U-verse app delivers TV to smartphones
‘Place-shifting’ technology, pioneered by companies like Sling Media with its SlingBox and SlingPlayer Mobile service, has proved popular with consumers but has not always lived up to expectations when...
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Dell brings first US smartphone to market
Dell on Tuesday began selling its first US smartphone, a model using an older version of Google’s Android operating system and seen as a lower-end entry that will be followed by more sophisticated...
View ArticleApple-Verizon is all about the audience
Perhaps the only surprising thing about Apple’s long-expected decision to end its US exclusivity with AT&T and bring the iPhone to Verizon Wireless is that it didn’t wait for the No. 1 network’s...
View ArticleFurther Reading: Twitter’s price hike and AT&T says thanks
From around the web: PayPal’s micro-payment service is now open to the public, ReadWriteWeb reports. Bloomberg reports that Apple has plans to develop a smaller and cheaper iPhone.Continue reading »
View ArticleFurther reading: Groupon starts China service and JPMorgan’s Twitter stake
Tech news from around the web: Groupon, owner of the biggest coupon website, has said it has started an online group-buying service in China, Bloomberg reports. The new Gaopeng.com site will initially...
View ArticleFurther reading: Google tackles Android malware and Sean Parker has lunch...
Tech news from around the web: Google has taken steps to deal with a spate of malicious Android applications that were posted on the official Android Market and other third-party websites,...
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Facebook hunts down hardcore hacker
Tech news from around the web: Facebook is pursuing legal action after it claimed it had identified the perpetrator of a virus which saw the site flooded with pornographic and violent images, TNW...
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HTC said to build ‘Buffy’ the Facebook phone
Tech news from around the web: Facebook has approached Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC to build a handset with the social network integrated into its operating system, according to AllThingsDigital....
View ArticleUltra-thin notebooks to take centre stage at CES
Tech news from around the web: Ultra-thin notebooks and tablets to rival Apple’s MacBook Air and iPad 2 respectively are expected to take centre stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,...
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Apple watchers expect new iPad on March 7
Anticipation is building that Apple will unveil a new iPad within the next month with significant upgrades, including faster 4G wireless networking and a high-resolution Retina display. A string of...
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AT&T launches vampire-slaying chargers
Those innocuous-looking ‘wall warts’ that plug into the mains to recharge the batteries in most portable electronic devices including mobile phones, laptops and digital music players have a dark side....
View ArticleAT&T turns to femtocells to offload surging smartphone traffic
When femtocells first appeared several years ago, they garnered little interest from mobile network operators which mostly saw them as expensive, difficult to manage and unnecessary. Then the...
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Better than a postcard:Wireless Photo Frame
The evolution of digital photo frames has followed a familiar pattern in the consumer technology industry. First generation devices had a fixed amount of internal memory and had to be updated by...
View ArticleApple iPad with 3G wireless access arrives
The version of Apple’s iPad tablet computer with 3G wireless access began arriving at US homes and stores Friday, greeted by shorter lines and less frenzy than those accompanying the WiFi-only model...
View ArticleSteve Jobs says PCs will dwindle to a minority
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said on Tuesday night that personal computers running rival Microsoft’s Windows operating system are in a permanent decline and that only a fraction of current users will still...
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iPhone 4 pre-orders overload AT&T (Updated)
Apple’s new phone already seems too popular for its own good. Since becoming available for pre-order this morning, the iPhone 4 appears to be in such high demand it has all but crashed the online...
View Article100m iPhone subscribers in 18 months?
The contest among established Wall Street analysts to see who can make the most dramatic bull case for investing in Apple appears to be gathering steam. The newest entry came late yesterday from Katy...
View ArticleApple sued over iPhone 4 reception issues (updated)
(Adds that one Steve Jobs email was faked and that Apple has pledged a software “fix.”) Apple may see no serious issues with the iPhone 4′s reception, but several plaintiffs’ lawyers have stepped...
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US rules the mobile phone world – AT&T
The US has moved ahead of Europe and Asia to become a clear leader in the mobile phone industry, according to the chief technology officer of AT&T. “I get so tired of hearing that [ we are far...
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BlackBerry Torch keeps RIM in smartphone contention
If Research in Motion had rolled out the Blackberry Torch a year ago when RIM first began serious work on the device, it would have been a showstopper. As it was when Mike Lazaridis, RIM’s co-chief...
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