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Nokia and Apple have been fighting over much more than smartphone market share over the past few years. The Finnish handset maker, upset that they couldn’t come up with something as innovative and technologically advanced as the iPhone, decided that the best course of action to show the new kid on the block who’s boss…
Google has just hired James Gosling, the man who invented the Java programming language while working at Sun Microsystems, and while we don’t yet know what his exact role with be, Gosling says it best on his personal blog (cached version): “I don’t know what I’ll be working on. I expect it’ll be a bit…
Americans might find this hard to believe, but in Finland people usually take one month off during the summer. We’re not making this up, people get four weeks of paid holiday to do whatever they want. You’d have to live here for one whole year and experience what six months of winter can do to…
The game of chess is more than 500 years old and is one of the most beautiful ways ever created to keep your mind sharp. Players all over the world sit in front of a board with 64 squares, 32 pieces, and strategically move them with the goal of defeating the opponent’s king. Ever since…
Nokia has been using the same font, Nokia Sans, for as long as any technology journalist can remember. The Finnish firm thought it was a bit long in the tooth, so they came out with “Nokia Pure”. An untold sum of money was spent developing this new typeface, and what makes it slightly interesting is…
Nearly three months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas LG announced the Optimus Black. It was dubbed the thinnest smartphone to ever be announced, coming in at 6 mm at the thinnest point and 9.2 mm at the fattest; for comparison the Apple iPhone 4 is 9.4 mm thick. Anyway, that’s not…
This time last year Nokia decided to migrate their product naming scheme from a four digit number to a letter followed by a single digit. Has it made things easier? Not really since you have devices out on the market like the C1, but you have to know the difference between the C1-01 and C1-02,…
Countries with well established and aging infrastructure are reluctant to change what’s been working for years because the old saying goes “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. It’s why Americans and Europeans have wallets filled with plastic cards that have magnetic stripes while nations in Africa are letting people use SMS for everything from…
Trouble is brewing in the United Kingdom due to the proposed Education Bill for England that would allow teachers to search students, confiscate their mobile phone, and even go through their phone in order to find evidence of any misconduct. Everyone is of course outraged, with the NASWUT (National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of…
Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, two of the largest franchises in gaming history, were both born at Square Enix. The Japanese firm knows games and they’ve been making a pretty penny by porting over their existing titles to Apple’s iPhone, but now they feel that it’s time to come up with something a bit more…