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Skype has been in the news recently because of rumors spreading around that either Google or Facebook were going to buy them. That looks like it isn’t going to be the case and instead it’ll be Microsoft picking up the voice and video over IP firm for a cool $8.5 billion. The official press release…
About a month ago we wrote about Packet One Networks, a WiMAX operator in Malaysia that’s been operational for several years and has over 280,000 customers, announcing that they’re going to be transitioning to LTE; we wondered how much longer WiMAX would have left to live. Today we’re finding out that Taiwan’s Global Mobile, who…
As our mobile phones grow more and more capable each passing year, with the latest hardware coming out with dual cores and the ability to capture video in full 1080p, keeping your battery alive for a full work day becomes somewhat of a challenge. ARM, the British firm that designs the processors that go inside…
The first Windows Phone devices shipped in October/November 2010 and since then we’ve only seen one update issued for the platform that brought copy and paste support, along with the ability to use CDMA networks. The update itself didn’t exactly go as planned, with several users finding themselves with an expensive paperweight at the end…
According to images leaked to TmoNews, it looks like T-Mobile is soon going to announce a device called the “Exhibit 4G”. It runs Android 2.3.3, which used to be the latest version until less than 2 weeks ago when 2.3.4 came out and brought with it support for video chat, has a 1.4 GHz processor…
NXP Semiconductors, a company you may not have heard of, but who worked with Google to make sure Android 2.3 came with support for near field communication technology, or NFC, is saying that between 40 million and 100 million NFC enabled mobile phones will ship this year. That estimate comes from NXP CEO Rick Clemmer,…
Samsung’s Galaxy S II, announced back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, has been out for less than a month, yet it’s already logged 3 million sales according to a recent report from Samsung Hub. The 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus packing, dual core rocking, Android 2.3 running superphone has seen many favorable…
The next iPhone or iPad may receive a substantial increase in audio quality if a tweet from famed technology journalist Leo Laporte is true. He says: “I have it on good authority that Tomlinson Holman (of THX fame) is joining Apple to run audio. Major upgrade.” Besides sound quality, Holman’s other field of expertise is…
Earlier this week we reported that Apple had reached a special agreement with Time Inc. that enabled subscribers to the print editions of Sports Illustrated, Time, and Fortune to access the iPad versions of those respective magazines for free. Today we’re happy to report that Apple has also agreed to enter into an agreement with…
Clearwire, the first wireless operator in America to claim they have a 4G network, despite the fact that at the time their network didn’t meet the criteria warranting the 4G moniker, has decided to kill Rover, their sub-brand for the prepaid market. Rover launched back in August 2010, so the fact that it had just…