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Question: My ancient AT&T cell phone—it has a Cingular logo on it, if that gives you any indication of its age—is rapidly circling the drain. People can’t hear a word I am saying and the battery life is shot. I’ve heard …
PayPal executive Laura Chambers recently remarked that the company’s iPhone app would be updated to allow users to deposit checks directly to their accounts simply by taking a photo of the front and back of each check. The update is apparently due "in the next day or so."
This kind of deposit-by-photo technology has been used by various
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Looks like TaintDroid just stole the Worst Recent Product Name award away from the Dell Streak. Once you get past the name, though, TaintDroid (that’s hard to type, even) may turn out to be a valuable app for Android owners.
It’s not quite available publicly yet, but the application will run in the background of an Android phone and
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The Sony Ericsson LiveView is a 1.3-inch Bluetooth-enabled display that acts as an extension of your Android phone’s screen. You install a special app on your Android 2.0-or-higher handset and clip the LiveView display to your clothes or snap it into the included wristband to wear it like a watch.
You can then use the display to read …
This information is all still in the early rumor phase, so take it with a grain of salt. There some loose talk that Amazon is working on its own version of an Android app store which has, in turn, led to speculation that Amazon may even be working its own Android tablet.
The app store rumor contains far more details: a 70/30 royalty …
BlackBerry just announced its once-rumored tablet. The 7-inch device thankfully shakes the previously-tipped “BlackPad” name in favor of “PlayBook.” Pricing hasn’t been announced, while availability has been set for “early 2011” here in the US, with an international rollout to follow in the second quarter. (More: What the PlayBook Means …
Motorola and Verizon’s Droid R2-D2 will be in stores on September 30 for $249. Everyone’s favorite astromech will be bundled together with a wired headset and media dock in carbonite-like packaging.
Pre-loaded content will include:
• R2-D2 notification sounds and ringtones
• Four live wallpapers
• R2-D2 clock widget
• “The …
By now we’re used to seeing silly ads from Microsoft but the latest batch promoting Windows Phone 7 (featuring the HTC Mondrian) are spot on. I’m not saying things will change with a Windows Phone 7 device but they’ve managed to address a phenomenon that we can all relate to. Watch and you’ll see what I …
Here’s a handful of Windows Phone 7 rumors to get your Monday morning underway. Neowin is reporting that the first batch of Windows Phone 7 devices will be hitting European shores on October 21st—specifically, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
As for those of us in the US, author of the upcoming Windows Phone Secrets …
Oh, to be a Phillies fan. The team may very well make the playoffs this year but even better, iPhone owners at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park can now order food right to their seats using MLB.com’s free Fan Direct app.
The stadium has apparently been running trials of the service since Monday, and is expected to officially unveil …
Mobile processors are quickly approaching speeds that allow phones to act more and more like truly pocketable computers, but one of the areas that still needs to be addressed is how to facilitate text input and visual output that rivals traditional notebooks.
Mozilla’s concept "Seabird" phone presents a few interesting ideas. For
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Free text messaging services aren’t anything new, but the recently-released HeyWire breaks the mold a bit by offering a static, unchanging phone number that you can give out to your friends to let them text you, free international text messaging to and from 114 countries, and a web-based interface that allows you to send text messages
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