Samsung Admire Now Available With MetroPCS [MetroPCS Officially Launches The Samsung Admire Smartphone, Available Today For $129.99]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

MetroPCS announced their back to school plans earlier this month and at the same time they let us all know that they would be releasing another Android smartphone. The handset is the Samsung Admire and the good news today is that it is now available for purchase.

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Starbucks Expands Its Pick Of The Week Selections [Starbucks' Free Pick Of The Week Program Expands To Include Music And More]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

Just last week, our own Robert Nelson brought you tales of a new program coming out of Starbucks, where you wouldn’t be able to just find coffee (and pricey coffee at that), but rather, you’d be getting cards good for an iPhone app download. Well, new word has emerged to [...]

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HTC Eternity & Omega Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Phones Coming on September 1? [HTC Media Event to Focus on WP7 Handsets, No Ruby/Vigor or Holiday?]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

HTC has scheduled a special media event for September 1, in London, and the word on the street is that while we’re going to see new mobile devices unveiled on that day, they’re not going to be Android smartphones.

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New iPhone 5 Parts Leaked Before Launch [iPhone 5’s Battery, Back Camera & Audio Flex Cable Parts Appear in Unofficial Pictures; Release Date Still a Mystery]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

September is almost here and we’re getting closer and closer to Apple’s unannounced press event that will star the new fifth-generation iPhone model(s) and the 2011 iPods. The iPhone 5 is the device we’re most interested in, and with a few weeks ahead of the official announcement we have new [...]

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Hulu Set To Start Taking Acquisition Bids On Wednesday [Several Big Names Are Reportedly In The Hunt To Get Their Hands On Popular Streaming Service Hulu]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

We’d been hearing some reports for some time now that Hulu was looking to get acquired, with Netflix in the early running before dropping out, followed up closely by word that Yahoo was looking, but only under very specific conditions. Well, folks, rumor morphs into fact, as it so often [...]

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BlackBerry PlayBook Sales Are “Fantastic” For At Least One Australian Retailer [BlackBerry PlayBook Sales May Have Fallen Short Of Expectation In Lots Of Markets, But Harvey Norman Retail Is Reporting "Fantastic" Sales In Australia]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

While many have been watching the downfall that came with the recent HP webOS news. Or maybe more specifically, trying to snatch up one of those quickly selling $99 TouchPads — it seems we have a bit of BlackBerry PlayBook related news this morning.

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No OLED Screens On Apple Devices For At Least Three Years, Say Reports [Apple Remains "Pessimistic" On OLED Screens & Plans To Stick With Traditional LCD]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

For those of you who were looking to Apple to produce a large-scale OLED system, possibly related to the Apple television we’ve been hearing about for the last several months now, it’s bad news ahead as Apple closes the door on OLED in the near term, saying there won’t be [...]

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Verizon Wireless Announces Updated V Cast Videos [Verizon "Raises The Bar" For Mobile Video, Renames V Cast Video & Brings New Features As Verizon Video]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

Verizon Wireless has recently announced the latest additions and changes to the service that we once knew only as V Cast Video. The service has been rebranded as Verizon Video and with the new name comes some new features including the ability to stream roughly 250 television episodes.

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Apple Plotting New Mac Release By End Of Year [Reports Suggest Apple Is Planning A New Kind Of Mac For Release By End Of Year, Set To Be Different From Anything Else]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

Grab your official Apple Rumor Salt Lick, folks, because a real whopper’s on its way. Reports are coming in to suggest that Apple’s plotting a whole new kind of Mac device, and this one is going to be so different from the entire Apple lineup that it’s impossible to classify [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Precedent Announced For Straight Talk [Samsung Galaxy Precedent "Coming Soon" With Walmart's Straight Talk, Will Arrive Contract Free & Eligible For The $45 Per Month Unlimited Plan]

By on Monday, 22. August 2011

It looks like those using the Straight Talk service from Walmart will soon have another handset to pick from, and this one comes as an Android running smartphone. That said, the phone is not a super top of the line model, however the fact that it comes contract free and [...]

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