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Our favorite music-in-the-cloud service has received a pest control update. Nothing major has been included but they have fixed a couple nasty bugs. These fixes are related to shuffle mode and multiple accounts. If you’ve been having issues with either of these functions, you should be all patched up and ready to go.


It’s been about two weeks since we saw AT&T announce its future lineup of phones and tablets at CES, and today they have announced the availability of their Pantech duo: the Pantech Burst and Element. The first South Korean device to enter the lightweight division come in at just 4″, and is called the Pantech Burst. The Burst features:


I’m sure by now you’ve been subjected to the perpetual cat fight between Samsung and Apple. Just when I thought Samsung couldn’t taunt Apple any further they go ahead and launch another ad for their “The next big thing is already here” campaign. Their newest ad, which is set to smear your screen during the Super Bowl, has a corny catchphrase that I’m assuming Samsung hopes will go viral. Would you like to hear it? Of course you would — “We’ve Just Got Samsunged!” I kid you not, this is what one of the portrayed iFans blurts out after a Samsung Galaxy SII owner shows him that he has free turn by turn navigation built into his phone.

Laaaaaaaaaaadies and Gentlemen, welcome to Friday Night Fights, a new series of weekly deathmatches between two no-mercy brawlers who will fight to the death — or at least agree to disagree — about which is better: Apple or Google, iOS or Android?

After this week’s topic, someone’s going to be spitting teeth. Our question: Which is better? Android’s three virtual buttons or iOS’s physical home button?

In one corner, we have the 900 pound gorilla, Cult of Mac; in the opposite corner, wearing the green trunks, we have the plucky upstart, Cult of Android!

Place your bets, gentlemen! This is going be a bloody one.


When Sprint updated the HTC EVO 3D, they slyly removed the infamous Carrier IQ, and called it a “security update.” We soon got wind that Sprint was planning to remove Carrier IQ from all its handsets, and not soon after, HTC chimed in and confirmed Sprint’s plans. It appears they are continuing with these “security updates,” as they have now released them to three more devices: the HTC EVO 4G, EVO Design 4G, and the Samsung Epic 4G.

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