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Texting is a phenomenon that for one reason or another took a while for Americans to adopt, but once they did … man, you’ve got teenage girls sending and receiving over 100 texts a day on average and no one says a thing because that’s considered normal. People who do type that many short sentences…
Several days ago it was reported that Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, published an internal memo that summarized Nokia’s current position in the market and how the Finnish firm was “standing on a platform”. The platform Elop was alluding to was the story of a man who worked on an oil rig and how we…
Qualcomm has a habit of inventing proprietary technology that they then try to sell to vendors in order to build an ecosystem whereby they’re the only supplier of components therefore giving them free reign when it comes to dictating prices. Remember FloTV? It failed, and Qualcomm ended up selling the spectrum they bought for that…
We’re barely two months into 2011 and Ukko Lappalainen, Vice President at Nokia, is saying that the recently available E7 “will have the biggest impact on our sales of any handset in 2011”. Let that soak in for a moment. Nokia is essentially saying that a device they announced back in September 2010, 5 months…
Google hosts an annual event called “Google I/O” where they talk about how the company is doing, where they’re going, and even launch a product or two. The first I/O event took place in 2008 and we’re not sure how many people attended. The second event in 2009 had the search engine company selling out…
Operators need spectrum to build their networks in much the same way that you need meat to host an awesome barbecue party; the more the better. T-Mobile, which is the smallest of America’s four largest operators, was once laughed at for opting to buy spectrum in the 1700 MHz band for 3G since no one,…
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo have announced that they’ve received permission from the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to start testing LTE Advanced in a real world environment and will be doing so in the cities of Yokosuka and Sagamihara. They’ve already hit download speeds as high as 1…
The last time I purchased a printer was during my last year of High School. It was the cheapest enterprise grade HP LaserJet I could find, and that thing spit out pages for years without needing any replacement toner. I loved that thing, but it’s 2011 now and printing just seems a tad ridiculous. We’ve…
When the first dual core Android devices were announced we started asking ourselves if Google’s operating system even supported such advanced hardware? Sure, Android 3.0 does dual core right out the box, but that’s for tablets and from what we understand 3.0 is separate branch of Android all together. Looks like our gut instincts were…
When email was invented I bet the boys and girls who created the near instantaneous communications tool didn’t envision the hell they would put humanity through in the future. From spam to your idiot colleagues hitting the reply all button, the torrent of messages that flood our inboxes can sometimes be overwhelming, and sadly there…