Google testing Google-manufactured personal communication device
Google is testing its own "next generation personal communication device," according to a document submitted to the FCC. Google is seeking the FCC's permission to test the device outside its labs on Bluetooth and WiFi networks in...
Refurbished Motorola Xooms came with private data from previous owners
Motorola facilitated the sale of a bunch of refurbished Xoom tablets with former owners' data still on them, the company announced in a press release Friday. The Xooms were part of a deal on flash sale site woot.com last...
The route to a Kindle owner’s heart goes through the wallet
A customer satisfaction survey of Kindle Fire owners shows that while the vast majority are satisfied with their purchase, it is mainly the low price fueling their happiness. ChangeWave Research asked a sample of new Kindle Fire ...
Review: Republic Wireless and its $19/month cell service
Republic Wireless is an upstart taking on some of the biggest behemoths in American industry—the major cell carriers—armed with WiFi as its main weapon. Republic keeps costs low by encouraging the use of WiFi o......
Family data plans may finally arrive from Verizon
Verizon may be preparing to launch shared data plans, according to a post on Engadget and some speculative phrasing on the company's recent earnings call. The "account level data plans" would give customers a chunk of data that...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Following fine, Apple alerts Italian customers to their free 2-year warranty
Apple has begun alerting its Italian customers that they have a right to a two-year warranty on Apple's products as provided by Italian law. The move comes after Apple was issued a $1.2 million fine for allegedly......
Google already knows you’re a 24-year old woman who loves wombats
Despite the controversy over Google's new privacy policy, the company already has you wrapped up into a neat little demographic package, as I was reminded yesterday when looking at my Google account settings. How accurate...
AT&T: iPhone made up 80% of smartphones, 66% of all phones sold last quarter
AT&T sold 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, but 7.6 million of which were iPhones, the company reported today. According to those numbers, the iPhone made up a whopping 80 percent of AT&T's smartphon...
Google’s new privacy policy could anger FTC
Google announced on Monday that it would be enacting a new privacy policy that, when customers agree to it, will allow the company to collect and store information across all of its services. Not only that, but Google will...
