June 20, 2013

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Apple iPhone Price discounted by $50; Offer available till Dec 11th- Radio Shack

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According to Apple Insider, Radioshack has cut iPhone price by $50 for one week sale which beagan Saturday morning and will ends on December 11th, cuts $50 off all current iPhone models, meaning customers new to AT&T or eligible for upgrade pricing can take home an iPhone 3GS for $50, a 16GB iPhone 4 for [...]

BestBuy Mobile Offers Free “Smartphone” every day in December

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Best Buy offers ahead of Christmas, at least four free smartphones, one for each of the largest wireless carriers in the US, for every day in December. “Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) Friday said its mobile retail unit Best Buy Mobile is giving consumers a holiday event, featuring free smart phones in [...]

2.5 Million Kinect for Xbox 360 Sold in 25 Days: Microsoft

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According to the latest data supplied by the Redmond company, Kinect for Xbox 360 still enjoys strong momentum even as it approaches the first month after launch. Points for style, Microsoft, crossing the 2.5 million Kinect sensors sold mark a convenient 25 days into your global sales of that ever-so-hackable / sometimes-cool-for-gaming item. Kinect for [...]

“Skype Mobile App” for 3 Verizon feature phones released

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Skype Mobile application is now supported by three of Verizon’s feature phones using the BREW platform. This application allows the users to make free calls from Skype to Skype in the U.S. while taking advantage of Skype’s low International calling rates, and allows two people to chat via IM using the app Including phones from [...]

Apple iPad to be subsidized by Orange and T-Mobile in Europe

France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile — who have put their British operations into a joint venture — said on Monday new purchase options in Britain would mean “more affordable prices when purchased with a data service plan.” In France, a spokeswoman for Orange said the carrier would subsidize the iPad when it starts [...]

New Verizon FiOS Internet 150/35 Mbps Broadband service launches

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If you’re a Verizon FiOS residential broadband customer, with a need for Internet speed, listen up. Big Red has just announced a new plan that boasts some ridiculously fast, Verizon is launching 150/35 megabits per second (Mbps) Internet service – the fastest mass-market broadband service in the nation – over the company’s all-fiber-optic FiOS network. [...]

EU Carriers force,Apple to abandone “Embedded iPhone SIM” plan

Apple has reportedly gave up plans to put an embedded SIM card in the next-gen iPhone. According to The Telegraph, Apple has given up on its plans to bypass carriers. One source told the U.K. publication that Apple was “sent back to the drawing board with their tails between their legs.” While Apple has reportedly [...]

“Apple’s white iPhone”-will it be just kept as dream?

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The white iPhone 4 has still not got a set date for release, it was supposed to be released a few weeks after the original iPhone 4 but major setbacks have delayed the release date until spring 2011. This date is only estimated but recent reports suggest this date. Apple has apologized to customers who [...]

Apple’s Embedded SIM card-Europian carriers go on “war”

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While Apple hasn’t officially announced intentions to use an embedded SIM in its iPhone, some European carriers are already such a move could put too much control in Apple’s hands. Apple recently started working with the wireless security company Gemalto, whose programmable over the air SIM card solutions are used in big pilot projects for [...]

Verizon claims fastest 4G network in America-is it true?!

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It seems that the cellular carriers can now boast about having the largest or fastest 4G networks even without a phone that customers can buy to use that speedy pipeline. While Verizon is expected to have 38 markets loaded up with LTE by the end of this year, signs in the stores now proclaim that [...]

BT Vision to provide “ BBC iPlayer” on IPTV service

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BT Vision the broadband based IPTV service which combines terrestrial UK Freeview TV channels with VOD content delivered via its ISP, is readying itself to show content directly from the BBC iPlayer VOD service. BT and the BBC are already working closely on the forthcoming YouView, and the two will now collaborate on iPlayer for [...]