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I think we all know that there are few truly unlimited plans left out there for smartphone users. They may say unlimited, but those little asterisks tell us that they actually limit most of the time. It may be a fair-use policy that charges you more after a small amount of free data, or it could be that they just slow your connection to the point that you can’t even use your device for data. I mentioned Republic Wireless last month when we first got word of the new service that was coming. Republic is a no contract wireless carrier who promised unlimited wireless calls, texting, and data for $19 monthly. Once the fine print was combed over, it was found that the firm needed an asterisk near that unlimited claim since it had a confusingly complex fair-use policy in place. There was an outcry from folks over the policy, and the carrier was thought to be simply deceptive in how it presented its unlimited plan. It seems enough people cried foul that the company is turning around and “g

I don’t think that anyone will be surprised by this new report by NPD. The company says that smartphone cameras are relegating the normal stand-alone camera increasingly to a thing of the past. A recent NPD study shows that the number of users that shoot photos and video with smartphones is increasing significantly while the number of people using single-purpose cameras is on the decline. In the US, about 27% of all photos shot this year have been taken with smartphones. The number past year was 17%. At the same time, about 44% of the photos shot in the US were taken with stand-alone cameras. In 2010, that stand-alone camera use was 52%. The remainder of the photos taken were made up with shots taken with webcams, camcorders, normal cell phones, and tablets. It would also make sense that with the use of stand-alone cameras on the decline, the camera market is seeing sales decline as well. NPD says that the point-and-shoot camera market dropped 17% in units sold in the first 11 mont

The word is in that Apple received more traffic online last month than Walmart or eBay. In fact, Apple is the sole retailer other than internet shopping sites Amazon and eBay to be in the top fifteen most visited websites in the United States in November, according to ComScore. The research company believes that pre-holiday shopping may have been what largely helped facilitate Apple’s huge push past some of the largest online stores for internet-based visitors. How does a single mere technology company pass some of world’s largest online retailer in internet traffic? The answer is simple, and comes down to a single word; iTunes. The digital media store consists of roughly 30 percent of Apple’s almost 80 million U.S. unique visitors last month. Ad Age reports that Apple receives almost as many online hits as the largest newspaper site, that of the venerable New York Times. Together, Apple’s website and iTunes had over 79.2 million unique visitors in November, enough to push it past

The faltering economy and price-competitive rivals have triggered a decline in the market share and sales of Apple’s iPhone in the majority of Europe, except in the UK, based on data shown from European research firm Kantar today. The October release of Apple’s new iPhone 4S buttressed its position in the UK as well as the United States, but the new iPhone didn’t do much to spark interest in mainland Europe, where Apple’s share of the ever-growing smartphone market has fallen. Mainland Europe, specifically France, Germany, Italy, and Spain all saw declines, with the most significant coming from France, a 29 percent drop to 20 percent, while Germany fell from 27 percent to 22 percent. Germany is also where Android has seen one of its largest leads, where 61 percent were getting Android phones, lead by Samsung’s Galaxy S II. Kantar ascribed the French decline to “price sensitivity,” but much of mainland Europe was likely being hit by a potential reversal in economic growth since 2008.

The most searched term and the most visited website of 2011 were, drum roll, Facebook. Garnering almost half of the top ten search terms (specifically four, those being ‘facebook’, ‘facebook login’, ‘facebook.com’, and ‘www.facebook.com’), this is the third year in a row that the world’s largest social network has been the most searched term overall, accounting for 3.1 percent of all searches online, an impressive 46 percent increase from 2010. A certain Mark Zuckerberg out there must be quite pleased with himself right now. The top ten most searched terms of 2011: 1. Facebook 2. YouTube 3. Facebook Login 4. Craigslist 5. Facebook.com 6. Yahoo 7. eBay 8. www.facebook.com 9. Mapquest 10. Yahoo.com The Experian Hitwise report stated that among the top 10 terms, “Facebook login” was the third most-searched term in 2011, followed by “craigslist” and “facebook.com.” Facebook.com jumped up one spot in 2011 to be among the top five search terms. When combined, general search te

AllThingsD has reported that Google will be on track to pay an impressive $300 million per year to Mozilla, for when Google and Mozilla renewed their search royalty deal, earlier this week. This exorbitant amount of money will allow Google to be the default search engine in Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. The deal has apparently climbed to this figure, from previous deals, due to Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which have provided ample competition, until now. Microsoft’s Bing search engine was Google’s primary rival in this deal, and the the company’s long-living Internet Explorer is still the top Internet browser on the web, by user count, although Google Chrome is ever so climbing nearer and nearer to take the spot away, potentially in the near future. Yahoo was apparently in the bidding competition as well, but prices were too high for the company, who has its own internal troubles to deal with at the very moment. Last year, Google paid over $100 million to Mozilla for

The near infinite amount of iPhone cases and mounts in the market today for the iPhone 4 / 4S model family can only be cut through with the most unique of designs – thusly a concept like the Optrix HD Sport Mount must be fantastic to get coverage, yes? Not necessarily, but one thing does stand out on this combination helmet mount and safety case: it says it can protect your iPhone in addition to letting you film yourself doing a backflip on your bike as filmed from your forehead. There’s a video of the product in high action, too! One of the most enticing videos to be made for mobile products as a whole is and always had been the drop test. When you’ve got a device that’s got the ability to run fantastically intricate processes at high definition and in such a tiny bit of hardware you must assume it’s fragile, it’s always the best to see people try to trash it. That’s why Optrix got smart, showing off how even when the mount is tossed out of a window or ran over by a truck, your iPho

Founder and chief scientist of Xerox’s renowned Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Jacob “Jack” Goldman has died at age 90. Goldman has been credited with spearheading many of the technological breakthroughs that are at the core of modern computing and that have been a huge influence on the success of Apple and Microsoft in personal computing. In the late 1960s, Goldman proposed that Xerox establish an advanced research facility. Despite much resistance he managed to launch Xerox PARC, which would develop most of the significant technologies we take for granted today, including the first personal computer called Alto, the graphical user interface (GUI), Ethernet, and laser printing. However, Xerox itself never capitalized on the research and instead allowed other companies such as Apple to take and develop the GUI technology to produce the first mainstream personal computer that supported a visual interface in lieu of command lines. In the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, Job

It’s less than a month now before we’re diving deep into the loving arms of the biggest gadget show of the year, the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, and Samsung has revealed their first dip into the teaser game, complete with a history lesson on the basics of television. This is not the first time we’ve seen Samsung work with smart televisions, it being one of the most visible names in the game over this past year without a doubt with such gems as the Samsung UN55D8000 55-Inch 1080p 240Hz 3D LED Smart TV. What we’re seeing here is a teaser showing not a whole lot of new information, but a teaser leading us to believe Samsung is dipping into the Smart TV game again soon. The video you’ll see here shows several iterations of the family at home watching the television, each one basically the same but with tinges of less desirable situations leading up to the current seating of the family. This newest set has the family of four which now only appears to have one person left in the intere

The LogMeIn app for remotely accessing your Mac or Windows desktop via your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch is now free. The app originally cost $29.99 and was called LogMeIn Ignition. This new version carries over much of the same functionality allowing you to remotely control your desktop computer from the convenience of your iOS device while on the road or simply lounging on the couch. The app lets you connect to any number of Windows or Mac computers that have the free LogMeIn client installed. This can be good for troubleshooting a client’s computer, checking on download progress, or controlling a media center PC. There’s also a LogMeIn Pro option that costs $12.20 a month that gives you added functionality, including access to your desktop computer’s complete file structure for transferring files to and from your iOS device, integrated cloud services like Dropbox and Google Docs, and a HD video streaming feature that works with Windows PCs. If you’ve paid for the previous LogMe

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