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You can’t go a week without a new story regarding mobile patents and President Obama has signed the America Invents Act in an attempt to offer major reform for the patent system. The new patent law will allow the patent office to set fees for patents and keep them, as previously, the Congress had diverted…
You know, I’m a little bit late on this one but I couldn’t help but pen a response to the piece on the Daily Beast called, “Texting Makes U Stupid. This is a silly argument that we see resurface every couple months and I really want to smack it down. Texting will NOT make U…
Android users in the United States have been enjoying Voice Actions for about a year now and you Europeans out there will be happy to know that the voice-controlled actions are now available in the U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Spain it can be used in British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. For those…
There’s some interesting back-and-forth going on right now about what role the government can and should play in regulating the wireless industry and how it impacts consumers and business. Does the wireless industry need more regulation or less? Over at the Washington Post, Josh Topolsky makes the case that the government needs to step up…
We all know that the iPhone 5 will be landing in the not-too-distant future but there are still some questions on what the device will look like and how much it will be upgraded. A new page from Case Mate suggests that the new Apple iPhone 5 could have an even slimmer profile than the…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed what we all already know and what he’s actually said before: Windows Phone 7 isn’t selling well about a year after its introduction. “We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year,” Ballmer said, speaking at the company’s financial analyst meeting,” Ballmer told a…
Hopefully, you’ve checked out the walkthrough video of the Samsung Windows 8 tablet from Build 2011 but I actually couldn’t cover everything in there in that video. Sadly, I’ll have to give this tablet back soon so I decided to create another video to take a deeper dive into the software. As we covered before,…
We’ve been hanging out in sunny Southern California for the Build 2011 conference and Microsoft has brought the “wow” with the introduction of Windows 8 and it even gave 5,000 developers a Samsung tablet with the new operating system on it (Check out our hands-on with the tablet). While roaming the expo hall we ran…
We know that the iPhone 5 should be coming to Sprint in October but the third-largest mobile operator may also be getting the Apple tablet to go along with it. According to 9to5Mac, Apple has prepared a 3G iPad which will be compatible with Sprint’s network. This is different than the Verizon 3G iPad but…
We’re at Build 2011 and have just been introduced to Windows 8 and one of the exciting things about it is that this touch-friendly platform will run on the ARM chipset. To help capitalize on this, NVIDIA has launched a Windows 8 developer program to help developer bring great apps to Windows 8 devices. What…