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Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, what do all those companies have in common? They design chips, but they don’t actually make them. That incredibly difficult task is done by TSMC, short for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. They just posted their Q1 2012 financial results, and profits are down 7.7% year over year. Why’s that? Two reasons.…
China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. With 665 million customers, that’s would be like giving every man, woman, and child in the United States not just one, but two mobile phones. Anyway, like every other operator in the world, these guys want to roll out 4G LTE. Unlike most…
I’ll never forget 1996. The winter that hit New York that year was absolutely ridiculous. The city basically shut down due to the epic snowfall that happened seemingly overnight. My friends and I had snow ball fights that resulted in some serious injuries, we built tunnels that homeless people then proceeded to urinate in, and…
Remember Tron: Legacy and that virtual keyboard Sam Flynn has been typing on? If you have 2 iPads, some spare time and want to experiment a bit, now you can have that keyboard, too. Christian Cantrell, a Product Manager and Application Developer for Adobe’s Web Platform team, is behind this project, which in case you…
LG has finally announced its Optimus LTE in Europe. The first market to get it is Germany, where currently three major operators — O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile — are offering LTE services. The version of the device, marked as P936 and called LG Optimus True HD LTE, is pretty much the same as the one…
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) launched its Bluetooth Developer Portal to help developers and engineers learn the basics of Bluetooth device and application design. In other words, here you’ll find a collection of resources like training tools, forums, quick-start guides, and webinars to help you create apps using standardized Bluetooth data profiles. The mentioned…
Lee Williams was the Senior Vice President of S60 Software between August 2006 and January 2009. During that 30 month time span we saw what was arguably Nokia’s greatest creation, the N95, and on the other side of the coin the company’s worst smartphone to ever be sold, the N97. So what does Lee think…
Acer has started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Iconia A100 tablet, with users around the Interwebs reporting their device is prompting them to “take action.” After the process is done, this 7 incher runs software build 1.014.00_WW_GEN1 with a kernel version of 2.6.39.4+. We’re not sure whether some Acer/Iconia-specific things are included…
There’s a new (almost) must-have app for Android tablet owners out there. Called LilyPad HD, it is said to be the first floating instant messaging app for Android tablets. In other words, you will be able to keep an eye on your instant messaging activities, even while watching a YouTube video, surfing the web or…
According to a new report from billmonitor.com, most smartphone users in the UK are on a data tariff far too large for their needs. I would argue this is more of a global “problem,” as users fear of “bill shock” that occurs when people go over their data limits. The findings, based on an anonymised…