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Can Waze Save Apple Maps?

Incorporating Waze navigation and local search into Apple's Maps app and service would address many of the problems that have earned Apple its...

Ubuntu For Phones: Beautiful, Elegant, Doomed

How good could an UbuntuPhone really be? It can't possibly be unique enough and have enough of a value proposition to break into a market that's...

Le Great Apple Robbery

Armed robbers took advantage of New Years celebrations to attack a Paris Apple store, stealing up to $1.3 million (€1 million) in goods.

Windows 8 Tablet Launch #Fail

Microsoft Windows tablets, in spite of a superior Intel processor, suffer from hardware and software problems — and are overpriced. The PC...

BlackBerry 10 Will Be Great, Please Wait, Says RIM

With just about a month to go until the rollout of BlackBerry 10, RIM is reaching out to customers and the public about how great it will be,...

Battery Life Boost Coming From New Antenna Tech

The amplifier for the data transmission on a mobile phone's antenna is the device's biggest power guzzler, wasting up to 65 percent of its juice...

FCC Streamlines Aircraft Wi-Fi Rules

The FCC will establish a regular process and rules for approval of Internet services (basically Wi-Fi) aboard aircraft. The agency says that...

Nokia Lumia 810 A Win For T-Mobile

The Nokia Lumia 810 is an excellent, if not top-of-the-line Windows Phone available on T-Mobile. It's reasonably priced, has a top-notch camera...

iPhone Prices Under Competitive Pressure

Phone prices are being aggressively lowered by Apple's competition and Apple appears to be responding with price cuts, something we haven't seen...

China Tries Again To Control Internet

The Great Firewall of China is increasingly effective in stopping anonymous VPN-based access in and out of the country after a recent upgrade, and...

Nexus 7 Android Tablets for Christmas At DoubleDutch

Why did the founder of Mobile CRM company DoubleDutch give his employees Android Nexus 7 Tablets for XMas? He wanted to inspire them to develop...

iPad 5th Generation Coming In March Says Report

Thinner, lighter iPad coming on accelerated schedule. A new iPad mini is also on the way with a Retina display and A6X processor.

As Mobile Work Rises, 9-to-5 Jobs Decline

Using mobile technology to arm mobile workers, services such as Exec, GigWalk, oDesk, and Uber, are changing the very nature of knowledge-based...

Google/Motorola 'X phone' Tries To Push Tech Limits

Google and Motorola are trying to make the hottest phone on the market and running into the problems that kept everyone else from making such a...

iPhone 5 Sales Up, Price Down

A new research report shows Apple with a majority of the smartphone market in the United States, but lagging behind Samsung and other Android...

Android Fails in Mobile Malware Research

There are many more malware-infected Android devices out there than you might think. It's all because the Android ecosystem and Google Play store...

Apple Must Settle With Samsung

Apple Needs To Cut The Patent Nonsense. If Apple really thinks they need to sue the competition out of the market then they must think they're in...

Samsung Acknowledges Severe Android Vulnerability

A serious vulnerability in the Android kernel for their Exynos processors in many of their phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S3, has been found...

Windows Phone 8 Update Details Revealed

An update to Windows Phone 8 should be out soon sporting messaging improvements, the ability to text replies to incoming callers, bandwidth-saving...

eBay Drops Mobile Advertising

eBay has decided that advertising inside mobile apps is not worth the effort and that they will end all ads inside their own mobile apps. What...



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