The Chinese wireless market is a formidable force. With their hundreds and hundreds of millions of wireless subscribers, it makes sense for Yahoo to cater to the Chinese market. The search-giant has announced that they will be releasing their Yahoo! Go 2.0 mobile service in a Chinese-flavored version. The US has had Yahoo! Go 2.0…
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Pandora streaming radio on your AT&T handset – Pandora and AT&T, together as one
We love Pandora. It’s like having your own, personal radio DJ in your computer. Following on their partnership with Sprint, the streaming internet radio service has teamed up with AT&T to bring the customizable online radio service to 3G handsets on the AT&T network. Pandora radio stations can be personalized to your liking (limited to…
AT&T launches Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 HSUPA USB modem
With AT&T’s high-speed upload network now online, the wireless carrier is starting to roll out wireless data HSUPA modems. AT&T’s first HSUPA data card offering was the Sierra Wireless AirCard 881, and now they’re offering us the Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 HSUPA USB modem to surf the full HSPA data highway. If expresscards aren’t your…
iPhone video recording, more features coming soon?
As long as the iPhone hacking community keeps jailbreaking the latest iPhone firmware updates, we have no problem with updating our handsets. However, should there come a time when iPhone hackers are unable to find a way into the iPhone’s file-system, Apple had better offer us some really, really, enticing features to get us to…
No-name firm files suit against Apple and other handset makers for patent infringement
In our land of the lawsuit-friendly legal system, it’s no surprise that we’re hearing of another no-name company coming out of the woodwork with a patent-infringement case. The latest patent-infringement suit comes from Delware-based AutoText Technologies. A 32-page complaint was filed against 23 companies that AutoText Technologies claims infringed on a 1994 patent for a…
Dutch court dismisses Nokia patent case against Qualcomm
Well, it seems that Qualcomm’s finally catching a break in the litigious battlefield of patent-licensing. Nokia had recently filed suit against Qualcomm over the same, tired patent-licensing dispute in the Netherlands. You see, Nokia’s chip supplier, Texas Instruments, already pays licensing fees to Qualcomm to use their 3G technology. Nokia believes that they shouldn’t have…
Chinese N92 phone uses Nokia’s naming scheme; Has nothing to do with the original Nokia N92
Although there’s no “Nokia” brand on this device, the naming clearly comes from the Finish giant – hence we can say it’s a ripoff. But wait, this device has nothing to do with Nokia’s original mobile TV enabled device, it’s just a way of a certain Chinese handset maker to get some attention… Anyway, in…
Callpod Dragon – a Bluetooth headset with 100+ meter range
Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Apparently the latest Callpod’s Bluetooth headset allows you to take and make phone calls from 100 meters away from your phone — for those not counting distance in meters, that’s about 328 feets. In addition to long range connectivity, the Callpod Dragon also packs such features like dual-mic noise suppression…
Zoo Keeper mobile heading to Europe
We’ve missed this one but I want to run it nevertheless. The reason is obious I enjoy Zoo visits, even though I’ve no chance to go there (that) often. Anyway, Last month Namco Bandai announced that it will be bringing the hit DS puzzle game Zoo Keeper to European mobile users sometime in November. The…
New HTC smartphone cleared by the FCC (Iris) looks familiar
Thanks to the good ol’ FCC, we’ve spotted a new CDMA-based HTC smartphone – Iris. As you can see from the image on the left, the device in question looks kinda familiar. Yeah, I’m talking about the phone used for demoing the Android platform. All the buttons are there and also is the screen size.…