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ARM, the British semiconductor company that designs application processors and defines the instruction set that powers every mobile phone on the market, has just announced the Cortex A7. Before we dive into what makes that chip so special, let’s remind ourselves why ARM is a very unique company. It’s best to think of ARM like…
Steve Ballmer is to the technology industry what gasoline is to fire. Put the man in a room with even the most cynical and jaded person on the face of the planet, and Ballmer will put forth so much enthusiasm that said individual will likely experience a severe case of nausea. That’s what happened just…
Nokia recently conducted a poll that asked people what would it take for them to recycle their mobile phone? The Finnish handset maker says that as of today 91% of mobile phone owners don’t recycle. That’s an alarming figure, but you have to think about how many people probably just give their old device to…
Michael Dell, the CEO of a corporation that produces some of the most boring consumer electronics hardware in the industry and who is desperately trying to eat some of HP’s share in the enterprise space, recently earned himself the title of “Master of the Obvious” by saying this at the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit: “If…
What you’re looking at below is an image from a patent that was filed by Apple in 2006 for a device that looks like your typical feature phone. We like to think of it as the iPhone nano that failed to make the transition from a mere sketch done by an Apple engineer to a…
Nokia’s about to flip the switch on a massive marketing blitz that’ll be their last hurrah to prove that they’re still relevant in today’s market that’s dominated by Apple’s iPhone and the infinite number of handsets that run Google’s Android operating system. Microsoft, who arguably has more at stake here than Nokia, is going to…
Several hours ago on a stage in Hong Kong, Google and Samsung held a joint press conference to announce the Galaxy Nexus; the third device in the Nexus family of products. What does a smartphone need to have in order to earn the prestigious Nexus label? First, and most important, it has to run Android…
In June of this year we published a story that said Apple was considering switching from Samsung to TSMC for future processors. Note that while yes, Apple designs their own chips, they depend on companies who have fabs, slang for semiconductor fabrication plants, to make the little chips that power your iPhone, iPod touch, and…
Exactly one year ago today Steve Jobs said this on a conference call when asked about rumors of a smaller 7 inch iPad: “The reason we [won’t] make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit that price point, it’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software.” According…
Mozilla has recently decided that in order to improve Firefox for Android they need to dump XUL—otherwise known as eXtensible User interface Language, the language that’s currently used to develop a consistent Firefox look and feel across multiple platforms—and start using Google’s native Android interface widgets. This doesn’t mean that Mozilla is going to stop…