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When it comes to translating between different languages, the golden standard is the Babel fish in Douglas Adams’ book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You stick said fish inside your ear and then it translates, in real time, any language it hears. It also hacks your voice box so that you can speak whatever…
Microsoft has just announced that they’ve signed a patent deal with Quanta Computer. Whenever they make a device running either Google Android or Chrome OS, Microsoft will get a cut of that. If you’ve never heard of Quanta, don’t worry, you’re not supposed to know them. They’re a Taiwanese company that everyone uses to build…
Are you using an ADSL line to connect your home to the internet, what about VDSL? Do you have a DOCIS modem, if so then is it DOCIS 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0? You probably don’t know the answer to that question since for you the broadband that gets delivered to your home is simply a…
Less than 50 hours ago Apple released iOS 5. Luckily for me, I’m based in Europe, so I got to download it at speeds that maxed out my internet connection. When Americans started waking up a few hours later, all hell broke loose, but that’s another story all together. The update didn’t go as smoothly…
Speaking at a Deutsche Bank Securities Leveraged Finance conference, LightSquared Chief Financial Office Michael Montemarano told the audience that the wireless operator has enough cash to operate until Q1 2012, but after that … nothing. He says that he can’t raise additional funds because of the situation with the FCC. Some backstory: LightSquared is a…
Leap Wireless, the company that manages the prepaid brand Cricket, has said that they plan on introducing a feature phone (read: dumb phone) based on Android. Similar to how Amazon took the Google Android source code, stripped out everything they didn’t need, and then built a new user interface on top of it for the…
Less than 100 hours we brought you images and specifications of an unannounced Nokia device called the 603. Today it’s been officially announced and we’re sad to say that the predictions we made about the 603 are far from accurate. We thought it would be an ultra low end Symbian Belle device, but it isn’t.…
Towards the end of the summer Samsung announced several Android devices, but more importantly they also introduced a completely new naming scheme. Devices likes the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II fell into the “Super Smart” category, devices such as the Galaxy R, which is the Galaxy S II, but with a less capable…
Some say it doesn’t matter what Nokia does in the high end, that their expertise is in low end devices. Two devices that have just been announced, the C2-05 and X2-05, are proving that sentiment true. Let’s start with the C2-05, it packs a microscopic 2 inch screen that has a resolution of 320 x…
Verizon Wireless is an unstoppable beast when it comes to 4G LTE. Earlier this year their network was declared to be the fastest one currently up and running in the United States, with an average download speed of 9.5 Mbps and upload speed of 1.4 Mbps. That’s well within the company’s claims of delivering between…