The upgrade to 4G LTE for the Motorola Xoom 3G was set to begin in September, and now we’re getting word that the upgrade has already begun for a very select pilot test group. In fact, the pilot test group is said to consist of various business and government personnel in the United States. The more »

Good ol’ magenta is reaching out to potential business customers with a new promotion. T-Mobile is willing to apply a $200 bill credit for any business that leaves its current mobile provider for T-Mobile. This is a limited time offer and requires a two-year agreement in addition to a device purchase is to obtain the credit.

Sprint started the day by pulling back the curtain on a couple new Android smartphones. These two new phones were manufactured by Motorola and are meant to be used in the business sector. The Motorola Titanium does not have a release date yet, but the Motorola XPRT will be released on June 5 for $129.99 on contract.

Riding in airplanes is one of the only times when an individual will willingly turn off their mobile phone. It’s not like they have much of a choice as that is the rule on most commercial flights. Still, the moment the plane touches the ground, everyone frantically reaches for their phones to see how the world had changed since they went offline. Regular people will continue to live in cellular limbo while flying, but business types can get the Aircell Smartphone and talk freely in-flight.

Not long ago there were rumors of a possible merge between T-Mobile and Sprint which didn’t make much sense. Today’s deal make much more sense: AT&T has bought T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. Unlike the rumored T-Mobile/Sprint merger, AT&T and T-Mobile actually use similar technology, albeit it on different frequencies. The move will see AT&T more »

Motorola’s latest business-centric smartphone, the Motorola DROID PRO launched November 18 on Verizon Wireless. The DROID PRO is a sleek, powerful Android smartphone operating on Android 2.2, 1 GHz Processor, 2GB internal memory, 5MP camera with flash, and a 3.1 inch touch screen display. So far, I’ve enjoyed using the DROID PRO as the front more »

It turns out that the wars between Google and Bing over real-time search turned out to be a great revenue boost of $25 million for Twitter. Twitter has been notoriously known for being a company that has drawn in investor money but has never been able to return the favor in profit. Now, that little more »

Twitter has been brewing up a new feature for their API. This time, it is a feature the Twitter employees call ‘Contributers.’ The basic idea behind the new feature is to allow businesses to have multiple people behind their Twitter account. This way, anytime a business tweets out some information, you know the individual behind more »

It’s no big secret that AOL isn’t doing as well as it once did. Once it was the Internet to many people, now some people still keep their AOL email, but the company is struggling. A new CEO, former Google sales executive Tim Armstrong was brought in to help turn the company around, and today more »

Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a mapping company that allows users to overlay maps with personal data. With the recent fallout between Apple and Google, we’ve got to wonder if Apple is looking to depend less on Google for its mapping, one of the stock apps on the iPhone and iPod touch. Interestingly, this news broke more »