Oh poor Steve Ballmer. Not only is the Microsoft CEO having a tough time gaining traction in the smartphone space and now Forbes is naming him “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.” Yikes. The argument against Ballmer goes like this: Microsoft’s stock was much higher when he took over and…
Facebook redesigns News Feed for phones
Just a few days before its expected Initial Public Offering, Facebook is pushing out a redesigned News Feed which is optimized for mobile phones. In a Facebook post, the world’s largest social network shows a few of the changes that will be coming to the mobile version for Android, iPhone and on m.facebook.com. This includes…
Is that BlackBerry 10’s keyboard on an iPhone?
One of the most interesting things Research In Motion showed off about BlackBerry 10 was the next-generation keyboard which promises to take virtual keyboards to the next level. Well, an enterprising developer has made a similar product for the iPhone but it will only work on jailbroken devices. The product is dubbed Octopus Keyboard and…
President Clinton says wireless can transform the world
President Bill Clinton delivered the closing keynote speech of CTIA 2012 and he said that the wireless industry has the potential to change the world for good in a variety of ways. The former president mixed in a few of his political philosophies but he mainly focused on how communication networks can enable collaboration, which…
Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE hands-on
The HTC EVO 4G LTE will be coming to Sprint later this month and the handset promises to be quite a powerful device. We got our hands on a review unit at CTIA 2012, so let’s take a quick look before our official review. Think of the EVO 4G LTE as the Sprint version of…
Toshiba Excite 13 hands-on from CTIA 2012
So, we knew about the Excite 13 Android tablet from Toshiba but when you see this thing in person, it’s quite a trip. The Excite 13 is a very, very large tablet. Toshiba knows that it’s not going to be for a wide audience and it widely expects the Excite 13 to be used at…
Sprint Sierra Wireless Tri-Fi hotspot has 3G, WiMax LTE
Fresh off its chat about its 4G LTE plans, Sprint has released a Sierra Wireless Tri-Fi hotspot that can handle CDMA 3G, WiMax 4G and 4G LTE. It looks like it’s a triple threat. Sprint said it will be able to intelligently shift between the three technologies for a seamless customer experience and other than…
Angry Birds downloaded more than 1 billion times
Stefan was pretty incredulous that Rovio supposedly turned down $2 billion from Zynga but it may have been the smart move as the company today revealed that the Angry Birds game has been downloaded more than 1 billion times. Rovio made a short video below to thank everyone for the remarkable achievement and I’m sure…
Sprint: Even with 4G LTE, CDMA isn’t going anywhere
During a “Network Vision” event at CTIA 2012, Sprint reiterated its plans to roll out 4G LTE but the company is insistant that its CDMA 3G technology won’t be going away any time soon. Sprint’s SVP Bob Azzi said the network rollout is meant to improve the company’s 3G network, as well as deploy 4G…
Visa: Mobile payments could explode in 24 months
We’ve been talking about mobile payments for years now and even though some think it may be about four to six years away from the tipping point, a Visa executive said we could see some interesting developments within two years. During an interview at CTIA 2012, Brad Greene, senior business leader mobile, said that Visa…