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When WiMAX was first unveiled to the world it sounded absolutely extraordinary. It was going to be just like the WiFi we were all using in our laptops at the time, but with an insane amount of range and even faster data speeds. Intel was championing the technology and pitching it as a replacement to…
The FCC, in a 3 to 2 vote, has made data roaming mandatory for America’s two largest operators: AT&T and Verizon. Until now smaller operators wanting to roam on the networks of the big boys only had access to voice, but since voice usage is declining as more and more people opt to use their…
An Apple patent that was filed back in October 2009 has just become public. It describes a future potential screen technology that combines both electronic ink, as made popular by the Amazon Kindle, and traditional LCD, as seen in practically every mobile phone and tablet to ship in the past decade. The…
At the end of the first quarter of this year there were only 320,000 people using 4G LTE according to analysts at Maravedis. That number is going to swell to 305 million by 2016, and while it’s a bit reckless to make a prediction that goes 5 years into the future, we…
When Apple launched the App Store back in 2008, Kleiner Perkins simultaneously announced a $100 million iFund that they’d use to invest in applications that have the potential to become the next big thing. Two years later the fund doubled in size to make room for people developing iPad application. Now here we are in…
In terms of market capitalization, which is defined the share price of your company multiplied by the number of issued shares, HTC has just overtaken Nokia. This is significant because it points to both Nokia’s failures at making the transition to a company known for attractive high end smartphones as well as…
Chinese infrastructure firm Huawei has been getting a lot of heat from lawmakers in the US because of some paranoid delusions that there’s a plot by the Chinese military to spy on the communications of the American people. Back in 2008 Huawei lost a huge contract to Sprint for those reasons. It’s 2011 now and…
Last week we covered an article from Business Week that discussed Android’s potential locked down future. Said article described a scenario where Google would have total control over what sort of tweaking can be done to Android’s user interface and that soon Google would begin dictating which chipsets are best optimized for their operating system…
The market for low cost smartphones is set to explode thanks in part to Google’s Android operating system, but also Moore’s law that allows our mobile phones to not only do more than they did a few years ago, but also be made for far cheaper. According to a new report from Digitimes, between 20…
Novell has just announced that Mono for Android is now available. What exactly does it do? If you’re a developer who writes applications using either Microsoft’s .NET or C# programming languages then you now no longer have to learn how to write Android applications using that bastardized version of Java called Dalvik. Just wrap your…