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Former RIM employee lays it down on Reddit
A former RIM employee has gone to Reddit to answer the many insistant questions of a fan base that feels increasingly unsure of the company’s future, and hopeful for the prospects of a BlackBerry 10 device. The unnamed man left RIM in 2006, so many of the questions pertain to the growing infrastructure of the [...]
Max Payne for Android delayed, coming “the next week or so”
May Payne for iOS was released earlier this month to great acclaim, both for its touchscreen controls and its faithful adherence to the original game mechanics. The Android version was supposed to be released yesterday, but Rockstar Games have decided to delay it until “the next week or so,” according to a tweet from the [...]
Foursquare for BlackBerry updated to include NFC and inbox integration
Foursquare for BlackBerry users are getting a nice little bump today with the release of version 3.9. A couple long-awaited features are hitting the app, which is consistently kept updated on all its supported platforms. In this release, Foursquare has done what Twitter and Facebook did a while back and integrated its direct message system [...]
Hotel Tonight expands to Toronto and Vancouver, invites iPhone and Android users to pay less
The last-minute/cheap hotel market is pretty saturated, with names like Hotwire, Priceline, Expedia and more sitting prominently in the minds of tech-savvy consumers. But Hotel Tonight, a mobile-only service for iPhone and Android, is trying to eat into some of that market by linking with well-known hotel chains around the U.S. and Canada to provide [...]
ZTE aims to sell 100 million phones annually by 2015, releasing a phablet
ZTE, a relatively unknown smartphone manufacturer outside China, is the world’s fourth-largest device manufacturer and has a large share of the lower-end Android market in Asia. But the company announced some pretty nice-looking Tegra 3-based smartphones during Mobile World Congress in February, and is looking to expand to North America in the coming years. The [...]
Google engineer says Sony adds more code to Android than any other manufacturer
Here’s some good news to the Sony loyalists out there: the company adds more lines of code to the Android Open Source Project than any other manufacturer, according to Jean-Baptiste Queru, a Google engineer who oversees the merging of millions of lines of code to AOSP. This is why, according to Queru, Sony was able to [...]
Samsung Q1 2012 profits top $5 billion, confirms Galaxy S3 name
Samsung has a lot going for it right now, especially since in the run-up to its most anticipated phone launch ever, the company earned over $5 billion in operating profit, though after taxes it totals $4.86 billion US. Gross margins are up to 12.9% on over $40 billion in revenue; leading the way were an [...]
Twitter for iOS and Android updates with improved Discover tab, better search and more push notifications
After the legacy of Tweetie vanished with Twitter version 3.0 for both iOS and Android, many users were left with an immediate need to find alternative clients that better fitted their power user status. Twitter has made a few changes since that time, but it looks like with today’s update they are attempting to win [...]
North American Samsung Galaxy S3 could come with Qualcomm S4 chip to ensure LTE support
Well, this is a bit of a twist. The international version of the Galaxy S3 is almost ensured to have a quad-core Exynos 4212 SoC inside it, providing double the processing chops and 20% less power consumption than its predecessor. But we’re getting word that, in order to appease North American carriers pushing LTE, our [...]
Taptu updates iOS and Android apps to better DJ your news
Taptu has become one of my favourite news “streamers,” as opposed to just a general news reader. It breaks up feeds into horizontally-scrolling streams that open up to larger magazine-style articles. We brought you news in February when Taptu debuted for the PlayBook as one of the first Android apps that worked really well on [...]
