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The written Chinese language is one that celebrates [see this video] beautifully sculpted characters to express words and ideas. Unlike English, which has letters that are combined to form the words in our everyday language, Chinese uses a specific symbol to represent words like man, bridge, and airplane. It’s a given that young Chinese school…
Samsung has just announced their fourth smartphone based on their homegrown operating system Bada: the Wave 723. Unlike the original Samsung Wave, this model was created to serve the mid range of the market. It has a 3.2 inch LCD with a WQVGA resolution, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi, comes with a leather case [pictured below], has…
Rumor has it that Vodafone, who purchased a 2.18% stake in China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, in October 2000 for $2.5 billion, and then increased their stake to 3.27% only 2 years later for an additional $750 million, is going to sell their shares in the company for $6.2 billion. That’s a pretty good…
Mark Budgell, who according to his LinkedIn profile is “PR Manager, Social Media Strategy at Hewlett-Packard”, is getting everyone’s panties in a bunch thanks to the picture above that he just uploaded to Twitter. The full text of his tweet suggests that HP may be showing something off at South by Southwest (SXSW) during the…
Nokia Siemens Networks, the joint venture between one of Europe’s largest mobile technology companies, and one of the world’s largest producer of just about anything that runs on electricity, have confirmed that they’re looking for around $1 billion of capital from investment firms and that they’ve seen interest from Blackstone, TPG Capital and Bain Capital,…
After months of speculation it’s finally official: Intel is purchasing Infineon’s wireless solutions unit for a cool $1.4 billion. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2011 and when it’s complete … boy oh boy things are going to be interesting to watch, because Intel has a shotgun aimed straight at ARM’s face. With…
The Nokia C6, arguably a Nokia N97, but in a hideous and ancient looking body, just got a firmware upgrade and it’s also on sale at Dell for $259, so how’s that for an awesome start to the week? The firmware update, version 11.0.029, brings about added stability to the web browser with over 250…
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA; even though it should be GMSA, don’t ask) have declared that there are now 101 operators around the world in 41 countries that have committed to deploying LTE technology. There are also 31 additional operators who are playing around with LTE, but have yet to commit to deploying an…
Mobile phones today are primarily built out of plastic, with few exceptions such as the Apple iPhone and Nokia N8 which use exotic materials like glass, steel and aluminum, but what if you wanted to build something green? Japanese giant NEC says that they’ve developed a bio-plastic that’s 70% made out of a compound which…
Verizon Wireless, due to roll out America’s first LTE network some time in November after winning a giant chunk (22 MHz total) from the 700 MHz spectrum auction that took place in 2008, is trying to get the FCC to allow them to buy more spectrum so that they can cover the state of Alaska.…