If we’re looking at sales figures of 3.5 million units in the first year for a new laptop, smartphone, or camera, then we might be impressed. But 3D Blu-ray discs? When half were included in the box with a Blu-ray player ?
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Report: 3.5 million 3D Blu-ray discs ‘sold’ in first year, half were bundled with hardware
The integration of software and services companies is starting to show how the social business market is consolidating into a network of companies that are like big mother ships that provide a platform for smaller service providers to operate within its frameworks.
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Mother Ships, the App World and a Sense of What’s to Come
Imagine, for a second, that a patent is granted for the following: “A software platform in an Internet Protocol (IP) phone having the ability to be used with different communication infrastructures such as broadband, wireless communication and Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) service. Further, the software platform in the IP phone has the ability to be used with different applications operating on the IP phone
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Apple, Google, Amazon, And Pretty Much Everyone Else Sued Over Smartphone Patent
Friggin’ April Fools day.
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Probably Fake: Windows Phone 7 Running On A Nokia N8
Go go gadget price leak! Take these prices with ye ol’ grain of salt for now, but if you’re looking for a rough idea of how much you’ll be spending on the DROID CHARGE (or the handset formerly known as the “ Samsung 4G LTE Smartphone for Verizon “), here’s your answer: a bit more than you’d pay for the HTC Thunderbolt. This leak from Droid-Life pins the MSRP of the Droid Charge at $299, and the Droid Incredible 2 at $199
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Verizon DROID CHARGE Priced At $299, DROID Incredible 2 At $199?
If you’re thinking of picking up HTC’s Arrive , the Windows Phone 7 QWERTY slider of your dreams, now might be a good time. Sprint is selling it at the premium phone price ($199 with a two-year contract), but if you order today from Wirefly you can grab it for only $25
As hard as they tried, RIM just couldn’t find a fanbase with the BlackBerry Storm. Between a mild critical reception, a handful of hardware issues in the first batches, and the super wonky SurePress touchscreen that people came to know it for, the “Storm” name has been… tainted, in a way.
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RIM’s Next Full Touchscreen BlackBerry Caught On Camera, Might Not Carry The “Storm” Name
Amazon wants you to use their brand new Android Appstore.
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CrunchDeal: Fruit Ninja for Android free on the Amazon Appstore, today only
With so much riding on AMD’s upcoming server architecture, codenamed Bulldozer, it’s no surprise that the recent appearance of a set of benchmarks of a Bulldozer engineering sample is creating quite a stir. Interpreting these benchmarks is not easy, given their complete lack of critical context (i.e., compiler options, software versions, optimizations, etc.) and the unknown state of the sample chip that they were run on.
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Leaked Bulldozer benchmarks may give glimpse of AMD’s future
As promised yesterday , we’ve got a bit of a giveaway goin’ on over at our brand new Facebook page . Two lucky MobileCrunch fans are gonna be walkin’ away with a brand new Mophie Juice Pack Air iPhone case. Part protective case, part external battery, this thing should keep your iPhone safe and juiced up
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Contest: Want To Win A Mophie Juice Pack Air iPhone Case? Here’s how.
Palm’s HP’s shiny new tablet, the TouchPad, still doesn’t have an official launch date — but whenever it does come, it’s going to be the first device runnin’ webOS 3.0. Lookin’ to give third-party app developers a chance to get their goods prepped in time (and, unofficially, to give the webOS crowd a chance to play with webOS 3.0 in an emulator), HP has just released a Beta build of the webOS 3.0 SDK. There’s one catch, though: if you want access, you’ll need to be a part of Palm’s Early Access Developer program.
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webOS 3.0 SDK Beta Now Available To Select Developers
Whoa! It’s a huge day for the big-name mobile games. Just a little while ago, the universally known Doodle Jump got its long-awaited multiplayer update
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Tap Tap Revenge Now Available For Android
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is back working at the company and made public statements today about how Twitter is focused on making the service more mainstream .
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How Twitter Can Become More Mainstream [Conversation]
While AT&T continues to exude confidence that their planned acquisition of T-Mobile will get all the necessary approvals, it’s starting to look less and less likely.
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New York Attorney General To Dig Into The AT&T/T-Mobile Deal
Yowza. It’s been a while since Samsung has done anything on the software side that was particularly original — but this… this is friggin’ awesome.
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Video: Would You Use Samsung’s Crazy (And Arguably Brilliant) New Webpage Zooming System?
Even if you never heed any other word of gadget advice I give, heed this: Sprint has just opened up the reservation queue for their crazy new multi-screen Android phone, the Kyocera Echo . Don’t do it.
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Sprint Opens Up Kyocera Echo Reservations For The Extra-Crazy Early Adopters
After seeing this interesting-looking game on Indie Games , I thought I’d give it a shot. The colorful, 80s-arcade graphics, minimal controls, and randomly generated gameplay suggested a retro-themed good time. And I wasn’t disappointed.
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iOS Game Review: Forget-Me-Not
When you do things the same way each and every year, people start to expect it. Take the iPhone, for example; after the first iPhone was announced at the now mostly perished MacWorld conference, every subsequent iPhone announcement (3G, 3GS, 4) came at Apple’s own WWDC.
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Rumor: No new iPhone at WWDC this year?
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Read more: MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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Read more from the original source: Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
Go here to read the rest: Mint.com App Update: Now Split Transactions
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
Original post: About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social
I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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See original here: Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More
