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Telefonica, known best as being one of the world’s largest wireless service providers, has just published its quarterly results, and it’s their first net loss in nine years. From July to September, they lost 429 million Euros, versus making 5.1 billion Euros in the same timeframe last year. Operating income sat at at 348 million…
Some hobbyist hackers have rigged up an iPhone 4S to collect brain wave patterns from some simple ECG pads, translate them into synthesized speech, which is in turn pumped through the 3.5 mm headphone jack, and recognized by Siri as a usable command. Besides pressing the home key to initiate Siri, all you have to…
The latest iteration of Motorola’s BlackBerry clone, the Pro+, has just landed in Canada by way of Bell Mobility. Besides the familiar keyboard, the Motorola Pro+ packs 4 GB of local storage, a 1 GHz processor with 512 MB of RAM, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, and a 3.1-inch 640 x 480 touchscreen.…
While the U.S. may be the biggest smartphone market out there, and RIM’s foothold there is slipping, BlackBerry continues to be popular in the UK and Canada according to recent survey data. In Canada, BlackBerry has snatched 41% of the smartphone market, which is more or less in line with where RIM sat at the…
RIM made its debut in the Greenpaece Guide to Greener Electronics this month, and it’s not a good start. The maker of BlackBerry is dead last among other electronics manufacturers, including LG, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, and Apple. RIM gets a beating in the ratings for not providing external verification of its greenhouse gas emission…
The official BlackBerry Indonesia site has posted a teaser banner for a new handset coming first to the region on November 25. The image file name is “hero_bellagio”, which we’ve known to be the code name for the BlackBerry Bold 9790 for months now. From what we’ve seen of the 9790, there won’t be much…
Google has announced that they’re ceasing support for their dedicated BlackBerry Gmail app in favour of working on working on their web apps. While you’ll still be able to use the app if you’ve already got it installed, it won’t be available for download after November 22. It might be easy to cast this as…
Nokia showed off a cool concept in bendable smartphones last month, but there was another device along the same vein called HumanForm which we only saw briefly in our video demo. Besides being able to do the stuff like twist to browse and bend to zoom, the HumanForm would include gesture interaction, so you could…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is sliding its way over to T-Mobile in time for the holidays, launching November 16. The financing pricing scheme is newish; you pay $249.99 as a down payment on the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, and add another $10 to your monthly bill for 20 months. That’s on top of…
The Xperia Studio, where we saw some artists on a boat in Copenhagen use a flamethrower as a camera flash, now has a fresh addition. Seven Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo handsets were mounted onto a bike, and taken for a ride through Slickrock Trail, in Utah. Thanks to some custom Bluetooth pairing software, video captured…