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Update: It happened. Qualcomm purchased Atheros for $3.1 billion. There’s a rumor going around, started by the New York Times, that in a few short hours Qualcomm will announce their intent to pick up Atheros Communications for roughly $3.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition Qualcomm will have ever performed. If you’re unfamiliar with either…
We knew Asus would be focusing on Android for sometime now, but it wasn’t until today that they let the cat out of the bag by announcing a handful of tablets, most of which are running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The ASUS Eee Transformer is one of these tablets, and it packs a punch by allowing…
One of my all-time favorite games for iOS, Canabalt, has gone open source on us. For real. The developers at Semi Secret Software have released all of the source code, music, graphics and a bunch of other goodies for everyone from serious app developers and casual hacks around the world to tinker with. How cool…
Every once in a while they’ll be an application, some may even call it a “killer app”, that makes people adopt a new technology or flock to one particular software platform over the other. For many, Instagram for the iPhone and iPod touch became that application since it enabled people to snap photos, apply filters…
There’s a battle brewing on the internet and you may not even be aware that it even exists. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, they know more about you than your significant other. They know what you’re searching for and when, what sites you visit, who you email, who you constantly check up on, who you…
When the clock strikes midnight, and the 25th of December rolls around, billions of people around the world start tearing open packages from their friends, family, and of course Santa Claus, but they also try to get in touch with the people who couldn’t be there to celebrate the holidays with them. It used to…
Vlingo Corporation, the company behind the application that turns your words into actions, unveiled the most popular actions of 2010 based on data accumulated through hundreds of millions of actions. Without further ado, here’s what they got: 2010 Most Popular Local Businesses Called, Mapped or Navigated: Pizza (Top Brand: Pizza Hut) Coffee (Top Brand: Starbucks)…
Next week is bound to be filled with a few surprises, and if this rumor from a tipster turns out to be true, the Motorola Olympus will be announced by AT&T at a press conference. This will mark the handset maker’s departure of solely making high-end Android phones for Verizon, and we can’t wait. The…
Intrinsyc announced it will offer a complete software reference design platform for tablets based on Freescale’s i.MX53 chipset. In addition to tablets, this platform can also be used on smartbooks, gaming devices, video enabled IP phones and more. Availability is expected in Q1 2011. Those unfamiliar with Freescale’s i.MX53 should know the following (from the…
Text messages are powerful because they’re ubiquitous, easy to create and consume, relatively cheap, and can be used to do things such as deliver mobile banking to countries where no previous banking infrastructure had existed before, alert the police when someone has trespassed on your property, and even pay for a public toilet. Now there’s…