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Your company is only as good as the people you hire. Everyone knows this, especially Nokia, who according to a recent piece in the Finnish publication Helsingen Sanomat paid $200 million in 1997 to keep 44 engineers from leaving the company to join Nokia product developer Jyrki Hallikainen at a new company he was setting…
Rumor has it that Nokia will soon adopt a 3 digit naming scheme, replacing what the system they currently have in place of a letter followed by a number, and more confusingly a dash followed by said number with an added 2 digits if there are several variants of a product. One of the handsets…
While some of you may be aware of Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that makes everything Apple sells in working conditions that made several employees commit suicide last year, few of you may be aware of Pegatron. They too are a Taiwanese company and Apple chose them to build the CDMA (read: Verizon) iPhone. According to…
Sports Tracker is an application that has a history which is almost as interesting as the app itself. It started out as a hobby project made a few Nokia engineers in early 2007. They polished it up in their free time, released it as an application for Symbian devices, and it’s maintained a cult following;…
T-Mobile Hungary is in the process of rolling out a 21 Mbps HSPA+ network. They say that by the end of August over 200 locations will have access to it. That bit of news doesn’t really matter to most of you, what does matter is that they’ve decided to go with a well established business…
Justin Manweiler (pictured above), a graduate student in computer science at Duke University, one day thought to himself how come WiFi devices use more power when there’s more of them in a room compared to when when they’re alone? Under the direction of Romit Roy Choudhury, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke’s…
When HTC made the decision to support Android and put Microsoft’s Windows Mobile on the sideline, no one knew how things would turn out. Less than 3 years later, after shipping the first Android device, the T-Mobile G1, the Taiwanese handset maker is now making money hand over fist and they’ve just announced that sales…
America’s 4 largest operators (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) have a tight grip on the market because they offer subsidized devices, meaning instead of paying $650 for your new iPhone, you sign a 2 year contract and get it for just $200. Enter Simple Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO for short) that piggybacks…
Nokia’s mad scientists working at Beta Labs have released a new application called “Nokia 3D World Gaze”. Like many augmented reality applications that have come before it, most of which are absolutely pointless and serve no other function than being a technology demo to wow a crowd at a conference, you point your mobile phone…
According to an image obtained by AndroidCentral, Verizon Wireless is due to launch the eagerly awaited successor to the Droid and Droid 2, aptly called the Droid 3, in a little over 2 weeks, on the 14th of July. Already launched in China as the Milestone 3, we have the spec sheet: dualcore Texas Instruments…