Nokia purchased cellity today, a company based out of Hamburg, Germany. No details were given about the financials involved, except that all 14 employees will soon become powerpoint zombies Nokia employees by Q3 of this year. What does cellity do? According to their website: cellity AG founded in October 2006, has developed their own software…
Comic: Texting while driving
[Via: Mike Luckovich]
South Korea fines Qualcomm $208 million in antitrust case: World stunned to hear case related to IPR
“There has been no illegal activity” is exactly what you would expect Qualcomm Korea head Cha Young-koo to say after the company was fined $208 million, the largest the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has ever issued. South Korea, which is one of the few markets in the world to run almost exclusively on CDMA…
Android market share surpasses Windows Mobile for the first time ever according to AdMob
AdMob, which is an ad network used on over mobile 7,000 websites and over 2,500 applications, serves over 7 billion ad requests per month. Parsing through that data, they’ve noticed that Google’s Android operating system has grown by 25% compared to the previous month and as such has reached 5% global market share, making it…
Video: iFeud: Developers behind iFart and Pull My Finger argue over innovation in flatulence
In a segment on The Daily Show called “iFeud”, correspondent Wyatt Cenac talks to the developer of “Pull my Finger” Eric Stratton and “iFart” developer Joel Comm, to find out about their fierce, competitive struggles. This is why people make fun of, and hate, America. [Via: Wall Street Journal, Textually] The Daily Show With Jon…
Nokia Siemens Networks: Mobile data to grow 500% by 2011, will surpass voice traffic
Nokia Siemens Networks has just issued a press release saying that they’ve just singed up their 500 millionth mobile data user and that if current growth rates are maintained, by 2011 mobile data will surpass voice traffic. This year Nokia Siemens Networks expects mobile data traffic to hit 400 petabytes (400 million gigabytes) and that…
AT&T to provide the built in wireless access on Barnes & Noble’s Plastic Logic’s eBook reader
American operator AT&T will be providing the built in connectivity for the Plastic Logic eBook reader that will be offered by Barnes & Noble in early 2010 said The Wall Street Journal. “There’s a lot of analysts and industry experts that believe this space has tremendous potential.” said Glenn Lurie, Head of Emerging Devices at…
Ericsson offers $730 million for Nortel’s Wireless Unit
The bids for Nortel’s Wireless Unit, which has a lot of IP in the CDMA and LTE space, keep on coming in. Nokia Siemens Networks at $650 million, RIM at $1.1 billion, and now Ericsson at $730 million. According to The Global and Mail, Tuesday was the final day to place a bid in Canada,…
Google Maps for Mobile 3.2: Layers of data such as public transportation and Wikipedia now available
Google has just released version 3.2 of their fantastic Maps application for S60 and Windows Mobile handsets. With it comes the new ability to see layers of information, superimposed on the map you’re currently viewing. Say you’re in a new city. Just walk outside your hotel room, get a location fix, turn on the Wikipedia…
More Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 images leak, she is one yummy looking smartphone
It’s been over a month since we’ve seen images of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 leak. These new pictures uploaded by “nevermind” on the XDA Developer Forums give us a new, less blurry, peak at the X2 and a good size comparison with the X1. The keyboard is, and I quote: “waaaaaaaaay better” than that…