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Embarrassed Verizon Launches Second LTE Smartphone
After an embarrassing delay due to “unexpected” problems, Verizon Wireless has launched its second smartphone capable of using its newly minted high-speed Long Term Evolution data network. The Samsung Droid Charge was scheduled for release in late April before the LTE network briefly crashed in some areas, preventing new activations and slowing data speeds, but [...]
Project Blade Runner: The Personal Computer Of 2019
Per ZDNet: With ZDNet having just celebrated its 20th anniversary in April of 2011 and publishing a number of retrospectives on how technology has evolved over the last twenty years, both Scott Raymond and I decided that it might make for an interesting thought experiment to try to project what personal computing might actually evolve [...]
Smartphone Photos Can Reveal Private Information
According to a report by WSOTV: Smartphone users and their children could be targets of a new kind of stalking without ever knowing it. Many parents don’t realize that pictures taken with smartphones and uploaded to the Internet could give a predator all the information needed for stalking or even an abduction. Police Detective Walt [...]
Does a Facebook Phone Make Any Sense?
A flurry of rumors circulated about HTC launching Facebook-branded phones. Let’s talk about this! Why this rumor doesn’t make sense What CityAM is saying about the facebook phone might be right. But it seems off. CityAM didn’t quote any sources, instead relying on old favorites “City A.M. has learned” and “it is understood…”. OK, that [...]
Android adds to dominance of smartphone market
Google’s Android operating system continues to outpace the competition in the U.S., market researchers Canalys and NPD Group have found. According to Canalys, Google’s Android platform was running on 43.6 percent of all the smartphones purchased in the United States in the third quarter. It was followed by Apple’s iOS, which captured 26.2 percent market [...]
Prophecy
Here are my views of important events in the next 18 months… Apple to buy Facebook! Within 6 months. This is a natural – both companies approach their customers from a similar perspective, and gives Apple another closed platform to leverage. Google & Microsoft merge in 2012 to counter the closed Apple/Facebook Universe, the new [...]
Samsung launches second Bada-based Wave
Samsung is continuing to roll out the Bada-powered mobile phones in Europe with the announcement of the new Wave II. Following up the Wave S8500 that launched earlier this year, the Wave II continues many of the traditions seen on the first handset. That would include a 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera, HSDPA support, and most [...]
Verizon starts teasing R2-D2 Droid 2 details
Verizon’s DroidLanding Twitter account started back up earlier this week, dropping vague clues and toying with the Star Wars faithful. Once used to help promote the Droid X ahead of its launch, the DroidLanding account is now a source to leak R2-D2 Droid 2 details. As some of you may know, the special edition of [...]
iLane: A Driver’s Constant Conversation Companion
If you were looking for a safer way to drive around, all you would need to do is stop using that cellphone while you are driving. Cellphone related accidents while driving have become all too common even when using cellphones while driving is banned in all countries. There have also been several iPhone apps, devices [...]