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The University of Leeds is giving all 520 students in their fourth or fifth year studying medicine a free 16 GB Apple iPhone 3GS loaded with things like note taking software, textbooks, reference manuals, and a SIM card that gives them unlimited data. Students will have to pay for voice and SMS on their own.…
Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu cut his rating of Nokia’s stock today to underperform. Citing recent changes in management structure, most notably the new CEO, Stephen Elop, and the departure of Anssi Vanjoki, Pierre says that Nokia is starting the 2010 holiday season and the whole of 2011 off on the wrong foot. Pierre also…
Several years ago a concept video (below) went around the internet that showed a future Nokia device bending, folding, and doing things that today are still not possible due to limited advances in both circuit and battery technology. Now that doesn’t mean Nokia isn’t trying to make fantasy into reality however. In the video above…
Sony Ericsson has just announced LiveView, a 1.3 inch OLED screen that uses Bluetooth technology to pair with Android devices and gives users the ability to do things such as view missed calls, text messages, Facebook and Twitter updates, even RSS. It’s coming out in Q4 of this year, and no price point has been…
Motorola has announced two new Bluetooth accessories this week. The first is Oasis, a Bluetooth headset for those who don’t really care that the people around them think they’re totally mental, which was designed for maximum comfort after measuring 500 ears and collecting 15,000 data points. That’s a lot of nasty wax. It’s got two…
Nokia and AT&T are joining forces and starting a “Calling All Innovators” competition that runs between now and the end of January 2011. Nokia’s mission for developers: Make applications that people want for Symbian^3 devices, because everyone is making stuff for Android and iOS, but not us, and we’re number 1 … at least in…
Last week Stephen Elop began his new job as the CEO of Nokia. He’s the first non-Finnish CEO in the company’s over 140 year history. When The New York Times went digging to find out why Nokia stumbled just a few short years after the start of this century, and what he can do to…
The baseline for what’s considered decent human behavior has been slowly slipping to lower and lower levels ever since Elvis Presley got up on stage and violently gyrated his hips on national television. There used to be a time when you went to the cinema and were able to order a beer, smoke a cigarette,…
The Portland Oregon Transit Agency has said that they had to let go 40 year old Lahcen Qouchbane after a video that a passenger recorded on September 16th showed him texting while driving along Interstate 5. The Transit Agency says this isn’t the first time that people have complained about this particular driver, so his…
Between January and August over 11,000 people helped contribute data points for a survey Broadband Expert was taking and the results are in: Vodafone has the fastest network with an average download speed of 1.78 Mbps, compared to 3 with 1.76 Mbps, Orange with 1.46 Mbps, O2 with 1.42 Mbps, and T-Mobile with 1.07 Mbps.…