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Microsoft spent more than $8 billion to buy Skype and it seemed like everything was hunky dory but Cisco is appealing the approval of the deal by the European Commission because it says the deal could be harmful for the long-term health of video calls in the future. In a blog post, Cisco makes the…
Samsung may have spilled the beans on an unannounced tablet that could be showing up at Mobile World Congress. On the company’s invitation to a Samsung Developer event, it lists known devices like the Galaxy Note and Wave 3 but it also lists a mysterious “Galaxy Note 10.1.” The bigger version of the Note is…
There are some interesting iPad actions going on in China, as the popular tablet has been pulled from China’s Amazon service but it’s unclear why this is happening and what this will mean for the upcoming iPad 3. Our friends over at TechCrunch have done a good job of digging through it but let’s give…
Research In Motion promised that its PlayBook would get the really-nice 2.0 software in February and I’m sure many of you have been looking at your calendar and rapidly hitting your “check for update” button. Your wait may soon be over, as a RIM representative told PC Mag that the PlayBook 2.0 OS should be…
I’ve been having network connectivity problems with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus and thought about switching to the Motorola Razr. Thanks to the latest information Motorola released about its Android 4.0 rollout, I’ve decided to stick with my Samsung. Motorola’s latest timetable for Ice Cream Sandwich reveals the bulk of the manufacturer’s handsets won’t see an ICS…
Cisco, the guys who make the infrastructure equipment that delivered all the illegal torrents currently sitting on your hard drive, just published their annual “Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update“. It’s something they like to put out there to freak ISPs and operators out so that they spend more money expanding their network. There are…
Remember the LG Optimus 3D? It was announced at Mobile World Congress 2011, then hit store shelves five months later in July. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t avoid the amount of hype that thing got from the press. Wow, dual core processor, and oh my god, two cameras on the back, and…
South Korea, the country that Samsung and LG call home, apparently doesn’t care about either of those two companies’ Android tablets. According to The Korea Herald, sales of Apple’s iPad recently surpassed 1 million units, which to put into some perspective, means Apple owns somewhere between 70% to 80% of the tablet market in that…
Sony Ericsson no longer exists. Sony officially purchased Ericsson’s share of the joint venture last month and the company has big plans to make mobile one of their core businesses, at least that’s what Kazuo Hirai says (pictured above, right). So what operating system will the company bet their future on? Google’s Android is the…
Now that Nokia’s decided to make all their phones in Asia in order to try and save some money, why not also go with cheaper Asian components? According to DigiTimes, who has a mixed track record, but have proved themselves reliable numerous times in the past, Nokia is considering going with either MediaTek or MStar…