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The presidential office can be full of disappointments, it seems, on the technological as well as political end of the spectrum.

Qualcomm Incorporated and Big PlayAR are working with the Dallas Mavericks to add a twist to the NBA Playoffs by bringing game tickets to life through augmented reality (AR).

One in five smartphones will have NFC by 2014, according to a new Juniper research report.

RIO DE JANEIRO – More than 400 million tourists expected in Brazil for global sporting events in 2014 and 2016 will be carrying LTE-ready mobile devices, and the industry is optimistic that it’ll have Brazil’s major cities’s networks ready by then, according to a senior adviser for the GSMA at Informa’s LTE Latin America conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

RIM has just launched BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, an app it hopes will take at least some of the pain out of conference calls.

Nokia has not only left Symbian out in the cold, it has also closed the door to its once beloved operating system, officially ending its days as an open-source platform and taking down online distributions of it.

Even before being officially unveiled, RIM’s bold new BlackBerry Bold Touch has already been put through the reviews wringer by Boy Genius Report (BGR).

It’s not often we at RCR Unplugged can honestly claim to be impressed by a press release.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Finishing up earlier than we expected, thanks to World Vision’s efficiency, we set out yet again, back to PetionVille for our next set of interviews with NetHope partner ESIH (Ecole Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haiti).

Lord knows we’ve been waiting for this particular tablet long enough, since we first laid eyes (and hands) on it back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Another day, another Facebook phone wannabe, and this time it’s the INQ Cloud Touch.

Twitter has won a battle with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the effect that the firm will now be exempt from a 1.5 percent payroll tax for the …

Originally established after Haiti’s devastating earthquake last year as a means to give the youth of the country a voice in the nation’s reconstruction, Mwen Konté was also designed to get them involved in building an agenda for their own future.

RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak *Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the rebuilding of the impoverished country’s …

As festivities unfolded in Haiti yesterday upon the announcement of election results, some complained of an apparant deliberate blocking and downgrading of cellular signal.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has announced his firm will be releasing a tablet by the end of this summer.

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. released some stats about its network’s restoration following the massive earthquake which hit the country last month.

We’d met and interviewed Keith Chibafa of World Vision a couple of days earlier and were eager to see Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) at work in the field.

4.30am is an ungodly hour to wake up. My eyes still crusted over with sleep, I stumbled out of my bunk, gave myself a quick baby wipe shower, splashed water on my face, brushed my teeth trying not to swallow the cholera water and lurched upstairs.

. The Computer Science department at the University of California at Santa Cruz has a few tricks up its sleeve with regard to artificial intelligence.  RCR Wireless News spoke with …

Google is trying to make itself seem more attractive to mobile game developers, with Ian Ni-Lewis, Developer Advocate for Games at Google pulling out all the stops to woo the gangly geniuses out of their basements.

I seem to have fallen into the Haitian time warp, where everything seems to have gone by so fast at such a slow pace. Because everything takes time here.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – We needed to change some money and buy some Gummi bears – though not necessarily in that order of importance. So we headed to the supermarket and upon emerging, realized that the car had died once again. “Can you help me push it?” asked Nixon. We got out and threw our weight against the massive Mitsubishi. It didn’t really budge. We tried again. A little crowd formed and some added their shoulders to the effort. Eventually, the car started rolling, but still it couldn’t start. “Keep pushing,” Nixon yelled from out of the window. “Er, Nixon, where do you want us to push it? There’s a busy intersection with oncoming traffic in front of you.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti is hot and getting hotter by the minute as election results loom. As if the posters plastered over every available surface weren’t enough, it’s almost impossible to avoid talk of the elections with anyone we meet.