Qualcomm makes chips and licenses their technology to others in order to make money. Simple enough to follow. You may or may not have heard of them, but they’re the folks who do the Snapdragon processor that goes into a lot of high end smartphones such as the Google Nexus One. They also make mid…
Incoming SMS: There’s a shark coming, get out of the water if you like having two legs
Marine Biologists from Australia have rigged 75 great white sharks with radio transmitters in order to study their migration patterns and warn nearby swimmers via SMS text message. Fewer than 3,500 of these deadly beasts exist today, and their goal is to preserve them in case Hollywood decides to remake Jaws or America decides that…
Bicycle thief steals iPhone from woman who was demoing real time GPS tracking software [Hilarity]
Horatio Toure. 31 years old. San Franciscan. Idiot. The story goes like this: Horatio was on his bike one Monday afternoon, riding in the South of Market neighborhood, when he sees a woman, Jordan Sturm, using an iPhone. Shouldn’t be too much of a surprise in that part of the world; it’s hipster central. So…
LightSquared: $7 billion LTE network built by Nokia Siemens Networks, launching end of next year
Yesterday Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced that they’ve purchased Motorola’s network division for $1.2 billion. Today Harbinger Capital Partners, a bunch of dudes who manage a hedge fund, also known as the kind of people who grew up watching the 1987 cult classic “Wall Street“, have announced that they’ve awarded NSN a $7 billion contract…
Mobistar testing LTE in Belgium: 60 megabits per second download, 18 ms latency
LTE, oh LTE, we can’t wait for LTE, but the truth of the matter is that it’s at least a few years off until we have LTE equipped mobile phones. Bad news out of the way, let’s concentrate on the good stuff: Mobistar, Belgium’s second largest mobile operator, got a license from the Belgian Institute…
Motorola to sell their network division to Nokia Siemens Networks because America distrusts China?
It’s no secret that Motorola is planning to split into two separate companies during the first quarter of next year. The handset division, which has been struggling to recapture their glory days of yore when the RAZR was the must have mobile phone on the market, will continue pumping out mobile phones. The networks side…
Verizon LTE SIM card found in the wild, plus leaked documents confirming late 2010 launch
Americans should be super excited right now. There are a little over 5 months until the end of the year, and besides all the new smartphones due to launch, plus new versions of Android and Windows Phone, Verizon is going to be turning on their brand spanking new LTE network. According to documents that were…
Opera Mini 5.1 for Android: This is the Opera I fell in love with
Since switching to Android in February with the purchase of my Google Nexus One, I’ve stopped using one of my favorite browsers: Opera Mini. Back then the version of Opera Mini that was offered in the Android Market was just the same J2ME application available on all platforms, but wrapped in an emulator so that…
Sprint: We’re probably going to switch to LTE at some point and might merge with T-Mobile too
With Verizon Wireless set to launch an LTE network this year, and then 2 to 3 years later have LTE coverage in as many places as there is CDMA and EV-DO coverage today, Sprint is starting to look like the class dunce. We never really understood why they went with WiMAX. They claim it was…
Mediatek joins the Open Handset Alliance: The industry has to stop making feature phones
Who here remembers the very first Asus eeePC? It came out almost 3 years ago, and man was it a terrible product. Screen quality was not only horrifyingly bad, but so was the size and resolution. The keyboard was cramped. It was slower than your 90 year old Jewish grandmother behind the wheel of a…