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All the information that’s currently floating around the internets about Samsung’s successor to the Galaxy S II, aptly called the Galaxy S III, is so ridiculously unreliable that we haven’t been able to paint an accurate picture of what to expect. Today though, that changes thanks to a piece from The Korea Times, which has…
Last night Apple announced that they would reveal what they were planning to do with the close to $100 billion they have in the bank. Now that it’s the crack of dawn, we have a press release: “Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors, the Company plans to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65…
In case you haven’t noticed, Apple’s third generation iPad came out today. Judging by the early reviews, it’s already set the benchmark for what a tablet should be. Now when Apple announced the new iPad last week they said that their A5X chip is 4x faster than NVIDIA’s Tegra 3. That’s a bold claim, and…
AT&T has a 4G LTE network that uses the 700 MHz band. Verizon has a 4G LTE network that uses the 700 MHz band. Why is it then that AT&T’s 4G LTE subscribers can’t roam on Verizon’s 4G LTE network and vice versa? It’s technically possible, but the way the FCC sees it they want…
Path, a small social network that limits the amount of friends you can have to “only” 150 people, went through a major shit storm last month. It was discovered that as soon as you install and launch their application it uploads your complete address book to Path’s servers. Why did they do this? So they…
Apple’s iPad and iPhone and the iOS software that powers both of those devices is all well and good if you’re a single geek who doesn’t have a social life, but what if you have a family? Everyone has their own email account, some probably even have more than one, everyone has a Facebook account,…
British operator O2 has tweeted that they’ll start selling HTC’s newest flagship, the One X, on the 5th of April; that’s less than 3 weeks away! Just to recap, HTC announced the One X on February 26th and said it would on the market within 60 days. If O2’s tweet is legit, then they’ve most…
Two years ago a scrappy newcomer called LightSquared announced plans to revolutionize the American wireless industry. Their plan was simple: Build a nationwide 4G LTE network that other companies would then lease so they could sell access to consumers. Think of it this way, back in the 1990s there were hundres of internet service providers…
The wait is finally over! Samsung’s Galaxy S II, arguably the hottest selling Android device of 2011, is now getting updated to Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system. To put this into some perspective, Google announced and demoed ICS in October 2011. The Galaxy Nexus, the first ICS device, hit…
Two years ago (February 2010) ST-Microelectronics and Ericsson created a joint venture appropriately called ST-Ericsson. The goal they set out to achieve was to sell an integrated solution to handset vendors that consisted of an application processor, a graphics processor, and a complete wireless stack. Now last month I published a report highlighting the fact…