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Sprint’s Virgin Mobile brand to test throttling while Sprint pokes fun at throttlers (video)

July 13, 2011 IT News Comments Off

Alanis Morrisette couldn’t have possibly thought up something this ironic to put in her hit song. On the same day Sprint launches an ad campaign trashing T-Mobile’s “unlimited” plan for throttling its data speeds, the Now Network announced that it intends to begin throttling Virgin Mobile’s broadband sometime in October.

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Google temporarily suspends Realtime search, thanks to expired Twitter deal

July 5, 2011 IT News Comments Off

If you noticed a distinct lack of tweetage in your Google search results yesterday, you weren’t alone. Turns out, the company has temporarily suspended its Realtime search feature, as part of its ongoing Google+ launch .

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Verizon’s tiered data plans won’t affect grandfathered customers after all?

June 21, 2011 IT News Comments Off

Yesterday’s revelation that Verizon may soon be enforcing usage-based data plans came as a slap in the face to many, but there may be at least one speck of sunlight shining through the dark clouds above.

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Device Analyzer Android study wants to track your every move, if you’ll let it

June 19, 2011 IT News Comments Off

And here we thought folks were concerned about protecting their personal data . As it turns out, however, a sizable chunk of Android users have volunteered to give a group of University of Cambridge researchers a look at exactly how they use their cellphones. By downloading the Device Analyzer app from the Android market, more than 1,000 participants have allowed the data collection program to harvest statistics in the background while they use their phones.

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T-Mobile lauches new individual and family plans right on schedule

May 23, 2011 IT News Comments Off

As rumored , T-Mobile overhauled its individual and family plans today and simplified your options to just three tiers of voice service. Individuals can choose between 500, 1,000 or unlimited minutes, with unlimited text messaging adding $10 and data add-ons ranging from $10 for 200MB to $60 for 10GB.

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Apple brand valued at $153 billion, scoots ahead of Google for first place

May 9, 2011 IT News Comments Off

What is the world’s most valuable consumer-facing brand? If you’d asked the guys behind the BrandZ survey at any point over the last four years, they’d have told you ” Google ,” but in 2011 their answer has changed.

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AT&T brings HSUPA to Atrix 4G and Inspire 4G, one requires WiFi to download update

April 30, 2011 IT News Comments Off

If you’re the somewhat-proud-but-feeling-throttled owner of a Motorola Atrix 4G or HTC Inspire 4G, your days of terribly slow uploads are nearly through — following some preliminary tests , AT&T is rolling out updates that provide “increased potential data speed” to both HSPA+ handsets right on cue .

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Apple investigating 3G issues on some Verizon iPad 2s, software fix expected soon

April 9, 2011 IT News Comments Off

Having trouble hooking up your iPad 2 to Verizon’s 3G network? Turns out you’re not alone, and thankfully, Apple’s well aware of this. In a statement to All Things Digital , Cupertino said it’s investigating this CDMA connectivity issue as reported by “a small number of iPad 2 customers,” and word has it that a software patch will be available soon

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Basis: A Super Sensor Wristband, With API

April 1, 2011 NET News Comments Off

We’ve written before about the Quantified Self , the movement to track our own behavior and biology online in order to know where we’re at and how well we’re taking care of ourselves. This week I learned about what is undoubtedly the most sophisticated self-tracker I’ve seen yet: Basis . Now available for pre-order ($199), this bundle of sensors in a wrist band includes an Optical Blood Flow Sensor (heart rate), 3D Accelerometer (movement, including sleep patterns), temperature and Galvanic Skin Response (sweat)

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Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Startups

April 1, 2011 NET News Comments Off

In some ways, the term “big data” belies the challenges that startups face in tackling the subject. That adjective “big” tends to get a lot of the attention, often at the expense of the noun “data.” In other words, we spend a lot of time talking about issues of the quantity of data and less time addressing issues of quality.

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World Backup Day: Turn, turn, turn + more giveaways

March 31, 2011 Apple World Comments Off

Happy World Backup Day ! We can’t really emphasize this strongly enough: you need good backups, and you need them now. That’s why we’ve joined the cause for data saving with tips, techniques and giveaways all day today.

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3 Presentations on R: Data Mining, Web Development and Data Visualization

March 30, 2011 NET News Comments Off

R, the statistical programming language, continues to grow in popularity. A recent poll at KDnuggets found that 34% of respondents do at least half of their data mining in R. Although it’s a domain specific language, it’s versatile.

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No Wireless? No Worries. ForeverMap Gives You Offline Access to Maps

March 30, 2011 NET News Comments Off

Ah, the frustrations of trying to access a map on your phone when you’ve got limited Internet connection. Well now you needn’t worry with ForeverMap

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Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6: Are Businesses Ready for the Social Data Firehouse?

March 30, 2011 NET News Comments Off

Salesforce.com announced this morning its intent to acquire social media monitoring company Radian6 , a market leader in the social analytics space, for $276 million.

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O2 scraps mobile tethering surcharges, cheers up a whole United Kingdom

March 29, 2011 IT News Comments Off

This is weird . UK carrier O2 has decided to do exactly what we’ve been asking mobile operators to do for donkeys’ years — it’s going to allow users to chew through their data allowance in whatever fashion they like, without imposing artificial surcharges for tethering secondary devices to your phone

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Amazon Web Services Adds an Un-Cloudy Option to Its IaaS

March 28, 2011 NET News Comments Off

Amazon Web Services announced today the availability of a new service: Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances .

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Amazon Web Services Adds an Un-Cloudy Option to Its IaaS

DataStax Brisk, Hadoop, and the Ever-Evolving Database

March 24, 2011 NET News Comments Off

Yesterday at the GigaOM Structure Big Data conference in New York City, Apache Cassandra parent company DataStax announced a new product that integrates Cassandra, Hive and Apache Hadoop . The new product, called Brisk , essentially uses Cassandra to replace Hbase and the Hadoop storage layer

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First Look At T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot By ZTE

March 23, 2011 Mobile News Comments Off

Not to be forgotten in the smorgasbord of T-Mobile announcements early this morning was the introduction of T-Mobile’s first 4G Mobile Hotspot ( Mifi ) device. We had an opportunity to take a quick look at the hardware tonight and calling it small isn’t quite doing it justice. This thing is pocket friendly in a big way.

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First Look At T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot By ZTE

Contacts Cleaner Address Book Utility Review

March 21, 2011 Apple World Comments Off

Clean contacts aren’t just for eyes Every time we have MobileMe sync problems, we end up with duplicated contacts in Address Book. And over time, small human errors in data entry build up into a big mess. Beyond the very basic duplicate search in Address Book, Apple unfortunately doesn’t offer much in the way of tools to manage these situations.

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Contacts Cleaner Address Book Utility Review

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TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games

May 25, 2012

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MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers

May 25, 2012

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Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M

May 25, 2012

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Huawei-Made myTouch Q For T-Mobile Passes Through FCC

May 25, 2012

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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]

Google Nabs Key Members Of HP’s Enyo Team, But Open WebOS Is Still “On Schedule”

May 25, 2012

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Wirefly Memorial Day Sale Offers Extra $25 Discount On HTC One S

May 25, 2012

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

“Because We May” Sale Puts A Ton Of Popular Android Games On Sale

May 24, 2012

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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.

Turn Your iPhone Into A Bouncy Ball With The M-Edge iPhone SuperShell

May 24, 2012

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Siri-ing John Malkovich

May 24, 2012

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Google Adds Subscription Billing To Its Android App Store

May 24, 2012

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Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App

May 24, 2012

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Android Continues March Toward World Marketshare Domination

May 24, 2012

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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 Says Merger, Not Sale Is Still An Option For US Branch

May 24, 2012

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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.

Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad

May 24, 2012

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Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone

May 24, 2012

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Google To Release Five Nexus Devices On November 5th To Celebrate Five Years Of Android?

May 23, 2012

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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

Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications

May 23, 2012

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The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents

May 23, 2012

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T-Mobile Prism Now Available Directly Through T-Mobile Online, Company Owned Retail Stores

May 23, 2012

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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

Mint.com App Update: Now Split Transactions

May 23, 2012

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Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads

May 23, 2012

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Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide

May 23, 2012

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McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012

May 23, 2012

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9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking

May 23, 2012

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Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App

May 22, 2012

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About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social

May 22, 2012

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Twelve Minute Walkthrough Of Galaxy S III, See It In Action

May 22, 2012

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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 ..

Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data

May 22, 2012

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Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers

May 22, 2012

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Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone

May 22, 2012

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Zimride’s Lyft Is Going To Give Uber Some Lower-Priced Competition

May 22, 2012

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Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More

May 22, 2012

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