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While we are still not entirely certain as to the specific date, it seems to be pretty clear that RIM is going to release BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 sometime this month. Of course, this latest bit comes as a nice follow up to yesterdays rumored release date of February 17th.

The Mint.com apps have been slowly coming available for mobile devices. There has been an app available for the iPhone for quite some time and then we saw the app come available for Android smartphones back in May of 2010. And since then we watched as iPad users got a [...]

Amazon announced its official financial details for the last quarter of 2011, the Christmas quarter, and as expected the company is still not telling us how many Kindle Fire tablets and Kindle readers it sold during the period. Sure, Amazon states that Kindle device sales have “nearly [tripled] during the [...]

Today is definitely not a good day for Samsung’s legal department. In addition to losing once again against Apple in Germany, news broke that the European Union is preparing a probe into Samsung’s use of 3G patents against the iPad maker. We have previously heard that Samsung could be investigated [...]

The Apple vs Samsung legal spat continues today with a new German episode, because that’s where Samsung lost another fight against the iPad maker. As you may recall, Apple obtained an injunction against Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in the region, and that verdict has been upheld by the Duesseldorf Higher [...]

Back in November, we brought you word about Election Day in Oregon, where disabled voters got a little extra shot of joy with access to a whole new way to vote: the iPad. And now, with the Republican primary season in full swing and Florida hitting the polls today, as [...]

This latest is a release that we were expecting to happen, but even still, it is always nice to see the app actually come available. That being said, those with a Kindle Fire tablet now have a SlingPlayer Mobile app available for download. Yup, the Amazon Appstore listing for the [...]

We have been hearing about the Asus Padfone since way back in May of last year, and well, it looks like Asus will be highlighting the device once again. This latest event will come at the end of February/beginning of March during Mobile World Congress which takes place in Barcelona [...]

It looks like T-Mobile has gotten a bit more friendly with the Square mobile payment system. The mobile credit card readers will soon be available in select T-Mobile retail locations, which also happens to make them the “first wireless carrier to offer Square credit card readers in stores.”

Microsoft’s Office suite is one of the most popular products sold by the mostly-software Redmond-based company, and we’re getting ready for a new release, Office 15, which will be available at some point later this year. Back in November we heard that Office 15 will be approaching a beta release [...]