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Citigroup’s Glen Yeung recently published a research note that says Samsung may have placed an order for NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips that’s worth between $250 million and $350 million. The chips are meant for both tablets and smartphones, and if his numbers are right Samsung may have bought practically all the Tegra 2 chips that…
Apple has issued an update to their eBook reading platform “iBooks”, now up to version 1.2, and we’ve embedded the full change-log below, but before you scroll down I’d like to take a moment to tell you to visit your local library. You don’t need a $500 tablet or a $200 iPod made out of…
Juniper Research has released a new report that states operators are in a position to score over $200 billion in revenues from LTE services by 2015. If that sounds familiar to you then you’re an avid reader of our website, because a little over a month ago I published information about an earlier Juniper Research…
After the terrorist attacks on September 11th America changed for the worse, with the rights of citizens being thrown out left and right under the guise of “increased protection”. This latest brouhaha over the new full body scanners at many of America’s largest airports is yet another example of invasion of privacy aimed to scare…
New data has been released by Nielsen detailing how the young people (age 15 to 24) are using mobile technology and it comes as no surprise to many of us that they’re adopting smartphones faster than any other age group. Italians lead the pack with 47% of young people owning a smartphone. It drops to…
South Korean developer Nabix has written an iPhone application for the lonely men that make up the nation that brings us devices such as the Samsung Google Nexus S and LG C900. For $2 you’ll get up to 4 video calls a day from a girl who serenades you using the oldest courtship phrases in…
Crime is a sad reality of the society we live in, regardless of the reason the crime was committed. Theft of private property, driven by either lust for a product that one can’t purchase due to financial reasons or because said stolen item will be sold to a third party for pocket money to be…
It doesn’t matter how smart your smartphone is, if the battery is dead then you can’t use the damn thing. Apple and Microsoft know this, and it’s why with their respective mobile operating systems they allow developers to build applications that are push enabled, but that push has to come from a central server. Instead…
Near Field Communications (NFC) is going to be a hot topic of discussion in 2011. Whether or not we actually see an ecosystem being built around the technology during that year versus spending 12 months reading the wet dream scenarios cobbled up by the technology press and analysts alike remains to be seen, but the…
Unlimited data is both a blessing and a curse to mobile operators. The billions they spent on their networks, including the money they dished out to governments for 3G spectrum licenses, was considered a waste by many since it created an excess in capacity. Then the iPhone came out and it changed everything. People actually…