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iPhone users in Europe were greeted with an extra hour of sleep this morning as a bug in iOS caused alarms across the region to go off one hour too late. The bug was first spotted in New Zealand at the end of September and in Australia earlier this month when the two regions set their…
The next generation of mobile communications maybe driven by small sensors carried by people in their handsets or other mobile devices. This idea of a cellular body-to-body network (BBN) is being researched by a team of engineers at Queen’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology in Belfast. This distributed-style network could ease many of…
Earlier this week, PayPal accidentally leaked information that suggested the online payment giant is planning to join the Android Market as an alternative payment method. The announcement was expected to take place last week at PayPal’s X-Innovate Conference but that conference came and went without an official announcement. A source close to Android Central claims…
Good news iPhone 3GS owners! You may be able to record some HD video on your iDevice. The hardware specs reveal the little-known fact that the iPhone 3GS ships with an ARM Cortex processor capable of HD recording. While the hardware is capable of HD recording, the software on the 3GS disables this functionality. With…
The T-Mobile HTC HD7 popped up at Walmart and is now available for pre-order from the retail giant. The Windows Phone handset is expected to debut on November 8th and will be one of two WP7 handsets to land at Magenta. The HTC HD7 is priced at a lowly $149, which matches the $149 offered…
Apple responded to Motorola’s recent patent lawsuit by filing its own countersuit accusing Motorola of violating six multi-touch and graphical-UI patents related to the iPhone. The two lawsuits were filed by Apple on Friday in the U.S. District Court of Western Wisconsin. The suit targets Motorola’s popular Android handsets including the Verizon Droid 2 and…
VLC Developer Rémi Denis-Courmont confirmed that Videolan sent a copyright infringement notice to Apple about the iOS version of its popular video playing app, VLC. The notice targets the DRM-based distribution method of the App Store and its restrictive terms and conditions. VLC is distributed under a GNU General Public License (GPL), an open source…
The DROID 2 Global is nearing its anticipated launch date and the pace of rumors is picking up. This world edition handset has been spotted in the wild, queued up for training by Verizon employees, included on a Verizon rebate form, and even unintentionally revealed by Motorola when the handset made a fleeting appearance on…
Chinese telecommunications companies ZTE and Huawei are under scrutiny from the US Government because of their ties to the Chinese government and military. Based in Shenzhen China, ZTE produces a range of telecommunications gear including GSM and CDMA telecom equipment and mobile phones. Though publicly traded, ZTE was formed from state-owned agencies associated with the…
Nepali wireless operator Ncell and Swedish carrier TeliaSonera have constructed the first 3G wireless network for Mount Everest. The pair built a network at an altitude of up to 5,200 meters that blankets the Everest basecamp area and extends all the way to the summit of the world’s highest mountain. The proof is in the pudding…