On March 20, AT&T announced it had acquired T-Mobile USA for nearly $40 billion. This made it the premier player in the U.S. wireless market, with its new total of almost 130 million subscribers significantly surpassing Verizon’s 102 million subscriber total. AT&T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson claimed the deal would improve network quality and spread LTE capability to more people than ever than ever before. However, the results of the merger may not be...
This guest post was provided by our good friend Zagg.com—a leading provider of iPhone Skins. A company that loves gadgets just as much as we do. Predicting the future with any degree of certainty is impossible. Now watch me do it. Here are three mobile trends that will affect the coming years… 1-3 Years: Tablets Will Rule the World When tablets first appeared, I was skeptical. How could something like this replace my oh-so intuitive desktop computer? But then it...
“The next version of Windows” has now been officially outed! Tonight at the D9 conference in California, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky demoed the new Windows 8. The most notable change (and there are quite a few) is the heavy Windows Phone 7 interface, with the most shocking departure being the death of the traditional start menu. Replacing it are — surprise — Live Tiles. But there’s so much more to Windows 8 than just a new face. Hop...
It looks like Apple and patent troll, Lodsys, will be heading to the courtroom in what is sure to be a bitter battle — Initially, Lodsys claimed that individual developers needed to license their various patents concerning in-app purchasing within iOS specifically. Apple responded to Lodsys’ claims and more or less said they were full of crap. At the same time, Lodsys started targeting Android developers as well. Late this afternoon, Lodsys appeared to ignore...
Fans residing under the PlayStatin Asia umbrella have had to wait long than most to get back at their PSN goodies and Qriocity accounts. The reasoning was that the local governments, especially, Japan, wanted solid evidence of Sony’s progress in shoring up security protocols before reopening customers to more potential security issues based on “empty talk”. While we can certainly understand the added aggravation it may have caused customers in said...
Today at a special event, Google took the wraps off of their new services Google Wallet and Google Offers. In an effort to shake up modern commerce as we know it, Google is asking us to give up the metal, paper, and plastic that has dominated our modern currency for the last several centuries. There’s plenty of goods to dish out, so hop on in… Google Wallet Built off of NFC and MasterCard’s PayPass system (you know, the same company responsible for...
