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26% of Apps Downloaded in 2010 Were Used Just Once

App downloads are only one metric but getting someone to download an app just to have them uninstall it doesn’t do you a lot of good. Well analytics firm Localytics tracked Android, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 apps and found that the rate of one-time app usage was around 26%. That’s pretty high. [...]

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RIM’s Playbook shown syncing with BlackBerry Device via BT

RIM has just let loose a video on the Playbook Tablet and how it syncs with a BlackBerry device via Bluetooth. In this video, the Playbook is syncing with the AT&T torch and demo’s the email app and reassuring IT Guys that the data is encrypted and is deleted when the connection to the corporate [...]

Android > iPhone + Windows Phone 7 + Blackberry + Windows Mobile + Palm

You can say it’s quantity over quality if that makes you feel better but the Q4 figures from NPD show that Android swept the market with 53% of phone sales. Adding to the pummeling, as speculated, Windows Mobile outsold Windows Phone 7. And worse yet “Windows Phone 7 also entered the market with lower share [...]

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Playbook Beats the iPad and Android 3.0 in Multitasking

With Google’s release of information on Android 3.0 we learn more about how the OS multitasks. And it seems like the Playbook is the best multitasker of the tablets. Shocking. Getting to it, here’s how Google describes multitasking on Android 3: Multitasking is a key strength of Android and it is central to the Android [...]

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Mobility Digest Review – SPB TV 2.0 for BB

  I was given the ability to test out SPB’s new version of the their IP-TV solution called SPB TV2.0.  Mobility Digest did a review of version 1.0 which can be read here.   Most of Steve’s thoughts are exactly the same that I had when testing this software out.  The funny thing is I didn’t [...]

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Howard on Your Phone! Bababooey!

The biggest disappointment jumping from Windows Mobile to Android was the loss of being able to listen to Howard. Howard for whatever reason had it in his old contract to keep it off phones. Could circumvent it but it was tricky and possibly against Howard’s wishes. Well folks, no more need to set up audio [...]

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Blackberry To Wall Off Personal and Corporate Data

RIM has started to talk about it upcoming “Balance” application that is in testing with a release slated for two months from now. It allows corporations to continue to control the emails and contact information on a Blackberry while segregating photos, web browser and social networking. The goal is to keep security and corporate data [...]

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OtterBox releases new cases for iPod Touch, BlackBerry, and More

I wanted to give you all heads up that OtterBox has just releases some new cases for a bunch of devices that you may have been waiting for. For the iPod Touch 4th Generation owners out there (my kids), OtterBox now has the Commuter and Defender Series. The BlackBerry Style 9670 also gets some new [...]

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Blackberry 2011 Updates

Well the good ol boys at Boy Genius Report got some interesting details on some new Blackberry’s that will soon be hitting the market.  First up is the upgrade to the Curve, codenamed “Apollo”.  Nothing too fancy or aesthetically different on this one.  Just some more horsepower and added memory along with OS 6.1.  More [...]

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Mobility Digest Review – Runtastic

  This is a review of the Blackberry version of this app.  It is also available for Apple and Android.  Plus wanted to get something out here that isn’t CES related.  The past couple of years I have been trying to get fit.  Started out running 5k’s and then up to 25k’s.  Last year I [...]

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