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Have a piece of Apple hardware that runs iOS and want to make it run software that Apple would never in their right mind approve for the App Store? Jailbreaking is right up your ally. Until now if you wanted to jailbreak your device you had to hook it up to a computer and click…
Imagine if you opened up iTunes one day and instead of having to purchase every song you wanted to listen to you could just double click on a track and it would instantly start playing. That’s Spotify. It’s a service that many in Europe have been enjoying since it launched back in October 2008 and…
Late last month Nokia introduced their first and last device to run on MeeGo, the N9. Despite the wide praise it’s received from the industry, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said in an interview he has decided that the Finnish handset maker will not be releasing any additional MeeGo devices and then further reinforced the message…
Earlier this year Chinese mobile phone vendor and infrastructure equipment provider Huawei said that they plan on shipping between 12 and 15 million smartphones in 2011. That’s an ambitious goal since in 2010 they shipped just 3 million. According to Reuters however, Victor Xu, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Huawei told reporters attending a…
When Google announced Android back in November 2007 they claimed that their new mobile phone operating system would not only be open source, but that it would be free from patent disputes thanks to the Open Handset Alliance. Fast forward to the future and you’ve got Microsoft signing patent agreements with HTC, Onkyo, and Velocity…
VIA Technologies, a Taiwanese processor vendor that no one really knows about since if you’re buying a computer these days chances are it runs on either Intel or AMD silicon, has announced that they’ve sold S3 Graphics, which they purchased in 2001, to HTC for a cool $300 million. What exactly does S3 Graphics do?…
Last month we got a chance to chat with Louis Tannyeres (pictured above), Chief Chip Architect at ST-Ericsson. We discussed how almost no one knows about ST-Ericsson, the rise of Qualcomm, how Texas Instruments does business, ST-Ericsson’s relationship to Nokia, Windows Phone, and more. Check out our full interview below: Thanks for taking the time…
Huawei may be the world’s second largest provider of infrastructure equipment, but the fact that they’re a Chinese company has done them more harm than good when it comes to the interests of national security in the United States and India. Both of those countries have banned operators from using Huawei gear, and now it…
Cincinnati Bell, one of America’s smaller operators with barely over 500,000 subscribers, has jumped into the whole 4G marketing game. They say that they’ve just turned on a new HSPA+ network, yet somehow forget to actually mention whether that’s 21 Mbps HSPA+ or 42 Mbps HSPA+, but they’ve got no problem claiming that they can…
Update: On Thursday July 07, 2011 at 04:43 Helsinki time we received an email from Qualcomm asking us to remove all the information in this article. Despite said information being available on numerous websites, our legal team told us that we should just bite our lip and comply with Qualcomm’s requests since they have the…