Sometimes with Apple rumors, a little common sense goes a long way.
The latest scuttlebutt says that Apple will release the iPhone 5 in mid-August, based on several U.K. job postings for iPhone sales specialists. According to CNet UK, the posting by recruitment firm Reed seeks “full-time iPhone Sales Staff for an exciting project” …
AT&T has proudly announced that it’s the exclusive 4G wireless carrier for Sony’s upcoming S2 dual-screen tablet. I’m proud to announce that I couldn’t care less. Honestly, any time I hear about this or that wireless carrier selling this or that tablet, I wonder, who’s actually interested? Do people really want to pay upwards of $20 per …
An update to the Android Market is on the way, with less sickly pea green than ever before.
The Android Market redesign is meant to emphasize movies and books alongside apps and games. Each type of media gets its own fat rectangle on the Market home page, with extra blocks for featured content on the sides and on top. It looks like a …
Free Internet radio is a hit, and Pandora has proof.
Pandora now has 100 million users, 36 million of whom log in to the streaming music service every month. Pandora also announced that it accounts for 3.6 percent of the entire radio market, compared to 2.3 percent at the end of last year.
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AT&T is still working to get its 4G LTE network online, but has gone ahead and announced its first two LTE devices anyway.
AT&T’s LTE network will launch this summer with a USB stick called the Momentum 4G and a portable Wi-Fi hotspot called the Elevate 4G. The USB stick will cost $50 with a two-year contract and the mobile hotspot, …
Android tablets still not cheap enough for you? One newspaper publisher wants to help out.
The Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, announced that it’ll sell deeply discounted Android tablets—half-price or less—when bundled with newspaper subscriptions.
The tablets will …
Laptop heavyweight HP may soon try to take on Apple’s MacBook Air with an ultra-thin notebook of its own.
The laptop would be part of a new category of PCs that Intel is calling “Ultrabooks,” measuring less than an inch thick and selling for under $1,000. According to DigiTimes’ unnamed sources, HP’s early entrant would use Intel’s Core
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Optional 3G connectivity may liberate Apple’s next iPod Touch from the confines of Wi-Fi hotspots.
The rumor, reported by AppleSpot.nl and kindly translated by a reader at 9to5Mac, says that users will be able to pop a 3G SIM card into the iPod Touch and subscribe to a data plan of their choosing. AT&T and Verizon Wireless already offer
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With the end of unlimited data on Verizon Wireless, new subscribers face overage charges if they get a little too crazy with the bandwidth. That means users have to watch their data consumption, otherwise they’ll face charges of $10 for every gigabyte over their limits.
To make this easier, Verizon plans to send lots of text messages …
The music, movie and television industries are teaming up with Internet service providers to fight piracy, but in a rather lenient way.
As rumored, several Internet providers—AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon—have agreed to punish people who repeatedly share copyrighted materials. But they’ll only do so after
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(UPDATE: Spotify has clarified that the software made available to me is the U.K. version of the service, not the U.S. version. Therefore, things may change before launch, and these should be considered early impressions.)
Spotify’s U.S. launch has been a long time coming, and now it’s nearly here. Although the subscription music …
Android’s smartphone dominance is turning out quite nicely for Microsoft.
Thanks to patent licensing agreements, Microsoft collects royalties from five Android vendors, including popular smartphone maker HTC, Networkworld reports. And now, Microsoft is rumored to be putting the squeeze on Samsung for even more royalties, to the tune …