini and Opera Mobile web browsers for the Android platform with new ways to monitor how much data is being used by browsing the internet. Built into each web browser is a web data usage monitor that can be set to report all usage, or for a set time period.
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U.S. now has more cellphones than people

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:59 AM PDT

The CTIA has released the latest statistics on cellphone users in the U.S., and it claims that there are 327.6 million cellphone subscriptions in America, a penetration rate of 103.9 percent compared to the U.S. population of 315.5 million. Of those 327.6 million subscriptions, 95.8 million are for smartphones.
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Press Release: Skyfire Launches its Rocket 2.0 Platform to Help Mobile Operators Deal With a Growing Data Tsunami

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Skyfire continues expansion from consumer applications to a carrier-grade mobile video optimization platform, deploying in one of the largest operator networks in North America
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T-Mobile brings Bobsled VoIP calling apps to iPhone, Android

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 10:31 AM PDT

T-Mobile has extended its VoIP calling service Bobsled to the iPhone and Android platforms with new apps that let users make free calls over 3G or Wi-Fi connections. Previously only available as an app within Facebook, Bobsled lets users call their Facebook friends from wherever they are.
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BlackBerry service down in Europe, Middle East, Africa...again

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:51 AM PDT

As if yesterday's BlackBerry service outage in various parts of the world didn't give users enough agony, reports are claiming that there is another outage throughout Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. RIM had just restored services only hours prior to the system going to down for a second time in two days.
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Apple iPhone 4S processor estimated at 800MHz, lives up to Apple's claims

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 08:27 AM PDT

Apple doesn't like to talk about specifications too much when it comes to its iPhone and iPad devices, but that doesn't stop users from trying to decipher exactly how many megahertz and megabytes are found in Apple's devices. The latest iPhone 4S is equipped with an A5 processor pulled from the iPad 2, and tests from around the web show that it is likely clocked slightly slower than the iPad 2's unit, but that it still performs much better than the A4 chip found in the iPhone 4.
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Apple iPad makes up 97.2 percent of tablet web browsing in the U.S.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:57 AM PDT

Customers in the U.S. may be buying tablets other than the iPad (though, not very many), but it doesn't seem like they are using them to browse the web, at least not according to comScore's latest numbers. According to the research firm's latest report, iPads accounted for a whopping 97.2 percent of all tablet web browsing in the month of August.
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Cricket launches Samsung Transfix Android messaging smartphone

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:34 AM PDT

Cricket and Samsung have announced the Transfix, a new Android-based messaging smartphone. The Transfix should appeal to texting fanatics, with its four-row, slide-out keyboard and 3.2-inch touchscreen.
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NAVIGON offers the first on-board navigation app for Windows Phone

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 07:10 AM PDT

Navigation service NAVIGON has announced the first on-board navigation app for the Windows Phone platform. The new NAVIGON app stores all of the map data on the phone itself, so it does not need to download it from the internet for each location.
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SlingPlayer app makes its way to Android Honeycomb tablets with $30 price tag

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 06:37 AM PDT

The long-awaiting SlingPlayer app for Android Honeycomb tablets has finally arrived. SlingPlayer lets users watch their home's broadcast and cable TV content on their mobile devices wherever they have an internet connection.
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BOLT 3.0 offers yet another browser option for Android smartphones

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 06:15 AM PDT

Bitstream has announced the launch of its new BOLT 3.0 browser for the Android platform. BOLT 3.0 offers a fast web browsing experience thanks to its cloud-based rendering system.
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AT&T outs the Avail, its latest GoPhone Android smartphone

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:56 AM PDT

AT&T has announced the Avail, the latest addition to its lineup of GoPhone prepaid Android smartphones. Built by ZTE, the Avail features Android 2.3 Gingerbread and a 3.5-inch display.
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Pantech Pocket smartphone features large display, thin design

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:48 AM PDT

Probably the most interesting of the new smartphones that AT&T announced today, the Pantech Pocket features a unique display with a 4:3 aspect ratio, something we don't see very often on smartphone devices.
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AT&T outs the Samsung DoubleTime smartphone for messaging fanatics

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:38 AM PDT

AT&T has announced the DoubleTime, a new entry-level smartphone from Samsung that should appeal to messaging fanatics. The DoubleTime packs two displays and a flip out QWERTY keyboard for text input.
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AT&T's Samsung Captivate Glide smartphone has dual-core processor, slide-out keyboard

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Samsung has announced the new Captivate Glide smartphone for AT&T. Featuring 4G connectivity and a dual-core processor, the Captivate Glide also offers a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for text input.
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