Monday, March 15, 2010 1:45PM - By Chris Weiss
Microsoft has done a little name-dropping over at Mix 10 and provided a list of development partners who will be offering apps when the initial surge of Windows Phone 7 handsets hit later this year. The lofty list includes notables such as the Associated Press, EA Mobile, Fandango, Foursquare, IMDB, Match.com, Netflix, Pandora, Photobucket and Sling. So Phone 7 adopters will get everything from news to games to movies to dating right out of the gate.
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Monday, March 15, 2010 1:18PM - By Chris Weiss
Google has gotten a powerful, new member of its Android team: Tim Bray. Bray, the co-inventor of XML, as well as a tech blogger and a former employee at Sun Microsystems, joined the Android team as a Developer Advocate earlier today and had some pretty strong words in favor of Google’s approach to mobile over Apple’s.
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Monday, March 15, 2010 12:27PM - By Chris Weiss
According to Chinese newspaper Economic Daily, cell phone manufacturer and Android extraordinaire HTC has begun shipping its CDMA-based version of the Nexus One to Verizon. Verizon will begin marketing the Google phone later this month or next month, according to the report. HTC will also begin shipping Nexus Ones to Vodafone soon.
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Monday, March 15, 2010 12:12PM - By Chris Weiss
Surprise, surprise. After the initial surge of impatient Apple fanboys pushed day one sales of the iPad to a fevered rate of 20,000 per hour, sales dropped off considerably over the weekend. According to Fortune, blogger/analyst Daniel Tello has been watching order numbers submitted by volunteers and has estimated that Saturday and Sunday sales slowed to around 1,000 iPads/hour.
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Friday, March 12, 2010 4:48PM - By Chris Weiss
A new Associated Press report released today indicates that the cost of Internet-related crime is on a drastic upswing. The FBI said today that losses from Internet fraud doubled during 2009 and cost victims a total of $561 billion. Complaints of Internet fraud also swelled by 20 percent last year to more than 300,000, with individual losses ranging anywhere from $30 to $100,000.
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Friday, March 12, 2010 3:30PM - By Chris Weiss
Ready to take all of the dull, questionable sports analysis you can handle on the road? If you’re a Sprint customer, your time is now. Sprint and ESPN announced that ESPN Mobile TV will now be available on Sprint TV, bringing “unparalleled live sports programming and entertainment from ESPN via Sprint handheld devices.” Not to mention a whole day full of SportsCenter and SportCenters with different names.
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Friday, March 12, 2010 3:11PM - By Chris Weiss
Unless you live in a tree you’re well aware that Apple opened up the flood gates for iPad pre-ordering this morning. In an attempt to gauge just how successful those early sales were, Andrew Erlichson, CEO of photo-sharing site Phanfare, made a rudimentary comparison of his order IDs to surmise that Apple is selling 20,000 iPads (or $12 million) per hour.
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Friday, March 12, 2010 9:30AM - By Chris Weiss
‘Incredible’ is a pretty presumptuous name for a cell phone, but for Android fans, HTC’s latest handset-in-the-leaking may just live up to it. An AndroidForums user got his hand on the phone and leaked a bunch of pictures and specs. Sure, the pictures are a bit rough around the edges–at least compared to the big, bold glossies we’re spoiled by every day, but the information is pretty thorough.
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Friday, March 12, 2010 3:46AM - By Chris Weiss
All Wi-Fi iPads will finally be available for pre-order today. You know today (March 12) is the day, but you may not know what time. Is it business-day 9 a.m.? Perhaps a Black-Friday-style 5 a.m.? Maybe even 12 a.m.? Did you already miss the proverbial door-opening?
No, no, no and no. IPad pre-orders begin at 8:30 a.m. sharp ET (which is the only reason we have this super-early article posted). That’s 5:30 a.m. for our friends over in Cali.
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