Editor's Note: In this piece by Carlos Urreta, guest columnist and techie from Austin, Texas, Urreta reveals loopholes to securing the cheapest cell phone deal a user is likely to construct (with some loopholes) without losing most major services.
I bought my first cellular device...
Reuters | May 18, 2011 | Alina Selyukh
Motorola Solutions Inc (MSI.N) will expand its operations in Malaysia to include technical response centers, executive vice president Gene Delaney told reporters in New York on Wednesday.
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The Hindustan Times | May 15, 2011 | N Madhavan
More than two years ago, I had started this column by describing as the "Law of diminishing digital returns" the phenomenon under which your digital device will seem dumber as they days progress while smarter ones...
Knock the PlayBook all you want, but by all accounts it appears to be doing what Motorola Inc.’s Xoom did in its first two months of availability, according to RBC Capital Markets.RBC’s general manager Mike Abramsky has estimated the number of Research In Motion...
“I'll take your iPad and raise you 10” – seems to be Intel Corp.'s message to tablet hungry consumers, as the firm readies itself for the launch of almost a dozen new devices running on its own Atom chips at Computex, Taipei.
Mobile device distributor Brightpoint Inc. (CELL) said it plans to relocate the Touchstone Wireless Repair and Logistic L.P. operations from their current Bristol, Tenn., location into current Brightpoint operations in Fort Worth, Texas, and Plainfield, Ind. Brightpoint acquired Touchstone in 2010 for $80 million.The...
A video of Nokia Corp.'s upcoming N9 smartphone has found its way onto YouTube. The leaked video shows glimpses of a thin, stylish looking device complete with a nice looking camera, though the few peeks at the screen seem to show Symbian Anna rather...
Living In Peru | May 13, 2011
The anticipated white iPhone 4 is now available through Movistar in Peru, the first operator in the country to commercialize Apple's smartphone, reports Peru.com.
Peru is one of the first countries in Latin America to have the equipment. The phone...
Those who have been waiting impatiently for Apple Inc. to unveil the iPhone 5, complete with LTE support, will be sorely disappointed according to sources who say the new phone will be nothing but a minor update with HSPA+ thrown in.READ MORE >>
Strategically teaming up as OS partners may not be enough for Microsoft Corp. when it comes to Nokia Inc., according to Russian Nokia watcher Eldar Murtazin, claiming the Finnish firm is in talks to sell off its entire handset division to the software giant.READ...
Nvidia Corp. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang believes the problem with Android tablets rests firmly with those attempting to sell them.Talking to Cnet about why tablets like the Motorola Inc. Xoom and Samsung Telecommunications America's Galaxy Tab 10.1 haven't really taken off in a big way,...
BOSTON—HTC Corp. showed off its Sensations 4G smartphone, which is slated to come to T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) this summer as part of the Mass Technology Leadership Council's Spring Meeting May 13 in Boston. The company, which is a sponsor of the event, showed...
If your attention span lulls when you wait in line or sit in an office, you may have a good alternative to keep you entertained in mobile digital television (DTV) services.
Mobile DTV allows live programming, including local news, on a growing number of mobile...
Financial Times | May 8, 2011 | Matthew Garrahan, Adam Thomson, Joe Leahy
Netflix, the film and television subscription service, is working on a push into Latin America and is close to announcing deals with three of the continent’s biggest broadcasters to begin streaming programming online...
Juniper Networks | May 10, 2011 | Press Release
Junos® Pulse and Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite to Provide Secure Access and Protection to KT Mobile Device Users
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 10, 2011 — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) and KT (NYSE: KT), a prominent South Korean...
ZTE | May 4, 2011 | Press Release
Movistar to exclusively sell new tablet device from May in Spain
ZTE, the world’s fourth largest mobile phone maker, is aiming to conquer the Spanish market with a high specification tablet which will be available via Telefónica, whose...
AT4 Wireless | May 2, 2011 | Press Release
Linkou, Taipei, Taiwan – May 02, 2011 — AT4 wireless Taiwan, a leading Testing Laboratory, is pleased to announce its official designation as First Continua Health Alliance Laboratory in Asia
Continua Health Alliance today announced it has...
The worldwide smartphone market saw resounding growth year over year in the first quarter of 2011 with market research firm IDC reporting 79.7% growth, which it credits to lower prices, release of highly anticipated models, wide availability of older models and continued smartphone demand....
An upstart young Austin company hopes to solve a trillion-dollar problem for the wireless industry with its new multi-hopping technology.
Vidur Bhargava, one of three founders of Wibole and PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, says Wibole can...
There was a lot of talk at the Texas Labs Venture Expo today about whether Austin should strive to be the next Silicon Valley, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently suggested.
In late April, Gov. Perry told an audience of business, technology and higher-education leaders,...
Almost half of the latest smartphones have a 1 GHz processor or faster according to a new report by Strategy Analytics.The report, which tracks key features and specs on handsets in the market, said 48% of the latest smartphone models featured a 1 GHz...
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) could release a 10-inch version of its PlayBook tablet by year's end and OS7 could be delayed until late August according to the latest rumors.BlackBerry World 2011 has been the source of many a headline this week, but as...
Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to build a robot or system design based on the firm’s latest sensor development kit. In other words, a walking robot...
The inventor of Ethernet has said Austin does not need more money to be a more innovative city, but it needs more companies that know how to market themselves better.
In his keynote presentation at the second annual Texas Venture Labs Expo on Wednesday, Bob...
