Top 50 Mobile Tech News & Stories - July 10
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Pressy, a shortcut button that plugs into your phone's 3.5mm headphone jack, has arrived. Read our Pressy review for our thoughts on the add-on button! The post Pressy Review: hijack your phone’s headphone jack appeared first on Po...
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AT&T Mobility's Sponsored Data program is getting another shot in the arm with the rollout of a content store with links to popular e-commerce, sports, news and other websites. When users visit the links, the resulting data acces...
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Find out what CEO Satya Nadella has to say about the importance of Microsoft first-party hardware for the company's future. The post Satya Nadella talks shifting core of Microsoft, importance of first-party hardware appeared first on Poc...
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The entry of Apple and Google into the connected car market is set to fuel adoption of in-vehicle apps, with predictions the iPhone maker will see more than 24 million new cars using its CarPlay service by 2019.
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We've got more than our share of mobile gadgetry to discuss on the air, from the Lumia 1525 to the latest on Android Wear. Join us on Pocketnow Weekly 104! The post Lumia 1525, Sony’s Selfie Phone, LG G3 vs Xperia Z2, and much more...
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Wireless continues to grow as the communication device of choice for U.S. households, but that growth has begun to slow. According to the most recent National Health Interview Survey, 41% of American homes had only a wireless device duri...
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Dish Network said it plans to "meaningfully" participate in next year's planned incentive auction of 600 MHz broadcast TV spectrum. The company could grab yet more airwaves to add to its existing stockpile, though it remain...
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Allot Communications has been monitoring mobile app traffic related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and said that real-time data shows that use of apps such as ESPN, BBC sports and Eurosports increased 300% over average levels during game ti...
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Verizon Wireless today announced it'll offer the Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet with 4G LTE exclusively. The Sony Xperia Z2 tablet has a 10.1" full HD display, runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat, and it's waterproof. Here's more info on the LTE Xperia ...
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Ever since its release for iOS a couple of years ago, Fleksy has been nothing short of an amazing virtual keyboard. A year after, it was made available for Android users and then just kept growing and adding impressive features, suc...
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Announced at the beginning of June, the super-slim Sony Xperia T3 is now almost ready to hit shelves around the world. It looks like the first country to get the T3 is Hong Kong, where the smartphone will be released next week, on July 1...
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Google recently announced its entry into the connected car market with Android Auto, a new competitor to Apple’s CarPlay solution. Many auto makers have already committed to one or both of the companies for head unit systems —...
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For some, the only notification they need is a strong vibration from their mobile device. If a new report pans out, Apple could release the iPhone 6 with a new, dynamic haptic feedback that changes the way we feel vibrations in our phone...
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AT&T and Verizon Wireless will almost certainly be keeping a close eye on XG-FAST developments at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs, following this week’s announcement that the lab has achieved speeds of 10 Gbps over a distance...
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This has already been quite a week for iPhone and iPad app sales, and today we have some big ones for you. We don’t cover many iOS games in these posts because there are just so many of them and they constantly see price changes. T...
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IBM is spending €2.2 billion during the next five years to look "beyond silicon" and develop semiconductors for the cloud computing and big data markets of the future.
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Syntonic, in partnership with AT&T, today announced the Sponsored Content Store, a digital storefront for AT&T subscribers to access sponsored data content. Syntonic CEO Gary Greenbaum said the private beta launching today will a...
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Scientists at the University of California and the Bourns College of Engineering may have just found a way to triple battery life for electronics, including smartphones and tablets. Published in the Nature Scientific Report journal, the ...
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Take a look at the video of a curious Motorola Android that may not be the X+1, but could just be a new Motorola Droid. The post Mystery Motorola Android caught on video; new Verizon Droid? appeared first on Pocketnow .
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Ever been annoyed with the limitations of Google Now, like the inability to use your voice for anything but the predetermined actions that the folks from Mountain View dawn on you? Granted, Google's personal butler is getting more and mo...
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Apple seems to be very confident that the iPhone 6 is going to be a world-conquering hit. G for Games points us to a new report from Taiwan’s Business Weekly that claims Apple has ordered an “unprecedented” number of iP...
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The fictitious disease known as Bicycle Face. The post Bicycle Face: The Biggest Health Hazard For 19th Century Women Cyclists appeared first on Mobile Magazine .
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Ah, Twitter, the so-called “SMS of the Internet”! Being one of the most popular microblogging social networks, Twitter proves that you don't need more than 140 characters to express yourself thoroughly – all it takes is a simple tweet. E...
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Working for a Fortune 500 company has done nothing to dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of Edgecast founders James Segil and Alex Kazerani. The two partners, who jointly won Ernst & Young’s 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year award ...
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Microsoft's CEO weighs in six months into his new gig with a call to action that is, frankly, not new.
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A report published in Taiwan on Wednesday, states that Apple has ordered twice the number of Apple iPhone 6 units than the number of Apple iPhone 5 units it ordered two years ago. It is unclear if the report is referring to the 4.7 inch ...
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If there’s one company that knows what it’s like to lose a once-dominant position in the market and be seen as a relic of tech history, it’s AOL. That said, AOL has managed to find a way to tough it out and survive thro...
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U.S. carriers' embrace of streaming music services could help them maintain their subscriber bases amid intensifying competition on price, but it's not going to likely win them many awards for creativity--or push them to offer ne...
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Hong Kong will be the first market that gets the Xperia T3 , as Sony announced that it will be launching the device in the country next week to the equivalent of $385 (HK$2,998).
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Taiwanese semiconductor giant is shipping chips to Apple for inclusion in the upcoming iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal. Previously, Samsung was the Apple's sole iOS semiconductor partner.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung is facing a fresh accusation that one of its China suppliers hired children to meet production targets during a period of high demand from the South Korean electronics giant. Samsung Electronics Co. said...
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IBM today announced it is investing $3 billion over the next five years in two broad research and early stage development programs to push forward chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and Big Data system...
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FreedomPop's free mobile voice and data plans have taken off in the U.S. so the MVNO is trying its luck in Europe. It will launch in Belgium this year and expand to other countries in 2015
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Fleksy released an update to its Android beta today, adding in support for 15 additional languages, including Norwegian, Catalan, Hebrew, Croatian, and Romanian, and language variants like UK English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Canadian F...
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is already shipping the next generation of A-processors for Apple's upcoming smartphones and tablets. Furthermore, the companies have negotiated working together...
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There are quite a few things to be excited about when talking the upcoming iPhone 6, at least from what we've heard so far. These, among other, include a much larger, 4.7-inch screen, and a more feature-rich and open iOS 8 operating syst...
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Gmail's most recent update for Android incorporates a handy workflow rearrangement - namely the function "Insert from Drive", which users will now be able to find in the drop-down options menu. Attaching files from your Drive no longer r...
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It's quite possible to leave Google beyond and take your Android experience to the expert level. Here's how we did it.
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Sonos is today adding SoundCloud to it's lineup of services in beta form. Sonos owners will now be able to connect to SoundCloud's complete library, which features music from new and established artists from all around the world.
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Subway Surfers is the popular endless runner available cross-platform. The developer has today released an update that takes the gang and players to Paris on the world tour. As well as the new location, there's a cool new sci-fi Teleport...
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Apple’s iPhone 6 smartphone is not exactly the best-kept secret in the tech world, with more and more leaks revealing new details about the upcoming handset. A new report from Chinese publication Laoyaoba has learned about a new secret i...
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Freemium MVNO FreedomPop today announced an expansion to Belgium, with plans to launch in UK, Germany, France, Spain and the Pacific Rim in the coming months. Through a partnership with Dutch carrier KPN, Belgium will be the first test m...
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The ability to change the stock on-screen keyboard that comes with your phone, for a better one made by a third-party developer, is a big part of Android's open experience. Devs have consistently proven they can come up with some of the ...
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The first half of the year has flown by, and it's time for a recap of the best Android and iOS apps that devs showed us in the past six months. iOS and Android continue having the largest ecosystems with no competition in sight, but...
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Just yesterday, we made a curated pick of some of the best mobile games that have been released in the first half of 2014. One of the quite curious and promising iOS games in it, Wayward Souls, an action-adventure dungeon crawler, just m...
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The LG G3 's stock keyboard is set to receive an update that adds a host of new enhancements like emoji recommendations, bilingual word suggestions and gesture typing.
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VoLTE is set to be the biggest driver of IP multimedia subsystems (IMS), although operators have been warned that that product alone will not be enough to justify investment.
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Apple has tried to pry itself away from relying on Samsung as a supplier over the past couple of years, although it’s often found that companies with Samsung’s prowess at mass-producing components are hard to find. The Wall S...
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New Relic is launching Insights real-time analytics tool in a bid to bring smart data analytics to mere mortals.
