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Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot Video Review

This month, we spent some time parading around Boston with the Overdrive mobile hotspot, Sprint’s first 3G/4G hybrid mobile router. And while we weren’t able to test out the 4G goodness in Boston, no WiMAX love yet — though we…

Is Palm’s opportunity with webOS waning?

Palm may be facing its most difficult challenge this year as analysts evaluate the early success of webOS and make their predictions about the future of this fledgling platform. One of the first analysts to weigh in decidedly against Palm…

RIM’s Mike Lazaridis wants manufacturers to limit your data usage

We really love the boys and girls over at RIM, but if you haven’t already noticed, they’re pretty much stuck in 1998. Why do we say that? Well, RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis (who is absolutely brilliant) started spewing off his…

Joe Hewitt on iPad: “Exactly the Product I’ve Been Wishing For”

Joe Hewitt isn’t exactly a household name; his former project, however, very much is. Hewitt was the one man wrecking crew responsible for coding the Facebook application for the iPhone — the App Store’s most popular application for quite some…

Is the Apple iPad OS just unfinished?

Bear with me on this one, alright? It’s a long shot, but part of me thinks this is a set up. Apple hasn’t gone over things like how notifications work, they didn’t address multitasking, and in some places, it felt…

Google Android Personal Thoughts

This is an add-on to the Google Nexus One review…
I have issues with Android and Google’s approach to it. I think it’s an amazing concept — people holding hands, skipping down sugar-encrusted roads with pink ponies and colorful rainbows…

Clearwire ends 2009 on a positive note, looks forward to 2010

Sprint/Clearwire has enjoyed the bounty of being the largest 4G carrier in the US in 2009. The Kirkland, Washington based company has expanded its Clear WiMAX service from a mere 2 to 27 total markets in 2009 and is offering…

Apple tablet mockup spotted hiding on Clearwire website?

If you were a hardcore skeptic and entertaining serious doubts about the Apple tablet, well, let’s just say Clearwire’s latest home page won’t do you any good. Spotted just behind the Zune HD there, and to the left of a…

MobileRL wants you to download its software so it can spy on you!

With rising concerns for privacy these days, advertisers are having an increasingly difficult time gathering personal consumer data. MobileRL, an Israeli start-up, is looking to change or “revolutionize” the way information is collected for ad purposes. The Israeli company wants…

How WIND Mobile changed Canada in less than 24 hours

For our non-Canadian readers, it might be pretty hard to understand why there’s been so much hype about WIND Mobile finally launching. It is just a cell phone carrier after all, right? Kind of. It is a business at the…

AT&T’s plans to improve network reliability and what that means for you

AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega announced yesterday that the carrier would start taking steps to improve its network and acknowledged that service in some areas is sub-par (most of you would agree that that’s an understatement). After launching Mark the…

What happened to being cool?

Avril Lavigne. Luke Wilson. Whoopi Goldberg. Those three names don’t exactly jump out and immediately connect with us when we see them. And isn’t that the point of advertising? The point of branding? To connect to something, identify with it,…

Poll: What device are you most excited for?

What device are you most excited for?(answers)