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HTC’s CEO Peter Chou recently claimed during an interview with FierceWireless, that the Taiwanese company will be launching its first LTE smartphone in 2011. He quoted HTC’s premieres in the field, since, as some of you might know, the company was the first to launch a 3G smartphone and next a 4G one (HTC EVO [...]
Legal battles between Apple and Nokia have been ongoing in the US over smartphone technology but the fight has just moved to the UK. Apple Inc. said it filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia Oyj in the UK, reports Bloomberg. The complaint – which relates to patent-infringement claims that Apple lodged against Nokia in December [...]
Google’s ingenious, yet controversial, Street View component of Google Maps is due to go live in Ireland today after Google cars and Google trikes conducted intensive mapping of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. Street View is a service on Google Maps that gives users the option of exploring a street or historical site at [...]
Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks. New enterprise capabilities: We’ve added Exchange capabilities such as account auto-discovery and calendar sync. Device policy management APIs allow developers to write applications that can control security features [...]
The HyperMac batteries from Sanho Corporation are popular external batteries for Apple devices, though Apple apparently doesn’t look upon it too fondly as the fruity company has sued the company over six patents related to MagSafe and the iPod. If you didn’t already know, the company claims to use original Apple MagSafe connectors to ensure compatibility, a [...]
Adobe Systems today released a fix for what it described as a “critical” hole that hackers have successfully exploited in its Flash Player software. In a security advisory, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) officials said the vulnerability could allow attackers to take control of computers and mobile devices running Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Mac, [...]
There’s no such thing as ”free” porn or MP3s — at least not for long, according to a new report from security software provider and Intel acquisition, McAfee. In a report (available in PDF format here) appropriately titled, “The True Cost of Free Entertainment,” McAfee researchers detailed the expected risks of flitting about from search engine to search engine [...]
Seagate Laptop Drive Scores Gov. Security Cert Storage vendor Seagate lands the sought-after Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certification for Momentus laptop drives, giving it an inside track for winning government and private-sector contracts. Seagate has proudly announced that the government has signed off on its Momentus laptop drives, awarding the product the sought-after Federal [...]
Networking vendor Brocade takes aim at the 100 Gigabit Ethernet frontier with the new MLXe core router, promising data transmission rates of up to 15.36 terabits per second. Networking vendors have been looking ahead to the massive scalability that 100 Gigabit Ethernet technology will offer as Internet bandwidth consumption continues its unabated rise. The race [...]
New servers will deliver impressive compute power, particular for speeding Excel processing. Microsoft is promising a significant increase in performance this week as it began shipping its latest high-performance computing (HPC) servers.As Datamation reports, the new servers will be especially beneficial to enterprises that rely on Excel for massive data processing and storage functions. Microsoft also [...]