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Carl Icahn, the renegade investor who likes to buy a huge amount of shares in various companies so that he can force the people in charge to listen to him, change how they operate, and then flip his shares for more money once his corporate fitness program is complete, has his eyes set on Motorola.…
According to Dow Jones Newswires, who spoke to a Samsung Executive, MetroPCS is scheduled to turn on America’s first LTE network next month in Las Vegas and Dallas. The world’s first mobile phone, the Samsung Craft, will also be made available during that time. Now all of this is just speculation at this point, but…
Cute commercial from O2 Germany showing how if you’re not using their network, your mobile phone turns into a monster that sucks up all your cash. If anything it’s an awesome way to kill 47 seconds of your day. Well 60 seconds if you include the time it took you to read this. Stop reading.…
Wynncom, a name you probably have never heard before, don’t worry because neither have I, is an Indian mobile phone manufacturer that just announced the release of the first Hindi QWERTY form factor mobile phone. While this story doesn’t impact many of our readers, it’s interesting to note the competition that’s now facing traditional incumbents…
All my years of reading The Economist were for nothing because I always thought Paraguay’s top export were fruits and vegetables from hard working people living on farms, but apparently it’s ridiculously hot models who have no problem putting devices such as the Nokia E71 and C3 between their breasts for the sake of promotion.…
The Museum of Modern Art, arguably one of the finest museums in the world, and one of my old favorite places to hang out at as a child after school, has released an iOS application that’s pretty much the entire museum in your pocket. You get to see which art is on what floor, find…
The 33 prisons in California, like all prisons around the world, have problems with people sneaking in mobile phones and in order to remedy the situation they’re calling in man’s best friend. Dogs, which have been used to find drugs, weapons, people, and last night’s leftovers, are now being trained to hunt for mobile phones.…
TeliaSonera, which was the first operator in the world to launch a commercial LTE network, has now turned on LTE in Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg, and say that thanks to equipment from Nokia Siemens Networks they’re averaging 85 to 90 Mbps download speeds and even hitting peaks of 100 Mbps. Upload speeds faired just…
The progressive state of California and Sprint, one of America’s smaller operators, are joining forces to launch a mobile emergency alert system. You’re used to seeing televisions and radios bleep and bloop whenever a severe storm is about to approach, but this is 2010 and people are not exactly glued to their television screens or…
Clearwire, the world’s largest WiMAX operator that’s already announced that they’re trying out LTE technology because they most likely regret backing a technology the mobile industry doesn’t care about, is set to unveil new pricing plans during a webcast scheduled to take place on Monday, August 30th. The analysts over at Light Reading think that…