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Sisvel is a company you’ve probably never heard of, and to give you an idea of what they do just read their slogan: “We protect ideas.” Yes folks, they’re a patent troll, which is a defined as a company that buys up patents and then proceeds to bring other companies to court for infringing on…
One of my favorite news items from the summer of 2010 was a story about a scrappy new operator called LightSquared that was aiming to compete with America’s largest operators by launching a national wholesale LTE network. The goal was to build the fastest and dumbest pipe the country had ever seen, and then let…
Once upon a time, on a cold winter day in Finland, a couple of Nokia engineers began work on a project called Maemo. The goal was to create a brand new mobile operating system based on Linux that had no relationship to Symbian, which at the time was the world’s most popular smartphone platform. The…
An audience member’s iPhone alarm forced the New York Philharmonic to stop during its performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. Philharmonic conductor and music director Alan Gilbert was in the last movement of the 82-minute long symphony when an iPhone went off in the back of the concert hall. When it didn’t stop ringing, Gilbert turned to…
While the Galaxy Nexus will likely steal most of the thunder when it comes to Sprint’s new LTE handsets, we definitely haven’t forgotten about LG’s offering for the network, the Viper LTE. We got a little time with the handset during a Sprint event at the Venetian, so read on to get the rundown. While the Viper…
We just spent way too much time (in a good way) at Lenovo’s trailer here at CES and got some hands-on love with the new K800 handset, which sports Intel’s new 1.6GHz Atom Z2460 processor. From its power to the overall design, the K800 is an interesting handset that’s very easy on the eyes. The handset…
Samsung is releasing an alternative to its original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 in Germany, after the line of tablets was banned from being sold in the country as a result of a long legal battle with Apple. Dubbed the Galaxy Tab 7.0N Plus, it has a redesign to reflect what Apple and the court considers…
Boost Mobile will start selling the LG Marquee on January 23 for $279.99 (excluding taxes). As you probably know from our previous post on LG’s smartphone, that money gets you a decent Android smartphone that sports a single-core 1GHz processor, 4-inch WVGA Nova display, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, 5-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, GPS,…
A company called Drive Power is working on new mobile app that “encourages safe driving habits and provides real-time coaching to novice drivers.” Called DriveScribe, the application relies on technology which combines several important functions to promote safe driving. For instance, it provides real-time feedback to the driver; blocks calls, emails, and text messages while…
When Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced the DROID RAZR MAXX they forgot to mention the exact launch date of the new device. Rather they left us with the “in the coming weeks” phrase which doesn’t reveal tell much. Now thanks to Moto’s own website we think we know the day when the new Android smartphone…