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In an obvious and downright hilarious play on Apple’s ‘there’s an App for that’ commercials, Sesame Street recently put together a little sketch regarding a little item known as the ‘iPogo’. In a nutshell, the iPogo is a pogo stick with a difference… you can put applications on the darn thing to do just about…
Operators all around the world are either testing LTE, rolling it out, or have it already running. Sweden was the first country in the world to get an LTE network, all the way back in December 2009, courtesy of local operator TeliaSonera. The new wireless technology promises speeds of around 100 Mbps and ultra low…
Telenor is in the midst of the “Klik” (“click”) campaign in Serbia. If you read pretty much any newspaper or turn on TV every now and then, you simply gotta know about it. They are that decisive or annoying, depending on your point of view. But it’s a nice offer BTW, providing users with free…
Portugal Telecom (PT) has been granted approval to buy a $5 billion stake in Brazilian operator Oi. Under the terms of the deal, PT will pay a 74 million BRL ($43.7 million) debt owed to Fistel, which is a government-backed fund that overseas development in the country’s telecoms industry. “The deal creates no cross shareholdings.…
Cellular South plans to expand to Tennessee and Georgia by acquiring two PCS spectrum licenses from Banana Communications Ventures. In an FCC filing, the carrier also hinted plans to eventually “go LTE” in the areas as part of a wider network upgrade. Financial terms of the transaction haven’t been unveiled. We do, however, know it’s…
Rovio is one super successful company. At this point, they just seem to be counting the money, possibly even thinking about retirement on some fancy island. The company’s Angry Birds game has just crossed the 10 million downloads mark in Apple’s AppStore. Add other platforms and free downloads to the mix and you get to…
The Paliwoda Group launched a new fund called Mobile Info Solutions Fund to offer seed-stage investments to projects across the mobile Internet sector in the New York City. Among the areas they look to put their money in there are location-based services, social networking, mCommerce (advertising and payments), communication and entertainment. Applications will be accepted…
Jawbone, a maker of high-quality yet super-expensive Bluetooth headsets, unveiled its new EarWear Collection, which is made out of four meticulously-crafted designer editions that expand the ICON line. Interested buyers should expect the same superior audio quality as well as “intelligence, ease of use and personalization” all in “striking designs” suited to a consumer’s unique…
Nokia Siemens Networks has teamed up with Ciqual and is now offering a new service for operators using their infrastructure equipment called “Mobile Quality Analyzer (MQA) for Mobile Broadband“. It’s a simple application that people have to install on their computer and then the data on the performance of their connection, both in terms of…
Another month, another leaked Nokia device, this time in the form of a new QWERTY feature phone that’s being dubbed the X2-01. Earlier this year, in April, the Finnish handset maker launched the X2 and it was absolutely amazing in terms of the specifications you could get for just 85 EUR. The original X2 came…