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Vodafone UK is now taking pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S III. If you want to get the device for free, you’ll have to commit on a somewhat expensive two-year 41 GBP/month plan. That money gets you a ton of everything, including 900 minutes, unlimited texts and 2GB of mobile data every month. Of course,…
We don’t usually talk about startup funding, but when someone manages to get Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins on its side, it certainly comes to our radar. The name of the company is Drawbridge and it’s founded by former Google and AdMob scientist Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, who is an expert in machine learning. They’ve raised $6.5…
Last year NVIDIA purchased Icera, a company that specializes in wireless modems, for $367 million. The reason for the acquisition was simple: NVIDIA wants to make system on chips for mobile phones that also come bundled with cellular connectivity. That goal is something that Qualcomm executed back in 2009 when the first smartphones with their…
Sprint sent out a flurry of press releases on Monday announcing the May 18th launch of the Evo 4G LTE in select markets across the US. Stores listed in the press releases include those in Texas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Washington state, Colorado, Washington, D.C., New York, California and Miami, Florida. When it launches, the Evo 4G…
Clearwire may not be the strongest company financially, but it does have one thing going for it — spectrum. The wireless service provider has a lot of spectrum and it hopes to use this wireless asset to produce big, fat mobile pipes capable of download speeds as high as 168 Mbps. Much of the spectrum…
LightSquared has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy status, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company once heralded for attempting to bring high-speed wireless access to as many as 260 million Americans met tough criticism from the FCC, which found that LightSquared’s technology had the potential to essentially unleash fury on GPS networks akin…
The WWDC 2012 rumors are cranking out fast now that it’s less than a month away. The latest to hit the Internet revolves around what Apple will do with iCloud. For iCloud’s first birthday, it will likely get a wealth of desirable upgrades. Apple is apparently in the process of taking Photo Stream, a current…
The US Postal Service has announced a ban on international shipments of devices that contain lithium-ion batteries, such as phones, tablets, cameras, and most other electronic equipment. USPS claims that lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or spontaneously combust if not fully charged or stored/packed incorrectly. Two separate fatal cargo plane crashes since 2006 have been…
Popular professional social media service LinkedIn has launched a Windows Phone application. The application went live over the weekend (May 12th, to be exact), and has already amassed some positive reviews on the Windows Phone Marketplace. It seems Windows Phone users are happy to finally have a client that is markedly better than using the…
Just a few days before its expected Initial Public Offering, Facebook is pushing out a redesigned News Feed which is optimized for mobile phones. In a Facebook post, the world’s largest social network shows a few of the changes that will be coming to the mobile version for Android, iPhone and on m.facebook.com. This includes…