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When it comes to hardware leaks, @evleaks is no stranger. In fact, virtually all pre-release press renders show up online through his account. So it’s no surprise to see a T-Mo Samsung device being leaked earlier today. The device in question is the Galaxy Avant, a smartphone we know very little abo
Mobile messaging company Tango is announcing a new way for companies like Spotify and 500px to push updates and content to consumers through a service called Tango Channels. At first blush, this might sound like a new ad program, but that’s not exactly it. Turns out that Tango already runs in-stream
Alcatel did unveil the sequel to their One Touch Idol X smartphone earlier this year after some alleged images of the handset leaked out alongside the possibility of the sequel beingaccompanied by smart devices, calling it the Alcatel One Touch Idol X+ in order to keep things nice and simple. While
Singapore Telecommunications’ digital advertising company Amobee has said that it will buy content marketing startup Kontera as well as cross-channel advertising company Adconion. The deal will cost around $359 million, according to a statement on the news. Amobee already can handle programmatic adv
When we checked in on eBay Now last fall, its leaders were brimming with optimism, announcing plans to bring the same-day delivery option to 25 more cities by the end of 2014. Skip forward to today, however, and it’s apparently a different story. VentureBeat sources claim that the service is i
When you walk around the offices of Twitter’s engineering department, located on the sixth floor of the company’s downtown San Francisco headquarters, you will see signs counting down the days until the World Cup. The World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event, and because it consists of fewer
Some time on Tuesday afternoon, about 50,000 Comcast Internet customers in Houston will become part of a massive public Wi-Fi hotspot network, a number that will swell to 150,000 by the end of June. Comcast will begin activating a feature in its Arris Touchstone Telephony Wireless Gateway Modems tha
China accounts for more than a quarter of global machine-to-machine connections, according to a report by the GSMA association of mobile operators. With more than 50 million connections, the country’s at the head of the pack when it comes to Internet of Things adoption. China’s lead is t
China has a very competitive smartphone market. Apart from popular manufacturers like Samsung and Apple, the market is catered to by dozens of local manufacturers who rarely ship their devices outside of the People’s Republic. ZTE is one such company but it has its sights set on expansion. To push t
Sr. Pago, one of the two largest mobile point of sale services in Mexico, today announced the launch of the Sr. Pago Card System, the first service in the Americas that combines a smartphone chip credit card reader with a debit card that can be reloaded with payments accepted through the card reader
Since Samsung has already launched its 2014 flagship smartphone, we now await the launch of its new flagship phablet. The Galaxy Note 4 is expected to be unveiled this fall. Details about the phablet are scarce at this point in time and there’s no confirmation from the company itself about any speci
Amtrak’s Wi-Fi service remains spotty and sluggish on many routes where it’s available, despite the company’s numerous attempts to upgrade on-train connectivity through the years. But now it’s getting serious about the challenge. Amtrak says it wants to build a Wi-Fi solution
