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InterDigital, who does genuine research on wireless technology and then lives off the patent royalties, is going to sell roughly 1,700 patents to Intel for a cool $375 million. Said patents are “primarily related to 3G, LTE and 802.11 technologies.” Considering that Intel picked up Infineon’s wireless unit for $1.4 billion two years ago, it’s…
ZTE, the Chinese handset vendor that isn’t quite as popular as their closest competitor, Huawei, has just announced the Grand X LTE. As the name implies, this thing has 4G LTE connectivity. That’s provided courtesy of the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 inside. Strangely enough, He Shiyou, the Head of ZTE’s Handset Division, says: “We are the…
Let’s get this out of the way: The first version of Android, Cupcake, was a steaming pile of garbage. Things got better when Eclair, and then subsequently Gingerbread, hit the scene, but it took the release of Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy Nexus to get us to stand up and applaud Google’s design team.…
At 06:30 Helsinki time my alarm clock went off. With one eye open I pulled up Techmeme to see what the internet had to say about whatever Microsoft announced while I was asleep. Apparently they unveiled a pair of tablets, one called Surface, the other called Surface Pro. The former has an NVIDIA Tegra processor…
Microsoft gather the technology press to an event in Los Angeles on Monday to announce its new Surface tablet. The 10.6-inch tablet device comes in two flavors – a Pro version powered by an Intel Core processor and an ARM processor version with Windows RT. After the event, journalists were given a few minutes to…
The Nokia 808 PureView smartphone is coming to the United States. It’s famous for having a 41MP camera sensor that snaps amazingly high quality photos and is sure to make photographers drool. Later this week, buyers will be able to pre-order the device on Amazon. It won’t be tied with any carrier or contracts so…
Microsoft announced Surface, a line of Windows 8 tablets tonight at the “big event” everyone’s been talking about. The two models are similar to the company’s strategy for different versions of Windows — there’s a Windows RT-based tablet for mainstream consumers and a professional tablet for users with higher-end needs. Both tablets feature a 10.6-inch…
For the first time, Microsoft added the Windows Phone Tango software update to the online Windows Phone update history page. The details of the update are present and they only show minor improvements to the OS. Shortly after Microsoft posted the release notes, the company pulled them, but not quickly enough. The new build number…
Mozilla confirmed today that its working on entering the iPad browser market with prototype “Junior.” Though that’s the code name for now, it presumably will be a Firefox app for the iPad. Mozilla is calling Junior “an iPad browser that makes browsing more fun, more ergonomic and re-thinks browser user experience from the ground up.”…
There’s a new app in town, and it lets you do something many users have been longing for. Display Recorder, the helpfully named application for iOS allows users to capture video of the screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. In addition to video, Display recorder also records the audio output from your iDevice,…