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Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures consumer electronics for an incredible number of clients, most famously Apple, has just announced that Terry Cheng, their CEO, will resign due to health reasons. He’s leaving on July 31st. Terry only became the CEO of Foxconn in January of this year, so it’s pretty crazy that he’s leaving…
Qualcomm is what’s known as a fabless company. Their engineers sit in front of computers all day designing chips that someone else then has to physically make. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, better known as TSMC, has been making Qualcomm’s chips since the beginning of time, but these days they’re having issues feeding Qualcomm’s demand. What’s Qualcomm…
Last month Microsoft announced two tablet devices, one called Surface, the other called Surface Pro. These are the company’s first computers and to many they represent the start of a new era at Microsoft. Before the Surface tablets, people thought of Microsoft as a software company. Every two to three years they’d pop out an…
Last year was a bumpy ride for Nokia fans. In February the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, told the world that Symbian was going to be taken behind the barn and shot in the back of the head. The future, according to him, was going to be Windows Phone. Nine months later, in November, the Lumia…
Rumor has it that Amazon is going to announce the second generation Kindle Fire on the last day of this month. For those of you who don’t know what the Kindle Fire is, it’s a $199 7 inch tablet that runs a highly customized version of Google’s Android operating system. Many people consider the recently…
SK Telecom has just announced that they’ve become the world’s first operator to launch a multicarrier LTE network. What the hell does that mean? Here’s our best attempt to explain the news in plain English. Say you like drinking those ridiculously sized sodas that you can get from 7-Eleven. It’s a hot summer day and…
Amazon, who many of us consider to be nothing more than an online retailer, started making hardware in 2007 when they released the Kindle. The Kindle, in case you’ve been living under a rock, is a small device with an electronic ink display that lets you read books. Subsequent models were introduced that were cheaper…
Can you name a single software project that was backed by a consortium of wireless operators that ended up being a successful product? No, you can’t. So why is it that the internet is going nuts over the news that Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Sprint are going to back Mozilla’s new mobile operating system, Firefox…
Ever since the iPhone came out in 2007, people have been asking themselves whether or not phones with physical keys offer some sort of advantage due to their tactile nature. Looking at all the major smartphones that have been announced over the past few years, as well as RIM’s stock price, one would think that…
Samsung’s 5.3 inch smartphone/tablet hybrid, the Galaxy Note, hit the European market in October 2011. We’ll admit it, we made fun of the Note, predicted it would fail, and wrote countless editorials poking fun at Samsung’s management. We were wrong. Dead wrong. Last month Samsung announced that sales of the Note eclipsed 7 million units,…