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Viral videos are one of the best weapons in a marketing department’s arsenal, and Nokia went pretty big with this one. What you see below is a pair of Chinese guys, one of them is obviously a tinkerer, using the recently launched C7 to do several things using what is presumably the built in Bluetooth…
Opera Software has just released their latest “State of the Mobile Report” that looks at how users of their Opera Mini web browser interacted with the internet. With Opera Mini, users type in a URL and then said web site is rendered on a server in some distant land, compressed by up to 90%, and…
The whole Apple versus Nokia debacle is something we hate covering because at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter, but here’s what’s happened so far, or at least a summary: Nokia sues Apple in the USA, Apple sues Nokia back, Nokia sues Apple over more patents, and this time adds Germany and…
Looking to upgrade your phone and not break the bank? Dell is selling the Nokia E72 for just $190 with free shipping and it even comes with a free car kit! To get it just go to Dell’s Small Business site, search for the E72, add it to you shopping cart, and during the checkout…
When T-Mobile USA decided to label their 21 Mbps HSPA+ network as “4G”, we were a little disappointed. At the time the International Telecommunications Union, the ITU, said that 4G was defined as a network technology that could pump 100 Mbps down to your handset. At least T-Mobile was somewhat closer to that elusive goal…
Sony Ericsson has just published their Q4 2010 financial results [PDF file] and while they sold fewer devices than they did this time last year, and also had weaker sales figures, they made more more. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture sold 11.2 million devices, down a whopping 23% from last year. The average selling price for…
The bean counters at Strategy Analytics have whipped out their abacuses and tabulated that 15% of the smartphones sold this year will have multi core processors and that by 2015 that figure is likely to sky rocket to 45%. They go on to say that this year Samsung and Qualcomm will be shipping the most…
ARM is all about designing awesome processors and then licensing the blueprint to create said processors to companies that actually build chips. One of those hardware makers is IBM, who ARM has worked with in the past to design processors that can be created on nodes as small as 28 nanometers. To give you an…
Apple is known on Wall Street for not issuing a dividend to their shareholders, instead preferring to lock it away in what people refer to as a “war chest”. According to figures tabulated by Horace Dediu from Asymco, that war chest is due to hit over $100 billion by this time next year if Apple…
Craig McCaw, one of the founders of Clearwire, resigned from his post as Chairman of the WiMAX operator that’s 54% owned by Sprint last month. His shoes have now been filled by John Stanton, who has been on Clearwire’s board since 2008, but more importantly has a history in the wireless industry that stretches as…