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FCC initiative will create smartphone thief database

Mark Raby, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

You know how when you're watching a bloated crime drama on TV and the cops have DNA of the suspect, they punch it into their murderer database to figure out who it must be? Imagine if law enforcement officials wanted to create that kind of database for people who steal iPhones. That is effectively what the Federal Communications Commission aims to achieve with its latest initiative. Except it won't be DNA. It'll be mobile ID numbers that the government uses to track down suspects. Read The Full Story

IHS reveals Lumia 900′s iPhone roots

Chris Burns, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at IHS, aka IHS iSuppli, have revealed what they've torn down and discovered to be as the price of the components which make up the Nokia Lumia 900. This device apparently costs a mere $209 in parts plus $8 to build, putting the device at 46 percent of its retail price. The reason Nokia is able to make this fabulous feat a reality is their relatively new triad of close ties with Microsoft and Qualcomm - this creating a hardware and software powerhouse which allows for top-tier features with lower-tiered pricing akin to Apple's own "playbook" for device creation. Read The Full Story

AT&T unlocking iPhones for military personnel

Rue Liu, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

AT&T recently began unlocking iPhones for customers who have either purchased their devices off-contract or have fulfilled their contract terms. However, MacRumors has learned that the carrier has quietly begun extending the iPhone unlocking service to active-duty military personnel even if they are still under contract. Read The Full Story

Verizon $30 Upgrade Fee implemented for existing customers

Chris Burns, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Mobile device users at Verizon will have a new fee popping up on their bills starting later this month if they do so choose to purchase new equipment at a discounted 2-year price. This fee will be $30 and will be added on to whatever cost a new device purchased on a 2-year contract would have been - this price only added for people already working with Verizon Wireless service. This upgrade fee will go live on the 22nd of April, so switch quick! Read The Full Story

Instagram tops App Store

Chris Davies, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Instagram's launch on Android may have frustrated some iPhone users, but the app hasn't suffered for it, jumping to the top of Apple's App Store charts. The original iOS version is number one in the free iOS app chart, Instagram confirmed, coming on the heels of its new Android counterpart notching up over 5m downloads in just five days. The question now asked is, how will the Facebook acquisition impact usage? Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: April 10, 2012

Mark Raby, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Happy Tuesday, everyone. Are you curious about what made waves in the tech world today? Well then you've come to the right place. Here's something to whet your electronics news appetite - T-Mobile breaks 1 million iPhone mark on EDGE. And in other Apple news, Macbook Pro 15-inch stock low, Ivy Bridge refresh shipping soon. And now turning to Apple's rival, Microsoft is reportedly working on Kinect for Windows Phone 8. We'll see how that works out... Read The Full Story

T-Mobile breaks 1 million iPhone mark on EDGE

Chris Burns, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amid AT&T's new unlocking of their off-contract iPhones in collaboration with Apple officially, T-Mobile has chosen this opportune moment to announce that they've already got 1 million iPhone customers on their network. They do this with the micro-SIM cards they've already got available for sale separate from smartphones for their network along with lower prices than AT&T is offering, albeit with slower speeds for the uploading and downloading of data. Will the AT&T unlock wave bring them another batch of new users? Read The Full Story

Stride adds pattern unlock to iPhone

Chris Davies, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

iPhone owners bored of punching in a PIN and looking enviously across at Android's pattern unlock system finally have an alternative, thanks to a newly released tweak for the iOS smartphone. Adam Bell's new app Stride adds pattern unlock to jailbroken iPhones, going several stages further than Android's simple join-the-dots system and allowing users to train their handset to recognize pretty much any gesture. Read The Full Story

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Three easy ways to save your Instagram photos to desktop

Chris Burns, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Those of you using Instagram for the first time in these recent weeks when it’s just come to Android may well be wondering how you can easily access and save your content to your desktop – as it turns out, there’s three apps for that. Though the recent purchase of Instagram by Facebook may bring more desktop-related features in the future, for the moment we’re stuck moving photos one by one if we want to save them offline or off-phone. Three projects with inspired names have filled that hole with their own solution: Copygram, InstaBackup, and Instaport.

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Rumor claims next iPhone will have a unibody case

Shane McGlaun, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple rumors never seem to die and while the latest iPhone hasn't been around particularly long, rumors of the next model continue to fly. According to an analyst from Topeka Capital Markets named Brian J. White, the next version of the iPhone will have a single-piece unibody frame similar to the MacBook lineup. White cites sources and details gleaned from a tour of suppliers in China and Taiwan. Read The Full Story

Starbucks mobile payments hit 42 million

Mark Raby, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Anyone who has to question the viability of using a smartphone instead of a credit card to pay at the register need look no further than Starbucks, a company that has already been allowing customers to do just that for more than a year. And in those past 15 months, it has managed to process 42 million mobile payment transactions. Not bad for a little coffeehouse, right? Read The Full Story