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Spreadtrum is a Chinese company you’ve likely never heard of, yet they’re responsible for 50% of all the TD-SCDMA devices sold by China Mobile, which by the way has over 600 million subscribers. In other words, they’re big, just not well known outside of their home country. So what do they actually do? They’re quite…
Beginning January 16th the people of Chile will have the right to port their existing phone numbers to a new operator thanks to a new number portability law. It’s something that many Europeans and Americans have been enjoying for some time now, so it’s nice to see the practice come to other countries. What makes…
One year after Steve Jobs got up on stage and presented the iPad to the world, Motorola showed off an Android Honeycomb powered tablet at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show called the Xoom. It was ugly, buggy, and boy was it expensive. Now you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that Google…
Analysts from ABI Research have come to the conclusion that WiMAX is officially going the way of the dodo thanks to TD-LTE. They say that by the end of 2016 we’ll see more than half a million TD-LTE cell towers deployed all over the world, with the majority of them being in China. “It was…
When Stephen Elop became the CEO of Nokia back in September 2010, everyone was a bit suspicious as to what he was going to do to the Finnish handset maker. Less than half a year later in February 2011 he got up on a stage in London and announced that Nokia would be getting rid…
Effective immediately, Marc Montagner is the new Chief Financial Office of LightSquared, the wireless operator that’s trying to get approval to turn on their network, but can’t seem to prove that they don’t break GPS. Now Marc’s name may not sound familiar, but he used to work at Sprint where he orchestrated the merger with…
Back in July of last year Google bought over 1,000 patents from IBM. Just a few short months later, in September, they picked up another bundle of over 1,000 patents. Now thanks to SEO by the Sea we can report that Google has called IBM yet again to buy some patents, though this time it’s…
Everyone who lives in an urban concrete jungle knows that there are some parts of town you simply avoid walking through at all costs. Whether said area is filled with homeless people, drug users, or is a hotbed for criminal activity, every city, regardless of how nice it is, has some issues. Microsoft’s just been…
One feature of Amazon’s $200 tablet, the Kindle Fire, that doesn’t get a lot of attention is the Silk Browser. On paper it doesn’t really do anything that hasn’t been done before by the likes of Opera and Skyfire. It basically intercepts the request for the web page you want to look at and then…
Earlier today we got some pretty solid information as to what the long rumored Nokia Lumia Ace will have under the hood. Supposedly it’ll be called the Lumia 900 and have a 4.3 inch screen, 8 megapixel camera, 1.4 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and run a version of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango that…