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Later this month ASUS will start shipping their second generation Transformer tablet, known as the Transformer Prime. What makes it unique is that it has a keyboard dock that makes the thing look like a bonafide laptop, and better yet the dock comes with an integrated battery that promises to give you an additional 6…
The mad scientists at Google have just announced version 6.0 of Google Maps for Android and the killer feature is indoor navigation. That’s right, they’ve made it easier to get around that massive monument erected in honor of capitalism known as the shopping mall by encouraging smartphone users to bury their heads in their devices…
Most people who either already picked up the N9 or are seriously considering buying it this holiday shopping season know full well that it’s the first, last, and only device that the Finnish handset maker will release running MeeGo/Maemo/Harmattan. That means developers don’t really want to support it since there’s no future in the ecosystem,…
Most Android applications are written in a programming language known as Dalvik, which for all intents and purposes is just a rebranded version of Java. In other words, you write an application in Dalvik, and it runs in a Dalvik virtual machine that runs on top of Android. More layers of complexity always translates to…
Two months ago Nokia announced that they’d be cutting 3,500 jobs and closing their factory in Romania. They said the factory would be shut down “by the end of the year”, so folks thought that meant the last day of 2011. That doesn’t seem to be the case as Nokia laid off 500 people last…
In a move that many are struggling to understand, Twitter has announced that they’ve purchased a mobile software company called Whisper Systems. They focus on making Android more secure by offering several services such as RedPhone, which encrypts phone calls, and Flashback, which creates an encrypted backup of your Android device that’s then sent to…
Gilles Delfassy, the CEO of ST-Ericsson, is going to have a really short work week; Wednesday will be his last day. Didier Lamouche, who has been with STMicroelectronics for about a year now, and before that was the CEO of a French IT company for half a decade, is going to be the new man…
Earlier this month we saw leaked images of an as yet to be announced Motorola Android smartphone called the MT917. We called it the “Chinese RAZR” since it looked a lot like the RAZR we saw announced here in America, but it had a custom TD-SCDMA 3G radio that only works in China. Well today…
Buying a new phone isn’t as easy as it used to be. Back in the day when all everyone did was call and text, it really didn’t matter which device you decided to purchase since everything on the market did the exact same thing. The reason you picked one model over another was styling, size,…
Last week, right before everyone went off to enjoy the long Thanksgiving weekend, Nokia Siemens Networks announced that they’d letting go 17,000 employees. That’s roughly 23% of their entire workforce as it stands today. What they didn’t mention was which units would get the axe. Thanks to Mobile Europe however, we now know. They managed…