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The fine folks over at Canonical have been hard at work on a mobile version of the popular Ubuntu Linux distro, and have announced that the final build will be making its way to smartphones later this year or early next year. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth would not provide a specific date to PC World,…
Apple’s going to have another killer holiday quarter this year. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White believes that the company will have an “exciting” September, as it’s set to unveil both the next generation of iPhone alongside a rumored 7″ iPad mini. White based this prediction on discussions with sources close to Apple’s supply chain…
Verizon has just announced that customers lusting after the Samsung Galaxy S III will be able to preorder the device starting June 6th at 7am EDT. The U.S. version of the Galaxy S III will feature largely the same specs as the international version, but will ditch the quad-core processor for the dual-core Snapdragon S4…
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) announced today that it has selected a design for the new fourth form factor (4FF/nano-SIM) standard. The 4FF card will measure 12.3mm wide by 8.8mm high, and 0.67mm thick, and can be packaged and distributed in such a way that it will be backwards-compatible with existing SIM designs. The adoption of…
RIM was in a bit of trouble for its use of the BBM moniker for its BlackBerry Messenger service. The BBM name is trademarked by a Canadian company, BBM Canada, that measures television and radio audiences, and the company obviously wasn’t too keen on RIM freely using the BBM name as its own. BBM Canada filed…
The iPhone is going prepaid. Leap Wireless announced that it’s wholly owned subsidiary Cricket Wireless will begin offering the iPhone sans-contract on June 22nd. As you are undoubtedly well aware, going the pre-paid route will require you to purchase the device at full retail price, though Cricket is offering a slight discount over what you’d…
When Microsoft announced that it’s Windows Phone Tango software would support devices with as little as 256MB of RAM, app incompatibility immediately came to everyone’s mind. How can a phone with such a minuscule amount of memory run the more intensive applications available on today’s smartphones? With the Lumia 610 and ZTE Orbit making their way to store shelves,…
The Nest thermostat is the latest hot-ticket item to sweep through the internet. While perhaps a bit pricey at first glance, the $250 in-home Nest Learning Thermostat promises to save you money in the long run. The Nest Learning Thermostat is a self-programming, “smart” thermostat, which learns your preferences, turns itself off when you’re not…
RIM announced yesterday that it would take yet another significant operating loss in the next quarter, in part due to its need to write off as much as $1 billion in inventory sitting in RIM’s warehouses. The company announced it had hired J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and RBC Capital Markets to assess the short and…
9 to 5 Mac has gotten its hands on a new catalog entry from iFixyouri which could indicate what the next iPhone will look like, and it’s potentially markedly different from the current crop of devices. As you can see above, if this is in fact the new backing for the iPhone, Apple has decided to…