Category Archives: Mobile

Weekly Download #6: MacBook Airs, Replacing Steve Jobs, 3D Tech, Google+, Sprint, Politics

If you want to get to the meaty stuff, you’ll want to skip the first 5 minutes–Tarun did not know that a certain food-service company went public, so his mind was blown. We discuss the new MacBook Airs; who could … Continue reading

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Link: Sprint Q2 Results →

Sprint posted another quarter of losses.  This round they lost 847 million dollars.  The carrier seems to struggle quarter after quarter to post any type of profit.  They are boosting their prepaid subscriber base, but lost over 100,000 postpaid subscribers. … Continue reading

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Link: Schmidt Makes Dig at Apple →

Yesterday in a post about HTC’s falling share prices I said things would start to get interesting.  Well, today Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has come out and said: “We have seen an explosion of Android devices entering the market and, … Continue reading

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Link: HTC Shares Tumble; Patents to Blame? →

It’s no secret that the competition between Apple and Google is quite intense, but things may have just heated up a little bit more.  With Apple winning the initial patent dispute between it and HTC things could get very interesting. … Continue reading

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Link: LTE Not the End of Carrier Separation →

For a year or so my friends and I have enthusiastically awaited the arrival of real “4G”.  When I say this, I mean LTE.  Carriers are using all kinds of gimmicks and tricks to call their networks 4G, but the … Continue reading

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Link: Spotify Comes to the US →

Spotify is now officially available in the US.  This service may have people rethinking some of the other streaming services that are currently up and coming.  Spotify offers 15 million different tracks that can be played in an offline mode. … Continue reading

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Link: Big Changes in the Mix for Netflix →

With quite a few changes brewing for Netflix subscriber, do you think it is still worth it?  Do you think that we were paying to little for out Netflix subscriptions to begin with? These are important questions to consider with … Continue reading

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Link: HP Launching iTunes rival →

With all of the discussion about music in the cloud lately it seems that HP wants to get in on the party..kind of.  HP has released HP Play, a music management service that will allow you to sync music you … Continue reading

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Link: 28% of US Smartphone Owners Use Them As Primary Internet Connection →

Jacqui Cheng, ars technica: According to Pew, 28 percent of smartphone owners access the Internet this way most of the time, which amounts to 10 percent of all cell owners or 8 percent of all adults in the US. Mobile-only … Continue reading

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