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Back in May 2011 NVIDIA purchased Icera for $367 million. Icera is a company that specializes in cellular modems, and they have roughly 550 patents to backup that claim. When the announcement was made we said that the alarm bells at Qualcomm’s offices probably started ringing. Half of all Android smartphones on the market run…
We’re happy to announce that nearly four months after we first reported Sony’s intent to purchase Ericsson’s half of Sony Ericsson for a hair over 1 billion Euros the deal is now officially done. Sony Ericsson will be renamed Sony Mobile Communications, the company will have offices in Beijing, Lund, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo, it…
TripIt has once again updated its iOS app with few cool features. Version 3.0 brings several new options, including: New travel dashboard that greets visitors and provides them with quick access to the app’s key features. What’s Next button – from where you can preview the next trip or activity, or click through to view…
Verizon Wireless slashed the price of Motorola DROID BIONIC to $99.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. Sure enough, you could’ve get Moto’s Android smartphone for that money from third-party retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Wirefly, Best Buy and RadioShack for some time now – so it’s not a big deal. Heck, at one point CostCo…
After launching a brand new Windows Phone app, Facebook has once again updated its Android client. The new version brings several new features, including (from the change log): Navigate anywhere, fast: Get to your groups, apps, pages, and settings with a single press Search and you will discover: Look through friends, subscribers, apps, and pages…
And we thought that 249 GBP for the unlocked HTC Evo 3D is a good deal. Well now the same retailer (ASDA) decided to further slash the price by 20 GBP bringing the price down to 229 GBP. Perhaps folks don’t like HTC’s 3D smartphone that much, or maybe they want something else that doesn’t…
And we thought Alcatel has left the Western markets for good. Guess again, the company plans to unveil a new product at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – OT-915. The low-end device has appeared at ElectricPig and will apparently be available in the UK by the end of this year. It’s a BlackBerry-like…
International CTIA WIRELESS 2012 issued the call for entries for the annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards and BIG Idea Contest until March 5 at 11 p.m. PST. The E-Tech Awards program honors the industry’s most innovative new wireless products and services in the areas of mobile apps, consumer electronics, enterprise and vertical markets and network…
Canada’s public broadcaster CBC is launching its own iPhone app, providing users with instant access to 40 unique music streams and 13 “distinct musical genres.” Let’s face it, that’s like nothing, but since restrictive copyright and licensing laws prevented Canadians from using services like Pandora and Spotify, this is good news. That said, alongside the…
In its latest report, Juniper talks about the future of mobile ticketing, forecasting that 1 in 8 (13%) of North American and Western European mobile users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone as a metro rail or bus ticket by 2016. That’s a significant rise from today when only 1% of folks are doing so.…