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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 [...]

Yesterday, we told you about how AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were losing a ton of money on the iPhone. The Apple phone is quite expensive for the carriers to subsidize, and while people are buying them in droves, mobile carriers are taking a hit on the margins for these popular [...]

The Android community is anxiously awaiting news on the Samsung Galaxy S III. We told you a few days ago that Samsung would be announcing the phone at their own media event in March, not at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain. Now, while MWC is usually a [...]

While there’s all this talk about Google’s proposed privacy policy changes, we won’t ignore one other matter that has come to our attention this week thanks to an iOS app, Path, which has been found to access and store on its servers the entire Address Book found on the iOS [...]

Apple is the only smartphone carrier that can dictate terms to carriers and does not have to comply with their requirements. And that’s how the company dealt with mobile operator since the launch of the first iPhone, an AT&T exclusive at the time.

Apple’s Siri virtual assistant is still available officially only on the iPhone 4S and it’s still in beta. While we have no details regarding its future features, we did see so far plenty of unofficial Siri customizations that are available mostly on jailbroken iPhone 4S units.

While we have no announcement date for the iPad 3 at this time, Apple is expected to unveil and launch its new iOS tablet in the near future, with most reports agreeing on a March release. In the mean time we have new details on the upcoming device, including a [...]

A couple of weeks back, our own Chris Smith brought word out suggesting that the next version of iOS, iOS 5.1, might be getting set up for a March release date. Well, as it turns out, a new report not only provides credence to that suggestion but may well have [...]

You all remember, a little over a month ago, when our own Chris Smith brought word of the G-Form case for the iPad 2, and how it managed to survive a fall from the edge of space straight down better than 100,000 feet. Well, our friends out at the Max [...]

There’s an interesting new video making the rounds today, and since it’s in Korean, most people are just guessing at what it’s actually putting out there. But if the early word on what’s said to be the Optimus Vu from LG pans out, this could be an exciting MWC show [...]