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Verizon: Engineers working to resolve 4G LTE outage (The future of mobile internet)

Apr 28th

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On Wednesday morning our inbox was flooded with complaints from readers stating that Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network was down — claims we were able to confirm with our Samsung Charge in New York City. Verizon Wireless has acknowledged the problem and is keeping its customers up-to-date via Twitter. “We’re aware of an issue with the 4G LTE connections and our network engineers are working to resolve quickly,” Verizon’s official account tweeted today. It followed up three hours later with “Investigating 4G LTE network issue; ThunderBolts making voice calls, may get slower 1xRTT data.” Verizon says it will keep its More >

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Accessories Sonos Music Controller for Android review: a beautiful audio set-up [Video]

Apr 28th

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Few things are as powerful, important, or enjoyable as music. Actually, Android may hold equal sway among this crowd, so let’s meet in the middle and take a look at a production that merges the two: the Sonos Music Controller for Android.

Sonos has spent the better part of the 2000′s releasing products to manage home audio systems. With its ZonePlayers, Sonos users can create a multi-room audio set-up that plays music from various sources throughout their home. The recently-introduced Sonos Music Controller for Android makes it possible to control all of those players – up to 32 on one Wi-Fi More >

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AT&T Files T-Mobile Merger Proposal with FCC

Apr 22nd

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Despite the continued protest of Sprint and others in the wireless industry, AT&T has submitted its proposal detailing the acquisition of T-Mobile to the FCC. Detractors argue that the merger would stifle competition as Verizon and AT&T would emerge as the only viable contenders in the US. AT&T is prepared to argue that acquiring T-Mobile will allow them to bring 4G LTE services to 97 percent of the United States, tracking the growing demand for wireless and bringing high-speed services to areas that otherwise would be left without. It’s a tough call, but luckily we aren’t the ones that have More >

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Public Beta : Windows Phone Device Manager / TouchXperience

Apr 20th

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What is Windows Phone Device Manager / TouchXperience ?

Windows Phone Device Manager is a Windows PC software that will allow you to perform various tasks on an unlocked WP7 device like install/uninstall homebrew applications, File management, Add and manage custom ringtones, Send SMS, E-mail, notes directly from PC, and more

TouchXperience is the better half for the WP7 device which offers various features like custom menus, organize applications & games, File explorer and more

Windows Phone Device Manager features:

  • Applications management: view, install/uninstall homebrew applications
  • File management: explore device, exchange files with your phone
  • Sync files, folders and favorites with phone More >
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Industry Intel Apple Inc iOS Devices Enterprise Tips and Tricks Apps Toys Reviews iMac supplies tighten ahead of forthcoming refresh

Apr 20th

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A good indication that an Apple product refresh is coming soon is when the respective product’s supplies begin tightening up. Most recently, this process happened with the iPad prior to the iPad 2 launch and with the MacBook Pro prior to the MacBook Pro refresh with Thunderbolt and quad-core processors. Now, it’s the iMac’s turn for a refresh. We have been told by three people familiar with the matter – all in different countries including the U.S. and an Asian country – that iMac supplies are tightening.

First, we have our friend Mr. X who provided us with the above More >

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The Future Of Wireless Charging(About How will your phone works)

Apr 19th

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When we last heard from Texas Instruments they had been hard at work absorbing business rivals, but today they showed off what they do best. Technology.

The most recent fruits of their labor is a little something called the bq51013. Its a wireless induction charging chip that’s close to 80% smaller than technology we’re using now. If you’re unfamiliar with wireless charging its the same tech found inside your Sonicare toothbrush or the Palm Pre’s Touch Stone.

I’ve never been a fan of wireless charging. With my busy lifestyle I, at most, have only have a few precious moments to find wall More >

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Researchers find way to restrict which data Android apps access, put privacy options in user’s hand

Apr 19th

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There’s an Android security scare happening at least once a month. Most of these are overblown, rehashed non-issues, but there are legit concerns about Android malware and privacy leaks. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed software designed to shield Android users from concerns about apps stealing their private data.

 

The Taming Information-Stealing Smartphone Applications (TISSA) is a security prototype developed to give Android phone owners more control over which data is accessible to apps. TISSA can show that an app requests “Location” data, and users can respond by setting it to Trusted, Anonymized, Bogus, or Empty.

A privacy setting is More >

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News Phones Carriers Apps Games Calendar Podcast Google: 350,000 Android devices activated every day, 3 billion apps installed so far

Apr 18th

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On its earning call today, Google revealed some very interesting statistics about Android and its growth. The first one, more than 3 billion apps have been installed from the Market. A formidable milestone, but even more shocking is how fast Android reached it. It took 20 months for Android  to reach 1 billion installed apps, then 5 more months to reach 2 billion, and finally only 2 months to reach 3 billion.

If we take that kind of exponential growth and project it into the future, it should only take a few weeks for Android to reach 4 billion installed apps. More >

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News Phones Carriers Apps Games Calendar Podcast Is Verizon’s “Droid” branding helping or hurting?

Apr 18th

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Whether you are aware of it or not, and completely regardless of whether or not you believe it, the Motorola Droid on Verizon Wireless saved Android. More accurately, it saved Andy Rubin, or at least his job, after the G1 underwhelmed and failed to impress many. It’s release, coupled with the release of Android 2.0, launched Android into the foreground of the tech community, encouraging manufacturers, developers, and eventually users to flock to the OS. I can’t help, despite how important a contribution the Droid moniker and device was to “the cause” if it’s still necessary. Android has seen explosive More >

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Amazon responds to game developer controversy: nothing to see here

Apr 18th

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The International Game Developers Association sent out a warning this week to Android game developers, warning them that the Amazon App Store for Android presented some problems that might make them want to reconsider selling their wares in Amazon’s market. “The IGDA has significant concerns about Amazon’s current Appstore distribution terms and the negative impact they may have on the game development community,” the organization warned.

Amazon has responded to the budding controversy by nipping it in the bud. On the Amazon Appstore Developer Blog, the retailer clarified that the terms that led to IDGA’s complaints were actually an old draft More >

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