AT&T said on Monday it would buy Qualcomm’s FLO TV spectrum. The carrier will spend $1.93 billion to buy airwaves to bolster AT&T’s 4G download speeds in key areas, 12MHz of which focuses on major cities such as Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Another 6MHz covers a wider swath of […]
Dec 20 2010 | Posted in
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Foursquare has posted an updated iPhone app taking it to version 2.2 that adds photo support. Members can now snap photos associated with a check-in either as a memoir or to help friends. Friends can also comment on photos attached to an area. There is now a history section on the Foursquare website lets users […]
LG will spend the equivalent of $14.1 billion on attempting to turn around its ailing phone business as well expand into the increasingly popular tablet computer and AMOLED display businesses. This would mark the biggest such investment from the South Korea-based electronics giant, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The total 2011 investment is […]
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LG Display has unveiled its next-generation Film-type Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology to LCD manufacturers including Haier, Vizio and Toshiba. It argues that the current generation of Shutter Glasses (SG) 3D panels have problems with the weight of the shutter glasses, power consumption and reduced brightness. By contrast, LG Display’s new FPR technology has no […]
Dec 16 2010 | Posted in
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Best Buy as promised began selling the Nexus S. The first-ever Android 2.3 phone is available either online or at retail for $199.99 on a two-year T-Mobile contract. In-store visitors can also get an unlocked, contract-free version for $529.99, although its 3G only supports T-Mobile as well as some Canadian and European carriers. it has […]
Dec 16 2010 | Posted in
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Tunes 10.1.1 is now available for download, either direct from Apple’s dedicated website, or via iTunes’ integrated Software Update mechanism . Among the issues that it rectifies is one where some music videos did not play on Macs with certain graphic cards, one which made iTunes unexpectedly quit when deleting a playlist, one which made […]
The European Commission has released a summary of the 9th eGovernment Benchmarking Report which measures public sector performance of 32 countries (27 EU member states plus Croatia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). The report measures six core indicators and through a ranking system, it shows the best performing countries that have implemented the most mature […]
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The winners of 882 Novell patents as part of Attachmate’s buyout of Novell includes Apple, EMC, Microsoft and Oracle, Germany’s antitrust regulator Bundeskartellamt revealed in a notice for the deal. While created by Microsoft, the organization includes some of its competitors and suggests the buy wasn’t intended solely or primarily for Microsoft’s attempt to discourage […]
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JVC has announced it will soon introduce the first LSI chip technology in its consumer camcorders. The 40nm chip will bring with it high-speed processing of HD video, the ability to shoot in HD in 3D, and high-resolution 4K images that are nearly four times higher than 1080P images. LSI technology is also less power […]
The Mac App Store will launch on January 6th, says Apple. “The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” reads a prepared statement from CEO Steve Jobs. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started […]