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Sony has invented a new method of transmitting both power and data over a single copper cable, thus replacing the complicated ribbon cables commonly found when disassembling mobile phones, especially clamshell form factor devices. Typically a mobile phone has several dozen cables embedded inside one or two ribbon cables which are used to transmit audio,…
Bank of America, America’s largest bank in terms of customers, and Visa, the world’s largest payment processor, are set to begin trials of mobile phone payments next month in the New York area according to Reuters. People in the trial will be given “small chips” that they’ll place “in their smartphones” which will “emit radio…
Those of you working in the technology industry who are tired of paying out the ass for hotel rooms every February, getting served food that’s been sitting in a restaurant’s freezer for half a year, and being on full alert at all times thanks to a sensational amount of pick pocketing, this is your time…
Verizon has invested $400,000 into a small startup called CardStar according to The Wall Street Journal. CardStar, who’s based out of Boston, has already received a $1 million investment round from 3 different venture groups, and has over 700,000 users, is a service that works on Android, BlackBerry and iPhone which enables people to store…
Samsung has just posted a job position based out of Bridgewater, New Jersey for a LTE RIL (Radio Interface Layer) Engineer who will be tasked with adding LTE support to Android, fueling speculation the the South Korean firm will be the first to offer an LTE enabled mobile phone. Samsung, who is already shipping USB…
Nokia has just announced that they’ve acquired mobile analytics firm Motally, which currently has only 8 employees. Financial details have not been disclosed, and I doubt you’re going to hear about them anyway, but the deal is set to become official towards the end of this quarter. So, what does Motally do? Watch the 15…
Qualcomm is rumored to be investing upwards of $2 billion into a factory located at the Longtan site in the Central Taiwan Science Park that will mass produce 5.7 inch Mirasol displays beginning as early as 2012 according to sources that have spoken to Digitimes. Mirasol technology, which we’ve covered in the past, shares the…
Google uses the names of desserts to reference different versions of their mobile operating system, and their next release after Android 3.0, code named Gingerbread, has been discovered to be Honeycomb. Technically that’s not a dessert, but we’ll let that one slide since the only other sweet that starts with the letter H that we…
Yesterday I shared some images with you of the yet to be announced Nokia C7. Rather than updating that post, since many of you are not going to read it, and rather than writing a new post, because there is only so much I can write about a device I know nothing about, I’m just…
Nokia Siemens Networks is being sued by Isa Saharkhiz and his son Mehdi Saharkhiz in a U.S. federal court for alleged human rights violations perpetrated by the Iranian government thanks to hardware sold by the German-Finnish infrastructure firm that allowed spying to take place. Now this is a controversial topic, so let’s get the facts…