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Imagination may not be a company you’re familiar with, but they make the PowerVR SGX 535 graphics processing unit that’s inside Apple’s A4 chip, which is at the heart the Apple iPad, iPhone 4, iPod touch and the new Apple TV. In 2008 Apple thought Imagination was so critical to their future that they bought…
A new MiFi device by Novatel Wireless has just landed at the FCC: model number 4082. Like all the other portable hotspots that came before it, the whole concept of a MiFi is to take the mobile broadband signals that your operator transmits and then make them usable by spitting them out via WiFi. Got…
According to IDG News, who sat in on a presentation given by Nokia Senior Manager Gunther Kottzieper at the 2010 International Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, Nokia is planning to do the following things over the next 12 to 15 months: In Q1 they’ll release a software update for their Symbian^3 devices that features an…
Mobile phone applications are the hottest things since sliced bread, but you don’t need me to tell you that. Earlier today we published a report from IDC that said 10.9 billion applications were downloaded in 2010 alone and that number is expected to hit 76.9 billion in 2014 when the market for smartphone software is…
Nokia announced a successor to the highly popular, and insanely expensive, E90 at Nokia World back in mid September of this year. Today, exactly 3 months after the announcement of the E7, they’ve told Reuters that their highly anticipated smartphone is no longer shipping by the end of this year, but has instead been delayed…
DailyBooth is a novel service that asks users to snap a picture of themselves using the webcam that comes built-in with many of the new laptops that are hitting the market. Apple, deciding to put a front facing camera on both the iPhone 4 and the new iPod touch, gave the folks at DailyBooth a…
Little is known about Zetawire, a company that Google just purchased according to The 451 Group. They’re Canadian, based out of Toronto, trademarked a yet to launch product called “Walleto”, and have a patent for creating a “mobile banking, advertising, identity management, credit card and mobile coupon transaction processing” solution or in other words: Google…
Bill Shope from Goldman Sachs recently published a research note that was parsed through by All Things Digital and it says that next year there are going to be 54.7 million tablet devices sold, jumping up to 79.2 million in 2012. A majority of them will be the model that started it all, the Apple…
The bean counters at IDC have some predictions for what’s going to happen over the next few years with regards to the popularity of mobile applications. They say that in 2010 there were 10.9 billion applications downloaded all across the world, and that in 2014 that number is supposed to skyrocket to 76.9 billion. The…
Many investors are still wondering why Nokia coughed up over $8 billion for NAVTEQ over 3 years ago, was it really just to save on map licensing costs? So it’s interesting to see that NAVTEQ is not only working as a separate entity, but they also have their own mergers and acquisitions department. According to…