GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade
By Sean Buckley posted Apr 29th 2012 4:46AM If you’ve been looking for a reason to replace your aging device with something a tad more contemporary, your local pawnshop GameStop is happy to oblige. According to Gadget Experts, the games retailer is looking to bolster its Android offerings with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Nexus S and Samsung Infuse 4Gtrade-ins at select GameStops this summer, expanding to all [...]
Exclusive: Facebook Deal Nets Instagram CEO $400 Million
By Mike Isaac Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Facebook’s acquisition of the immensely popular photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion is far and away the largest acquisition in the history of the world’s largest social network. But for CEO Kevin Systrom and company, it’s a windfall payday like none other. CEO Systrom owns 40 percent of Instagram, according [...]
Instagram for Android: The good, the bad, the ugly
by Jaymar Cabebe To longtime Android users such as myself, the name Instagram might not mean much. Sure, we see the vignetted photos invading our Facebook and Twitter streams, and we notice the instagr.am links all over the place, but other than that, we don’t really get it. I mean, what is it, exactly? Is it just a [...]
Angry Birds Space Now Available for Download
by Stan Schroeder Fans of the Angry Birds franchise, take notice: the disgruntled feathery creatures have conquered space, and they’re out to show those dastardly pigs a lesson. The latest installment of this megapopular game, Angry Birds Space, is now available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, as well as the Mac and PC. [...]
Apple loses bid for injunction against Amazon
by Steven Musil A federal judge has denied Apple’s request to immediately stop Amazon from using the term “Appstore” to describe its digital downloads storefront. In an 18-page opinion filed today with the U.S. District Court for Northern California, Judge Phyllis Hamilton denied Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction preventing Amazon’s use of the term, which [...]
Augmented reality comes to mobile phones
by Marguerite Reardon If you thought location-aware search and other mobile mapping technologies were cool, hold onto your hat. A new wave of innovation in the mobile market will bring augmented reality to smartphones, allowing users to interact virtually with their surroundings. Qualcomm has worked with toy maker Mattel to demonstrate the power of augmented-reality [...]
Apple loosens its chokehold on app development
By Stacy Cowley NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple is loosening its grip on its app development for its mobile devices, announcing Thursday that it will drop restrictions on what programming tools developers can use to create iOS apps. The company also dropped a ban on certain in-application ad serving tools that had effectively cut off Google’s [...]
Velocity Cruz Android Tablet: 7-Inch Display, $300
By Charlie Sorrel Until now, the iPad has faced almost no competition. Soon, though, the Android and WebOS tablets will start to ship in bulk, and things may change. Amongst the first will be Velocity Micro’s Cruz lineup, which brings a wide-screen (16:9) tablet running Google’s Android OS for just $300. It’s not the first [...]
Apple’s iPhone to Verizon: A look at the fallout
Posted by Larry Dignan Should Apple’s iPhone head to Verizon Wireless the competitive landscape shifts and there will be multiple ripple effects on rival handset makers. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple plans to make an iPhone that will work with Verizon’s CDMA network. The move would more than double Apple’s addressable market for [...]