Blockbuster continues its decline, posts $425M loss in Q4
Blockbuster continues its downward spiral with the once powerful movie rental company now posting yet another quarterly loss. Bad news across the board with sales …
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RIM sued over visual voicemail patent, could seek indemnification from App World vendor?
Over the past several years Klausner Technologies, Inc. has been making headlines by suing large mobile companies, notably Apple and RIM, over alleged visual voicemail …
T-Mobile adds 1 million new subscribers in 2009, income and revenue decline
T-Mobile held its position as the #4 carrier in the U.S. by adding one million new subscribers to its coffers in 2009 and ending 2009 …
PayPal to open application store
Internet company PayPal has announced plans to open an application storefront in an effort to court developer business and further its online payment system. The …
Palm cuts guidance numbers
It hurts to be Palm, Inc. right now. After having its stocks rating downgraded earlier this month, the struggling mobile handset maker has cut its …
Skype pulls its client for Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile users looking to download Skype may have to dig a bit deeper to find the necessary .cab file for installation. According to Skype’s …
Canada's Big Three readying cross-carrier video calling
Although cross-carrier video calling is likely to rank very low on the wireless wish list of Canadians, don’t try telling that to the Big Three …
Clearwire subscribers top 688k, revenue soars in 2009
Clearwire announced its Q4 2009 and 2009 year end results today, and though WiMAX in the US is lagging behind its European counterparts, it is …
Apple iTunes hits another milestone, 10 billion songs served!
We jumped the gun on this one the other day, but it’s finally official, so break out the noise makers, throw up the confetti, and …
More iPad/iPhone video chat rumors
Shortly after the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta was released, users began spelunking around the code to see what, if anything, they could find. Earlier this …
MagicJack sues BoingBoing, loses the case and its credibilty
MagicJack, creator and distributor of the popular dongle-based PC VoIP solution, has some problems with its credibility. Back in 2008, BoingBoing revealed some of the …
Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot Video Review
This month, we spent some time parading around Boston with the Overdrive mobile hotspot, Sprint’s first 3G/4G hybrid mobile router. And while we weren’t able …
Cablevision to offer a new PC to TV Relay service starting in June
Takings its cue from the success of VUDU, Roku, and Boxee, Cablevision is developing a new PC to TV Relay service which will provide a …
Italian judge finds three Google employees guilty for user uploaded bullying video
This is backwards. In 2006, several students from Turin, Italy filmed themselves bullying a classmate with Down’s Syndrome. The bullying students, clearly impressed with themselves, …
Details on the methodology behind the Pennsylvania school spy case are uncovered
You have probably read about the Harriton High spy case where the school administration of the Lower Merion School District (LMSD) is being accused of …
Bell launches Mobile TV for iPhone
A few weeks removed from a strong quarter which saw its wireless division receive an 11.3% increase in new subscribers, Bell today continued its push …
PocketGear acquires Handango, new cross platform app store to feature 140,000+ paid and free titles
Remember the days when Handago was the place to go if you wanted to find an application for your smartphone and PocketGear was the place …
PC World: AT&T download speeds 67% faster than its competitors
Before we begin let’s just get this out of the way: if you are a customer of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon it is most …
Rogers clears up US data roaming with new One Rate plans
We know the boo birds are going to have a lot of fun with this, but today Rogers officially introduced North American One Rate data …
AT&T picking up HTC Desire, Sprint grabbing HTC Hero2
We’ve just been hit up by a source close to HTC, and let’s just say the Android invasion (of high quality Android devices, at least) …
Wireless carrier congestion a product of how your phone connects, not that it is connected?
Ars Technica has posted an interesting article, speculating that wireless carrier network congestion (especially in the case of AT&T) may not have so much to …
Is Palm's opportunity with webOS waning?
Palm may be facing its most difficult challenge this year as analysts evaluate the early success of webOS and make their predictions about the future …
Apple strips App Store of scantily clad women, removes 5,000 apps
This week, you might have heard that Apple removed over 5,000 applications from its mobile App Store. What did most of the apps have in …
Fido launches the BlackBerry Curve 8520
Hear that noise? That’s Fido saying goodbye to 2006 and hello to… 2009? Fido has finally caved in and introduced a modern-ish BlackBerry with today’s …
Rogers to get Acer Liquid e this Spring
In a very uncharacteristic move, Acer and Rogers Wireless jointly announced that the Android 2.1-powered Liquid e will be headed to Canada’s largest wireless carrier …
Walmart to buy VUDU online streaming movie service?
Walmart, one of the world’s largest retailer of DVDs, may be moving beyond physical media sales and jumping feet first into the online streaming business. …
Compact Flash Association releases the specifications for CF5.0
DSLR owners feeling limited by their old and slow Compact Flash card will be happy to know that the Compact Flash Association has finalized the …
Google Earth now available for Android, requires 2.1
Last week at MWC, Google CEO Eric Schmidt demoed Google Earth on his Nexus One, giving a pretty clear sign that the new application would …
SanDisk shipping 64GB SD card
To those with HD camcorders that record to SD cards, prepare to rejoice. SanDisk has announced it is now shipping its new line of SD …
AT&T HTC Pure getting reallocated due to slow sales?
We just received a heads up that the above document is being circulated within AT&T locations, and in short, it seems as if the HTC …
