Yet another Ofcom report promises UK LTE spectrum sale within five months, rollout in mid-2013
The long wait for LTE in the UK has already brought new levels of cynicism to a once earnest and optimistic nation, but now, finally, Ofcom has set itself a deadline for auctioning off the prized 4G spectrum to telecoms companies. In a major report published today, it declared that the sale is "set to
NTP reaches agreement with 13 patent defendents including Apple, Microsoft and Google
One of the original "non-manufacturing IP firms," NTP, has just signed an agreement with 13 of the companies it sued for infringing its email patents. The tech industry whales paying for licenses include Google, Microsoft and Yahoo on the software side; wireless operators Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel
ARM and TSMC team up on 64-bit chips and FinFET transistors
ARM and TSMC are renewing their vows and plan to continue collaborating well into the future, as they work to optimize the 64-bit v8 architecture for the Taiwanese company’s FinFET transistor tech. The two will push next-gen ARM chips to 20nm and beyond, and hopefully shorten the time to market for new
August Capital Raising $550M For Sixth Venture Fund
August Capital, the 17-year-old Sand Hill venture capital firm, is raising a new $550 million investment fund, according to documents filed this morning with the SEC.
August Partner Howard Hartenbaum has since confirmed the firm’s raise, which is its sixth fund to date. It closed its previous, $650
Metalab wires its Blinkenwall to run from Commodore 64, gives no word on the obligatory Tetris port (video)
We’ve seen some ambitious Blinkenwalls in our time. Nearly all of the attention is unsurprisingly focused on the wall, however, and not on the often clever hardware and software behind it. Vienna’s Metalab wants to shift the limelight by kicking it old school. Instead of the thoroughly modern Arduino
RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha adds Siri-like voice command
After years of believing that it didn’t need to follow in the footsteps of the iPhone or Android (because people obviously prefer mobile operating systems based on a 20-year-old platform), it looks like RIM is now going after the most talked-about feature of the iPhone – Siri. The new alpha
The iRobot Doc Will See You Now: Roomba Maker Enters the ER
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iOS Soars Ahead of Android Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market
The Apple iOS is surging ahead of the Google Android platform for enterprise development, according to survey results from Appcelerator, the mobile platform development company.
In the largest survey of its kind, Appcelerator developers were asked what operating system is best positioned to win the
Por qué a Obama le gusta Facebook
El verdadero valor de la aplicación de Facebook del presidente: darle una ventana para observar a los amigos de sus seguidores.
Crítica: Nexus Q de Google
El aparato, que sirve para reproducir música y vídeo en línea, tiene un aspecto chulo y es fácil de usar, pero es demasiado caro.