Archive for September, 2010

Samsung Fascinate for Verizon - Galaxy S Android Smartphone Review

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

The Samsung Fascinate for Verizon is part of Samsung's Android-powered Galaxy S family of smartphones. All the versions sold in the U.S. (AT&T's Captivate, T-Mobile's Vibrant, Sprint's Epic 4G) feature 4-inch Super AMOLED(INFO) displays, 16GB of storage (internal or card based), and a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird CPU. Only the Sprint ...

AT&T Announces Industry-First Financing Initiative to Help Small Businesses Secure ‘Game-Changing’ Wireless Solutions

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

With access to capital among their biggest challenges, cash-strapped small businesses got some good news today from AT&T*. Through its financing subsidiary, AT&T Capital Services, the company is now providing loans to small businesses looking to deploy new wireless solutions or upgrade existing ones.

Apple Files Patent For Directional Camera Flash

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

The flash used with a camera can make the difference between a good and bad photo, but it can also mean overbright images. Apple aims to change that by implementing a directional flash and varying the brightness based on conditions.

Apple Peel Transforms iPod Touch Into An iPhone

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Pan Lei and Pan Yong, the Chinese brothers who invented a device to convert Apple's iPod Touch into an iPhone, say they are innovators, not copycats. Their Apple Peel 520 is a case including a circuit board and battery that wraps around the iPod Touch media player, allowing calls to be ...

Facebook Building A Phone

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Facebook is working with mobile handset manufacturer INQ Mobile on two smartphones that may be carried by US telco AT&T, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Dell 7-inch Android tablet hitting Best Buy soon

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

During the Oracle World conference in San Francisco today, Michael Dell, Dell's CEO, showed the audience a quick look at a 7-inch Android tablet, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Nokia Changes Tactics

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Nokia knows it's lost its way. Just days before Nokia World 2010 kicked off recently, the company ousted Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo - a 30-year veteran of the Finnish phone maker - as chief executive in favour of former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop.

Nokia’s Rapid Decline

Monday, September 20th, 2010

What was the most successful European company of the 1990s? Easy. The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia. And the most disappointing one of the 2000s? Easy again. Nokia.

When Augmented Reality Bites

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

Tools that can translate a foreign street sign, cure your snake phobia, or let you shop for jeans at home are now available on a smartphone near you - but is there a creepy side to the tech phenomenon they call "augmented reality"?

Mind Reading Phones?!

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

How smart do you want your smartphone to actually be? Do you want it to read your mind, even a little bit? Intel's research chief, Justin Rattner, says that technology has advanced to the point that "context-aware computing", an idea that's been around for two decades, is becoming more of a ...