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Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011. Less than 10 days later, Matt Bors made the comic you see below that had me laughing out loud, but I thought it was too soon to share it with you guys. Now that it’s been nearly 3 weeks, and his authorized biography is out, I think…
The bean counters at ABI Research have made quite a startling discovery. During the second quarter of this year tablet devices finally outsold those horribly slow, terribly built computers that Intel likes to call netbooks. More specifically: 13.6 million tablets shipped compared to just 7.3 million netbooks. In the previous quarter those numbers were 6.4…
The bean counters at In-Stat are at it again, this time predicting that during the year 2015 there will be over 1.2 billion near field communication (NFC) chips shipped in various sorts of products. That’s a pretty big number when you consider that you can count the number of NFC enabled smartphones on one hand.…
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, more commonly known as the Bluetooth SIG, announced way back in April 2010 that the Bluetooth 4.0 specification is “ready to roll” and that it’ll start appearing in devices by the end of that year. One of the most promising features that comes with the new version of Bluetooth is…
Last week Motorola announced what’s probably the most gorgeous Android device we’ve ever seen in our lives, the RAZR. They like to call it “impossibly thin”, and it is at just 7.1 mm, but what makes it stand out is the industrial design. The back boasts a layer of Kevlar, the internal frame is built…
Last month we were sad to report that Nokia had decided to cut 3,500 jobs and close their factory in Romania because the company felt it was simply more economical to invest in Asian plants. According to a report from the Romanian publication Business Review, ZTE is extremely interested in taking possession of Nokia’s factory…
Apple’s iPhone 4S, which broke the 12 month product cycle previous iPhone models have maintained and also let down many hardcore nerds who were expecting to see a new design featuring a larger screen, has easily become the most successful smartphone to ever be released. Just 3 days after going on sale, Apple announced that…
When Apple introduced the iPhone 4 roughly 16 months ago, they couldn’t shut up about the 3.5 inch “retina display”. After having used that display for over a year, this writer has become the biggest pixel density fanboi lucky enough to have a soap box to stand on that’s read by millions of people every…
In less than 100 hours Stepen Elop, Nokia’s CEO for the past 13 months, will get on a stage in London and show off the first smartphones the Finnish handset maker will sell that run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. We expect to see 3 devices at the event; one codenamed Sea Ray that’ll likely…
Last week Google and Samsung held a joint press conference in Hong Kong to announce the Galaxy Nexus and the newest version of Android, known as 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. As impressive as the Galaxy Nexus is, some people are terrified by the sheer size of the thing. What makes matter worse, Ice Cream Sandwich…