Well, this is bad news for Chinese manufacturer, ZTE, their shares have now dropped to a three year low by 17%. This news follows reports that the FBI is investigating ZTE for sales of banned equipment to the country of Iran. Even worse, ZTE has previously warned that their half-year profits could drop by up to 80%. The outlook isn’t looking too… Read more
Verizon won’t stop until they’ve covered their entire 3G network with 4G LTE and over the past week, they’ve continued to work towards that goal. Lots of expansions have been happening in Kansas, Missouri, New York, and Ohio and the full list is below. Are any of you now covered with these latest expansions? New York: Niagara… Read more
Anyone in the mobile tech world has realized by now that Apple has officially declared war on Android. From the infamous quote from Steve Jobs to the banning of multiple devices such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Google’s brainchild, the Galaxy Nexus, Apple has been involved in nearly every single legal dispute involving Android up to this point. Samsung… Read more
It’s finally here, the feature that Android developers have been anxiously waiting for. Google is touting the upcoming ability for publishers in the Google Play Store to reply directly to users’ comments. The feature is currently available only for those with a Top Developer’s badge in a limited testing capacity, but is expected to make a wider… Read more
LG first unveiled the Optimus 4X back in February at Mobile World Congress, but since then the company has remained rather quiet on the impending release. Today, LG has announced that it plans to bring the Optimus 4X to eleven different countries in the European market including the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. No exact release dates… Read more
It seems that we can only go a few weeks at the very most without Verizon Wireless announcing new expansions to their already large 4G LTE network. A mere two days after they announced markets that they would be bringing or expanding 4G LTE coverage in, Verizon is back with even more cities to jump on the 4G bandwagon. Today they announced a whole load… Read more
If you don’t like using your credit card for Google Play media, Google just introduced support for carrier billing. You can now purchase books, movies, and music and have it charged to your phone bill instead of to a card. For now, it only works on T-Mobile in the US (Sprint support is soon to come) and NTT Docomo, KDDI, and Softbank in Japan. While… Read more
Research in Motion has announced their plans to stop allowing Android apps to be side loaded on the Blackberry Playbook says Alec Saunders, Vice President of Developer Relations for Blackberry. Saunders said that RIM wants to avoid “duplicating the chaotic cesspool of Android market.” RIM’s comments are an obvious dig at the Google Play Android app… Read more
So you’ve got a Kindle Fire and you’re feeling left out from all this 10 cent sale madness? You’re in luck! It seems that Amazon is keeping pace with Google and matching the 10 cent prices of select apps. There is a pretty decent list of apps below that have taken the 10 cent plunge: Can Knockdown 2 Space Physics Kids Learn To… Read more
Earlier we reported that the ESRB in conjunction with CTIA had plans to implement a system of rating applications based on the current rating system in place for games. Unfortunately, it looks like the two mobile app powerhouses are not on board with their plans for app-rating domination. Google and Apple have both stated that they will not be incorporating… Read more
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