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When it comes to news about Microsoft, there’s really only two names I trust: Mary-Jo Foley from All About Microsoft and Paul Thurrott from the SuperSite for Windows. Now Paul’s been doing a weekly podcast with Leo Laporte from the TWiT.tv network for what feels like ages called Windows Weekly, and sometime last year Mary-Jo…
You’re out and about and you need to respond to an urgent message, but you really don’t want to be bothered hunting and pecking on your phone’s screen. What do you do? One2Touch is looking to solve your problem with the creation of an NFC enabled keyboard that doesn’t need batteries to work, nor any…
Braodcom has just announced a new system on chip called the BCM21552G that they say will let handset vendors create $100 smartphones that have 3G connectivity, GPS, and near field communication support. What components make up the BCM21552G? On the CPU side there’s a 1 GHz ARM11 processor, which isn’t the fastest thing on the…
Seven days from now Apple will be hosting an event in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum where they’ll be holding an “education announcement”, which we can only assume will be their entrance into the textbook market. If you read Walter Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs, you’re already familiar with Steve’s urge to disrupt the…
Every year Intel talks the talk about being able to put their chips inside devices as tiny as a smartphone, but this year they’re walking the walk with the help of Lenovo. The Chinese personal computer maker may not be known for smartphones on this side of the pond, but in their home country they’re…
At the start of each year, as the technology community looks back to what’s happened during the past 12 months, publications like to say things like “2011 was the year that Android caught up” or “2011 was another failed year for Microsoft’s Windows Phone”. We didn’t really do that this year since so much happened…
Polaroid, the company you used to love back when you were a child, is about to enter the smartphone game with a new device called the SC1630. It’s going to pack a 16 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, have a 3.2 inch screen that does 800 x 480 pixels, and it’s going to cost…
If you ignore the tiny regional players, it’s pretty much accepted that America has four wireless operators: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Three of them now sell Apple’s iPhone, yet T-Mobile doesn’t, why is that? It all comes down to which frequencies T-Mobile decided to use for 3G, namely the “AWS” spectrum. AWS stands for…
If you’ve ever read one of my articles, chances are that about halfway through you developed an extreme urge to scroll to the comments section and hurl a string of expletive at me because what I wrote doesn’t jive with how you perceive the world. It’s OK, I still love you, and you’re not alone.…
This year, like every year for the past half decade, Intel announced that they’re going to make a processor that’s not only small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, but one that can compete with ARM in terms of power efficiency. What makes this year different though is that Intel announced a reference design…