The euro zone crisis has mobile users hanging on to their phones a little longer. With fewer consumers buying, the Continent’s big mobile retailers have been keeping inventories low, which has brought the first-ever quarterly decline in cellphone shipments in Western Europe, said Gartner, the rese ...
New 4G LTE networks are being built on so many frequency bands that it will be very difficult to build true world phones, and LTE phones' battery life and signal quality will suffer, Informa Telecoms and Media research analyst Malik Saadi said after releasing a report this week. The Informa report ...
Google released a preview version of an Android programming tool plug-in today to let developers write software for Google TV devices. "With the upcoming OS update to Honeycomb, Google TV devices will be Android compatible," said Ambarish Kenghe, a Google TV product manager, in a blog post today. " ...
We've seen quite a few super-protective cases over the years, and the major challenge has been to build something resilient at a size people will actually want to use. Most are over-engineered and way too big, turning sleek iPhones and iPods into large plasticy beasts. LifeProof Cases' LifeProof fo ...
If Hewlett-Packard sells off some or all of its non-printing consumer hardware business, the most likely buyer is probably Samsung. And the Korean hardware giant has reportedly reached out to Taiwanese notebook vendors to explore just that. According to Digitimes’ sources, Samsung met with top HP ...
IBM's Mark Dean, who helped design the first PC, has "moved beyond the PC," he said in a Wednesday blog post. Microsoft's Frank X. Shaw, however, argued in a separate post that we are now in the "PC Plus" era, which is evident in continued PC sales and all the devices that have PC components at the ...
Think about what it must have been like to live 100 years ago. Compared to our high-tech lifestyles today, it must have been like banging rocks together in a cave. In that time we have developed cellphones, computers, the Internet, space travel and more. On the flip side, we've also developed virtu ...
I know. Can you believe it? I love my netbook. It’s made me more productive. Who knew? Technologist Matt Might recently wrote how many technologies can cripple our productivity. He says “Every advance in productivity afforded by technology has been quickly swallowed by a corresponding reduction i ...
Virgin Mobile USA recently added the Motorola TRIUMPH to its Android-powered smart phone lineup. Its release has been highly anticipated, largely because the handset offers top-of-the-line smart phone features with unlimited data, no-contract service plans. As I noted here back in December, a prepa ...
While its share of the consumer market continues to dwindle, Research In Motion Ltd. is shoring up its status as a key supplier of secure devices to corporations and government. The BlackBerry maker said Monday that is smart card reader has won approval for use by U.S. federal government employees, ...
