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Remember Lance Armstrong and how America all of a sudden cared about the sport of cycling just because it was an American winning year after year after year? That “latch onto the champion” mentality is an issue that true fans of sport have to deal with, but at least something good came out of Lance’s…
Research firm iSuppli, who specializes in identifying the exact components inside a device and generating a rough bill of materials that competitors can then use as a benchmark for building their products, has raised their forecast of iPad shipments from 12.9 million in 2010 to 13.8 million. Hot on the heals of Apple’s Q4 financial…
It used to be that every time the Japanese came out with a device I’d wave my fist in the air because it could do things like pay for groceries using NFC or tune into the free over the air crystal clear television signals. For all the things Japanese phones do, they’re mainly feature phones,…
The market for dual SIM card enabled mobile phones may not be that big in America, but in Europe, Russia, India and certain parts of Asia, it’s practically a necessity for daily life. From having two numbers, each for a different set of friends, to saving money by using one operator at a certain time…
Grandpa used to listen to AM radio, and you probably grew up with FM radio, but have you heard of DAB? It’s the newest technology to bring you sweet new music when you’re tired of the thousands of tracks on your iPhone or the millions of track that come with a premium Spotify subscription and…
Clearwire, the world’s largest WiMAX operator who is sadly trying to desperately raise money to keep on chugging along, has announced that service in New York City will be turned on at the start of next month, at the start of December in Los Angeles, and by the end of the year in San Francisco.…
When people get sick they usually sleep more, use their phone less, and stay in bed all day watching DVD box sets of their favorite shows. Such patterns can be detected and that’s exactly what students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully achieved. Anmol Madan, the guy behind this idea, gave 70 undergraduate students…
Telkom South Africa has launched a new mobile network dubbed “8ta” that currently has 800 HSPA cell towers up and running with plans to quadruple that number relatively soon. Now while many of our readers don’t come from South Africa, how operators charge for their services is a subject that has fascinated me for quite…
India’s Home Ministry has told the country’s operators that they need to start storing each and every text message that goes through their network for a period of 6 months. For a country that regularly sends between 130 and 150 billion texts a month, this new government requirement is going to require a huge amount…
In a study published by the New America Foundation, they found that the cheapest mobile phone bill for Americans hovers around $60, and Canadians get it even worse at $67. India and Hong Kong on the other hand are on the other side of the spectrum with their bills going as low as $12.90 and…