Monthly Archives: June, 2011

Boxee launch Boxee Box in the UK, preview iPad app

Tonight at a rowdy event in London's Silicon Roundabout (our twee answer to Silicon Valley), Boxee launched the UK version of their popular set-top unit, the Boxee Box. The device, which has been out in the US for around six months, will be debuting for £199, or around $330 - $130 more than the US version.

Sewage chips could keep your city safe from the menace of your toilet

Some people think this “Internet of Things” malarkey is a load of crap, and if you check out Parsons Grad Student Leif Percifield’s M2M initiative http://dontflush.me, you would be literally correct.

Contracts: Device with IBM; Ericsson wins contract with Australia's NBN; and more

The following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: DeviceAnywhereUnited States: With HP to expand support for HP application testing environments with integrations...

Angry Birds boss drops some stats, WP7 launch date

Speaking at the Inspire Conference today in London, Rovio "Mighty Eagle" Peter Vesterbacka gave the audience at update on how the ubiquitous mobile game is doing, as well as the Finnish companies plans for the future

Verizon Wireless says it is not violating C-Block provisions: Free Press files complaint over tethering on LTE network

Free Press has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that Verizon Wireless is abusing conditions of its 700 MHz spectrum by...

Samsung shows the love to the Android community

It seems more and more manufacturers are cosying up to the Android open source community. We recently saw HTC promise unlocked bootloaders from now...

Google opening labs in Taiwan

Google’s senior vice president for Chrome, Sundar Pichai, said his firm would not have made the progress it had with its Chromebooks and ultraportables...

Apple debuts iCloud and finally cuts the cord in iOS 5

For the first time since 2008, Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined to introduce a new iPhone today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San...

Apple becomes first to tame record labels with iTunes Match

Apple's historically profitable relationship with the four major record labels (Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal) paid dividends today as it became the first music vendor to allow would-be purchasers access to cloud-based copies of music they already own - even if it was not purchased through the companies iTunes music store.

Computex 2011: Android will not compete with Chrome OS says Google executive

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Visiting Taiwan during Computex 2011, Google’s senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai said the firm would not be porting its Chrome...

Apple leans on competition in latest round of iOS updates

The keynote at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company's CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to their desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.

Taiwan poised to overtake Japan as world’s largest semiconductor market

Taiwan is poised to overtake Japan in 2011 as the world’s largest semiconductor materials market, according to data from SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International). SEMI, a global...

Taiwan poised to overtake Japan as world's largest semiconductor market

Taiwan is poised to overtake Japan in 2011 as the world’s largest semiconductor materials market, according to data from SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International). SEMI, a global...

Southern California region sheds 1,600 telecom jobs in April

The greater Los Angeles metro area shed more jobs in the telecommunications sector in April, continuing an ongoing downward trend, according to new data...

Altera to open chip design center in Austin, creating several hundred jobs

The Statesman | May 6, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf Altera Corp. said Thursday that it is setting up a semiconductor design center in Austin that it...

Computex 2011: C-Media takes cell phone noise cancellation to new levels

Audio appears to be becoming a burgeoning trend in the mobile industry, and at Computex 2011, the vendors were out in force to showcase...

Opinion: RIM shouldn’t kick itself over iMessage

As any BlackBerry user will know, one of the best features about RIM’s device – barring the stellar keyboard – is BlackBerry Messenger, which...

Analyst: Dell needs to buy Brocade Communications

Paul Mansky seems confident in his assessment of Dell (DELL). The Canaccord Genuity analyst wrote that with sales of personal computers waning due to...

Apple leans on competition in latest round of iOS updates

The keynote at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company’s CEO...

Computex 2011: Chinmore Industry shows off its antennas

TAIPEI, Taiwan – While Computex may famously be the most famous computer show of the IT industry, the world of wireless is certainly having...

AirPush pushes ads to your notification pane

Ad agency AirPush has announced a new approach to in-app advertising – whereby ads are pushed directly to users' notification pane.The idea is that...

Comscore reports Android tops and Blackberry drops in smartphone markets

Google Inc.’s Android OS (GOOG) showed national dominance in a new report released by Reston, Va.-based Comscore (SCOR) that shows Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone...

iOS 5 leak – Links to download it NOW

Twitter is a wonderful thing, and if you’re following the right people, you can pick up the tastiest morsels on the web. With today...

RIM shouldn’t kick itself over iMessage

As any BlackBerry user will know, one of the best features about RIM's device - barring the stellar keyboard - is BlackBerry Messenger, which allows people to communicate with other BlackBerry users for free, anytime, anywhere through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

H&M Networks acquires DAS company

Henkels & McCoy Inc. has bought In-Building-Wireless to expand its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) efforts. The two companies have worked together through Henkels &...
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