Refresh Roundup: week of January 23, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for …

Three COWs descend on Lucas Oil Stadium, courtesy of Verizon Wireless (video)

When you think of Super Bowl Sunday, many images likely come to mind: malty beverages, nachos, high-budget commercials and — oh, yeah — football. Even amongst us mobile fanatics, however, cellular coverage rarely crosses the mind. Fortunately, that’…

Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus gets one-click root and unlock

You’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. You’re eager to root and unlock it, but don’t want to acquire carpal tunnel in the process? Listen up: a one-click root and unlock tool has been posted to the forums over at AndroidCentral. Developed by WugFresh, t…

Telecoms win immunity in wiretapping case, US court approves separate suit against the government

Looks like a case of good news-bad news for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its fight against warrantless wiretapping. A US appeals court upheld a 2008 ruling, granting telecoms such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint immunity for cooperating with t…