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It’s no big secret that Deutsche Telekom hasn’t been very pleased with the performance of its American wireless arm, T-Mobile USA. In September, we reported that the German telecom giant was considering a merger with Sprint — shortly after T-Mobile UK merged with Orange to create the largest wireless company in [...]
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The ten-dollar e-book may soon be gone, replaced by the fifteen-dollar eBook.
Last week, VentureBeat broke the news that Amazon had removed all Macmillan titles from its U.S. site and its Kindle downloads. You could look up the books, but you could only buy them from third party [...]
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Mobile developer Mippin is bringing their popular news and social media aggregator application Buzz Deck to the iPhone. The application was originally developed for Android, and was also a winner of Google’s 2009 global app challenge.
Buzz Deck’s big claim to fame is its collection of auto-populated topic [...]
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Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes [...]
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Kongregate, which operates a web site for indie games, is announcing today it has had good success with its app platform for browser-based games. What’s more, it’s sharing some metrics so it can show potential developers how it can make them money.
The San Francisco-based company launched its [...]
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The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it’s always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assistant would do, such as organizing your emails. Plus, you can’t just tell the app what you want, [...]
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Gartner recently published a list of five new predictions about “social software” that show mix of optimism and pessimism about whether these tools will be embraced by businesses.
The most grandiose prediction is the first — that by 2014, social networking services will replace email as the primary [...]
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Mplayit, maker of the mobile app catalog that lives inside Facebook, will release a report later today that lists the top games in their collection. Tetris, The Sims 3, and Wheel of Fortune are among the winners. So are Tap Tap Revenge and Rock Band.
On Mplayit, users [...]
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They’re like chocolate and peanut butter. Appolicious, an iPhone / Android app review site with social network tools built in, has acquired AppVee, which carries 1,100 professional video reviews, both for iPhone at AppVee.com and for Android at AndroidApps.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Appolicious, whose [...]
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It’s a sad day for fans of the ever-popular iPhone e-book reader application Stanza. Developed by Lexcycle, the app offers e-books for purchase, as well as a lengthy selection of public domain works. It was notable for having a gorgeous and easy-to-use interface, as well as the ability to transfer books [...]
