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Peter Vesterbacka, one founding developer of Angry Birds, is assuming the role of Rovio Mobile’s public face. In this latest public showing, Vesterbacka, also known as the “Mighty Eagle,” has comments on a wide range of mobile development topics and discusses the background history of Angry Birds in an interview he did with Tech n’…
At the 2010 Mobile World Congress which took place all the way back in February, Chinese infrastructure vendor and handset maker Huawei announced the E398. It was dubbed the world’s first triple mode USB LTE modem. Many, scratch that, all the first generation LTE modems that came out only supported LTE, so if you found…
Patents are a funny thing. Depending on how you view economic progress, they’re either essential for companies to even dare try to innovate, or lethal because they hold back any and all experimentation. I fall into the latter camp, and one of the latest patents out of Apple really take the cake. The California company…
Will someone please sit down with me over a cup of coffee and explain the latest craze that’s sweeping smartphone photography addicts? It seems that applications like Instagram and Camera+ are taking off because people like to intentionally make their photos look old and tarnished. Years of advances in CMOS technology, image processing, and component…
It’s only natural when you think about it. With a few dual-core equipped Android tablets set to be launched next year, Apple must follow with the updated iPad that rocks similar processing capabilities. According to a research from analyst at Rodman & Renshaw, Ashok Kumar, the Cupertino-based company is preparing to do just that. He…
With users like this, Apple doesn’t need to spend a fortune on marketing its products. The following story comes from a Wichita Falls, Texas Find my iPhone user: Pretty amazing Christmas Story! Early this morning my 2005 Land Rover was stolen from the Marriott in Wichita Falls TX. The local police put me on hold,…
File this under “rumors,” but it’s likely Samsung will be unveiling new Android devices at the soon-to-come CES in Las Vegas. With Motorola preparing to launch a Honeycomb tablet at the event, the Korean company doesn’t want to be left behind. According to a report from the Korea Times, Samsung will reveal updated versions of…
LTE-enabled, mobile cloud-based gaming is coming. A company called Ubitus has recently demonstrated its GameCloud solution on DOCOMO’s LTE network and it looks promising. Basically the idea is that users with any handheld device, smartphone included, will be able to play high-end games. All the heavy stuff is processed on servers (in the cloud) returning…
One of the things many keen eyes noticed at the recent All Things D Mobile conference, where Andy Rubin, the father of Android, showed off a Motorola tablet prototype, was the lack of any hardware buttons on said tablet. Andy said that in the future he expects all smartphones and tablet like devices to be…
China’s largest search engine Baidu said that its new microblogging service Baidu Talk has grabbed more than 1 million users after being launched three months ago. The new service incorporates Twitter-like features with additional capabilities of a fully fledged social networking platform. Baidu Talk was unveiled in mid-September as a closed beta, with new users…