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If you’re not using an iPhone, and you don’t own an international Samsung device, then chances are you have an Android powered smartphone with a Qualcomm chip inside. Now Qualcomm doesn’t actually make their chips, they merely design them. The blueprints are then handed to a company called TSMC, who in turn is responsible for…
Nokia has just issued what’s quite possibly the most depressing press release we’ve ever seen from them. There’s a lot to digest, so let’s go slowly. Starting with the job cuts, Nokia says they plan on eliminating 10,000 positions by the end of 2013. The factory that’s in Salo, Finland will be shut down, that’s…
The automatic teller machine, ATM for short, is a magical invention. It sits there, always on, never tired or looking forward to a lunch break, and it pumps out an endless stream of money should people need some. Using an ATM is pretty straightforward. Plastic card goes in, type a PIN code, hit some buttons,…
AMD, who owns less than 20% of the x86 market, and ARM, who powers practically every mobile phone on the face of the planet, have joined forces with Imagination, MediaTek and Texas Instruments to form the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation. If that sentence scares you because you think this article will be overly technical,…
NFC, short for near field communication, is a technology we’ve been writing about for years. The story goes like this: Instead of pairing devices via Bluetooth, just tap them together to initiate a data transfer. Instead of paying for something using cash or plastic, just tap your phone on a cash register. Instead of doing…
Nokia was founded in 1865 by a guy named Fredrik Idestam. Back then the company worked on making paper, but as well know they switched to rubber, then cables, then computers, and now they’re in the mobile phone space. That poses a very important question: What market will the company try to enter if and…
Linaro, which bills themselves as a non-profit team of engineers looking to make Linux kick ass and take names, have been playing around with the source code for Google’s mobile operating system, Android. They reckon that the tweaks they’ve made can increase performance by as much as 100% in certain benchmarks. The video below demonstrates…
This seems rather obvious, but it needs to be said: Different companies have different business models. Apple manufactures physical goods, so they need to move boxes to make money. Google and Facebook charge nothing for their services, but they put ads in front of you wherever they can to recuperate their costs. Microsoft, like most…
Less than 48 hours ago Apple unveiled iOS 6 to the world, and while it wasn’t exactly mind blowing, it did add enough features to the platform to ensure that it remains competitive when compared to the likes of Android and Windows Phone. Now one of those features isn’t exactly a feature, it’s more of…
Apple’s event yesterday started at 20:00 for me here in Helsinki, which means as soon as it was done I went straight to bed. Now that I’m awake again, and working while New York and California are asleep, I’m surprised that none of the major websites have bothered making a video demoing what’s new in…