Softchoice Corporation (TSX:SO) said its Softchoice Advisor iPad App has earned the silver award in the Multimedia Competition at the International Design Awards. Presented at a gala event in Los Angeles, the International Design Awards (IDA) celebrates the world’s most visionary designers and promotes the appreciation of design worldwide. Softchoice launched Softchoice Advisor [...]

News and talk radio app Stitcher, is gearing up for the presidential elections with a dedicated election service that allows users to follow their favorite candidate and get elections news from select sources. The Mobile Election Center tab inside the Stitcher app will give users a chance to get information directly from the different campaigns and also gather election-related news [...]

AT&T’s newest LTE phone, the HTC One X, is due to hit stores this Sunday, May 6 for $199 with contract. The phone looks like T-Mobile’s One S, which I reviewed last month, but has a larger, higher resolution Super LCD screen. T-Mobile, of course, doesn’t offer LTE service yet, which is a big difference between the otherwise very similar handset. I received [...]

LG is reportedly focused on Google Android smartphones and not new Microsoft Windows Phone handsets. Fierce Wireless reported the information on Monday and shared an LG representative’s official confirmation of this smartphone strategy. Why pass or hold off on a new platform? After losses in its mobile division, LG has bounced back as consumers are buying Android phones. LG [...]

Although Microsoft invested $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off on Monday, this isn’t the first time Microsoft played the e-book game. Typical for the company, it often has great ideas, but it errs on the timing. In fact, when Microsoft debuted its Windows Pocket PC platform for mobile devices — a precursor to today’s smartphones –back on April [...]

The iPhones, the Androids, the iPads and hot-spots — whatever might be the devices, but one thing is for sure: the demand for mobile broadband is continuing to grow unabated. Two different reports, one from Akamai and another from Chetan Sharma show that we are using more mobile data in more places, and this is going to keep changing how we live, work, create and consume. Chetan [...]

MoTR 267 is 64:15 minutes long and is a 52.7 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: How big a deal is a $399 Galaxy Nexus? Toshiba Excite 10LTE – first thoughts e-books with lights: Nook GlowLight vs the Kindle Touch case with integrated light HTC Titan II, Matt likes [...]

Eighty-five percent of the global population owns mobile phones currently. This report forecasts the global handset market, examining the following regions: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific. Drivers for handset growth include an increased number of subscribers in developing countries, the rollout of 3G and 4G wireless networks, and shorter [...]

Microsoft’s effort to merge the Windows Phone look and feel with Windows 8 will pay off in the form of causing Google Android to “fade away.” So says Ville Aho, a European follower of the mobile industry, on his blog. There’s merit in Aho’s perspective as I’ve noted that while Apple and Microsoft are moving towards a user interface merger between [...]

Casual food restaurant chain T.G.I. Fridays has become the first national chain to incorporate a mobile payment option called Tabbedout, which will allow diners to open a tab and pay their bill right from their smartphone. The payment option is part of a new mobile app called Fridays that was launched this week. Users will now be able to fire up the Fridays app and enter their credit [...]

Apple acquired app discovery service Chomp earlier this year, betting that it would help make app discovery easier and better on its iTunes Appstore. The casualty of that acquisition is the Chomp for Android app which seems to have been discontinued. It is hard to figure out what is going to happen to Chomp’s deal with Verizon. Anyway, the upside of Chomp for Android being [...]

Looks as though Verizon will soon be testing some new OS updates for the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Curve 9370. These updates will of course be BlackBerry 7.1 updates and will be released intially via OTA. According to the leaked documentation testing will take place on the week of April 24 and run until May 15, after which time, upon approval they’ll be pushed [...]