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Whitney Houston Music Prices Raised After Singer’s Death, Apple Incorrectly Blamed [iTunes Whitney Houston Album Price Hikes Blamed On Apple When Sony Music Is True Culprit]
Singer Whitney Houston unfortunately passed away this past week, and as her UK fans rushed to iTunes to purchase her songs, they discovered that the prices had gone up ever so slightly. Some fans even trying to purchase the music as the prices were being raised had their checkout process [...]
Apple Smart TV Not To Be Called iTV? [British TV Network ITV Once Again Threatens Apple Over Rumored Apple HDTV Name, Will Apple Just Call It The Apple TV?]
Rumors about Apple producing their own smart TV have picked up again in recent months, and once again, the rumors have the device being called the “iTV”. Apple fans may remember this was the publicly-announced code name for the first Apple TV before it came out. Now, as rumors of [...]
$999 MacBook Air Being Offered For Educational Customers [Apple Adds New Cheaper 13-inch MacBook Air To Education Store, Replacing Old White MacBook As Base Model For School Buyers]
Last week Friday, our man Steve told you about how the cheapest basic white MacBook had disappeared from Apple’s educational sales website. We now know why it discreetly disappeared, as Apple has just introduced a new $999 MacBook Air for educational customers. It looks like this new baseline MacBook Air [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch Tablet Announced In Europe [Samsung Announces New Android Tablet For Europe With Android 4.0, 1GHz Dual-Core Processor, But No Pricing Announced For UK]
It’s Monday morning and Samsung has unveiled a new tablet via press release for you to digest with your morning coffee. Enter the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch tablet, which will come running Android 4.0. This announcement comes just ahead of a Mobile World Congress trade show where Samsung [...]
T-Mobile iPhone Coming As Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Rumored? [After Death Of AT&T T-Mobile Acquisition, Industry Insiders Now Hint About The Possibility Of Sprint & T-Mobile Combining Their Forces]
Could a Sprint-T-Mobile merger be possible? It may be, according to some recent speculation from the industry press after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse talked about Sprint having some more options during a recent earnings call. Should the two smaller major carriers merge together in order to take on AT&T and [...]
Transparent Screen For Android Lets You See What’s Behind Your Screen [New App For Android Uses Mobile Phone Camera To Create Transparent LCD Effect On Your Phone, Available For Free On Android Market]
We’ve all seen somebody so engrossed in their mobile phone that they aren’t paying attention to where they’re walking and they end up walking into a pole, car, train or something. Now, for Android users a new app has come out that has sort of an interesting solution to the [...]
US Government Agency Switching From BlackBerry To iPhone [NOAA, US Government's Weather Agency, To Drop BlackBerrys In Favor Of iPhones & iPads For Its Employees]
Apple’s iPhone and iPad have been making incredible in-roads in the business and government sectors in the past few years. We’ve told you about a few of the huge companies trading in their BlackBerries for iPhones, including the recent news that civil engineering firm Halliburton was switching to the iPhone. Now, [...]
Google Drive Coming To Challenge Dropbox, iCloud [Google Said To Be Preparing Cloud Storage Service To Be Apart Of Google Docs, Will It Work With Android & Chrome OS?]
Search giant Google has problems taking on established giants in their respective industries. They took on Apple with Android. They’re taking on Microsoft with Chrome OS. They’re taking on Facebook with Google+, and now, they’re setting their sights on another new industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 Pre-Orders Stopped At Microsoft Store [Microsoft's Retail Stores No Longer Offering The 4.3-inch 1.4GHz Windows Phone For Pre-Order, No Word On Official Release Date]
The Nokia Lumia 900 is shaping up to be a pretty sharp looking Windows Phone 7 device from Nokia, and so it’s not surprising that folks would want to pre-order it. About a week ago, it was reported that people were able to walk into the fourteen Microsoft Stores around [...]
Google-Motorola Deal To Be Approved Next Week By US Government [Google's Purchase Of Motorola Finally To Get Approved, But Some Worry About What The Android Super Alliance Could Mean For Motorola's Patents]
The announcement that Google was buying Motorola Mobility sent shockwaves through the tech industry, and last November, Motorola shareholders voted overwhelmingly 99% in favor of the deal. Now, it’s being reported that the US regulatory agencies will not block the deal, allowing Google to scoop up Motorola and have them [...]

