iSpot hacked to allow non-Apple devices, painfully easy
The iSpot — a $25 per month 4G WiMax mobile router from Clearwire that will allow you to connect up to eight Apple mobile devices to …
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AT&T, Verizon Wireless have 62% of U.S. mobile subscriber base
A report filed by FierceMobileContent is filled with some pretty interesting statistics about the U.S. wireless market. According to the report, AT&T and Verizon Wireless raked in …
Facebook adds privacy controls to mobile web site
Yesterday, Facebook announced the addition of an advanced privacy settings customization page that will be available on your mobile handset. In a blog post, Facebook …
Google now serves up mobile ads based upon your location
Google has introduced new location-aware advertising for iPhone and Android handsets. Advertisers will now have the ability to select a “location extension for display” option …
BGR Poll: What smartphone operating system update are you most looking forward to?
We thought it might be a good time to try and take the collective smartphone OS pulse of the BGR community. The question we are …
Apple sends out iPhone 4 satisfaction survey
Apple recently sent out an iPhone 4 satisfaction survey to a select group of customers, and we have it in its entirety. Questions like, “What …
Samsung working on "unbreakable" AMOLED displays
What’s going to be harder to get than a Samsung Super AMOLED display? An unbreakable Samsung AMOLED display of course! OLED-Display.net is reporting that within …
BGR Poll: What's your mobile social network of choice?
Social networking is huge these days, and there are a lot of choices. Buzz, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Loopt, Foursquare; the list goes on and on. …
YouTube launches HTML5-enabled mobile website, native YouTube apps soon to be obsolete
YouTube announced on Wednesday that it has launched an improved mobile website with HTML5-friendly video. YouTube’s refreshed mobile web site, m.youtube.com, now offers faster performance and …
DROID Incredible to receive 720p recording and mobile hotspot app in future update?
A rumor fresh out of Droid-Life suggests that Verizon Wireless has an update slated for the DROID Incredible that will add 720p video recording and …
LG launches new applications store for both smartphones and feature phones
LG officially opened the doors to its online applications store on Thursday. The app store offers social networking, navigation, VoIP, and instant messaging applications for …
iPhone game maker Tapulous purchased by Disney
Tech Crunch is reporting that Tapulous, the company behind Tap Tap Revenge for the iPhone and Tap Tap Radiation for the iPad, has been acquired …
HP finalizes Palm acquisition
Today, HP announced that it has officially completed the acquisition of Palm. The former Palm business unit will continue with webOS development under the leadership …
Research concludes that tiered data plans are a win for consumers
FierceWireless has a great article in which Roger Entner from The Nielsen Company breaks down smartphone data usage obtained from 60,000 cellphone bills. Apart from …
Fox Mobile launches BitBop video streaming service for BlackBerry handsets
Fox Mobile announced on Thursday that it is launching a streaming video service that will rival Hulu. The service will feature full-length, on demand television …
Skype offers free domestic and international landline calling for a month
Skype is going World Cup crazy by offering a promotion to help football fans the world over stay connected. Offering free landline calls in multiple …
Motorola to dump billions into its Mobility spinoff
Motorola means business when it comes to its upcoming breakup and it is throwing cash and moving debt around around like crazy. The split will …
Android gains web marketshare at expense of iOS
Apple’s iOS might be in the most dominant position when it comes to mobile web traffic in North America, but according to Quantcast, it’s Google’s …
Apple iPhone/iPad app coming tomorrow?
We don’t have too, too much info on this one, but one of our Apple sources let us know about an Apple-created application for the …
Samsung: OLED shortage will continue as demand swells
Speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit on Thursday, Lee Wong-jong, VP of marketing for Samsung, said that the global shortage of OLED displays will …
Data, text usage surpasses voice in the U.S.
Level with us — for all the complaining you do about your carrier not offering an affordable unlimited talk plan, how many minutes do you …
Verizon Wireless looking at rural carriers for 4G expansion
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdams confirmed that the wireless carrier is considering rural carriers as a means …
Google gets its Bing on with site redesign
If you logged into Google yesterday and thought for a brief moment you had been redirected to Bing, that’s because Google’s brand new search engine …
Taking BGR to the next level — MMC acquires BGR
I wanted to share some amazing news with you all. I am happy to report that BGR has been acquired by MMC. Moving forward, CEO of …
Bluetooth 4.0 to be finalized by June 2010, devices to launch late 2010
Bluetooth SIG announced on Tuesday that the much anticipated v4.0 update to the Bluetooth protocol will be finalized and sent to manufacturers by the end …
ARM's upcoming chipset roadmap leaked by Samsung
Whoops. While speaking about the future of its netbook platform, Samsung inadvertently detailed a handful of unannounced ARM mobile chipsets that it plans release over …
Facebook to use QR codes for new location-based service?
Without warning or explanation, non-functional QR codes began appearing on random Facebook profiles earlier this week. After a few days of speculation, a new rumor …
Fandango introduces a new movie ticketing service for mobile phones
Looking to impress your girlfriend on that “oh so important” first movie date? Look no further than Fandango to help you skip the ticket line …
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 …
AT&T finally approves a 3G-compatible version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone
Ten months after we broke the news on the WiFi-only SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone, it looks like AT&T and Sling have finally come to …
