IPhone bills boost Verizon 1Q revenue growth
Holiday sales of the iPhone 4S started to boost revenue at Verizon Communications Inc. in the latest quarter, as subscribers settled in to paying their new monthly bills. That meant that wireless service revenues grew at their fastest pace in three years at Verizon Wireless. The country’s largest cellphone company…
Foursquare Eyes June for Launch of New Advertising Platform
Foursquare aims to launch a paid-media platform in mid-June and is pitching brands to become launch partners, according to a person familiar with the matter. The new product will allow merchants to promote a deal to check in at a given area through its existing merchant platform, which allows businesses…
First Intel Smartphone Lands in India Next Week
Intel and Lava International are launching the first smartphone powered by one of the chip maker’s Atom processors next week in India. The 3G-enabled Xolo X900 running Android will go on sale in the country on April 23 and cost 22,000 Indian rupees, or about $425, without a cellphone plan, The phone is…
Apple rumored to be working on 7-inch iPad
There’s a constantly spinning mill of rumors about Apple products, most of which turn out to be untrue. What’s unusual this week is that talk has revived of a smaller iPad model, an idea company founder Steve Jobs derided publicly a year before he died. Apple and its suppliers aren’t…
Next iPhone may be housed in ‘Liquidmetal’
By Christina Bonnington, Wiredupdated 11:53 AM EDT, Thu April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Mobile Liquidmetal would make the outer surface of the iPhone “smooth like liquid”. STORY HIGHLIGHTSKorea’s IT News reported that the iPhone 5 is likely to be housed in ‘Liquidmetal’Liquidmetal was discovered at the California Institute of Technology in 1992The molding (Wired)…
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AdParlor Accepted Into Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) Program …
NEW YORK, NY, Apr 19, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –AdParlor, an Adknowledge company and a leading advertising platformon Facebook, announced today that they have been accepted into theFacebook(R) Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program — earningthe Ads Management and Insights qualifications. Facebook’s newly created PMD, a result of Facebook merging thePreferred Developer…
Android Malware Writers Exploit Instagram Craze to Distribute SMS Trojan Horse
In an attempt to take advantage of the popularity of free photo-sharing app Instagram among smartphone users, malware writers have created fake Instagram websites to distribute Android Trojan horses, according to security researchers from antivirus firms Sophos and Trend Micro. Originally developed for Apple’s iOS devices, Instagram allows smartphone users…
iOS 5.1 Untethered Jailbreak: Pod2g Announces Significant Progress, All …
iOS 5.1 Untethered Jailbreak: Pod2g Announces Significant Progress, Find All Exploits Required For A New Jailbreak A few months ago the jailbreak dream team achieved a long-cherished success by announcing the release of “Absinthe”, an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 for iPhone 4S or iPad 2 powered by Apple’s A5 Now, it…
Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?
New York Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation’s largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate contact with the academic benefits of social networking. At least 40 school districts nationwide have approved social In…
