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A few photos have leaked about a device which could be the next iPod touch and this could also give us a few clues about what the next iPhone will look like. The biggest thing you’ll notice about this supposed next-generation iPod touch is that it ditches the physical home button in favor of a…
Texas Instruments (TI) said it plans to acquire National Semiconductor for about $6.5 billion in order to beef up its chip portfolio. TI’s mobile chips are in products like the Optimus 3D and the National Semiconductor buy will give it access to the company’s 12,000 analog products and customer design tools. Additionally, National Semiconductor has…
The Facebook iPhone app has just received a substantial update and the 3.4 version allows you to unfriend on the go, as well as adds improvements to the location-based check-in service known as Places. The updated Facebook iPhone app now lets you ditch your pals on the go. As you can see in the video…
Apple is reportedly mulling putting multiple cameras on the back of the iPhone 5 to enable users to shoot videos and pictures in 3D. The news comes from a patent filing dug up by AppleInsider and it shows that Apple is approaching stereoscopic 3D cameras in a different way. The company is trying to patent…
The Nokia, Windows Phone 7 deal has the potential to be a major game-changer and the world’s largest handset maker said that the negotiations are “on schedule.” That’s right, despite the hubbub about the Nokia, Windows Phone 7 deal, Microsoft and the handset maker haven’t finalized the deal and signed the major contracts. To be…
While Google Android is more closely associated with the hacking/tinkering community, the Apple jailbreak community is nothing to sneeze at. In fact, this is getting so big that Toyota has created a custom theme for Cydia in order to promote its Scion to the iPhone jailbreak community. The iPhone jailbreak community is difficult to quantify…
You may have saw the research which found that the Verizon 4G LTE network was faster than the Sprint 4G WiMax network (at least in New York). Well, Sprint is firing back and saying this is hooey. The report found that the Verizon 4G LTE network averaged 9.1 Mbps down, 5.28 Mbps up with a…
Sprint is already working on an NFC payment system for 2011 and this will enable users to use their phones to “tap to pay.” The news comes via Bloomberg and it shows that the Sprint NFC payment system should be released before its rivals roll out competing solutions. Who’s trying to compete? Well, just about…
Today is the first official day that Larry Page takes over for Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google and Page’s reign may mean great things for everyone’s favorite little, green robot. As CEO of Google, we expect Larry Page to make bigger pushes with Android and the mobile space and some of this may actually…
Google appears to be on the cusp of purchasing more than 6,000 telecom patents from Nortal and the move will only cost the search giant about $900 million. The telecom patents will give Google legal cover for patent infringement cases – it won’t stop the existing lawsuits but it gives Google ammunition to counter-sue those…