Motorola’s next Android, code-named Zeppelin, may be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona. The Zeppelin package includes a 3.1” HVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, HDMI out, 3.5mm headphone jack, and 5 megapixel camera with flash, all surrounding a juicy core of Android, wrapped in a thick layer of motoblur. This picture looks…
BlackBerry 8910 Accidentally Shown at CES
Not that you haven’t seen it before, but the BlackBerry 8910 Curve (a.k.a Atlas, Dakota) made an unexpected appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks back at the Case-Mate booth. Youch. There’s nothing really new to report aside from the picture – I would have been curious to see the device itself running…
Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation nominees are here; 49 of them to be more precise
The Mobile Premier Awards announced 49 nominated startups to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation. The companies were chosen by participating MobileMonday chapters from over 250 startups. An international jury of mobile industry experts will select the 20 finalists who will pitch their idea at the event in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau…
Team Korea wins the LG Mobile World Cup, global texting competition
As part of its marketing/PR activities, LG Mobile Phones hosted the first LG Mobile World Cup, which concluded yesterday with 18-year old Young-Ho Bae and Mok-Min Ha (age 17) from Korea as the winning team. The duo has split the $100,000 in prize money, after beating out 24 participants from 12 other countries in the…
The Signal 53: CES 2010 Wrap-Up and First Vidcast EVAR
CES is dead like a doornail, and so are we. CES was busy with plenty of news, so Will and I take ten minutes to run through some of the more interesting items at the show, including new devices, apps, and technologies. Yeah, it’s a little short (especially for CES when so much was going…
Women of CES 2010 with video [Booth Babes]
CES 2010 is officially over, but we’ve still got videos to show you. The biggest consumer electronics show in the world was filled with all kinds of eye-candy to drool over. The Las Vegas Convention Center was brimming with gadgets, apps, cars and, of course, beautiful women to catch every geek’s attention. We’ve already showed…
Canadian Telecom Summit Set for Toronto, June 7-9 2010
Hey Canadian Telecom Industry execs, employees, techies, dweebies, newbies, and fans, are you going to come out to the 2010 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto this year? It’s running June 7th through the 9th, and registration is now open! The Summit is going to be jam-packed full of the usual keynote speakers and breakout sessions.…
Jabra unveiled two new Bluetooth accessories at the CES
We’re still coping with all the CES news… Jabra, the famous Bluetooth accessory maker, has used the event to unveil the EXTREME headset and the CRUISER speakerphone. The first of the two comes with the company’s Noise Blackout Extreme technology that combines two microphones, digital signal processing (DSP) and automatic volume control to reduce background…
Parrot’s AR Drone does iPhone-controlled augmented reality, blows our minds at CES 2010
Parrot, a company known for their wireless Bluetooth devices, blew our minds at CES 2010 with an iPhone-controlled helicopter capable of transmitting real-time video back to the iPhone. The Parrot AR Drone features four rotors – which, technically, makes it a quadricopter – WiFi, two ultrasonic altitude sensors, a front-facing camera, accelerometers for flight stabilization,…
iLive unveils more than a dozen made-for-iPhone audio systems at CES
Maker of popular iPod and iPhone docking systems, iLive, has used the recently ended CES to unveil a total of 33 new audio solutions. Out of that number, more than a dozen systems wear the made-for-iPhone mark. Here are the highlights: iLive iTDP610B bar speaker with a built-in DVD player that converts DVDs to 1080p…