Nokia said today it’s suing Apple over the alleged infringement of patents pertaining to WLAN, GSM and UMTS. The suit underscores the degree to which Apple has overtaken Nokia in the smartphone space; Nokia is clearly hoping it can be more successful in the courtroom than… Read More »
Archive for October 2009
ReelDirector: Full-featured video editing comes to the iPhone (TheAppleBlog) The eDGE: Another dual-screen Android e-book reader (jkOnTheRun) Symbian releases Microkernel as open source — finally (OStatic) NBA.com launches live web show “The Jump” (NewTeeVee) Photos: 10 cars in Japan’s hybrid electric blitz (Earth2Tech) Red flags:… Read More »
Some big news yesterday was the announcement of the Bing/Twitter/Facebook deals that will see the three services sharing info and working together in all kinds of interesting ways. One of those ways has now gone live, and it’s Microsoft’s Bing Twitter search.… Read More »
French online video sharing site has Dailymotion officially announced that it raised a $25 million round led by the French Sovereign Fund (FSI), along with original investors Advent Venture Partners, AGF Private Equity, Atlas Venture and Partech International. Two weeks ago we reported that the… Read More »
It seems the race is on to produce e-book readers based on the Android platform that have two screens. The enTourage eDGe has a novel book form with a 9.7-inch e-Ink screen on the left (Wacom PenEnabled) for reading e-books and a 10.1-inch color LCD… Read More »
Oh boy…does AT&T need the iPhone to keep its business going or what? In the third quarter, the company added 2 million new wireless subscribers to reach a total of 81.6 million. Further, some 4.3 million 3G-integrated devices were added to the AT&T network, of… Read More »
The sound of cheers swell across the nation: Today, Vista users can finally dump the clunky and sluggish operating system for Windows 7. Praise for the new version has already started coming in from early adopters and reviewers. When I bought my laptop recently, I couldn’t downgrade… Read More »
If you’re a BlackBerry or iPhone user (see: addict), then you are partly responsible for the great Internet buildout. Those cute apps that look up baseball scores or let you log into Facebook eat up enough bandwidth to put the backend infrastructure of phone companies under… Read More »
Those techies in Japan are obviously all gaga over the launch of Windows 7 as this new menu item at Burger King proves without a doubt. The Windows 7 Whopper has a whopping 7 patties of beef and will set those brave enough to try… Read More »
The official launch day for Windows 7 is here and as Bob Kawaratani, our reader in the Far East, reports, there were lines in Tokyo. Perhaps folks in Japan are always looking for a reason to line up, and PC Watch captured the slow moving… Read More »
WiMAX might be losing attention and mindshare from telcos in the U.S., but it’s another story entirely when it comes to that oh-so-buzzy sector the smart grid. Utilities across the globe are increasingly starting to test WiMAX-based smart grid networks, and this morning… Read More »
The wireless standard WiMAX might not be the sexiest of topics, but maybe the smart grid can lend it some buzz. This morning Grid Net, a startup that has developed smart grid software based on WiMAX, is officially launching itself, unveiling its… Read More »
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