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Google plans to push an Android update, dubbed “Ice Cream Sandwich,” to developers to ensure their apps across smartphones and tablets, in an attempt to end fragmentation and even the score with Apple. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company posted upgrade instructions on its Android blog for developers, promising all future updates being engineered to support [...]
Archive for September 20th, 2011
AT&T Seeks Public Support for Merger With Ad Blitz
September 20th, 2011 
admin AT&T is gearing up for a fight to approve its T-Mobile deal, waging a multifaceted battle not just in the courtroom, but also on the streets. The Dallas-based company unveiled an advertising campaign just one day before its lawyers head to court. The company will have its first courtroom hearing with the Justice Department on [...]
Burberry Tweets Live Runway Show, Brings Backstage to Spotlight
September 20th, 2011 admin Burberry’s Twitter followers followed the famed label’s fashion show live, as the British company steps up its mobile presence at London’s Fashion Week. For the first time, Burberry live-tweeted photographs of each look in the multicultural-influenced show on Twitter just before the model stepped on the catwalk, giving followers a behind-the-scenes first glimpse of the [...]
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Tags: Backstage, Brings, Burberry, Live, Runway, Show, Tweets 
No Comments »Bonsai Tree Charges Devices With Solar Power
September 20th, 2011 admin French designer Vivian Muller’s Electree is a gadget charger shaped like a bonsai tree, giving new meaning to “green” device accessories. Each of the trees, offered for presale at a cost of $370 each, has 27 small, rotatable solar panels, shaped like bonsai leaves. After soaking up 36 hours of sunshine, the panels can charge [...]
Samsung Hires Sprint Exec to Push Galaxy Phones Into U.S.
September 20th, 2011 admin Samsung hired Kevin Packingham, former head of products at Sprint, in an effort to help the South Korean company push its flagship Galaxy line into the U.S. Packingham, also previously CEO of Amerilink Telecom, comes on board just a month after Samsung announced the release of four new Galaxy phones, as it looks to establish [...]
Posted in Cell Phone News Tags: Exec, Galaxy, Hires, Into, Phones, Push, Samsung, Sprint No Comments »No T-Mobile IPhone 5 This Year
September 20th, 2011 admin T-Mobile won’t carry the iPhone 5 this year, as a new report contradicts earlier rumors. The Bellevue, Wash.-based carrier’s chief marketing officer Cole Brodman alerted employees it wouldn’t be getting Apple’s new device, according to a transcript from an internal event leaked to TmoNews. Instead, Brodman told employees there would be two other new smartphones [...]
Samsung Strengthens Bada, Opens Up to Developers
September 20th, 2011 admin Samsung plans to attract consumers to its Bada-based phones by opening up the platform for developers to create apps next year. The OS would be accessible to any developer in 2012. The company hopes to strengthen the platform and see the OS expand beyond mobile devices to Internet-connected TVs, for example, according to The Wall [...]
Mobile Gaming Risks Grow as Phones Leak Player Data
September 20th, 2011 admin Gaming on mobile devices may be a growing security risk, as game networks’ use of unique ID numbers on smartphones may allow access to data by cyber-criminals. The unique identifiers, long strings of numbers and letters associated with the phone, don’t hold information, but are often stored with sensitive information like name, location, e-mail address [...]
Google Wallet Enters Crowded Market, Faces Slow Adoption
September 20th, 2011 admin Google entered the increasingly-competitive mobile payments market as the search company officially rolls out its new e-wallet service and app. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s product stores credit card information on mobile phones, allowing users to pay for goods and services with a swipe of a phone. Both users and merchants must have equipment with [...]
Google, Oracle May Settle as CEOs Continue Negotiations
September 20th, 2011 admin Google and Oracle may be heading towards a settlement as the companies’ CEOs meet this week in an attempt to settle Oracle’s claims that Google’s Android infringed on its patents. Google CEO Larry Page, and Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, spent 10 hours Monday discussing the pending lawsuit before a federal magistrate in San Jose, [...]
