Telus 4G LTE Network Will Go Live On February 10th [Telus 4G LTE Will Go Live In Select Markets On February 10th With The Promise Of Coverage For More Than 25 Million Users By End Of 2012]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

Telus has come forward with some official details in terms of their 4G LTE network roll-out. And nicely done, it looks like coverage will begin to go live fairly soon. In fact, that date is February 10th — which for those without a calendar handy, that is tomorrow.

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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]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

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 [...]

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iPhone Unlimited Data Plans Costing Sprint Lots Of Money [Sprint Losing Money On iPhone Margins, But Also Facing Huge Increases In Operating Costs With Lots Of Data Hungry Apple iPhones Joining Their Network]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

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 [...]

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New Kindle Fire Commercial Points Out iPad’s $500 Price [Amazon Makes Fun Of The High Price Of Apple's Tablet, Tells You You Can Get Three Kindles For Less Than One iPad]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

Apple products certainly offer a lot to customers, with their great user experience and iconic look and feel to them, but they’re more expensive than the competing products in a lot of cases. To highlight the fact that their Kindle and Kindle Fire tablets are a whole lot less expensive [...]

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No Samsung Press Conference At Mobile World Congress 2012 [Samsung's Traditionally Grandiose MWC Press Conference Not Happening, Company Still To Unveil New Products Like Android Tablets At Booth]

By on Thursday, 9. February 2012

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 [...]

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Did Apple Drop the Ball on iOS Contacts Privacy? [New Reports Say Developers Have Access to iOS Address Book Because Apple Is Not Preventing Such a “Feature”]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

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 [...]

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EPIC Group Sues Google for Upcoming Privacy Policy Changes [Electronic Privacy Information Center Protests Against New Google Terms of Service, Sues to Prevent Them]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

Google’s upcoming privacy policy changes are causing more controversy, with various groups taking action against the company’s intention of merging over 60 Terms of Service documents into a single one that should handle all the web services available to a Google Account owner.

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Apple’s iPhone, a Must-Have Profit-Killer for Carriers [Report Says Carriers Can’t Afford Not Having the iPhone Despite Significant Losses Caused by Big iPhone Subsidies]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

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.

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Paradox To Show Off Three New Games At GDC 2012 [Paradox Plans To Reveal Three Unannounced Games At GDC 2012, Showing A Game Of Dwarves & War Of The Roses As Well]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

We’re a month out from this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, and today Paradox Interactive decided to tease what it has in store for the show. GDC 2012 is going to be a busy one for Paradox, which plans to show off three unannounced titles, along with A Game of Dwarves [...]

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Siri Getting Chinese, Japanese & Russian Support Next Month? [New Report Suggests Apple Will Expand Apple Support for Its iPhone 4S Siri Virtual Assistant]

By on Wednesday, 8. February 2012

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.

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