ShoZu, the software application that makes taking a picture of your cat doing something cute and stupid and then sharing it to all your internet friends scattered over the 10+ social networks you check on a daily basis for some artificial version of what is commonly known as affection, has been purchased by Critical Path.…
Video: Kitchenware plus mobile broadband modem = speed
Filed under “so incredibly impractical it isn’t even funny, but a fantastic way to kill 1 minute of your helplessly boring and meaningless day” we have a Finnish guy, Teemu Milto, increasing the speed of his 3G dongle by putting it in a pot. The explanation for the phenomenon is simple, more cellular waves are…
Rick Simonson, former Nokia CFO, now head of Mobile Phones: We’ll be as good as Apple and RIM in 2011
Every executive, at some point or another in their lives, says something that goes viral for all the wrong reasons. With Steve Ballmer you have the sweaty “Developers! Developers! Developers!” triad, with Steve Jobs you have “BOOM!” and “one more thing”. During an event in 2007 that took place in London, the one where Nokia…
Video: Nokia X6 unboxed by a man and his bird [you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never forget]
The Nokia X6 announcement earlier this year has come and gone, shrouded by mystery as to why none of the marketing material spoke of the capacitive touch screen. The main selling point instead was “Comes with Music”, which is nothing more than a 150 EUR tax you pay for your device in order to get…
Video: Japanese demo a new input mechanism that involves waving your fingers in front of a screen
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University developed a new input method they’re calling “vision-based Input Interface”. Using a forward facing camera, something that many smartphones in Europe and Asia have, even though it’s debatable whether or not video calling took off, all five fingers are recognized and can be used…
Video: Home Run Baseball for the Nokia N900 [it’s choppy, it’s baseball, but at least it’s something]
Baseball, a sport that never really took off to the same degree that say football (soccer) or basketball have, is coming to the Nokia N900 courtesy of India Games in a title called “Home Run Baseball”. Tap the screen to hit the ball, get your ego inflated a bit by hearing the computer generated sounds…
Maemo, Symbian and Qt are facing internal strife; what was supposed to bind them is tearing them apart
When Nokia acquired Trolltech in January 2008 they outlined a clear strategy that they would build a Qt layer on top of both Maemo and Symbian so that developers could create applications that would be cross platform compatible: The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and…
Google marks January 5th in their calendar for an Android related press event [Google Phone?]
It’s official, Google is holding a press event on January 5th in Mountain View, California and it’s Android related. Are they going to announce the Google Phone? How will other handset makers using Android react? These questions and more will be answered in just 7 days. Until then enjoy all the Nexus One news that’s…
Nokia complains to the United States International Trade Commission about 7 patents Apple violated
Here we go, first it was Nokia suing Apple over violating 10 patents, then Apple countersuing Nokia for 13 patents, and now here we are, days before 2010, and Nokia not only countersues Apple for 7 additional patents, but they file a complaint to the United States International Trade Commission. Read the press release yourself:…
Evolved EDGE: No operator supports it, but should they?
In between EDGE and 3G there is a standard called Evolved EDGE that never really took off. It promises to half latency, increase download speed by close to 500%, and all you need to do to get E-EDGE is to upgrade the software on the network equipment you already have, so why are operators not…