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  • TomTom App for iPhone 1.9 Now Available and Optimized For iPad

    Posted on October 21, 2011 | No Comments
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  • A Photo of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Tribute Issue Cover is Available on Business Wire’s Web Site and AP PhotoExpress

    Posted on October 6, 2011 | No Comments
    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover image for its Steve Jobs tribute issue that arrives on newsstands on Friday, October 7, 2011. Print and iPad subscribers to Bloomberg Businessweek will begin receiving the...

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  • Telefonica gets behind MeeGo, says ’smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs’ are possibilities

    Telefonica gets behind MeeGo, says ’smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs’ are possibilities

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Virtually all of the MeeGo buzz since Intel and Nokia's tie-up back in February has been focused on high-end smartphones, tablets, and netbooks, but Telefonica reminds us that there's another potential target for the platform, too -- connected TVs. The Spanish wireless, fixed internet, and cable operator has thrown its weight behind MeeGo this week (which is a pretty big deal considering that the company has global reach across 25 countries and about a quarter billion subscribers), hinting that "services could potentially include content and applications that can be accessed from devices such as smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs for Telefonica's wireline and wireless operations." We've yet to see any set-top box announcements in the MeeGo space, but with Google trying to light fires under the connected TV market, we imagine some competitors are bound to emerge -- and it's probably a good sign that they've got the backing of a cable company.

    Telefonica gets behind MeeGo, says 'smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs' are possibilities originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Voice Over Revision A to power Verizon Wireless’ iPhone?

    Voice Over Revision A to power Verizon Wireless’ iPhone?

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Will the iPhone come out for Verizon Wireless? It's the question that so many of the service's subscribers would like to see answered definitively. This news story, unfortunately, won't do that. What it will do, however, is fan the flames of the rumor fire. The latest is that the phone would work with Voice Over Revision A. In English that means the phone would be able to handle both voice and data connections simultaneously.

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  • Sprint CFO: ‘Pre didn’t work out as well as we hoped’

    Sprint CFO: ‘Pre didn’t work out as well as we hoped’

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The worst of Palm's fears may be over now that HP has played the knight-in-shining-armor role, but Sprint -- the States' number three carrier -- still has a ways to go before it can claim it's out of the woods, having gone a solid string of fiscal quarters now without posting a profit or a net gain in subscribers. Of course, this is the kind of situation that puts dudes with the word "financial" in their titles on the hot seat, and sure enough, Sprint CFO Robert Brust came out swinging at an investor conference this week. Brust points to narrowing losses and an expanding prepaid presence as reasons he thinks the company can grow revenue by year-end, not to mention an expanding 4G footprint and -- on a closely related note -- the imminent release of the EVO 4G. Showing a bit of humility, he also said that the company has "learned a lot" since the launch of the Pre, acknowledging that the phone "didn't work out as well as [they] hoped." In other words: we wouldn't expect any more crazy two-phone exclusive deals with Palm lasting the better part of a year any time soon.

    Sprint CFO: 'Pre didn't work out as well as we hoped' originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 16:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Bing app for WinMo 6.x phones adds turn-by-turn navigation

    Bing app for WinMo 6.x phones adds turn-by-turn navigation

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Turns out Google isn't the only one pushing further into the turn-by-turn market this week -- Microsoft came out swinging today with the announcement that full car navigation capability has been added to the latest version of its Bing app for Windows Mobile 6.x devices, too. It's got the usual array of route configuration options for avoiding traffic and tolls, alerts, direction lists, and voice prompts -- and Microsoft describes the audible directions as an "amazingly lifelike voice experience," so our expectations are set appropriately. Interestingly, the app isn't available to Verizon subscribers for some ominous reason, but folks using a laundry list of devices on Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T can update their already-installed Bing app or visit Bing's site for the download.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Bing app for WinMo 6.x phones adds turn-by-turn navigation originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 11 May 2010 22:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share

    ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Well, it doesn't look like the news is getting any better for Motorola these days --- ComScore's latest report finds that the company has slipped from its top spot in US market share among mobile OEMs into a virtual tie with Samsung and LG, with Samsung edging out Motorola by just "a fraction of a percent." They're followed by RIM and Nokia, who are now in a tie for a distant fourth place at 8.3%, and Apple, which is said to have a five percent share. Of course, these stats are just part of a broader report, but the rest of the results are a bit less surprising -- Verizon and AT&T are virtually unchanged in their position as the number one and two carriers at 31.1% and 25.2%, respectively, and the total number of subscribers in the country now stands at 234 million, of which 63.7% send text messages, 30.1% use a web browser, and 28.6% use downloaded apps.

    ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide)

    AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide)

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    You've waited long enough AT&T customers. So long that the Palm Pre is now the Palm Pre Plus and Palm, well, isn't even Palm anymore. But you just never mind all that, what's important is that AT&T subscribers will finally have dibs on the Palm Pre Plus starting May 16th, nationwide. No mention of a free 3G mobile hotspot capability like that offered by Verizon, but you will have free access to AT&T's 20k-strong network of fixed hotspots. Now we just need a price -- an interesting dilemma after VZW lowered the PPP to just $30 on contract.

    Our tipster also tells us that AT&T will be rolling out its 3G MicroCell from coast-to-coast on the same day. Makes sense since AT&T already gave us a mid-April date for its little signal boosting wonder.

    [Thanks, D.]

    Update:     We just spoke to AT&T about this whole ordeal; they wouldn't confirm or deny the Pre Plus situation, but we were told that there's "no change" in the MicroCell plans -- May 16 won't be a nationwide rollout, and there will be more rollouts in the weeks after.

    AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 01:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The new Roku Netflix experience adds search, Instant Queue modification features

    The new Roku Netflix experience adds search, Instant Queue modification features

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Woot! Netflix for Roku's wee little box will be updated "soon" for Netflix subscribers, adding search functionality that the service badly needed. As you can see from this jaunty video, the entire UI has been improved and the standard "press left to see all of the other movies" is gone, giving you more movies per page and a considerably more streamlined experience. The best thing? You can now add movies to your queue from the box. Click through for a video and a bit more info.

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  • Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years

    Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    As smartphones like the iPhone and Android take over the mobile Web, the amount of data traffic going over cellular networks is expected to grow 40-fold over the next five years. UK firm Coda Research Consultancy forecasts that in the U.S. alone mobile handset data traffic will grow from 8 terabytes/month this year to 327 terabytes/month in 2015. That amounts to a 117 percent compound annual growth rate. A lot of that data will come in the form of mobile Web browsing, with the biggest contributor expected to be mobile video. By 2015, mobile video will account for 68.5 percent of all mobile data usage in the U.S. (or 224 terabytes/month). Coda estimates that 95 million mobile handset subscribers in the U.S. will be watching video on their phones in five years out of a total of 158 million mobile internet users.

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  • A quick look at Netflix on the Wii

    A quick look at Netflix on the Wii

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    The disc required to get Netflix up and running on the Wii should hit subscribers mailboxes sometime today. Here’s a quick look at the Wii-ish interface and controls. Nifty, eh? Too bad there’s no HD content on the Wii version. [via Download Squad]

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  • EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    What's it going to take to dethrone World of Warcraft? One of two things, I'd say: one, an asteroid smashing directly into the planet, with Blizzard at the exact location of impact, or two, Blizzard releasing World of Warcraft 2. The asteroid is more likely at this point. So you can imagine the time and money EA is putting into The Old Republic, the only MMO with a chance in hell of taking away even a fraction of WoW's subscribers.

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  • Atari and Cryptic anger the people who bought Star Trek Online at launch

    Atari and Cryptic anger the people who bought Star Trek Online at launch

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember Star Trek Online? Yeah, it came out waaaaay back on February 2nd of 2010. Well, it's Cryptic's game, but it's published by Atari, and since there maybe hasn't been the level of interest everyone was looking for, they are running a sale. It's a pretty good deal too, since you get the game for $10 off (which isn't so bad) and you an additional 60 days of free gameplay (which is the frustrating part). That's a total of 90 days of free play, including the 30 days that come with the purchase of the game. That seems really unfair to the players who pre-ordered or bought the game when it first came out.

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  • FIOS the first to get HBO Go

    FIOS the first to get HBO Go

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    I read something the other day that argued that Netflix has not a chance in hell of becoming "this century's HBO." Netflix may be popular, but don't expect it to achieve the type of penetration and success of the cable channel. Hollywood politics and whatnot. Another reason is that HBO has designs on the on-demand market with HBO Go, a service that lets its subscribers see "anything they want to see, anytime, anywhere, over their laptop, iPhone, tablet, PlayStation." The first cable system to get HBO Go is Verizon FIOS. Supposedly HBO Go will eventually be available to all HBO subscribers, but deals need to be put in place between your ISP and the cable channel.

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  • Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers

    Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    In January Amazon offered select customers a free Kindle of sorts – they had to pay for it, but if they didn’t like it they could get a full refund and keep the device. It turns out that was just a test run for a much more ambitious program. A reliable source tells us Amazon wants to give a free Kindle to every Amazon Prime subscriber.

    Just as soon as they can work out how to do it without losing money.

    Amazon Prime is a subscription product that gives customers free two day shipping on everything they buy from Amazon. The current fee is $79/year.

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