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Diabetes, dementia, arthritis, chronic diseases in general, they can all be avoided if you just got off your ass every day for 30 to 60 minutes and walked around your neighborhood, went to a local park, or just did something that doesn’t involve staring at a glowing rectangle for multiple consecutive hours. Now that’s not…
Imagination Technologies is a British company that designs graphics processors that they then license out for companies to put on their chips. Take Apple’s iPad 2 for instance. The “Apple A5” chip inside the iPad 2 is actually made from a combination of intellectual property gathered from multiple vendors, most notably ARM, who makes the…
Nokia unveiled the Ovi brand to the world a little over 4 years ago at event in London that I was lucky enough to attend. Everyone sitting in the auditorium, listening to the presentation that was being given about how the future of mobile was going to be all about devices that connect to the…
Analysts at Exane BNP Paribas surveyed 1,300 Europeans in 5 different countries last week about what kind of smartphone they’re looking to purchase and when they were going to actually cough up the money to buy it. Of the 456 people who said they were going to purchase a new handset during the next month…
Two months ago we published a report from the Taiwanese news agency Economic Daily News that said LG Display and AU Optronics had sent Apple samples of a 7.85 inch LCD that might one day end up being at the heart of a new iPad. At the time it made a lot of sense since…
Israel is home to some really talented people. Back when Intel was losing to AMD over half a decade ago, not in terms of market share, but in terms of performance of their products, it was Intel’s team in Israel that came out with Core architecture that put the company back on top. More recently…
LightSquared, for those of you who don’t know about this dismal failure of a company, wants to revolutionize the American wireless industry by launching a 4G LTE network that they’ll sell access to via wholesale rates to companies who then resell said service to consumers. Announced back in July 2010, they’ve been having issues getting…
Verizon Wireless has just announced that their 4G LTE network now covers more than 200 million Americans in 190 markets. It took them just 375 days to make that happen. David Small, Chief Technical Officer at Verizon Wireless, says: “That’s more than twice as fast as our 3G network rollout.” So which new markets got…
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to test out DNA Finland’s 4G LTE network before it was launched to the public. In short, I absolutely fell in love with the kind of speeds I was seeing. With just a bar or two of signal in my home office (read:…
Several days ago AllThingsD reported that Andy Lees (pictured above), Head of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Business, was going to be replaced by Terry Myerson, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone, more specifically his responsibilities included leading Windows Phone engineering. Lees has held his title as the Head of Windows Phone for the past 3 years,…