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South Korean operator SK Telecom wants people to use near field enabled mobile services, especially their own, but how are they going to convince folks that they should buy a new phone that has NFC hardware inside? Actually … they don’t. According to NFC World, beginning next month SK Telecom will offer their customers a…
Remember in 2010 when Apple got a lot of heat for the Foxconn suicides? Some argued that the working conditions Foxconn put their employees through caused them to take their lives, meaning Foxconn is to blame for the deaths, not Apple. That’s debatable, especially since Apple is known to inspect each and every part of…
LightSquared has a problem. The wireless operator run by a hedgefund has plans to cover the United States with 4G LTE connectivity. They own spectrum that’s dangerously close to the same bands used by GPS equipment. Earlier this summer, the results of an initial series of tests showed that GPS stopped working on any receiver…
Remember when people used to buy dedicated portable gaming equipment? The Nintendo Game Boy hit American shores in 1989 and over the years we’ve seen it become more and more capable, with the latest incarnation being the poorly selling 3DS. Folks have started wondering why Nintendo simply doesn’t bring their widely loved franchises to platforms…
Verizon Wireless has just issued a press release saying they’ve launched their delectable highspeed 4G LTE network in 26 new markets; see the full list below. That brings the total coverage map to 143 markets, which covers roughly 160 million Americans. During the summer the folks at PC Mag ran speed tests in 21 major…
Several days ago, at a RadioShack Business Summit in Dallas, the folks from AndroidCentral were able to capture a blurry photo of a device called the LG Marquee that’s due to come out on Sprint. We’re pretty sure that the Marquee is nothing more than the Optimus Black, but with a slightly modified body, thanks…
If you want to sell a device in the United States that emits a wireless signal then you need to have it certified. Unfortunately, the companies who submit their devices for certification never really follow the proper procedures to make sure that members of the media don’t get a whiff of unannounced hardware. Thanks to…
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and South Korean handset maker and component supplier Samsung, as well as Fujitsu, NEC, and Panasonic, are partnering up in an attempt to take on Qualcomm, who according to Japanese publication Nikkei has 80% of the baseband market. What’s a baseband you might ask? If you know what a modem is,…
With the current economic situation causing many Americans to take a hard look at their monthly spending, more and more folks are switching to prepaid since the plans are not only cheaper, but also provide the comfort of knowing that you can leave at any point in time and not face an absurdly high termination…
Nearly every technology journalist in North America attended Microsoft’s BUILD conference yesterday to catch a glimpse at Windows 8, including over very own Marin Perez, but that came at the expense of providing coverage from Intel’s Developer Forum. There’s a reason for this. The chip company has been talking up Intel based smartphone for years…