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The state of California has just become the first state in America to hold consumer electronics companies accountable for their battery chargers. On Thursday the California Energy Commission voted 3 – 0 to force companies that make mobile phones, tablets, and laptops, to include energy efficient chargers with their devices starting on February 1, 2013.…
Despite being at each other’s throats in the court room, Samsung and Apple are best buddies when it comes to their component relationship. Last summer The Economist did some research about the various bits and bobs that make up the iPhone and discovered that 26% of the bill of materials of an iPhone 4 was…
ZAGG, makers of cases for various consumer electronic devices, was at CES last week showing off their latest innovation called HZO. Unlike a case that you put on a device you’ve already purchased, HZO is a technology that a device vendor would spray on the internals of their hardware during the manufacturing process. The folks…
Last week Nokia announced the Windows Phone Mango running Lumia 900 at CES. It’s the company’s first 4G LTE phone and the phone that they hope will make Americans take Nokia seriously again. AT&T will be the first to offer the device, with the rumored launch date being March 18th, but what about the other…
For people living in France, 2012 is starting out with some pretty sweet news. Free, one of the many internet service providers in the country, has just launched a wireless network. They have two plans, and each plan has two tiers. First up is the free plan. If you’re already using Free to watch television…
Microsoft owns Skype, one of the most popular voice and video over IP services that’s ever been released, so one would think then that Windows Phone would have the best Skype integration of all the smartphone platforms, right? Not so, in fact there isn’t even a Skype application available to download for Microsoft’s fledgling mobile…
Texas Instruments was in Las Vegas last week at the Consumer Electronics Show offing off their next generation OMAP platform, aptly called OMAP 5. It packs a pair of ARM Cortex A15 processors, each capable of a maximum clock rate of 2 GHz, in the GPU department there’s a PowerVR SGX 544MP2, and this thing…
Sisvel is a company you’ve probably never heard of, and to give you an idea of what they do just read their slogan: “We protect ideas.” Yes folks, they’re a patent troll, which is a defined as a company that buys up patents and then proceeds to bring other companies to court for infringing on…
One of my favorite news items from the summer of 2010 was a story about a scrappy new operator called LightSquared that was aiming to compete with America’s largest operators by launching a national wholesale LTE network. The goal was to build the fastest and dumbest pipe the country had ever seen, and then let…
Once upon a time, on a cold winter day in Finland, a couple of Nokia engineers began work on a project called Maemo. The goal was to create a brand new mobile operating system based on Linux that had no relationship to Symbian, which at the time was the world’s most popular smartphone platform. The…