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When Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO as of September 2010, announced back in February of this year that the Finnish handset maker would transition away from Symbian, throw away MeeGo, and bet the farm on Windows Phone, he sent the company’s stock into a death spiral. Pressure has mounted for Nokia to release Windows Phones…
Before search engines were invented there were these things called internet directories. Think of them as websites with an endless stream of links meticulously categorized by people who were paid to judge and sort all the websites that were being created during the mid to late 1990s. We all know where this story goes, at…
Simple Mobile, one of the lesser known players in America’s wireless space, is a mobile virtual network operator that piggybacks on T-Mobile’s network. Their whole selling point is that they don’t do subsidies, instead they only sell SIM cards. For many Europeans and Asians this is totally fine, but lots of Americans still have trouble…
LightSquared, a wireless operator who’s laying the groundwork for an LTE network that they’ll rent out to companies who then resell the service to people like you, is in a bit of a pickle. They need to convince government officials that the L-Band spectrum they plan to use to build out their network doesn’t cause…
Imagination Technologies is a company you’ve probably never heard of, but they’re absolutely essential in the mobile industry. They design graphics processors that they then license out to companies who in turn embed it into their processors. Their famous PowerVR SGX GPU has been inside every iOS product to hit the market, which makes sense…
The BBC is currently in the process of developing an iPhone application that they’ll make available to their reporters out in the field so that the content they submit can be feed directly into the BBC’s content management system instead of having to wait until said reporter returns to the office to get work done.…
T-Mobile has just announced that they’ve switched on the 42 Mbps flavor of HSPA+ in 41 additional cities (full list at the bottom of this article) bringing the total amount of markets with access to their ultra high speed network to 96. Their 21 Mbps HSPA+ network already covers 184 markets (over 200 million people)…
It’s a bit of a cliché to insult the quality of Starbucks coffee since most people don’t actually know what coffee really is. Starbucks profits on selling a perverted version of a beverage enjoyed by millions around the world, offering to load it up with a wide variety of artificially flavored syrups that have enough…
If you’re on Three UK and one of the odd people who still prefers to have an actual conversation using your mobile device instead of struggling to get your fat fingers to hit the tiny buttons on your keypad or touch screen, then boy do we have some good news for you. Sometime during the…
Ixonos, a Finnish company you probably never heard of, has just announced that they’ve signed a licensing agreement with Qualcomm to use their chipsets as the foundation for a future portfolio of devices that they’ll be building for companies willing to pony up the money to outsource their R&D. Here’s how you should think of…