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Sprint promised to launch WiMAX, in conjunction with Clearwire, in Los Angeles on the first of December. Instead of making people wait until Wednesday, they’ve decided to flip the switch today. In addition to LA, they’ve also activated Miami, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Want even more good news? If you live in…
Earlier this month, after Nokia declared that they would swallow the Symbian Foundation back into their internal organization, we knew it would only be a matter of time until the Foundation’s official website would go down. Now we have a date we can count down to while we sit in our offices waiting to pop…
Facebook application developer Tal Ater has been digging through Facebook’s code and voila – he has found a “VideoChat” object, which refers to Skype and Skype user IDs — the code checks for plugin support using either ActiveX on Internet Explorer, or using the Skype SDK. Apparently, this code isn’t shown every time a page…
We’ve kinda late with this as the Thanksgiving weekend is behind us. Nevertheless, we’re sure you’ll travel more during the upcoming month or so — the holidays have just started, after all. You know the drill – as you travel, TSA makes sure everyone is safe hence they keep checking passengers’ baggage from time to…
The GSMA announced the launch of the first ever GSMA Band App Audition, which is an app developer competition calling for mobile app concepts for the artists to engage with their fans throughout the world. For the competition, GSMA engaged some well-known names such as Muse, Faithless, upcoming new artists Metric and Eliza Doolittle, while…
Tokyo, Japan-based AITIA Corporation has launched what they say is the world’s first augmented reality motion video and still image shooting application called “Mosimo Camera” for Android smartphones. The name “Mosimo” comes from “what if…” in Japanese and the idea is to allow users to take incredible photos — i.e. “what if your girlfriend sparkled…
Hong Kong-based CSL has launched the commercial LTE services, becoming the first operator in Asia to migrate to the next-generation technology. Initially, the new network offers only “corporate services” with consumer offerings planned for the first quarter of next year “when [LTE] devices start entering in the market.” At the moment, the network lives across…
Bitstream was all proud to announce that their BOLT mobile browser is the first such solution to fully support Indic languages. More precisely, BOLT supports nine languages spoken as a first language by an estimated 1.3 billion people living in India and the surrounding regions — including Hindi (India’s official language), Bengali, Gurumukhi, Telugu, Tamil,…
Coca-Cola is in the midst of experimenting with NFC contactless payments in Belgium and Luxembourg. The company has struck a partnership deal with PingPing to implement their technology on Coca-Cola vending machines. The NFC payment enablement program is set to start at the end of this year, effectively making Belgium the first European country to…
After the launch in Germany, the Samsung Wave 723 is heading towards the UK. O2 has just started offering the Bada-powered smartphone in the country asking for no money upfront as long as you commit on a 20 GBP a month contract. That money also buys you 100 minutes and unlimited text messages per month.…