Category: Mobile
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Android Tip: Give your sensitive eyes a break in the morning with Tasker
If you’ve ever read any productivity or personal development methodologies, you’ve probably been told that you should avoid checking your email first thing in the morning. It basically boils down to distraction: if you wake up and fill your head full of to-dos, you’ll be less likely to get one single thing done. Well, I’m…
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Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
Despite being a small contender in the mobile market with only a 3% market share and a net loss of $56 million in Q2 2011, Motorola Mobility (Motorola’s handset division) is being acquired by Google for a cool $12.5 billion. Of course, it has to pass through the government and Motorola’s shareholders first, but if…
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Apple Reigns As Largest Smartphone Manufacturer; Android Still Rules Mobile OS Marketshare
It’s pretty impressive that a company that only sells one type of phone in a given year has grabbed the top spot of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer (it’s also pretty impressive that the same company has more cash than the U.S. government). Apple now owns 19.1 percent of the smartphone market share followed by…
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AT&T To Throttle Top 5% of Heaviest Unlimited Data Users
If you’re one of the veteran AT&T users that have been grandfathered into an unlimited data plan and are set to stream all-you-can-play TV shows, movies, and music from your smartphone, be prepared to have your data speed throttled if you make it into the top 5% list of AT&T’s heaviest unlimited data users come…
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Embrace Better Predictive Typing with SwiftKey X for Android
It happens millions of times a day, and most people don’t even know its a problem: The issue of auto-correction errors while typing on a mobile smartphone. At first, one sees the errors and manually uses the backspace to fix it. But sooner or later those fingers get quick on that virtual keyboard, and next…
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How To: Change your cellular phone number with Verizon Wireless
In the Digital Age, most corporations give their consumers ways to manage their accounts online, without having to visit the nearest retailer to update their information, account settings, or other information related to their account. This is not only a great way to provide excellent customer service and allow changes to come into effect quickly…
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Enjoy Mindless Gaming With SkyBurger for iOS
Everyone loves Angry Birds, that is pretty clear. The problem I have with Angry Birds is that it takes two hands to play – one hand to hold my iPod Touch and the other to slingshot those little feathered creatures across the screen. Sometimes what I need is a game that takes very little skill…
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Review: Official Twitter App for Windows Phone 7
Overall, the official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 is a great app, providing all of the functionality you would expect from Twitter.com. While I haven’t had the opportunity to spend time with competing apps, this one more than whets my tweeting whistle.
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Tiered Data Plans Coming To Verizon July 7
Thanks to an official training document that has been leaked, the rumored tiered data plans for Verizon customers are definitely coming. Android Central ended up with the leak, which contains a slew of details about the new data plans that will most likely answer some of your hankering questions. The most important aspect of the…