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			<title>TomTom pairs with TrafficLand to provide live roadside footage to devs</title>
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TomTom is looking to beef up its location based services portal by joining forces with TrafficLand to bring real time traffic video to its developers. TomTom&#039;s LBS will now incorporate TrafficLand&#039;s network of over 13,000 roadside webcams, enabling developers to integrate live footage into their location-enabled apps via the Traffic Camera API. TrafficLand&#039;s real-time video will join the other cloud-based location services TomTom provides to devs, like map content, routing and geocoding. For right now, TrafficLand covers only the US, UK and Canada, and it&#039;s not clear if the company plans to expand beyond those three countries anytime soon. For more information, you can take a gander at TomTom&#039;s full press release, embedded after the break.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 02:45:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>SAP touts service that sells customer data from phone firms</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The European maker of enterprise software would serve as a kind of middleman, analyzing data gathered by various wireless operators, selling results to marketers, and sharing the profits with the wireless companies. [Read more]    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 02:05:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Samsung buys 10 percent stake in rival phone maker Pantech</title>
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Hang around these pages long enough and you&#039;re bound to come across Pantech, the South Korean purveyor of everything from giant 1080p handsets down to... giant 720p handsets. Samsung has noticed this rising star too and, so says Yonhap News, has now made a $50 million investment in the smaller company in return for a 10 percent stake. Implicit in that is that the Korean government has allowed Samsung&#039;s ever-expanding influence to infiltrate a potential rival, since Pantech is now the No. 3 phone maker in that country and only Qualcomm and a state-run bank possess larger stakes than Samsung&#039;s. As a result, the acquisition could have an anti-competitive aura to it -- but then, Pantech has actually been struggling of late, not least with large debts, and it has relied on big backers to bail it out.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:55:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cydia Tweak: Access Your Notifications From The Home Screen With Badger</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Badger is a new Cydia tweak that allows you to keep an eye on your notifications and quickly manage them from the home screen. If you happen to have a notification waiting for you, tap on the app badge or use one of the other activation methods to view it in a mini pop-up window.
This little window will give you a glimpse of the notifications for that app, allow you to delete or dismiss them, and also reply to SMS or iMessages. It’s a very simple tweak, but it could be a great fit for an iPhone power user.
Check out our video overview to see Badger in action:

If you can’t see the above video, please click this link.
Like I said, this is a very simple tweak. Almost too simple for the hype and anticipation built up prior to its release, but it does offer exactly what the developers set out to accomplish.
Badger’s action page for text messages.
Once installed, you’ll find some options tucked away within the Settings app. You have the ability to set up custom animations for when Badger’s window enters and exits the home screen, show contact photos for the Messages app, and configure activation methods. If you find yourself accidentally invoking Badger, the developers have also implemented the ability to disable this feature for specific apps.
One thing I found to be a bit annoying is the message reply window. The text box for replying to a message is a bit too small and may cause you to accidentally miss the box and unintentionally close Badger’s window.
Replying to a message with Badger.
While Badger may not offer a lot of functionality, it’s still a high quality tweak and definitely has a ton of potential. Currently, Badger is available in the BigBoss repository for $0.99 and is compatible with all devices running iOS 5 or higher. Check it out and be sure to let us know what you think in the comments.
For other great Cydia tweaks check out: Add A Flippin’ Good App Icon Effect With IconFlip For Velox, Semi-Restore Allows You To Restore An iOS Device And Keep Your Jailbreak, and QuickGestures Puts Android Style Gestures In The Phone And Contacts App.
Cydia Tweak: Access Your Notifications From The Home Screen With Badger is a story by AppAdvice.comAppAdvice - iPhone, iPad, iPod, App Reviews + News
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:35:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>LoJack for Samsung Galaxy S4 goes hardcore on thieves</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LoJack&#039;s new Galaxy S4 security offering includes sending real people to retrieve your lost or stolen phone. [Read more]    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:25:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Updated: CTIA 2013: all the latest from this year&#039;s show</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We&#039;re back in the desert sun of Las Vegas for a tech show, and no, not CES.We&#039;re joining thousands of journalists, exhibitors and eager attendees in populating the Sands Expo &amp; Convention Center for four days of seminars, press conferences, interview hunting and exhibit floor meandering for CTIA 2013, the annual industry tech show.We hit up MobileCon (hosted by CTIA) in San Diego last year, and though a name reversal may be in order, CTIA 2013&#039;s got a more mobile and consumer focus than the Southern California show.We don&#039;t expect a large number of product unveilings, though there&#039;s always the chance someone could decide to surprise the crowd. Oh yeah, and Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Lopez will both be here.Here&#039;s all the latest coming out of CTIA 2013:CTIA transforming into &#039;super show&#039;The opening day&#039;s key note speech had some interesting insights into the future of CTIA Wireless.It was announced that CTIA is moving away from having two separate shows, and will merge them both into one super show that will be held in the fall.Read more about the future of the CTIA Wireless show.Cat B15 makes US standOn the first day of CTIA (OK, it&#039;s not officially underway yet) we got to rub elbows with the Cat B15; a rugged, rubberized handset from the people behind Caterpillar. Hands on: Cat B15 reviewIf Android 4.1, a dual-core processor and $349 without a contract don&#039;t appeal to you, then perhaps the fact it can survive a 5.9-foot drop and survive for 30 minutes in 3.2-feet of water may play to your gritty side. Read more about the Cat B15 Here&#039;s what we were hoping to see before the show&#039;s kick off:Sit-down with SprintPull up a seat. It&#039;s time to talk Sprint. There&#039;s a lot going on with America&#039;s third place carrier, least of which are bids by two parties to purchase the company outright. We plan to get to get a read on which way Sprint is leaning - Dish or Softbank, as epic a decision as Jacob or Edward - plus how the company plans to compete in the 4G LTE space when we have some one-on-one time with the company in the Vegas desert (OK, it will be an air-conditioned hotel, but you get the idea). There&#039;s much more to come, but know we have it out to sniff what&#039;s up with Sprint. This Digital LifeAT&amp;T brought its home management and automation system, Digital Life, to life in 15 markets April 26, marking the first time the service is available for consumers. The carrier plans to bring D.L. up to 50 markets by the end of the year, and we expect to hear a good amount about how these plans are progressing at CTIA. Kevin Petersen, senior vice president at Digital Life, is giving a keynote speech during &quot;Connections,&quot; a connected home conference within the larger CTIA umbrella. We also have some sit down time scheduled with Petersen during the conference, where we&#039;ll pick his brain on where Digital Life is going on how AT&amp;T plans to take it there. Though it&#039;s not a flashy new phone, as connected homes become a greater part of the digital conversation (just look at CES 2013), we envision many more companies jumping on the bandwagon and offering service&#039;s such as this. We&#039;ll look for insights on the march towards a more connected life at CTIA, so stay tuned for more. Verizon wants us to save the dateWhat&#039;s this in our inbox? A save the date invite from Verizon for May 22?&quot;Join Verizon Wireless for a Special Announcement at CTIA,&quot; it read. Intriguing.During MobileCon, Verizon reveled in it&#039;s 4G LTE dominance, and we wouldn&#039;t be surprised if the company took yet another opportunity to talk up just how many American&#039;s its high-speed network covers.Another take is that we&#039;ll get word on a new product, with our hearts hoping it&#039;s Verizon&#039;s own version of the HTC One.TechRadar will be there live, so tune in at 11 a.m. May 22 for more.Deutsche Telekom talks T-MobileThomas Kiessling, chief product and innovation officer at Deutsche Telekom - T-Mobile&#039;s parent company - is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech during CTIA 2013. Kiessling&#039;s job description alone is reason enough to want to hear what the PhD has to say: According to his bio blurb on the CTIA website, Kiessling is in charge of Group-wide innovation strategy, product development and corporate R&amp;D. He controls DT&#039;s product portfolio and defines the amorphous Group&#039;s product roadmap. Inviting enough, but we expect Kiessling to give us a little taste of T-Mo-related news during his speech. The carrier only recently completely re-invented itself, doing away with annual contracts and offering premium phones at up-front affordable prices. Handsets like the iPhone 5 recently landed on its door step, and more - such as the Galaxy S4 and HTC One - are on the horizon. As if it wasn&#039;t busy enough, T-Mo is also pushing 4G LTE out a steady clip and plans to blanket 100 million U.S. customers by mid-year, so we expect Kiessling to have many topics to talk about. Sprint, AT&amp;T and U.S. Cellular spill on consumer goodsBased on our MobileCon experience, carriers are more keen on talking up the enterprise side of things than the consumer side, but that&#039;s only on surface.Once they get chatting, carriers are quite willing to spill the goods on things that matter to the Average Joe. We&#039;ll pin Sprint, AT&amp;T and U.S. Cellular down to talk coverage, competition and upcoming devices at CTIA. In fact, Mary Dillon, president and CEO of U.S. Cellular, will be in the house, so we fully expect to get the low down on the smaller carrier&#039;s plans for growth. It intends to sell Samsung&#039;s S4, so you know this &quot;little guy&quot; has some big offerings. We expect news from all of the above on how many Americans each is covering with 4G LTE, whether anyone is working on LTE Advanced, and insight into newly announced and still unrevealed devices.Maybe we&#039;ll catch wind of the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6?YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVczr6XtwZsSony elaborates on contactless ecostyemSony, which made a splash at CES and MWC, is heading to Sin City for CTIA, but plans to show a slightly different side of its business than mobile phones specifically.At the Sony booth, there will be plenty of near-field communications (NFC)/FeliCa enabled devices and products that fit into the lattice work of what it calles the &quot;contactless ecosystem.&quot; FeliCa, by the way, is a contactless IC card that Sony developed for transactions that can be completed in approx. 0.1 seconds. We&#039;ll see the company&#039;s NFC Dynamic Tag tech and the uses it has in both healthcare and wellness through a variety of OEM partner products. We&#039;re anxious to see what Sony has in mind for this tech. Are we talking connected home, advanced transactions at various retail locations, improved healthcare and fitness, or a everything under the contactless sun? Sony is sure to have plenty of answers.American Express, Visa vent on NFCSpeaking of NFC, both Visa and American Express (through its Open proxy) will hit the Strip for some convention love, and we&#039;re gearing up to hear how we can knock down our credit card payments.Just kidding. With the States&#039; preeminent credit card companies occupying a chunk of exhibit space at a mobile-focused show, we can only expect some NFC and other mobile commerce-related announcements and products to rear their head. At MobileCon we got an earful from industry leaders in the mobile commerce space on challenges facing mobile wallets, but what solutions do traditional credit card companies have to offer for a world that is increasingly mobile? How can we keep sensitive information secure while also bringing greater convenience to our lives, particularly as a growing number of mobile devices adopt NFC tech? We expect to find out all at CTIA. Is your phone App-solutely secure?As more and more of our personal and professional lives gets tucked away onto phones, tablets and laptops, mobile security is an inescapable concern. So how secure would you say your phone is? Or that app you used to pay your friend back for lunch?If we&#039;ve gotten you a bit nervous, perhaps a trip to App-solutely Security: The State of Mobile Security, will make you feel better. Or maybe it won&#039;t. It all depends on the conclusions drawn at this half-day educational event. It kicks off at 1pm on May 20, with a cocktail reception to calm worried nerves to follow.Qualcomm calms down while giving us an earfulQualcomm and Vegas seem to go together like a bachelor party and bottle service - not well. The chip maker had a press conference it would probably like to forget at CES 2013, and thankfully its CTIA presence will be more subdued....we think. Mass production of its 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor is supposed to get underway in May, and we don&#039;t think Qualcomm will miss the chance to quack about its chips in Vegas. Perhaps we&#039;ll even catch a whiff of when the 800 will start making it out to phones and tablets, and which ones will house it. During MWC 2013, the company spoke at length about how its chips can help solve 4G LTE fragmentation in the U.S. and Europe, and we expect much of that dialogue to carry over into CTIA as well.We just hope we don&#039;t see Big Bird running around. Enter the iZoneApple is ever the host, never the guest. It either puts on an event, or doesn&#039;t show up at all. So while you&#039;d never catch an official iPhone presence at a CTIA show, there&#039;s always a plethora of booths hawking the latest case or accessory for the MacBook, iPhone, iPad or whatever iThing is coming down the pipes.This year, CTIA has officially acknowledged the abundance of Apple accessories in attendance by granting them their own section of the show. They&#039;ll all be corralled in the iZone, a 17,000 square foot shrine to some of the world&#039;s most popular mobile devices. CTIA already published a list of iZone denizens, which includes noted case maker Incase, maker of stylish phone and laptop skins DecalGirl, and screen protection mogul iShieldz, to name a few.Obviously, these manufacturers aren&#039;t limiting themselves to just iPhone and iPad accessories. Maybe they&#039;ll already be selling straps for the rumored Apple iWatch?The wonderful World of TabletsTablets have quickly become a common device for everyday life. They&#039;re a great way to read, game, browse the web or occasionally get some work done. But for as much as they already do for us, there are those that are looking ahead to see how tablets can do more, and remain secure while doing so.The World of Tablets will take place on May 22 from 11:30am - 5:30pm. Host Open Path products has already published a laundry list of subjects it plans to broach. Here are the ones we find most intriguing:Tablet strategies to increase productivityWill that mean blocking games like The Walking Dead and Infinity Blade II? We hope not.The rise of phabletsCan we address renaming/eliminating that awkward term?Tablets and interactive television: The second screen revolutionSmartGlass and HBO GO are a match made in heaven, unless you&#039;d like to actually concentrate on your show.Consumer usage habits- What will they pay for?A very good question, since being free and charging a mere ninety-nine cents can mean a huge difference in downloads. A lot of companies are still trying to crack this one.Ashton Kutcher and J. Lo?CTIA&#039;s suit and tie crowd may be surprised to learn that Ashton Kutcher, of &quot;That 70&#039;s Show&quot; fame, will be featured as a keynote speaker. Kutcher made waves in the early days of Twitter, beating CNN in a race to one million Twitter followers. More recently, he&#039;s taken on the meaty role of playing Apple founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic, not to be confused with the one Aaron Sorkin is currently writing.So Kutcher is obviously a modern dude who loves tech, but what does he have to offer the CTIA crowd? Perhaps a cautionary tale about thinking before you tweet? Kutcher had an awkward moment in November of 2011 when he tweeted &quot;How do you fire Jo Pa? #insult #noclass as a hawkeye fan I find it in poor taste,&quot; unaware that a Penn State sex abuse scandal was breaking. Obviously, he&#039;s apologized, and has since handed the keys to his Twitter account over to his PR team. We wonder what the man would suggest for those without PR hacks to give our tweets a once over.Jennifer Lopez is best known for her role in &#039;Selena,&#039; as a judge on &quot;American Idol&quot; and for that Grammy dress, but Jenny from the Block is also the chairman and CEO of Nuyorican Productions Inc., a film and television company. OK, that may still be too &quot;Hollywood&quot; for the subject matter of CTIA, but Ms. Lopez is participating in a panel on the growth of Latino mobile use. She&#039;ll be joined by Verizon COO and Executive VP Marni Walden as well as Brightstar chairman and CEO Marcelo Claure. We expect some fascinating insights and ideas about new innovations - and how those can be shared by more people - to come out of the discussion. A three-day AppWeekLove apps? Of course you do. So make a visit to the Mobile Apps Pavilion in the middle of the CTIA show floor. For three days it&#039;ll be home to specialty app designers and their products. While that&#039;s a few ticks short of a week, we&#039;ll let them get away with it. They&#039;re promising a place to sit down, kick up your feet and watch demos of new and upcoming apps on big screen televisions.These aren&#039;t the typical apps you&#039;ll find on Google Play or iTunes, either. This is mobile software designed for internal use with government, medical, financial, entertainment and other industries. Pay a visit and you just might find the mobile designer your business needs, or get inspired for a new way to be productive on your device of choice.    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:05:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>CTIA 2013: Heads up, Ludacris: GM wants you to check out this Cadillac&#039;s 4G thrills</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What does a car with built-in 4G feel like? GM, in partnership with AT&amp;T, set out to answer such a question, showing off a conceptual cook-up of what a connected vehicular future might look like during CTIA 2013. The car is a 2014 Cadillac ATS, the company&#039;s current flagship and winner of the Detroit Auto Show&#039;s Car of the Year award. The connectivity is AT&amp;T 4G, of course. In February, the companies announced a partnership to bring the high-speed waves to GM cars starting in 2014, with the end game to eventually have all vehicles coming off the car maker&#039;s production lines armed with 4G. Attendees of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona got a taste of this connected concept car, but this is the first time this 4G ATS has been shown on North American soil. Equipped with 4G, a GM car could, for example, stream videos to passengers, provide in-vehicle Wi-Fi hot spots, allow for speedier hook up to custom apps and give car owners views from cameras mounted on the vehicle. Imagine, a GM rep asked us, working late and wanting to know if there was a stranger lurking around your vehicle. Cameras, and 4G, would let you hop on your phone or tablet and instantly get four-sided views of the environment around your car. The vehicle on display had cameras mounted on the front, rear and both sides, providing real time images of what was going on outside the ATS to a tablet. Internally, the demoed ATS was equipped with internal cameras as well, perfect for spying on passengers you suspect are leaving crumbs in your whip. GM is developing its own HTML 5-based app ecosystem, and we were told the company is looking to court more developers as the 2014 launch time frame approaches. The first vehicles to see these types of services will be 2015 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac models available in the U.S. and Canada. The features shown may have been prototypes, but they provided a glimpse at what a connected car future could be quite well.    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:05:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>DOJ seized phone records of numbers tied to several Fox News phone lines, documents show</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:50:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>LG Optimus F3 leaks with 4-inch screen and Jelly Bean, allegedly headed to Sprint</title>
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As was the case with another LG device recently, the Optimus F3 is making an appearance before going official. Today we&#039;re getting an early look at what appears to be an entry-level member of the Optimus family, courtesy of @eveleaks, and one which will reportedly join Sprint&#039;s smartphone lineup pretty soon. Among the alleged specs said are a 4-inch WVGA display, 2,460mAh battery, LTE capabilities and one of the latest versions of Android -- Jelly Bean (4.1.2). Meanwhile, precise availability and pricing deets are still unknown, but, if all goes according to Phone Arena, we&#039;ll find all that out here &quot;in the next few weeks.&quot;
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Hands-on with the Coolpad Quattro II 4G and 8920</title>
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CTIA 2013 seems to be dedicated to some of the lesser-known names in the US wireless industry, so it&#039;s fit that Chinese manufacturer Coolpad should take advantage of the situation to steal the show. Indeed, we were able to take a look at the phone maker&#039;s upcoming stateside model, the lower-end Quattro II 4G. In the past year, its predecessor cranked out roughly a million units on MetroPCS, and Coolpad is hoping to build upon that success to get a foothold in the US. This sequel, which offers stock Android 4.1.2 with a 4.5-inch qHD TFT display, 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8930 chip, 5MP rear camera and VGA front-facing cam, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage and a 1,800mAh battery, isn&#039;t going to satisfy the tastebuds of power users or high-end flagship seekers, but it&#039;s a quality option for those who aren&#039;t planning to spend a ton of money on a decent handset. Given the intended audience, the device is perfectly solid with reasonable performance; we appreciated the company&#039;s use of a textured back cover. One nitpick: despite our best efforts to get rid of fingerprints, smudges remained with no hope of removal in sight.

Coolpad wasn&#039;t able to give many details on pricing or availability, but reps confirmed that it should arrive on C Spire in late June / early July, with it likely hitting other regional prepaid carriers after. Given the original Quattro&#039;s $80 price point on MetroPCS last year, we wouldn&#039;t be surprised to see the next-gen version offered for around the same cost. The company&#039;s still working to expand its presence on some of the larger networks, but it hopes to make its debut in the postpaid world early next year.

Gallery: Coolpad Quattro II 4G hands-on

Gallery: Coolpad 8920 hands-on
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:01 CDT</pubDate>
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