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According to new rumor dugg up by Bloomberg Businessweek Intel has decided to design their very own mobile phone and are going to rely on ZTE, the 8th largest handset maker, to build it. If this is true then it’s a huge gamble, but one Intel needs to take in order to prove that they…
Apple has hired Kevin Kenney as a “Senior Composites Engineer“. Previously he had spent the past 14 years making carbon fiber bikes as the President and CEO of Kestral Bicycles. Kevin has worked with Apple in the past as a consultant, and he even helped contribute to an Apple patent that was…
When Apple made the first iPhone, you remember, the one that didn’t even run applications, they probably couldn’t imagine how just a few short years later their iOS platform would become one of the most popular ways to play games while on the move. We’ve seen Angry Birds become a franchise as popular as Mario,…
On May 11th, exactly one month from today, T-Mobile and AT&T are going to have to attend a hearing with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, headed by Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, to explain why they think the proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T is a good thing for the American people.…
We’re barely four mounts into the year and many technology publications have already declared 2011 to be the year of either A) the tablet or B) mobile payments. Neither of which is true of course since the only tablet on the market right now is the iPad; Google’s Honeycomb is failing to ship in numbers…
Google has purchased Candian firm PushLife for what’s rumored to be $25 million. What exactly do they do? They make it possible for your Android or BlackBerry device to play music from your computer via online streaming, and said music can even be from your iTunes library, at least the tracks with no DRM. Back…
Nokia is scheduled to update the public on their latest developments in the Symbian space at 10:00 Finnish time tomorrow. That’s roughly 22 hours from now. In order to prepare for such an event most corporate communications departments upload all necessary press documentation to the internet, but they double, even triple check, that said media…
Samsung is going to release their Q1 2011 financial results later this month, but they’ve issued some guidance to get people prepared for the kinds of numbers they’re going to dish out. The figure that stands out, to us at least, is the South Korean company’s operating profit. It’s between 2.7 trillion and 3.1 trillion…
According to the bean counters over at Strategy Analytics 918 million camera phones were shipped during 2010. That figure is going to increase by 21% this year and it’ll hit 1114 million or just a hair over 1.1 billion. Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? On July 11, 1997 Philippe Kahn, a…
Analysts at Ovum are taking a bold stand and declaring Long Term Evolution, or LTE in industry parlance, as an overhyped technology. “Only 11 percent of mobile broadband subscribers are going to be on LTE networks by 2015. Besides, LTE may not generate revenue growth,” said Matt Walker, an Ovum Analyst, at a recent press…