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CBOSS has always puzzled me. The firm has a prominent booth at every single major tech show, complete with a big stage and a bevy of Russian beauties who periodically do a little dance and pose for photographs with drooling nerds. All well and good, but what the heck does the firm actually do?

Have you ever wondered what you would look like as an android? Wonder no more! Because Google is holding up a magic green mirror, giving us possibly the most useful app for Android so far: Androidify.

Is the Motorola Xoom worth its weight in Gold? At $800 the answer should be yes, but just in case, Moto has produced a real golden version of its super expensive Android Honeycomb tablet, available only to Oscar nominees and one lucky Twitter winner.

Oh when the saints, go marching in, Oh when the saints go marching in … Is anyone else excited about returning to New Orleans for CTIA 2012? I am on …

Business Wire | February 23, 2011 | Press Release PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a preliminary injunction in favor of Huawei that prevents …

Bangkok Post | February 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana Nearly half of the board members of TOT Plc have tendered their resignations over the past two days for fear of …

Cor Blimey, the mobile chip space is heating up, as the various players carry out their own little ARM’s race to beef up on performance, mainly through the addition of more cores.

Nokia Corp.’s announcement it would be dropping MeeGo and going Windows Phone 7 caused quite a “kerfuffle” inside Intel Corp., admitted Peter Biddle, general manager of Intel’s AppUp products and services.

It’s an irrefutable fact that there’s nothing more crowd-pleasing on the internet than mashing up otherwise mundane numbers into swanky visualisations. Be it infographics, flowcharts, or, in this case, videos, you’re bound to attract eyeballs if you can turn boring data into pretty visuals.

It wasn’t 3D stealing the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, but near field communication (NFC), a technology thought to settle, once and for all, the “mobile wallet” and “mobile payment” discussion.

While Texas Instruments and Qualcomm were busy paper launching dual and quad core processors at this year’s MWC, NVIDIA seemed a step ahead, demoing what looked to be a working model of its upcoming Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor.

How embarrassing for poor old Microsoft. First they were late to the whole smartphone party, and now Windows Phone 7’s first firmware update since the OS’s launch has obviously gone awry, as users of Samsung’s Omnia 7 have been taking to the internet in droves to complain of apparently bricked devices.