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HTC’s design language is frankly starting to get a bit stale. Ever since the Nexus One shipped in early 2010, all of their devices since then have been nothing more than slight derivatives. The upcoming HTC Zeta however, it completely destroys the mold. Images of a device purported to be the HTC Zeta were sent…
Bought a Sony Ericsson smartphone in 2011? Wondering if it’s ever going to get upgraded to that brand new shiny version of Android that Google showed off in October? Martina Johansson, from the Sony Ericsson Product Blog, is here to answer your questions and save the day: There have been a few questions here on…
O2 has just announced that they’ve begun trialing 4G LTE in London and that by the end of this month they’ll have over 25 cell towers up and running covering 40 square kilometers (15 square miles) of the capital city with ultra high speed connectivity. They don’t say how much spectrum they’ll be using, but…
When Intel bets on a certain type of technology, it usually becomes a standard. That’s the kind of power they have because of their massive scale. An astonishing 80.2% of the computers that were sold in Q3 of this year had Intel chips inside. MasterCard, looking to take advantage of Intel’s dominance, has announced that…
The iPhone 4S is barely a month old, yet rumors about its successor are already cropping up. According to an “insider” from LG, who is supposedly an executive according to Boy Genius Report, the 6th generation iPhone will pack a 4 inch display. Said screen will have the same resolution as the current 3.5 inch…
The unfortunate truth of today’s world is that many of you are job hunting. Potential employers, looking to hire someone who doesn’t spend Friday to Sunday double fisting drinks at seedy underground clubs, are increasingly opting to do some online research about their potential hires. This made Michael Devine uneasy, so much so that he…
Last week ARM announced that Tudor Brown, President and Co-founder of the British semiconductor company, is going to retire in May 2012. Since the inception of ARM in 1990, their technology has shipped in over 15 billion chips. What makes ARM such a unique company, and what’s given them the success that they’re now experiencing,…
When Verizon Wireless launched the Motorola Droid back in October 2009, no one could have predicted how wildly successful or long lasting their ensuing marketing campaign would become. The theme for each and every Droid device that has since come out has been bleeding edge technology, so advanced that you can use it to destroy…
Sherry Turkle has been writing about people’s relationship with technology since she published her second book in 1984 called The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Her latest work, titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, was published in January of this year and people are still…
Silverback Technologies, which has been making bicycles in Germany since 2004, has recently come out with a new line called “Starke” that offers something a bit out of the ordinary. Whereas we’re used to seeing bikes feature a dynamo on the front wheel that powers an anemic light bulb that’s supposed to illuminate the path…