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The bean counters at International Data Corporation (IDC) have run the latest shipment numbers from all the handset makers and made a startling discovery. Apple, who wasn’t even making phones until just a few short years ago, is now ranked number 4 in terms of mobile devices sold. I’m not talking smartphones now, I’m talking…
The Norwegians have given millions of Symbian device users a special gift today in the form of a beta version of the extremely popular Opera Mini application that’s written as a native application. Seems kind of backwards that the iPhone was the first platform to get a native version of Opera Mini, then Android, and…
During the second quarter of this year it’s estimated that 19% or nearly 1 in 5 of all mobile devices shipped were smartphones. That figure is only going to go up, and the people who make the chips that power that class of device have a huge grin on their face because they know they’re…
JoikuSpot Premium, funny name, serious application, is now available for Symbian^3 devices such as the Nokia N8 and C7. It takes the internet connection that your operator pumps into your mobile device and then blasts it out over your smartphone’s WiFi chipset to enable other devices to connect to the internet. In geek circles this…
Last month Apple bought Swedish firm Polar Rose for around $22 million. Their speciality? Facial recognition software. Scientists at The University of Manchester have also been working on figuring out how to bring facial recognition to mobile devices, and the results are both impressive and shocking. Most mobile phones, even the iPhone 4 now, have…
Broadcom, an American company that doesn’t make wireless chips, but instead designs them and sells their blueprints to practically all the handset manufacturers, including Apple, has agreed to buy femtocell designer Percello for a cool $86 million. Femtocells, which I covered in great detail in an earlier article detailing how there are now more femtocells…
Opera’s published their latest State of the Mobile report, this time for the month of September, and numbers don’t lie. People love Opera Mini, the application that takes the websites you want to read and compresses them on some far away server in the tiny country of Norway before pumping it back down to your…
OpenCloud, a technology firm that sells hardware and software that enables operators to deploy services on the cheap, has commissioned a survey, performed by research agency Loudhouse, on 1,000 mobile users in the UK. The results are not what you would typically expect if all you rely on for an accurate depiction of the mobile…
The European Union, like the United States, is taking spectrum that was once allocated for television broadcasts and letting operators use it to deploy advanced wireless networks. The US already had their 700 MHz auction almost 2.5 years ago, with Verizon declared the victor, but the EU is a bit more complicated with each nation…
The upcoming near field communication revolution is so close that we can taste it. What the Japanese have been enjoying for years is finally going to come to the rest of the world once the price of incorporating NFC into mobile devices comes down in price. We’ll most likely see firms like Qualcomm, who sell…