Saturday, September 22, 2012

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BlackBerry service restored in Europe after hours-long outage

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 02:24 PM PDT

RIM has restored service to BlackBerry handsets affected by an early-morning outage that plagued devices in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The cause of the problem has to be disclosed to the public, but RIM says that it affected nearly 5 million of its users.
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Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE review

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT

The Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE offers one of the best physical landscape keyboards available on a smartphone, but is that enough to compete with the other premiere devices on Sprint's network? Read Andrew's review to find out.
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HBO Go, Hulu Plus, and Max Go for Android add closed captioning and social network sharing

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Three popular apps for watching television episodes on mobile devices have updated today to enable closed captioning. Following similar updates for iOS apps last week, the Android apps for Cinemax, HBO, and Hulu Plus now make it possible to read on-screen text of what characters are saying just as easily it is to hear it. The captioning is available in multiple languages on compatible phones. The apps also added the option to share videos to Facebook and Twitter, so users can reveal what shows they are watching to others. Download: HBO Go / MAX Go / Hulu Plus
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Verizon Galaxy Nexus Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update happening now

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:42 AM PDT

Though the GSM version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was updated to Android 4.1 a short time after it was announced at Google I/O in June, the Galaxy Nexus tied to Verizon's network remained on Android 4.0 for three months. That changes today.
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Netflix testing new UI and app features for Android phones, but it disappears after a few minutes

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:20 AM PDT

Netflix is updating its Android app to have a new user interface and user experience similar to the one it debuted for Apple iPhone devices on Tuesday, but users are only able to access it for a brief period.
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Verizon: 'unlimited' is just a word, and many customers are embracing Share Everything plans

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:51 AM PDT

Verizon's Share Everything plans were met with a wave of criticism when launched in June, but those complaints were from a vocal minority, according to Verizon CFO Fran Shammo.
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Vodafone to close its AppSelect Android app store

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:23 AM PDT

In 2010, Vodafone thought it could deliver a better app store than the Android Market offered by Google, so it launched a competing app portal that was eventually renamed AppSelect. Today, Vodafone has announced that it will phase out AppSelect and let others handle app distribution.
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BlackBerry service outage hits some users in Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 05:52 AM PDT

Some users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa have been unable to use some services on their RIM BlackBerry devices today. RIM has been unable to pinpoint the cause of the outage, but the company has acknowledged that there is a problem and announced that it is now investigating how it can restore service to affected users. The outage comes nearly a year after a worldwide system failure disrupted BlackBerry communication services for millions of users. It is also an embarrassing incident because it occurs as the Apple iPhone 5 has debuted as an instant hit, a feat that RIM has not accomplished in several years.
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