The library of Congress has announced that for the next three years there will be a set of provision to allow the circumvention of copyrighted material. General usage will allow the circumvention of these works to assist those with disabilities to enjoy DVD's and E-Books. A more pertinent use of the new rules will allow you to unlock your phone to allow for the compatibility of different software. The rule also...
Apple fell just short of annalists predictions for the Fourth quarter. Predictions were set for Apple to produce $8.3 Billion in profits for the fourth quarter. As expected their stock price dropped to $600 per share on the announcement. The demand for the iPhone 5 is promising to put Apple back on track for the first quarter, as the demand has been larger than expected, and they are having difficulty keeping...
Clearwire has announced plans to reduce the amount of TD-LTE sites it will deploy by the summer of 2013. The new number will be 2,000 sites. The halving of their plans comes as their retail sales are lackluster, and their wholesales channels are under-performing. Analysts have made not of their transition away from WiMAX. With reported losses of $320 Million Clearwire wants to realign their capital expenditures...
Sprint announced their third quarter results during a conference call this week. The results show that Sprint has lost 423,000 subscribers during this quarter. Sprints focus this quarter has been preparing the shut down the Nextel iDEN network. Sprint maintains that the benefits of the CDMA network vastly outweigh what they would gain by maintaining the antiquated iDEN network. This year 9,600...
As of October 21st Cricket will no longer be offering their daily PayGO plans for enrollment. The daily plans offered options between $1.50 and $2 a day. The plans were dropped in favor of monthly offerings that are available from the company. Customers that are currently using the daily plans will be allowed to remain on their current plans. I doubt many changes will be allowed to the plans, and you certainly...
Today in their community forums, Sprint announced a new software update that will be coming to the Samsung Galaxy SIII. The update coded L710VPLJ7 will include Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. The bugs repaired in this software update will include: improvements to both LTE, and exchange systems, increase accuracy of face unlock, improvements to text message notifications, multiple enhancements to the calendar...
Nuance has expanding the capabilities of their Go! Application, and is now providing users with enhanced voice activated features on their smart phones. Users can send social network messages, texts, calls, sets appointments, and access other information from the Internet all by voice. The software can be activated by waking it up by saying "Hi Dragon." The Dragon Mobile Assistant is available in Beta from Android...
T-Mobile will begin bringing mobile security to their Android based devices with Lookout Security. The Lookout app is free, and will come loaded on most of their Android based devices starting in 2013. The security application will turn on with the device, and will actively scan the device from mobile threats. “As we rely more on our mobile devices, for everything from business to social to banking, it is increasingly...
The battle between Samsung and Apple has been long standing, and heated. Apple has claimed that several of Samsung's devices has violated their patents. The United States International Trade Commission issued a preliminary ruling today stating that it finds Samsung guilty of violating several of the patents. Not all of Apple's...
Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile release Isis enabled handsets. Isis is a mobile payment venture backed by At&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Verizon’s first Isis enabled handset will be the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE. Verizon also expects to release the Razr HD and Razr MAXX HD with Isis in the near future. Users...
MetroPCS has now been expanded capabilities to use Google Wallet. Users of the Samsung Galaxy SIII can get their download Here.
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According to BGR, their sources at Apple have indicated they are currently testing viability of IOS 6.1 for US based carriers. The new update will include many miscellaneous bug fixes including problems with the camera flash not operating, cellular data not working, lock screen security fix, improved Wifi support, and a bug that caused horizontal lines to run across the screens. There is currently no official release...
