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Motorola Droid 3 now available on Verizon for $199 (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends – The Motorola Droid 3 has arrived, sort of. The new phone is now available for purchase on Verizon’s Website for $199.99 with a two-year contract or $459.99 alone. Those hoping for a 4G LTE handset will be disappointed, however. The Droid 3 is still a 3G phone, though it does pack some [...]

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Judge won’t stop Amazon from using ‘Appstore’ (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends – A federal judge has denied Apple’s injunction seeking to immediately stop Amazon from calling its Android app portal the “Amazon Appstore for Android.â€?  Apple, believing it’s legally entitled to the “App Storeâ€? trademark, issued several cease and desist letters to Amazon and then followed-up with a lawsuit against the online retailer in [...]

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Apple App Store downloads cross 15 billion mark (AFP)

AFP – Apple announced on Thursday that more than 15 billion applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store. http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/personaltech share: Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share [...]

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Amazon Cloud Drive gets unlimited music storage, iPad support (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends – When Amazon launched its Cloud Drive service in March, basic service originally came with 5GB of free space to store your music as well as a music player for the Web and Android devices. This week, Amazon rolled out a promotion that offers Cloud Drive users unlimited music storage, in addition to [...]

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Verizon Launches New Motorola Droid 3 (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor – Motorola’s new Droid 3 smartphone is now available for purchase from Verizon Wireless online and will begin selling in retail outlets nationwide on July 14. Powered by Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, the Droid 3 is priced at $199.99 for customers signing up for two-year service contracts with Verizon. http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/personaltech share: Blog this! [...]

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Free Beats Paid in Generating Revenue on Apple’s App Store [STATS] (Mashable)

Mashable – Here’s something that might seem counter-intuitive. Free iPhone and iPod touch games generate more revenue than their paid counterparts on Apple’s 15 billion download-strong App Store. The new finding comes from mobile analytics company Flurry. It analyzed the revenue generated by the top 100 grossing games on the App Store in January and [...]

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Sony implementing one-time-use codes for Resistance 3 multiplayer (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends – Sony is rolling out a new program in September 2011 with the release of Resistance 3 called the PSN Pass, according to Joystiq. Also called “Project Ten Dollarâ€? by third-party publishers, the PSN Pass is a one-time-use code that allows the player to enable online play specific to the player account. Resistance 3 [...]

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Reasons to Worry about Facebook’s Skype Partnership (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Facebook has yet another gadget in its repertoire of tools. Microsoft, which purchased the popular video chat system Skype in May, has now partnered with the influential social networking site Facebook. Instead of just chatting with your Facebook friends, you will now be able to video chat, for free, with them. [...]

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Skype on Facebook the End of Online Privacy as We Know It (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Facebook unveiled its latest offering to users Wednesday: the ability to make video calls to friends on the social networking site, according to the Washington Post. Skype, the video calling service, has teamed up with Facebook in what could be considered one of the greatest technological partnerships in recent years. The [...]

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Skype Partnership with Facebook Could Compromise Chat Site’s Autonomy (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | I heard an announcement from Facebook CEO Matt Zuckerberg that made me giddy with excitement: Facebook has partnered with Skype to provide video calling through your Facebook profile. So now, instead of the paltry nine contacts I have on my Skype page, there are 500-odd friends I can video message any [...]