WIND Mobile Changing Rate Plans and Add-ons, Motorola Offers Up to $200 for Old Phones & Twitter Prepping to Roll Ads in Android and iOS Apps

WIND Mobile Changing Rate Plans and Add-ons March 1st, Here Are the Details
The wind is shifting over at WIND Mobile. Rate plan changes are in the works and here’s the complete details for you. Axed are the names of their current “Clever”, “Smart”, “Brilliant” and “Genius” talk/text/data plans, and actually so will 2 of their plans. Effective March 1st you’ll only see what will be called the “WIND25 and the “WIND40 plan, both $25/month and $40/month respectively.
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Motorola Offers Up to $200 for Old Phones in Android Buy-Back Program
Motorola Mobility is offering up to $200 to consumers who trade in their “business-ready” phones for a new Android model. The company, which is in the process of being bought by Google for $12.5 billion, is offering the trade-in deals to owners of 16 devices, including Droid Razr Maxx, Droid 4, Atrix and Atrix 2 and Titanium.
Mashable

Twitter Prepping to Roll Ads in Android and iOS Apps
Twitter today announced that it is bringing promoted tweets (which are, in effect, advertisements) to the mobile Android and iOS Twitter apps. Twitter explains, “In the coming weeks, we’ll begin introducing Promoted Tweets in the timeline on these mobile apps.
Phone Scoop

Google Ventures And Others Put $5M In Enterprise Mobile Security Company Duo
Enterprise mobile security company Duo Security has raised $5 million from Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Resonant Venture Partners. This brings the startup’s total funding to $6 million. Duo Security essentially provides a two-factor authentication service to companies who want to protect employee phones, with not just one but two secure log-ins.
TechCrunch

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2 Revealed, ZTE Toasts the Mimosa X & Most Young People Buy Smartphones

ZTE Toasts the Mimosa X, with Nvidia Tegra 2 and Icera Modem
ZTE and Nvidia today announced the Mimosa X, a new Android smartphone that includes both an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and an Nvidia Icera modem chipset with support for 21Mbps HSPA+. Nvidia purchased Icera in mid-2011 and the Mimosa is the first device to contain an Nvidia modem, CPU, and GPU. The Mimosa X boasts dual-core processors and will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Phone Scoop

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy Mini 2 Officially Revealed
While we get ready for MWC to begin Samsung is apparently next to reveal a few new handsets, as it just posted the details for its new Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy mini 2. Like their earlier incarnations, the Ace 2 has the best specs of the two, with a dual-core 800MHz processor, HSDPA 14.4 connectivity, GPS/GLONASS, 1,500mAh battery and 4GB of internal storage hiding behind its 3.8-inch WVGA screen.
Engadget

Even on $15,000 a Year, Most Young People Buy Smartphones
When a twentysomething’s budget is tight, her smartphone is far from the first expense to go, suggests a new study from Nielsen. The survey of 20,000 U.S. mobile customers found that smartphone ownership skews toward the young and the wealthy — exactly as you’d expect.
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Analyst Charged With Insider Trading and Fraud After Leaking Apple Sales Data
A research analyst and a former executive who revealed insider information about Apple’s sales have both been charged, reports Reuters. Analyst John Kinnucan on Friday was charged with two counts of securities fraud, two counts of conspiracy and one count of insider trading from a civil case filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Between 2008 and 2010, Kinnucan allegedly paid insiders with cash, trips and other incentives for inside information regarding Apple.
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5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce, Swype Updated to Support Ice Cream Sandwich & Clearwire Plans on Launching TD-LTE Network

5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce
“Mobile is ramping up faster than any other technology we have seen in the past,” says Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins. Mobile web adoption is happening eight times faster than traditional web adoption in the late ’90s.
Mashable

HTC Endeavour to Sport On-Screen Keys, 720p Super LCD Screen, No MicroSD Slot
More details are emerging about the upcoming HTC “hero” device, the 4.7-inch Endeavour, which we recently saw renamed to the One X. The device will not have any hardware capacitive buttons, which contradicts the initial renders, but the device has had a long development life so we’re not surprised there have been some design changes.
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Swype Updated to Support Ice Cream Sandwich
The popular third-party software keyboard Swype has been updated to support Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Swype is an app that uses word prediction in combination with swiping motions to allow users to quickly write emails, text messages, tweets and anything else that requires text input.
BGR

Clearwire Says It Plans on Launching TD-LTE Network by June 2013
Clearwire’s been promising us that speedy LTE network for quite some time now. The good news is, we may have a clearer view of when to expect the waves to start flowing. During yesterday’s Q4 earnings call, CEO Erik Prusch said his company plans on rolling out its LTE tides by June of next year.
Engadget

Samsung Galaxy S II HD Coming to Canada, iPhone Resale Value 63% After One Year, Android 46% & Facebook Talks About Social Games and Mobile Apps

Vonage Brings Free Calling and Messaging to iPhone, Android
Vonage on Wednesday unveiled a new mobile app for the iPhone and Android smartphones that affords free calling and messaging along with cheap international calling rates. Vonage Mobile allows users to make free “high-definition” voice over IP calls among each other over Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G data connections, and low-cost calls can also be placed through the app to any landline or cell phone globally.
BGR

Samsung Galaxy S II HD Coming to Canada
It seems Samsung is intent to keep making their brand known in Canada – according to our sources I can confirm that the next major device after the Galaxy Note will be the Galaxy SII HD (this is also known as the AT&T SkyRocket HD). The GS II HD will come packed with a 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720.
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iPhone Resale Value 63% After One Year, Android 46%
All smartphones do not depreciate equally. 18 months after purchase, iPhones can be sold for 53% of their original price, while Androids can only be sold for 42% and BlackBerries for 41% on average according to a study by Y Combinator second-hand price guide startup Priceonomics.
TechCrunch

Facebook Talks About Social Games and Mobile Apps for 2012
Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco — and it’s good news for app developers. The mobile space presents a huge opportunity to create cross-platform social games, said Carl Sjogreen, director of product management at Facebook.
Mashable

Rogers Giving New and Existing Customers a Free 6-Month BBM Music, Kyocera DuraPlus Announced & LG Reports Second Straight Loss in Q4

Here’s The Supposed Launch Date For iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 will launch at Apple’s WWDC event, according to a report by Daiwa Securities cited by DigiTimes. WWDC is Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, held in June each year. It’s an event where Apple showcases the latest and greatest of its technology for developer use.
Business Insider

Kyocera DuraPlus: a Sprint Phone So Masculine It’ll Kick Your Face in for Misdialing
Sprint’s announced that it’ll carry the Kyocera DuraPlus — a rugged cellphone that recalls a lifetime of tedious internet memes. It’s certified to “Military Standard 810G,” for its resistance to dust, shock, vibration, temperature extremes, humidity and it’s able to withstand water depths of one meter for, erm, up to half an hour.
Egadget

LG Reports Second Straight Loss in Q4
LG Electronics on Wednesday posted its second consecutive quarterly loss despite record flat-panel TV shipments and solid performance from its mobile handset division. The South Korea-based electronics vendor recorded revenue of KRW 13.81 trillion, or approximately $12.05 billion USD, in the fourth quarter of 2011 along with an operating profit of KRW 23 billion, or about $20 million USD.
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Rogers Giving New and Existing Customers a Free 6-Month BBM Music Trial
RIM launched their BBM Music app back in November offered BlackBerry users the ability to discover and share music with their BBM contacts. RIM first offered up a 60-day trial, then recently extended it to 120-days for “new BBM Music users only”. After the trial period the cost is $4.99/month.
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