Seems like finally yummy Ice Cream Sandwich season is here as Google in the latest in the line-up has updated Google Voice for Android to integrate with the Andriod 4.0 dialer in the Google Play Store. With the update, you can now integrate it with your dialer so you won’t have to leave your missed calls list to check voicemail. To turn this feature on, download...
According to Hiroto Nakai, a senior manager at Toshiba states that the company is planning for a May or June release date for the 8GB FlashAir card in US. Toshiba introduced its FlashAir SDHC which allows Wi-Fi devices to easily browse and download files directly from the card and can generate its own 802.11 b/g/n network. The company went on its sale in Japan in...
The Verge is reporting that T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm has sent a memo to his employees announcing that the company is going to eliminate 1,900 jobs nationwide, which is primarily resulting from the closure of seven call centers located in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Frisco, Texas; Brownsville, Texas; Lenexa, Kansas; Thornton, Colorado; and Redmond, Oregon. Humm says to expect more. “Looking ahead, we will also be restructuring other parts of the company,” he says, with announcements expected by the...
Over claims that AT&T purposefully violated registration requirements for use of IP Relay, the US Department of Justice has sued the carrier. AT&T has collected millions of dollars from the government for fraudulent calls, a service that allows the hearing impaired to place calls over the internet by typing messages. Since from November 2009, the government says that the fraudulent calls accounted for 95-percent of AT&T’s IP Relay calls. Constance Lyttle, a former AT&T communications assistant that made the initial allegations...
AT&T has officially announced its availability of an update to Android 4.0 for its HTC Vivid, the first of Ice Cream Sandwich update for the phone sold in US. This upgrade will get you first- and third-party app support for Beats Audio, an improved email experience, face unlock, and Bluetooth mouse and keyboard compatibility, among other typical ICS features. Along with the Vivid update, the carrier mentions that it’s another ten devices are in the row next to get Android 4.0 upgrades which will be available in coming months: LG...
Here comes the most awaited long line-up Nokia’s Lumia 900 (latest Windows Phone) which was rumoured to be arriving on April 8th at AT&T stores in United States and now it looks like the details are coming as confirmed dates. According to WPCentral, the flagship handset will be available online starting from April 8th whereas it will be available in store a day after on April 9th. The carrier is planning to launch the phone at a $99 price on contract basis in the country. (Image Source: Nokia logo, Featured Image) ...
A way for corporate customers to manage multiple types of devices beyond just Blackberrys, meet RIM’s Blackberry Mobile Fusion product. BMF supports both iOS and Android and is the only way it manage its own tablet, the PlayBook. AllThingsD noted that RIM had a job posting over on which it is looking for iOS developers and the company responded back to the publication staying, “In order for BlackBerry Mobile Fusion to perform advanced management functions for iOS devices, RIM will develop an on device client to be included as...
Over the issue of not analyzing Apple’s consumer privacy protection policy by Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter last week to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook stating that to send a company representative to Washington so as being able to formally brief it on how the company is protecting the person information of mobile device users. Representatives...
The world’s largest social networking giant Facebook has acquired around 750 patents from IBM in its latest move, covering various “software and networking” technologies patents, according to Bloomberg. Facebook so far owes 60 US patents and adding this 750 makes its portfolio of around 810 patents in total. The acquisition which includes at least 56 issued patents and 503 filed U.S. patent applications. “This is a very big deal,” said Gill, who is chief intellectual property officer at MDB, an investment bank focused on intellectual...
Layoff news rounding up from the Finnish mobile maker giant Nokia, which confirmed that it, is going to cut up to 1,000 employees at its plant in Salo, Finland. The jobs will be cut gradually through 2012, with most cuts expecting to be happened by the end of June. The mobile giant is in the middle of major mass reorganization under its Chief executive Stephen Elop. The remaining staff at Salo plant will focus on tailoring software for European operators. (Image Source: Nokia logo, Featured Image) ...
