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Apple’s done some pretty amazing things when it comes to consumer electronics, and iTunes is pretty cool too, despite the fact that it’s starting to show its age, but where they’ve been a bit of a disappointment in the web services arena. MobileMe is, to put it bluntly, a joke. For $100 a year you…
Dell’s roadmap of their 2011 portfolio of products has leaked courtesy of Windows Phone Central and there’s an impressive mix of Android powered smartphones and tablets in there, along with a few Windows Phones coming out towards the middle and end of this year. Let’s start with smartphones: the Venue Pro, which rocks a 1…
Femtocells are awesome … on paper. You get this little box, connect it to your wired broadband connection, and now you’ve got a little base station in your home giving you a strong signal where you might not have otherwise had any. Telstra Chief Technology Officer Hugh Bradlow on the other hand says: “Femtocells —…
There’s nothing more press people love than bombastic comments from people in high places. This latest torrent of harsh truth sprinkled with mild humor comes from SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son [pictured above, to the left] who says that the “depressing reality” of the mobile industry is that data traffic is going to go…
We just came back from Opera’s booth at Hall 1 where a crowd of people were hovering around, foaming from the mouth, waiting for a chance to get a crack at playing with Opera’s new browsers for tablets. Opera was showing off Opera Mini for the iPad and that baby was flying. Thanks to their…
With all these new 4G networks being launched all over the world there’s one tiny detail that most usually glance over: LTE was made for data and does not support voice or SMS. The GSMA, the folks who invented the GSM standard and oversee each and every GSM network that’s running on planet Earth, invented…
Verizon has just announced that they’ve launched LTE in Detroit Rock City. This is an important announcement because it’s the first time Verizon has officially said anything about coverage expanding on their brand spanking new 4G LTE wireless network. “Our advanced technology is changing the way we all work and play. Today, it gives us…
American wireless operator Sprint, who together with Verizon keep the CDMA standard alive in North America, bet on WiMAX for their 4G strategy. That’s not been paying off as well as they’ve hoped. Speeds don’t really deliver, coverage is poor, and while the data moving over the air isn’t metered … it’s just not that…
OmniVision, the firm that’s responsible for making the camera sensor inside Apple’s iPhone, have announced the OV8830, a brand spanking new 8 megapixel imaging sensor that’s the first to use the second generation of OmniVision’s backside illumination (BSI) technology. Since the OV8830 is 1/3.2 inches in size, the pixels are each 1.1 microns small. It’s…
There’s been a terrible amount of confusion regarding HP’s statement regarding webOS on personal computers. Many eager to read between the lines, trying to find something there that wasn’t, thought HP was going to ship personal computers with webOS as the main operating system. The Seattle Times interviewed HP CTO Phil McKinney to find out…