David Hartsfield used to work for Motorola. He worked there for 10 years. He was responsible for CDMA device development and even worked on projects such as the Motorola Droid. David was recently hired by Nokia. His title? Vice President of Nokia’s CDMA segment. If that isn’t corporate backstabbing then I don’t know what is.…
1,200 employees stage protest at Nokia’s Chennai factory
Nokia India decided to suspend 60 people working at their factory in Chennai due to “acts of serious misconduct” and that triggered nearly 1,200 employees to stage a protest. Those Nokia N97 Minis and N900s don’t make themselves you know, production has been slowed and the company hopes that things will be “resolved soon”. I…
Nokia’s big press event was to announce a new version of Ovi Maps, now with free navigation
Nokia got everyone’s panties wet when they invited several journalists and bloggers from all around the world to attend a virtual press event related to Ovi. We all thought Nokia was going to fix their troubled, border line retarded, Ovi Store, or better integrate their various scattered Ovi services, but we were all wrong. Nokia…
Google now letting advertisers select which devices and which operators their mobile ads will appear on
Google’s Inside AdWords blog just posted an updated telling advertisers that they’ll now be able to specify which devices and which operator networks their advertisements will appear on. Advertisers will be able to select if they want their ads to only show up on Android, iPhone or Palm webOS running devices, and they’ll also be…
Opera buys AdMarvel, are they building an ad network to leverage what they know about you?
During the summer of 2009 I interviewed for a position on the Opera Mini team based out of Oslo, Norway. That’s how much I love Opera Mini, it’s easily the most important important mobile application ever created since it gives millions around the world access to the full internet on a wide range of devices.…
Brief: Blurry photo of the HTC Bravo leaks [Like the Nexus One, but better, tiny bit sexier too]
The HTC Bravo, which we first heard about via the massive HTC roadmap leak a few weeks back, has just been leaked in a live blurry photo courtesy of Omio. It’s supposed to be coming out this spring on T-Mobile UK, and it’ll probably find itself on 3’s Swedish network during the same timeframe. Omio…
Apple iPhone getting NFC in Japan via a case made by mophie and a custom app
When the iPhone came out in Japan a lot of people said it would fail because it didn’t include many of the technologies that Japanese consumers were used to. No NFC to pay for your Red Bull, no mobile TV to make the commute to work bearable by reading animated pornography, no Japanese emoticons so…
VNL: Solar powered GSM network, takes 6 hours to install, needs only two people
Connecting the poorest of the poor to the rest of the world isn’t simply a matter of making a cheap mobile handset. Networks need to be in place so people can use that Nokia 1100 they’ve been saving up for 6 months to buy. The problem is electricity, networks new it to run. How do…
Clearwire: Whether we use WiMAX or LTE, consumers don’t really care
Clearwire, America’s first real alternative to the broadband duopoly that cable and telephone companies have, spoke to C|Net and had some really interesting things to say about why they built a WiMAX network. “WiMax is here and now, and LTE was not when we began building our network,” said Mike Sievert, Chief Commercial Officer for…
Department of Justice: American Wireless Operators didn’t raise their SMS rates to bust your balls
Over the past few years the cost of an individual SMS (text message) has nearly doubled in the United States, while in most other countries the reverse is true. The Justice Department, at the request of Herb Kohl, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, began an investigation as to why this was happening. “The four [largest wireless]…