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Isis is the name of a brand new company funded by three of America’s four largest operators (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile) that was created so mobile payments can finally take off rather than being nothing more but a pipe dream. Announced back in November 2010, we know extremely little about how they operate and what their…
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has just announced that they’ve published the first universal mobile phone charging standard. It’s no surprise to hear that they’ve picked microUSB as their power port of choice, but what is a bit shocking is that Apple was one of the companies that got onboard with the idea. According to…
Nokia’s Symbian platform, which has dominated the smartphone scene for as long as any of us can remember, has finally, for the first time in history, been outsold on a global basis by a competing operating system. Windows Phone 7 really is that good. All kidding aside, this is obviously the work of Android, Google’s…
Motorola and LG may have been the first mobile handset makers to announce dual core smartphones, and Samsung may have gotten our panties in a bunch by promising that they’ll announce a dual core successor to the Galaxy S, but when it comes to Android … no one tops HTC. They launched the very first…
After watching President Obama deliver the 2011 State of the Union address, and reading reactions to his speech from people on both sides of the political spectrum, one word that continuously crops up time and time again is “socialism”. There is this fear, so severe that it’s even paralyzing, that everything government touches turns to…
Smartphones are awesome, but for many people they’re out of reach due to financial constraints. In America, where you can get just about anything for less than $200 with a 2 year contract, the real costs of handsets is something consumers are frankly not familiar with. Tell them that the iPhone goes for somewhere around…
PayPal has recently announced that Osama Bedier, who has been Vice President of Product Development since December 2002, has decided to leave the company and join Google. What exactly he’ll be doing at Google is not yet certain, but you’ve got to wonder: with the latest version of Android supporting near field communication (NFC), and…
We’ve known, for quite some time now, that Rupert Murdoch was going to launch an iPad exclusive newspaper called “The Daily”. We knew it would cost $0.99 per week, and we even knew what the application icon would look like. All we didn’t know was when the damn thing would ship. Now it’s official, News…
Samsung has just published their Q4 2010 financial results [PDF file] and they’re quite good. The South Korean firm shipped 80.7 million mobile phones during the quarter, and that’s up 17% compared to Q4 09. The mobile side of the company, aptly called “Mobile Communications and Telecommunications Systems”, made 1.44 trillion won ($1.29 billion) in…
The first rule about online advertising is that you’re not supposed to talk about online advertising. No one really likes the ads they see plastered all over their favorite websites, and many of us use RSS readers because we can avoid them while also speeding up our consumption of news. But mobile users, more than…