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NFC Capabilities Coming to iPhone 5 and iPad 2
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by mariella.
// The next iteration of the perpetually-popular iPhone and iPad will most likely be equipped with NFC capabilities, according to Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group, through Bloomberg. There is no official confirmation about this development from Apple itself, but if this proves to be true, iPhone 5 and iPad 2 could soon [...]
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Google Android tops Apple’s iOS in the Millennial Media Ad report for December
Posted on 21. Jan, 2011 by mariella.
// After having recently secured a $27.5 million investment round, mobile advertising company Millennial Media released a monthly report that’s significantly different from any of its past ones. For months, Google Android and iOS (Apple’s mobile operating system) have been tied up when it comes to ad impression count and percentage share. For the month [...]
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Apple Prices Rise In UK Following VAT Increase
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by adrian.grosu.
// Tuesday, January 4th, the VAT increase translated into bad news for every customer in the UK. Apple fans thought they were special and that they might not be affected by the (Value Added Tax) VAT rate increase from 17.5 % to 20 %, as was the case in Apple made no official statement on this [...]
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Verizon Wireless to pay up to $90 million as refunds
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Costin Matei.
// Verizon Wireless announced on October 3 that it would be paying up at least $30 million (and the sum might rise up to $90 million) to 15 million customers who were wrongfully taxed for data sessions and Internet use in what is thought to be one of the biggest customer refunds by a telecommuncations [...]
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Sony to unveil Google TV on October 12
Posted on 04. Oct, 2010 by Costin Matei.
// Back in May, Sony announced that they would release a Google TV line-up this Fall. Now, they’ve come with more details. The Japanese company promised to introduce ”the world’s first Internet Television” at a media event held in New York, on October 12. In September, Sony also exhibited a demo of its product at [...]
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Android 3.5 Honeycomb hinted at IFA 2010. Release date set for 2011 ?
Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by mumu.
// Tuesday, in Berlin, at the IFA consumer electronics show it was confirmed, The next generation Android OS from Google will be called Honeycomb (mmm honey). There were many rumors on to how the OS following Gingerbread will be called and here we have it. Even though Google hasn’t commented on the name, we are [...]
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Verizon shows lower EPS but overall income increase in Q2 2010 financial report
Posted on 22. Aug, 2010 by Lawrence Martin.
// As any major and respectable company is used to doing this time of the year, it’s Verizon’s turn to calculate and show off how much money they made or lost compared to the same period (meaning the second quarter) of the previous year. So far we’ve been able to provide financial statistics for the [...]
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Intel’s Moorestown Android 2.1 Demo looks good.
Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by casieru.
// So it begins! Intel’s jump into the mobile processing it’s something most of us expected. Their new Moorestown Atom platform is out, but it’ll take some time before we see the Atom Inside sticker on the smartphones. The Moorestown chips are built at Computex in Taiwan, and they are running with Android 2.1, while [...]
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Insight Cable Outage affects customers in Jefferson County and Louisville
Posted on 04. May, 2010 by Costin Matei.
// Some of the Insight Communications Inc. customers in Jefferson County and Louisville woke up Tuesday morning to find only frozen images when turning on the TV. According to Jason Keller, the Louisville-based director of public affairs for New York City-based Insight, a damaged piece of equipment in the company’s Louisville operations hub was to [...]
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Top 6 Mobile Phone Producers: Nokia Still Leads, RIM beats Motorola For Fifth Place
Posted on 04. May, 2010 by Lawrence Martin.
// After a devastating first quarter of 2009 due to the economic crisis, the Mobile Phone Industry shows powerful signs of recovery according to a report filed by the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, in which we see a total growth of 21.7% in sales and shipments in this year’s first quarter. [...]
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