Berg Insight has found that only 2% of the mobile network connections worldwide were used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication at the end of 2010, growing 46% year-on-year to an estimated 81.4 million. In the next five years, the total number of wireless M2M connections is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 32.0% to…
Archives for 2010
Hyper Facts is touted as a quick encyclopedia that gets information from multiple sources
A company called A2rt development launched Hyper Facts, an encyclopedia app for the iPhone that gets information from multiple sources. You may be thinking that Wikipedia offers the same features for free (where as Hyper Facts costs 99 cents), but the idea here is to link multiple articles with Wikipedia content and offer a more…
Android in space video – He’s so high above me
We’ve seen Android phones flying up to space before, but this time around we’ve got more video of the celestial journey. While we know Google wanted to test the sensors of the handsets they have put into space, you might we wondering why they would throw an Android figurine up there? Well, why not? There…
IBM dreams of holographic conversations, air-charged batteries for mobile phones
Every year, IBM surveys its 3,000 researchers and asks them what they think will be the dominant new technologies in the next five years. These predictions are usually reasonable in scope and not wild, science fiction-based fantasies. One such prediction from 2010 points to the development of holographic mobile phone conversations. This technology would be…
HTC 7 Pro appears on O2 Germany’s website with January launch date
The HTC 7 Pro was spotted on O2 Germany’s website with a tentative availability date of January. This January launch date fits in nicely with previous information that pointed to an early 2011 European launch. With its wide landscape keyboard and sleek design, the 7 Pro should be a big hit in Europe . Under the…
Man tries to rob Connecticut restaurant with an iPhone
A brazen would-be robber was foiled when the folks he was attempting to rob pulled out knives in retaliation. According to the police report, Jerome Taylor, donned a mask and entered the Northern Indian Restaurant in New London, Connecticut. He pulled out what appeared to be a gun and demanded money from the cooks who…
T-Mobile 4G mobile hotspot spotted at the FCC
The T-Mobile 4G hotspot has made its way through the FCC, bringing the device one step closer to official status. The FCC documentation details a ZTE-made device with “T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot” branding clearly on the label. The ZTE MF61 has an oval shape reminiscent of the AT&T mobile hotspot manufactured by Novatel. If it…
VIDEO: Palm Pre 2 Unboxing and Hands-on Impressions
This week, Rogers went live with the Palm Pre 2 for $99.99 on a three-year contract, and since we’re still waiting on a Verizon launch, I thought y’all might like to take a peek at the device. Just to recap, the Palm Pre 2 updates the Pre Plus with a 5 megapixel camera, 1 GHz…
The Nativity as told through social media (Video)
Here is an enjoyable video for all you Foursquare and Facebook fans this Christmas morning. The folks from Excentric, a Portuguese digital marketing company, put together a video detailing the birth of Jesus from a modern day outlook. The group did not re-write the story, but told it from the perspective of a technophile and…
Motorola CLIQ XT Android 2.1 update may never come
The Motorola CLIQ XT, successor to the first halfway decent Android device, the CLIQ, was scheduled to get Android 2.1 Eclair some time soon. However, it looks like it has been put on hold indefinitely. The Android device was released earlier this year with 1.5, and while there were 2.0 devices floating about – like…