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Android device diversity and fragmentation charted in minute detail

If you were looking for the face of Android diversity, you won't do much better than the chart above compiled by Open Signal Maps. The company put together data taken from 61,389 users of its app over the past six months, and saw...

Flipboard integrating audio from NPR, PRI, and SoundCloud; launching Japanese localized version

Flipboard is moving beyond text by adding new audio features that will include audio content from NPR, Public Radio International, The New Yorker, Slate, and SoundCloud. The audio will work in the background and it will also be se...

PSA: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users can download Flashback removal tool now

If you're still using the Leopard version of Mac OS X and Apple's free Snow Leopard DVD offer didn't tempted you to upgrade, it's time to fire up the Software Update tool to get a security fix. Apple has released two pieces of...

Blackberry 10 app tray revealed

RIM held back many of the details around BlackBerry 10 during BlackBerry World earlier this month — one of the most important of which was a very basic one: how do you launch apps? At a UK press event earlier today, RIM's Vi......

LightSquared files for bankruptcy

After what feels like an eternity of drama, a drawn-out fight with US regulators, a failed attempt to provide LTE to Sprint, and the planned exit of its CEO, LightSquared has finally bowed to the inevitable and filed for bankruptc...

CloudOn releases Android tablet office app, Google Drive integration

CloudOn, which has allowed iPad users to connect to its cloud-based versions of Microsoft Office apps for some time now, has released an Android tablet version of the app. As with the iOS version, you can sync it up with either Bo...

Google in talks to acquire Meebo, says All Things D

Meebo began life in 2005 as a browser-based instant message app and since then has morphed through several iterations, offering products like smartphone IM apps, a content sharing bar for websites, chat rooms, and most recently a ...

Hands-on with the Clarity Pal, a 25db feature phone

Clarity is a division of Plantronics whose tagline is "Smart for seniors," and its latest product falls directly into that niche. Dubbed the Clarity Pal, its main feature is an audio "boost mode" that cranks up the volume to 25 de...

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse cuts his pay after shareholder complaint

After reported complaints about the issue, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is voluntarily altering his compensation structure to more accurately reflect his company's financial situation after its iPhone deal. Last February, Sprint increased...

Windows Mobile Marketplace shutdown pushed back to May 17th

Microsoft had previously told users still rocking classic Windows Mobile smartphones that the marketplace for those devices would be closing down on May 9th. Today it's circulating an email pegging the date as May 17th and the com...

Details surface on next versions of Nokia Drive and Nokia Transport apps

It's been just a month and a half since Nokia dropped updates to the Drive navigation and Transport public transit apps it created for Lumia Windows Phones, but the company is apparently hard at work on the next versions. WP7forum...

AT&T HTC One X bootloader denied official unlock solution due to ‘restrictions’

Yesterday, MoDaCo noticed that the bootloader on the AT&T version of the HTC One X was locked and that HTC's online tool for unlocking it didn't work. We reached out to HTC on the matter, it it looks as though the smartphone w......