Someday we’ll all look back on the Great Holiday Blizzard of 2010 and laugh. Some of us more maniacally than others. Those of us trapped in Minnesota until what seems like the end of time, especially.
“You’ll be on the next flight out,” says Delta. “It’s a sure thing,” says Delta. “Nothing we ever tell you is a sure thing,” says …
More than a quarter of all Americans use their cellphones to engage in politics, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
The survey, conducted last month, revealed that 71% of American cellphone owners (A group that Pew estimates accounts for 82% of all adult Americans) say they voted in …
Samsung’s line of Galaxy S smartphones may very well hit the 10 million mark that the company predicted it’d sell by the end of the year.
InformationWeek reports that the Android-based Galaxy S series has sold 9.3 million units so far this year. For comparison, Apple’s latest sales numbers indicate that it’s sold 14 million iPhones …
New job postings on the Apple site show that the company is interested in people who can develop speech recognition smartphone technology. While any person can just put two and two together and assume the company wants to improve their voice command features, which when I use it to call my dentist it calls my Mom at work, 9 to 5 Mac is
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AT&T is getting a jumpstart on its 4G network by agreeing to purchase almost $2 billion worth of airspace used by Qualcomm’s recently-shuttered Flo TV service. Flo TV plans to stop using the airspace in March 2011 and the sale is expected to close in the second half of next year sometime, pending regulatory approval.
The airspace …
San Diego-based mobile phone service provider Cricket introduced a new wireless rate plan for their customers which includes unlimited full track downloads of music tracks and ringtones via their partnership with the Muve Music Service. For $55 a month, subscribers will receive unlimited nationwide calling, 3G web, email, data backup …
The U.S. army is considering a proposal to arm its soldiers with a new weapon for the 21st century battlefield: smartphones.
The Army Times is reporting that early next year, iPhones, Androids and even Blackberries could potentially become standard issue next to fatigues, tactical knives and M4 rifles. (More on TIME.com: Military …
Google has updated its Google Maps Android app to include 3D buildings and offline storage capabilities. These are both features that Google’s Andy Rubin showed off at a recent tech conference, if you recall.
The new 3D buildings feature allows users to tilt and rotate maps at various angles, and Google’s new use of vector graphics …
Mobile app developers. What a pretentious lot. Drinking their frothy coffee with their pinkies in the air, discussing the latest in Boolean logic and data-driven design—enough! We can all be app developers now.
Google’s App Inventor software was initially released to education-focused groups back in July, but it’s now available to …
For this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, I reviewed Google’s Nexus S phone–the new “pure Google” phone that sports Android in exactly the form that Google intended, without any of the manufacturer- or carrier-related modifications that rarely seem to result in a noticeably better handset, and sometimes actively damage the …
The long-rumored Verizon iPhone got another shot in the arm recently, with MacDailyNews reporting that not only would the most anticipated phone that doesn’t even exist yet be here right after Christmas, but it would run on Verizon’s new 4G network that was just lit up a couple weeks ago.
Like all the Verizon iPhone rumors before it, …
For the most part, Intel’s been left out in the cold when it comes to tablets and smartphones. While the company’s processors are relatively powerful compared to mobile-centric processors from competitors like Qualcomm and Marvell, they aren’t able to eke out nearly as much battery life.
To address the growing tablet market Intel …
