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Qualcomm’s chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs was in Silicon Valley last week talking about a broad range of topics at the Computer History Museum. He talked about his career, Moore’s Law, smartphones, tablets and wearable computing. Regarding tablets, he acknowledged that Qualcomm was late to embrace this market, adding that they now have 40 tablet…
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn took a large position in Apple, prompting the stock to shot up by more than 22 points. At one point during the trading day, shares of the Cupertino-based giant reached $494 after starting the day at $471.50! Icahn tweeted his excitement about the investment, adding that the company is “extremely undervalued.”…
Another handset maker wants to make its own processor. After Apple, Samsung, Huawei and perhaps LG – ZTE is planning to join this race, as well. According to Chinese media, the company will unveil its mobile processor with integrated LTE connectivity during the upcoming PT/Expo Comm China, on September 24th. And while we understand ZTE’s…
BlackBerry has yet to kill its legacy platform and just before it pulls the trigger, it wants to give it another shot. So the BlackBerry 9720 was born for people living outside of North America. Yup, this means this model won’t be available in BlackBerry’s home turf and the United States. It is rather heading…
Samsung’s mid-range phablet, Galaxy Mega 6.3, is coming to Canada where Rogers and TELUS both announced willingness to offer it to their customers. Rogers turned to Twitter to share the news without revealing too much — all we know is that it’s coming “soon.” As for TELUS, it added Sammy’s device into its “coming soon”…
LG is gearing towards launching the next phone in the Vu series. The upcoming Vu 3 may be unveiled at the upcoming IFA in Berlin, when we’ll also see Samsung’s Galaxy Note III. The new rumor we’ve got suggests that the Vu 3 will keep the series’ 4:3 screen ratio with resolution of 1,280×960 pixels.…
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Instagram may be new to the video game, but it does offer a few features that its biggest competitor, Twitter’s Vine, lacks. Last week, and Instagram update brought users the ability to create videos with footage shot from outside of the app. Vine lacks this ability officially, but a new hack detailed by the team…
The new second-generation Nexus 7 recently dropped, touting some major upgrades. Now the first of the official accessories for the new tablet has released on the Google Play store. The new Nexus 7 Sleeve will cost you $29.99 and it fits both the new Nexus 7 tablet, and last year’s model as well. The Nexus…
If you’re watching live TV, a commercial break is a great time to take care of brief tasks. Once the ads starts, you’ve got a couple of minutes to shoot off an email, take out the trash or (let’s be honest here) grab another beer and some chips. But you always run the risk of…