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Motorola’s story throughout the years has been riveting. The firm practically invented the mobile phone, had several iconic products including the StarTAC and RAZR, but then all of a sudden thing just stopped working. They got too big, too confident, found a forumla that worked for them in the past, and just kept on executing…
Typically when one is the head of a multi national multi billion dollar corporation, one owns shares in said firm. Stephen Elop, until just last week, didn’t own any Nokia shares. Legally he wasn’t allowed to since the deal with Microsoft to make Windows Phone Nokia’s main smartphone operating system, a deal he orchestrated, had…
Accenture recently surveyed 1,100 people from 11 different countries that fit under the label of “tech-forward”. That’s someone who uses at least 4 web based services and owns at least 4 internet connected devices; even I don’t fit in this category since I’ve only got 2 laptops and 1 smartphone. When it comes to which…
Chinese infrastructure firm Huawei is looking to give the city of London a wireless network worth $80 million that’s to be installed in the Underground Tube system just in time for the 2012 olympics. According to the Sunday Times Huawei views this as a gift from one olympic country to the other, and that they…
Of all the social networks that have come and gone since I first dialed into the internet during the early 1990s, the one that makes the least sense to me is Foursquare. The premise is simple enough. You go to a location, whip out your mobile phone, and then it uses either GPS or cell…
Devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets, are pretty useless when they can’t connect to the internet and according to the analysts at Berg Insight that’s why 22 million devices from the consumer electronics (CE) sector shipped with cellular connectivity built-in during 2010. That’s double the number from 2009. They go on to predict that by…
When you think about all the amazing things one can achieve today using a device that so easily slips into your pocket, it’s pretty hard to believe all that is being done on a battery smaller than your credit card and no thicker than a few stacked on top of one another. Smartphones, no matter…
All the Windows Phones that currently ship are built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. Microsoft, in a bid to accelerate time to market and make it easy for developers to have one reference platform to concentrate on, poured all their resources to optimizing for one chip and then forced every handset maker to use the same…
Eugene Kaspersky, Co-Founder of Kaspersky Labs, makers of one of the leading antivirus solutions on the market, if you’re the type of person who’s irresponsible enough to get a virus because you browse shady porn sites, made a controversial statement at Mobile World Congress. According to The China Post he said that Google’s Android operating…
Earlier this week couples around the world celebrated the artificial holiday known as “Valentine’s Day”. In America the 14th of February is also “National Condom Awareness Day” because couples tend to … you know … share a soda pop down at the corner diner. In order to celebrate both holidays the city of New York…