Regardless of what you might have heard about the relationship between Apple and AT&T, the latter sure has several reasons to be happy. After posting its earnings, AT&T has announced that it activated 3.2 million iPhone units during the second quarter – a record for the company. It certainly helped its bottom line, too, which…
Archives for 2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini Lands at Rogers
The Rogers Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has a new sibling. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini has arrived at Rogers for all to see. The mini, which packs Android 1.6 (for now, a rumored upgrade to 2.1 is supposedly coming in Q4), a 2.6″ QVGA touchscreen display (240×320), WiFi, GPS, 5 megapixel camera with LED…
Leaked: BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0.1.40
Today must be BlackBerry Leak Day. Already I’ve come across 3 leaked OS’s, and now, I read that a new version of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager has been leaked as well. Goodness. While the leak brings us up to version 5.0.1.40 of BlackBerry Desktop Manager, nothing really appears to be new and notable. It’s suspected…
OS 5.0.0.822 Leaked for the BlackBerry 8520, 8900 and 9000
Good things come in bunches. Grapes, bananas… and BlackBerry OS leaks. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had anything to report on the BlackBerry OS scene. That is, the LEAKED operating system scene. It seems as though we’ve been going through a period of some downtime… Not sure what the reason is for that,…
America’s new definition for broadband: 4 Mb/s down, 1 Mb/s up
The FCC released a report yesterday that said the new definition for what they consider to be “broadband” is now 4 megabits per second of download speed, and 1 megabit per second upload speed. Under the new definition there are 24 million people in America who don’t have broadband. To put that into some perspective,…
Nokia Q2 2010: Profit down 31% year on year, units sold up 3% year on year [SOS, send help, now]
Nokia just published their Q2 2010 financial results, and as always it’s a lot to take in since they provide an amazing amount of statistics. Let’s go through the most important figures: Nokia had $10 billion worth of sales this quarter. That’s up 1% compared to the same quarter last year, and up 5% from…
QotD: Walt Mossberg: Samsung Galaxy S doesn’t have an “ultra–high resolution screen”
You know how we’re living in 2010? Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal chides Samsung for not putting an “ultra–high resolution screen” inside their Galaxy S. How many pixels are on the Galaxy S? It’s got 800 pixels of height and 480 pixels across. He’s right, it’s lower than the iPhone 4, which has…
Apple: Jeff Williams is now Senior Vice President of Operations, will help us make sure our stuff works better
Apple has just appointed Jeff Williams, who joined the company over a decade ago after leaving IBM, to Senior Vice President of Operations. His previous role? Vice President of Operations. He’s now playing with the big boys, and is expected to be Tim Cook’s new best friend. Cook is expected to become the new CEO…
Qualcomm Q3 2010: Profit up 4% year on year, 103 million chips shipped
Qualcomm makes chips and licenses their technology to others in order to make money. Simple enough to follow. You may or may not have heard of them, but they’re the folks who do the Snapdragon processor that goes into a lot of high end smartphones such as the Google Nexus One. They also make mid…
Incoming SMS: There’s a shark coming, get out of the water if you like having two legs
Marine Biologists from Australia have rigged 75 great white sharks with radio transmitters in order to study their migration patterns and warn nearby swimmers via SMS text message. Fewer than 3,500 of these deadly beasts exist today, and their goal is to preserve them in case Hollywood decides to remake Jaws or America decides that…