iphone
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Tough day for Blackberry
On what should have been a great day for Blackberry, releasing its new Blackberry Z10 mobile smartphone in the US, the day turned out to be a major disappointment for the company and fans. Reports are coming in of no lines at AT&T stores, very little in-store promotion if any, and lack of interest from [...]
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Can RIM Name Change Help the Blackberry Maker?
The company RIM was laid to rest today and a new company has emerged, Blackberry. The announcement came at the much-anticipated Blackberry OS 10 launch today. The unexpected company name change came as a surprise for many of the media present that were there to see the latest OS and the new hardware that will [...]
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Apple Sinks below $500 on iPhone Slowdown
2013 hasn’t been too good to Apple the company that ended 2012 as the most valuable company in history. Apple has had a number of high profile issues that has been impacting its stock and overall value. Trading on the stock today saw it take a dip to $485.92 finally ending the day at $506.09. [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 83
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Blackberry adds Voice over W-Fi to its Smartphones
RIM today announced a new feature that has been added to its BBM (Blackberry Messenger) service. The new feature, which adds voice calling over Wi-Fi provides users the ability to make voice calls for free to other messenger users see (press release) below. With the success of iMessage in Apple iOS devices, it would seem [...]
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Apple bullies Google on the Playground and announces a bunch of new Products
Fight, fight, fight, fight… The latest Apple event had Apple calling out Google for a brawl of the tablets. With a rarely seen competitive stance, Apple compared its newly announced iPad mini tablet to the Google Nexus 7 Android device. Pointing out key differences such as the Nexus plastic body, smaller screen, and the “scaled [...]
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Does a Decline in PC sales have you Worried?
While PC manufacturers Lenovo and HP fight over who really owns the title of top manufacturer; a controversy that has been sparked by conflicting reports by Gartner and IDC that in one report shows Lenovo edging out HP in overall PC sales and the other showing HP keeping the title. The real news that is [...]
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How Easily We Forget… Things were not much Different Under a Jobs Run Apple
image © Derzsi Elekes Andor, cc-by-sa-3.0 With the maps fiasco that has plagued the iPhone 5 release, many in the technology and blog world have been reminiscing about a Steve Jobs run company. Some have stated that this type of issue wouldn’t have happened with Jobs at the helm and that quality assurance has not [...]
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4G Mobile Wireless Internet for Free now a Reality
Mobile broadband start-up Freedompop has just launched its beta program which promises 500mb of Free 4G wireless access per month. The company first hit the scene last year with a vision to provide a freemium wireless broadband offering. Access is provided through a USB wireless device, mobile hotspot device, or an ipod/iphone holster that will [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 56
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Great day for Apple Bad Day for Blackberry
Friday was a great day for Apple as a total of 5M iPhone 5’s were sold through the weekend beating the debut of the iPhone 4S by a million units. This had Apple stock soaring and received much praise by fans and users alike. Not to be beaten by news, Blackberry had a major outage [...]
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Apple’s iOS 6 is finally here
Apple’s latest OS for the iPhone, Ipad, and Ipod Touch has finally arrived. Apple began allowing downloads for the much anticipated new mobile operating system at 10am PST/1PM EST. The new software boasts a long list of new features, fixes, and wish list items. To download the software from your computer you must first install [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 41
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 38
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Facebook’s new iPhone App makes it Fast, Fun and Usable again
Facebook has released its latest revision to the iPhone App. The new app completely redesigned and rebuilt from the ground up, has ditched the HTML5 framework and is a true app written in native code. This has significantly speeded up the interaction, access, and usability of the application compared to its previous versions. Upon download [...]
