Madden NFL 12 App on Sale for Super Bowl

By Ryan Punzalan | 2/3/2012

With the Super Bowl this Sunday, EA has reduced the price of its Madden NFL 12 app to $1, down from the usual $5. This deal is good on both the iPhone and Android versions.

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MacWorld 2012: Top Tips and Tricks for Apple's Siri

By Mac McCarthy | 1/31/2012

What are some top tricks and tips for getting the most from Siri, the natural language search engine on Apple's iPhone 4S? In a session at MacWorld 2012, a Siri expert revealed secrets around how to make Siri smarter and sexier.

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BlackBerry 10 Smartphones to Run Android Apps

By Ryan Punzalan | 1/23/2012

In a conference call this morning, the new CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, announced that BlackBerry 10 smartphones will have an Android player, allowing them to run third-party software created for this rival platform.

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Time Warner Cable Customers Can Use their iPhone to Control their TV

By Ed Hardy | 1/22/2012

Time Warner Cable has introduced TWC TV for iPhone, a free app for its customers that allows them to watch live TV from within their home, change channels, and manage their DVR.

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Sprint to Start Removing Carrier IQ This Month

By Ryan Punzalan | 1/18/2012

According to HTC, Sprint will be disabling the application Carrier IQ from its devices starting this month. Some have accused this controversial app of being spyware.

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What's Wrong with CES? Plenty

By Ed Hardy | 1/15/2012

The Consumer Electronics Show is a week-long annual celebration of technology in all its forms. It's a venue where over a hundred thousand digerati show up to see the latest and greatest from a huge number of companies. It also has some horrible flaws.

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CES 2012: Day One Notes from the Tradeshow Floor

By Ed Hardy | 1/10/2012

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing in Las Vegas. The first day bright a range of smartphone announcements, as well as a number of events where companies were showing off new products to journalists.

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CES 2012 Likely to Bring New Android Devices and Windows Phones

By Ed Hardy | 1/2/2012

The Consumer Electronics Show starts next week in Las Vegas, and there will be quite a bit of smartphone-related news coming out of this giant tradeshow. Expect announcements related to Android OS 4.0, Windows Phone, and LTE.

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LogMeIn Remote Access App Now Free for iPhone

By Ed Hardy | 12/22/2011

LogMeIn, an app that allows users to remotely control a PC or Mac with their smartphone, used to sell for $30. Today, a free version for the iOS was introduced, as well as a premier one with additional features.

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Grand Theft Auto III Released for Android and iOS-based Smartphones

By Valerie Sarnataro | 12/15/2011

Rockstar is celebrating its transition into open world 3D gaming by releasing a mobile version of its acclaimed Grand Theft Auto game.

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Carrier IQ Under Investigation by the U.S. Government

By Valerie Sarnataro | 12/15/2011

Weeks after Carrier IQ software was discovered to be running on about 150 million smartphones, tracking and capturing every keystroke and text message without the user's knowledge, a federal investigation into the program is underway.

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Microsoft Releases SkyDrive Cloud Service Apps for Windows Phone and the iPhone

By Valerie Sarnataro | 12/14/2011

Microsoft has introduced a version of its SkyDrive cloud service for Windows Phone and the iPhone, offering users the ability to access, share and remove files stored in SkyDrive folders. (Video Demo)

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