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A few years ago, upskirt photos being taken on mobile devices became quite problematic in Japan and South Korea. Officials in both countries started cracking down on those perverts, especially in trains where most of the crimes were taking place. In fact, phones were required to make a shutter sound every time their cameras were…
It looks like a Nexus S 4G for Sprint is all but confirmed at this point. There was a rumor earlier that the device would be announced, along with a handful of other devices, at CTIA 2011 in Orlando, FL. Now we’re seeing that a website dedicated to the Android handset is being readied by…
Now that the iPad 2 is out, we’re all looking to the future and Apple’s next release – the iPhone 5. Rumours from China suggest that Apple will be skipping the external antennae design, using aluminum for the rear instead, and that it will include the dual-core A5 chip used in the iPad 2. This…
Not to be out-done by Rogers, Telus and Bell both confirmed this morning that they would be offering data plans for the iPad 2. Their e-mails didn’t say anything about selling the device itself, so I can only assume that Apple is twisting both of their arms and getting users out of three-year contracts just…
Building a wireless network isn’t easy. You need to purchase spectrum from the government, get a sizable loan from the bank, go to an infrastructure provider like Ericsson or Nokia Siemens networks and sign some contracts, and then you need to start all sorts of advertising campaigns and may even have to open up a…
An extensive roadmap for RIM’s software release schedule for 2011 has leaked out, spanning from the bigger products, like BlackBerry Internet Service, to the smaller ones like Ticketmaster. BIS 4.0 should be rolling out between now and May, with an upgrade to 4.1 starting between late July and early September. No mention of features, unfortunately.…
South Korean handset vendor LG has recently said that they’re working on making their own smartphone chips. Instead of buying a Tegra 2 from NVIDIA, OMAP 4 from Texas Instruments, or Snapdragon from Qualcomm, they’re going to go at it alone and will most likely slap together a few cores from ARM and a GPU…
Roughly 3 years ago Nokia purchased Trolltech, the Norwegian company responsible for developing the Qt platform. Nokia’s goal was simple: Let’s make Symbian easier to develop for and create a software layer we can throw on top of both Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo so that developers writing for our devices can address a larger customer base.…
Last week, it was revealed that 21 titles within the Android market were malware designed to install additional malware and potentially steal personal information from a user’s handset. The applications were free knockoff versions of popular games and had been downloaded over 50,000 times. These rogue applications targeted an exploit that was present in handsets…
Motorola debunked that rumor flying around last week that rooted Xoom tablets would not be eligible to receive the 4G LTE modem hardware swap. A Motorola spokesperson clarified manufacturer’s position on the support forums by stating the following: All Motorola XOOM tablets on the Verizon Wireless network are eligible to receive an upgrade to support…