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At the 2012 NCTA Cable show that kicked off yesterday in Boston, TiVo announced a new device that will transcode your content for viewing on iPhone and iPad devices. The TiVo stream will be available for purchase later this summer, and connects to a TiVo Premiere or Premiere Q DVR and delivers that content to…
Google announced their intent to buy Motorola Mobility in August 2011. It took nine months for the deal to close, but it’s finally done. Brad Stone and Peter Burrows published an article in Bloomberg Businessweek that’s a must read if you’re interested in the background of this major acquisition and want to know why it’s…
Google announced today that is has acquired Motorola Mobility for $40 per share in cash (about $12.5 billion). Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha will step down as Motorola Mobility CEO and will be replaced by Dennis Woodside, former President of Google’s Americas region. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate company. The now-acquired company will…
October is five months away, which means we’re going to hear rumors about the next iPhone for the next 20+ weeks. Please bear with us. Today there’s a new scrap of information from the folks at 9to5Mac. They have it on good authority that Apple is currently testing two new iPhones, one with model number…
Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, is Intel’s only real competitor. They have less than 20% of the market, which should give you a clue as to how they’re doing. Back in 2006 they decided to buy ATI, a company that was widely known for their graphics processors. The goal they set out to…
Virgin Mobile unveiled a new payLo plan for feature phone users who just want to text and talk with their buddies, though some mobile data also comes included. As you can guess for yourself, the $40 Unlimited Talk and Text plan comes with unlimited voice minutes and messages (text, picture, email and/or IM) plus 50MB…
Verizon is running a neat campaign offering anyone who grabs a new 4G smartphone from either Amazon Wireless or Wirefly a $40 bill credit. The promotion, which is open to both new and upgrading customers, is already on and will last until May 24th. You can activate up to 5 devices, each getting you a…
Apple’s iOS devices (the iPhone, the iPad, and the iPod touch) are selling at pretty ridiculous rates, and the growth isn’t slowing down either. If you look at the trends, iPhone shipment volumes grow 100% year over year every quarter. When it comes to the iPad, that figure is closer to 150%. How does Apple…
iDisplay, the app that turns your Android device into a second monitor for your Mac or Windows PC, got a small, though important update. The application is described as ideal for multi-taskers, expanding the viewable area of a user’s main monitor by moving other running programs like IM, Twitter and news gadgets to an external…
The Xolo X900 may not be the prettiest smartphone to ever be released, and chances are it isn’t going to be sold in your part of the world, but it represents Intel’s first credible attempt at entering the mobile space. According to Brian Klug, who reviewed the X900 in exhaustive detail over at AnandTech, he…