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Different companies make money using different means. That isn’t going to be a startling revelation for many of you, but let’s recap how Google, Microsoft, and Apple put food on the table. Starting with Apple, they simply sell you physical goods. You buy an iPad, you give them money. You buy your sister an iPod,…
Near Field Communications, or NFC for short, is a topic we’ve been writing about since the birth of this publication. The dream goes something like this: When you leave your home all you’ll need to take with you is a mobile phone. Said phone will open doors, pay for things at the store, let you…
T-Mobile business users have the same type of data plans that regular T-Mobile users have. For those of you who aren’t familiar with how they charge for data, here’s how it works: Say you’ve signed up for 5 GB of data per month. Once you use up 5 GB your data doesn’t get switched off,…
T-Mobile, the smallest of America’s four major operators, has been nosediving ever since AT&T announced their intent to buy them. That obviously never happened, and the market is all the better because of that, but T-Mobile doesn’t exactly have a strategy to stay competitive for much longer. Verizon launched a 4G LTE network in 2010,…
When you buy a tool, let’s say a hammer, you don’t care if a better hammer comes out a few weeks later since both hammers do exactly the same thing. They bang nails into the wall. Phones however are a different story. When you buy a phone you’re not just buying a battery powered lump…
Everyone who owns an iPhone will tell you that Facebook’s iOS app is a hit or miss. On some days it works fine, while on others you end up staring at the loading screen for what feels like an eternity. Why’s this the case? Because today’s Facebook iOS app isn’t really an app, it’s a…
The A5 chip inside Apple’s iPhone 4S has two ARM Cortex A9 processors and a PowerVR 5 series GPU. MediaTek’s new chip, the MT6577, is built the exact same way. According to the company’s press release, their chip will enable handset vendors to build “premium” $199 Android smartphones. The MT6577 also has a built in…
Google announced so many things at I/O yesterday that I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around everything they talked about during their keynote. There was one thing however, something they didn’t talk about on stage, that has completely and utterly blown my mind. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which hit the market late…
Two weeks ago Nokia announced that they would slash 10,000 jobs by the end of 2013. Buried in that press release was the terribly upsetting news that Nokia’s offices in Ulm, Germany would be shut down. According to the Finnish business site Taloussanomat, Ulm was where development on Meltemi was taking place. Meltemi was supposed…
Amazon is going to refresh their entire Kindle lineup according to C|Net. They say that the Kindle electronic ink readers are going to get updated, which is great for those of you who want single purpose device, but more importantly the Kindle Fire tablet is also set to be replaced. We don’t know much about…