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Those holding out a glimmer of hope that Nokia will hang on to Vertu should probably go ahead and give up. Nokia has been looking to offload its luxury phone unit since at least December, and Reuters confirms again this morning that Nokia is in talks with private equity group EQT to offload Vertu for around…
In case you’ve been living under a rock the last few days, Apple removed Google Maps from the upcoming iOS6, replacing the Google Maps platform with an in-house solution built-in conjunction with TomTom. The maps in iOS6 brings some awesome new features to iOS, such as a 3D Flyover, turn-by-turn navigation, and crowd-sourced real-time traffic…
BlackBerry users may soon have access to many more applications. A developer under the moniker businesscat2000 made a forum post on CrackBerry entitled iOS Apps running on BlackBerry. The post linked to a series of YouTube videos that showed iOS applications running in a sort of emulator on the BlackBerry PlayBook, which the developer likened to running…
AMD, who owns less than 20% of the x86 market, and ARM, who powers practically every mobile phone on the face of the planet, have joined forces with Imagination, MediaTek and Texas Instruments to form the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation. If that sentence scares you because you think this article will be overly technical,…
NFC, short for near field communication, is a technology we’ve been writing about for years. The story goes like this: Instead of pairing devices via Bluetooth, just tap them together to initiate a data transfer. Instead of paying for something using cash or plastic, just tap your phone on a cash register. Instead of doing…
Aside from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon – regional carrier C Spire will also launch the hot-new Samsung Galaxy S III, offering it on its “personalized 4G LTE network,” which also happen to be the only such network in the States. Whatever… Exact pricing and retail availability are still unknown and will be…
The rumor is that Amazon is planning to bring its Appstore to Europe during this summer. At the moment, the online retailer has dedicated web stores in select European countries, including United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Spain so it’s fair to argue folks living in those markets will be their primary targets for…
Sprint has signed agreements with a number of vendors to decommission the company’s iDEN network. Under the deal, these suppliers will negotiate lease termination agreements, restore cell site compounds and remove Sprint network equipment for re-use or recycling. The goal is to shut down a total of 9,600 iDEN sites before the end of the…
Nokia was founded in 1865 by a guy named Fredrik Idestam. Back then the company worked on making paper, but as well know they switched to rubber, then cables, then computers, and now they’re in the mobile phone space. That poses a very important question: What market will the company try to enter if and…
Mobile technologies have changed pretty much every aspect of our lives. From the way we keep-up with our friends and colleagues to the way we entertain ourselves while on the go. Moreover, modern mobile devices (smartphones) have also made us more productive, allowing us to accomplish many things even where away from a computer. Today,…