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Survey says: Android users mostly male, webOS not just for women, iPod touch for kids

Survey says: Android users mostly male, webOS not just for women, iPod touch for kids

Feb 26, 2010

Jump down off that scud missile and holster your brew Droid owners, the stats are in for smartphone gender preferences. The numbers reported above are based on a AdMob survey of 963 total respondents consisting of 318 Android, 244 iPhone, 356 iPod touch and 45 webOS users in english speaking countries. According to the data collected between 5 February to the...

Adafruit is in the Square payment pilot, awesomeness will likely ensue

Adafruit is in the Square payment pilot, awesomeness will likely ensue

Feb 26, 2010

Our good friends at Adafruit Industries are now taking mobile payments with the best of ‘em thanks to a prerelease Square dongle they’ve managed to score, ostensibly as a part of the public trial announced earlier this month. They’ve posted a quick video showing the process of taking someone’s cash via plastic, and it looks every bit as...

For Rogers, HTC Magic + Sense = Magic+

For Rogers, HTC Magic + Sense = Magic+

Feb 26, 2010

Thought that one of the first major Android devices in the world would go away without a fight? Think again! T-Mobile and Rogers have taken two very different roads to extend the lives of their HTC Sapphire-based devices. Big Magenta, of course, has opted to make a hardware tweak, adding a much-needed 3.5mm headphone jack and spitting out a faux wood limited...

Sprint confirms Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update coming tomorrow (update: full changelog!)

Sprint confirms Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update coming tomorrow (update: full changelog!)

Feb 26, 2010

Just hours after we wrapped our mitts around what looked to be Palm’s official webOS 1.4 changelog, along comes this: confirmation from none other than Sprint itself. According to a post on the carrier’s official forums by Sprint Admin ‘izzyks,’ both the Pre and Pixi will see the long-awaited webOS 1.4 update hit sometime tomorrow...

Palm boss Rubenstein sends letter to employees, talks turnaround

Palm boss Rubenstein sends letter to employees, talks turnaround

Feb 26, 2010

There’s very likely a little unrest inside Palm’s corporate walls today on news that the company’s falling a little short of its financial expectations, so CEO Jon Rubenstein has wasted no time firing off an all-employee letter explaining the sitch while trying to calm some nerves in the process. As analysts had feared, Rubenstein clearly...