See that funky looking N in the top left hand corner of that iPhone? That’s the official NFC, now known as N-Mark, logo. Apple patent 20,100,082,784, which was filed in September 2008 and published last week, is called “System and method for simplified resource sharing” and that’s exactly what NFC enables. When two NFC devices…
IntoMobile Zombie Jesus Easter Weeked Wrapup [iPad, iPhone OS 4.0, Symbian^3, Microsoft Pink]
Easter, or “Zombie Jesus Day” as us secularists like to call it, has finally come to an end. Today is the day that many of you are coming back from a long four day weekend, and as such are going to spend a good portion of your working day scouring the internet, trying to catch…
Nokia N8 64 GB press release leaked: Will be announced April 20 (Not an April Fools’ joke)
It’s April Fools’ day, and a lot of what you’re going to see on the internet is bullshit, but this blog post isn’t. The Nokia N8, which we’ve already seen in a series of leaked images, is going to be called either the Nokia N8 12 MP or the Nokia N8 64 GB. While Nokia’s…
Telefónica Spain to upgrade their 3G network to support 42 Mbps; WTF is this LTE you speak of?
Here’s a little something I bet you didn’t know, 3G networks have a hell of a lot of life left in them when it comes to network performance. Sure, 3G started as UMTS, delivering only 384 Kbps, but then HSPA rolled around and gave people 1 Mbps, then 3 Mbps, then 7 Mbps. It’s properly…
Ubiquisys breaks $100 price barrier for femtocells [Operators may start giving them away for free]
Ubiquisys, maker of femtocell technology that allows you as a user to plug a tiny box into your broadband modem to get increase the mobile phone reception in your home, has created the first sub $100 femtocell product. This is a big deal, they claim, because there’s a psychological barrier many people run into when…
Clearwire asks 3GPP to make TD-LTE on 2.6 GHz a standard; WiMAX in the USA to die in 2011?
That’s a hell of a headline, shamelessly loaded with industry jargon, so let’s put this story together piece by piece. Clearwire is a mobile broadband vendor in the United States that uses WiMAX technology. They have a little under 700,000 users as of Q4 2009, and that includes users who signed up via 3rd party…
Video: Demo of Novarra [Opera Mini, minus the need for special client software]
When Nokia bought Chicago based Novarra, I was trying really hard to figure out what the company actually did. Yes, the press release was clear in saying that it helped web browsing speeds, but I’m a very stupid person. I need to see a product demo to register what exactly your product does. Reading a…
Concept: Photos: iPad case lets you shove your iPad in your bookshelf
The iPad is coming out in a few days, and for many customers interested in the product they’ll have to wait a week or two until Apple starts shipping them in volume, but for those early adopters, how are they going to protect their new $500-$850 investment? You could just leave it on your coffee…
Opera Mini: State of the Mobile Web February 2010: Users up, page views and data down
Opera Mini, a piece of software that runs on most feature phones and smart phones that intercepts your request for a webpage, sends it to a remote server that compresses said webpage by up to 90%, and then spits it back to your device, is becoming more and more popular each month. In the latest…
Nokia buys yet another company you’ve never heard of, and said company’s website is down
Nokia just bought Novarra, who according to the press release is a privately owned company of over 100 people based out of Chicago. This blurb is also attached: Novarra, the Internet Mobility company, provides high performance mobile internet browsers and platforms for operators, handset manufacturers and internet brands to create new services and revenue streams…