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Yesterday we brought you news of NVIDIA’s upcoming Tegra 2 3D, which is nothing more than the Tegra 2 we all know and love, but with a slight increase in clock speed and support for 3D displays. We dismissed it as unexciting since 3D technology, whether it’s the type that requires 3D glasses or not,…
Companies need to sell stuff in order to make money. In order for a company to grow, they need to either sell more stuff than the year before or make more money some other way. It’s this simple law of capitalism that drives innovation. Hardware advances, up to a certain point, have generally benefited man.…
The image you see above supposedly surfaced on bugs.meego.com according to Tablet-News, meaning some poor Nokia developer is about to get fired. It appears to be a tablet like device, and it’s running a stock, as yet to be named, version of MeeGo. For those who forgot what MeeGo is, it’s Nokia’s latest attempt at…
At the start of this year Google said that they now serve over 2 billion mobile ad requests per day. When we say Google we really mean AdMob, who Google purchased in May 2010. Anyway, people want to know: where are those ad requests coming from? Google has an answer to that question. Turns out…
There’s a search engine out there you may or may not be aware of called ChaCha. Instead of typing in search terms, you type in a question. People actually respond to that question, versus the Google or Microsoft method of having an algorithm spit out a list of results that you have to sift through…
Say what you will about Facebook, Twitter, and all the other social networks out there that are increasingly becoming our sole medium of communication with others, it’s email that remains king of the hill. Sure, it’s slow, and yes, it’s filled with spam, but everyone has an email account and with email you don’t have…
If you sat down and thought about why you own the phone you do, you’d probably name features such as: a rich internet browser, games, push email, etc., but what about people in other countries? The mobile internet may be big, and it may be bringing down networks around the world, forcing operators to upgrade…
The idea of mobile payments and all the benefits they bring to users [never having to remember where your wallet is, being able to check your account balance with little effort, being able to leave the house with only one thing in your pocket] should make people ache to get their operator, credit card provider,…
Once upon a time, when the CEO of Nokia was Finnish and the N95 had yet to hit the market, the Finnish firm quipped that they’ve got millions of customers around the world, but in the United States they only had four. They of course were referring to the operators, who make or break a…
When Apple released a beta of iOS version 4.3 out on to the internet, one of the first things people noticed was that it gave the iPad multitouch gestures. Users could swipe up with four fingers to reveal the multitasking toolbar, pinch inward with five fingers to go back to the home screen, or swipe…