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Students, rejoice! Amazon has announced that the company will now be offering textbook rentals on Kindle devices and through the Kindle app on other platforms. According to Amazon, textbooks can be rented at up to...

You may have never heard the name Paul Adams, but if you are one of the lucky ones who have been using Google+ over the last few weeks, you have definitely seen his work. Adams...

This week RIM is holding its Annual Shareholders Meeting at the company's Waterloo, Ontario based headquarters. Last month, Northwest Ethical Investments LP, a major RIM shareholder, proposed to remove the title of chairman from current...

Former Palm Inc. CEO Jon Rubinstein was named senior vice president in charge of Product Innovation in the Personal Systems Group at HP. According to the HP press release, Rubinstein will no longer have direct...

In a move that will surely have Android modders revving their engines, HTC has announced that they will begin rolling out updates to unlock the bootloaders this Fall. HTC is currently testing updates with support...

In a press release today, Apple has announced that their iOS App Store has reached a total of 15 billion downloads. The highly popular software and content delivery ecosystem opened on July 18, 2008 and,...

Just short of four months after its initial release, Apple's iPad 2 can now be safely jailbroken. Comex's long awaited JailbreakMe 3.0 was finally made available to the hacking public. Earlier this morning, users going...

Sometime yesterday, a beta of iOS hacker Comex's iPad 2 jailbreak method was released to the internet. We've known that it's been possible to jailbreak the iPad 2 almost since day one but this is the...

Hacker collective Anonymous launched two new information sharing sites earlier in the week. Anonymous' blog states that the hive mind, specifically the subgroup known as the People's Liberation Front, wants to gather leaks from outside...

Today, security company Symantec issued a white paper detailing strengths and weaknesses in the security of the two largest mobile operating systems, Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The white paper, found here, outlines the best...

New information regarding Google's next Nexus phone has been revealed. BGR reported earlier this month that they received exclusive information regarding the first handset running Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich. Today they've come back...

A recently released survey in the UK lists Android as the platform most likely to develop hardware faults. The survey of over 600,000 technical support calls over the past 12 months was conducted by WDS....

A patent covering multi touch technology was awarded to Apple by the USPTO yesterday. The patent, originally filed for in 2007, was just given the stamp of approval and could spell doom for other smartphone...

German blog .webOS Blog reports that HP's new WebOS-based smartphone, the Pre3, will launch with WebOS 2.2 which features Skype calling integrated right into the OS's Synergy feature. The Pre3 features a front-facing camera that...

Yesterday was Research In Motion's first quarter earnings call. Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis didn't have a pretty picture to paint. This Is My Next reports that RIM is claiming 500,000 Playbooks shipped in...

Apple has once again announced Back to School offers on new Mac laptops and desktops. In addition to the education discount on new Mac models that's available year-round, Apple is throwing in a gift card...