Archive for November, 2011

LG Android Smartphones Get Free Cloud Storage From Box.Net

After Giving iOS, webOS & Sony Ericsson Smartphones Free Cloud Storage Accounts, Now Box.Net Partners With LG; New Android Features Introduced, Too
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

Box.net is partnering with LG to give free 50GB of cloud storage to all LG Android devices. The service has also launched a new Android client that touts new features meant for managing files more easily on the smartphone.

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Carrier IQ Traces Found on iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Too

Carrier IQ Software Found in iOS 3.1.3, iOS 4.0 & iOS 5.0 According to Hacker, Is It Harmful in Any Way?
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

Earlier today we told you about the new scandal of the week that involves a rather anonymous company called Carrier IQ whose software is already deployed on millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices and which has been proven to be capable of spying on everything a smartphone user does [...]

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Skyrim Patch 1.2 Adds New Problems

Skyrim Patch 1.2 Makes Dragons Fly Backwards & Breaks Resistances
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

It’s November 30th, which means that Bethesda’s promised post-Thanksgiving Skyrim patch has arrived on PC and Xbox 360. Bethesda was already kind enough to list the fixes that are coming along with patch 1.2, but some beleaguered gamers are discovering that the patch also adds some new problems to the [...]

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Carrier IQ, What It Is & What Does It Do to Your Smartphone

Carrier IQ Rootkit App Can Be Used to Track Everything on Millions of Android Smartphones. Undetected
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

Back in early October we told you that Trevor Eckhart, an Android developer, has discovered an important vulnerability on various HTC handsets and shared his findings with the world.

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webOS: HP Will Make a Decision in 2 Weeks

HP Will Make an Official Decision On Whether to Retain or Shut Down webOS in 2 Weeks; Will The TouchPad Run Windows 8 or Android Soon?
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

Billion-dollar decisions are not so easy, even if you’re a big company that sells millions and millions of computers and devices each year. Having swayed back and forth on its decision to jettison webOS, Hewlett-Packard says it will be able to decide on the fate of webOS in two weeks.

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Infinity Blade II Now Available to Download in the App Store In Certain Parts of the World

Chair Entertainment Releases New Infinity Blade Episode That Takes Advantage of iPhone 4S, iPad 2 Superior Graphics Processing Power
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

Remember the never-ending Infinity Blade iOS game that pleasantly surprised in late 2010? Well Chair Entertainment and Epic Games are back with the second episode of the series, and the game can be downloaded right now in the App Store, in certain regions of the world where it’s already December [...]

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AT&T, T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom Planning Joint-Venture if Acquisition Deal is Cancelled

AT&T & T-Mobile Might Combine Network Assets Instead if Merger Does Not Push Through; Better Deal for Mobile Data Subscribers?
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

AT&T is planning to enter into a joint venture with the parent company of T-Mobile. The deal will reportedly involve sharing of network resources, in lieu of a straight acquisition if the $39 billion AT&T and T-Mobile merger deal does not push through.

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Get A PS3 For $100 With Purchase Of PlayStation 3D Display At Best Buy

Best Buy & Sony Offering 160GB PS3 For $100 With PlayStation 3D Display Purchase
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

So, you ate so much on Thanksgiving that now, nearly a week later, you’re still stuffed. Not only that, but every inch of spare space left in your house has now been filled with goodies from Black Friday. As you unbutton your pants to let your bulging belly get a [...]

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New Verizon Galaxy Nexus Press Images Get Leaked, So What?

U.S. Samsung Galaxy Nexus Launch Still a Mystery as Verizon Keeps Quiet on Release Date
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

November is almost over and Verizon managed not to launch the Samsung Galaxy Nexus this month, despite increasing interest for the device from Android fans. The phone is the third Google-branded handset, and while it was expected to be released right after the iPhone 4S hit stores that hasn’t happened [...]

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Spotify Relaunched as a Music Platform

Spotify Releases API That Lets Other Mobile & Desktop Apps Access Streaming Music
Filed by on Wednesday, 30. November 2011

Music streaming service Spotify has big dreams for changing the music industry. In a world now currently dominated by the $0.99-per-song iTunes service, Spotify aims to dominate the subscription model by launching as a platform that different apps can use.

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