Wireless

While all manner of cool new hardware is shown off in Taipei at Computex 2011, the Silicon Valley rumour mill keeps churning. This week’s choice titbit is that eponymous social network Twitter is due to launch its own photo upload and sharing service imminently, potentially when CEO Dick Costolo takes the stage at the D9 conference on Wednesday.

Journalists at ARM’s Computex press conference were in for a musical treat on Monday, in the form of a Taiwanese boy band using iPads as instruments.

Taipei, Taiwan – Rumor on the showfloor has it that while Nvidia’s Tegra 2 virtually cleared up in terms of design wins, Tegra 3 might not have the same luck.

Ah – the old “robots have taken over the world!” plot. Not especially original, but it has provided us with some good material over the years.  Most notably the Terminator …

Qualcomm managed to confuse and confuddle press at its Computex briefing on Monday, as the firm displayed slides showing MeeGo logos alongside other “supported OSes”.

The annual Computex trade show is well underway in Taipei, and local manufacturer ASUS have been showing off their newest creations. While many device makers have been moving away from Netbooks, the diminutive laptops that took the world by storm a few years ago in favour of smart devices and tablets, ASUS are sticking to their guns.

3D mobile technology is about to get a very big boost on Monday, as chip maker Texas Instruments (TI) confirmed it would be partnering with MasterImage 3D on a development board which could be used to build glasses free apps, UIs and content for mobile devices.

While Google worked closely with Nvidia on its Gingerbread and HoneyComb versions of Android, Texas Instruments (TI) is the software firm’s latest best buddy when it comes to Ice Cream Sandwich, with Qualcomm rumored to be on the BFF list once Jelo comes around.

It is not often that we hear about big companies bowing to customer pressure. All the more reason, then, why we should applaud HTC for doing exactly that.  After a …

Reuters | May 26, 2011  | Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) – KT Corp , South Korea’s top telecom firm, said on Thursday that it and its affiliates aimed to generate nearly half …

John Donovan, CTO of Operations at Dallas-based AT&T Inc. (T), wrote in a blog post about the first steps the telecom giant will implement as it prepares a major deployment …

It’s national hurricane preparedness week, and carriers are claiming they are more prepared than in recent years, when disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike crippled communications. In 2010 …

According to an alliance of IBM Corp. (IBM) workers for the union organization Alliance@IBM, the technology kingpin is slashing jobs across the country, which includes the possibility that Austin will …

Money is an easy thing to want to be in business with — I mean actual money. The carriers, banks, credit card companies and startups like Square Inc. are aiming …

Well, due to an unfulfilled prophecy, this week’s Worst of the Week column had to be re-written into something with more of a wireless angle. You see, this column was all set to be based on how it really sucked that the world was ending; that all of these volcanic eruptions and earthquakes were really a bummer; that the zombies roaming the streets were really going to put a damper on this weekend’s Memorial Day celebrations; and I was going to touch on the fact that my cell coverage had really taken a hit.

Yesterday Google announced their long-rumoured NFC Android payment system, Google Wallet. The service was met with cautious optimism from the assembled press, and will begin trials in New York and San Francisco from today. PayPal however, aren’t very happy about the new product.

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color has been on the market for around seven months now, and although it hasn’t managed to make a huge splash, it has generated some noticeable ripples. The lost-cost device, sporting an Android core with a custom Nook skin on top, has become a hackers favourite due to its uncomplicated, quality components and cheap price.