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It seems like only yesterday that the Apple iPhone 4 was released, and rumors are already abound for the next iPhone. Apple is apparently going to be ditching its long-time partner Infineon for Qualcomm according to China’s Commercial Times. But this rumor is two-fold, since Qualcomm does manufacture CDMA chipsets, it could make that Verizon…
It was a big week of upgrades, as Nokia arguably upgraded itself with a new CEO, Apple iPhone users received the 4.1 software and the sequel to the world’s first Android phone made its official debut. We missed last week, but let’s dive into a recap of this week in mobile news. Nokia gets a…
Foxconn has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, as the company which actually manufactures the Apple iPhone has been vilified because of multiple worker suicides. To combat this bad press, Foxconn allowed Business Week to have an all-access tour of the facilitates and the results are a fascinating in-depth look at…
iOS 4.1 has been in the wild for almost 24 hours and folks are reporting their good, bad or indifferent experiences with the latest version of Apple’s OS. High on the “good” list is the proximity sensor which is reportedly now fixed and working as expected for many iPhone 4 owners. The proximity sensor is…
The PR team at Qualcomm is in overdrive today after CEO Paul Jacobs inadvertently announced that its dual-core 1.5GHZ Snapdragon processor would debut in products starting in Q1 2011. The announcement came as Jacobs was delivering a presentation at IQ 2010, an event hosted by Qualcomm. In response to this exciting revelation, Qualcomm’s stock went…
Earlier this year British chip design firm ARM said that a new architecture, code name Eagle, a successor to the Cortex A9, would be unveiled this year and today I’m happy to introduce to you the Cortex A15. Available in configurations that range from a single 1 GHz processor to a quad core 2.5 GHz…
SD cards are ubiquitous and many of you have them inside your mobile phone to either carry your entire music collection on the go, record HD video, or to snap thousands upon thousands of photos, but don’t you sometimes wish that they were just a teeny bit faster? With the upcoming SD 4.0 specification [PDF],…
PSFreedom, a port of the open source PSGroove jailbreak solution for the Playstation 3, hit the internet last week and it has traveled far and wide since its debut. It is simple in theory – all you need is the code and a device with a USB microcontroller to execute this hack. Now in the…
With Apple’s music-centric event over now, we have quite a few things to save up for. With the great refresh of the iPod line up, iOS 4.1, iTunes 10, and Apple TV, which will be your first purchase? So, what did we see today? Here’s a recap: Refreshed iPod Line-up Today we saw a refreshed…
You’re rarely going to hear me say this, so here it goes: Fox News recently recorded a stellar interview with Intel CEO Paul Otellini and discussed the acquisition of Infineon’s wireless solutions unit, the purchase of antivirus firm McAfee, and his thoughts on how the current administration is and isn’t letting businesses grow. Venture Beat…