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Although eBay is best known for online auctions, the company is now testing the waters of same-day retail delivery with a service called eBay Now. The service has launched in beta for residents of San Francisco only. Through an iPhone app, users can order products from partnering retailers such as Macy’s, Target, and Best Buy, and Continue Reading →

Nokia has some new Windows Phone 8 handsets in the pipeline and it’s going to unveil them to the public in a matter of weeks. Sources familiar with Nokia’s plans tell WPDang and Bloomberg that the company plans to debut its new line of Windows Phone 8 handsets at Nokia World, the two-day conference it’s Continue Reading →

Apple investors, start your engines. The latest juicy morsel to emerge from the soap opera that is San Jose, California’s Apple vs. Samsung trial consists of a remarkable state that comes straight from the horse’s mouth. The Verge, which is actually live-blogging the trial right now, caught a great tidbit from Apple’s senior vice president Continue Reading →

Mobile is the fastest growing advertising segment (up 60.9 percent worldwide in 2011, PQ Media), but accounts for only one percent of total ad-spend. Even that low percentage represents $2.6 billion this year in the US alone (eMarketer). Brands are fed up with standard ad banners, preferring In-App, rich media. This makes sense, considering that Continue Reading →

On Thursday, Sharp’s new president, Takashi Okuda, said that his company will begin shipping iPhone displays starting this month, according to a report from Reuters. Okuda made the statement at a press event following the release of Sharp’s quarterly earnings report. Sharp’s president didn’t make note of the display’s size, but Reuters reports that the Continue Reading →

iPhone activations at AT&T grew by just 3% in the second quarter this year, and many industry watchers pointed to the flood of next-generation iPhone rumors as a likely culprit for the slowed growth. BGR has exclusively learned that this is not entirely the case, however, and the stalled iPhone sales at the nation’s No.2 Continue Reading →

A day after upgrading its cloud music player, Amazon has delivered a native Amazon Instant Video app for iPad (not iPhone or iPod Touch, yet) to the App Store. It has access to streaming Prime Instant Video for subscribers, as well as downloaded or streamed video on-demand. Other key features include access to the Watchlist Continue Reading →

Google’s Gmail app for iOS has been docked by some potential adopters for feeling like a poor cousin to other native apps. It may be worth revisiting: the 1.3 update has just arrived with a much-requested ability to save common image attachments to an iOS device’s photo collection. Should that not be enough, Google has Continue Reading →

One of the most interesting topics in the app market right now is the divergence between iPhone and iPad application markets — over the past 18 months, the top-grossing iPad game chart has clearly started slanting towards your mom. At No.1 we have Dragonvale, a game that gives you the ability to grow and breed Continue Reading →

Following a report from iMore early Monday morning, a horde of blogs and news organizations have managed to confirm that Apple plans to unveil its sixth-generation iPhone during a press conference on September 12th. First, the Journal’s AllThingsD blog said its sources pegged the week of September 9th for a special Apple event, and later Continue Reading →