| Apple and friends buy Nortel patents for $4.5 billion Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT 
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A diverse array of companies, often bitter competitors, joining forces to bid on that most contentious of all commodities, patents. Apple and Microsoft are part of this coalition of the willing, as are EMC, Sony, Ericsson and RIM. Back in the noughties, Nortel’s executives behaved very [...] Related [...]  |
| Just another company? Apple spent $560K on lobbying Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:00 AM PDT 
The rest of us like to think of the Cupertino, CA-based iPhone, iPad and Mac maker as a cut above. However, a report filed with the US House of Representatives’ Clerks Office reveals that it spent not a little money to influence federal lawmakers and bureaucrats, though not more than the same quarter [...] Related [...]  |
| Limbo coming to the PS3/PC and Molyneux working on secret IP Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:40 PM PDT 
Some exciting news have come out this week as there is talk of a former Xbox exclusive that is set to head towards the PS3 and PC. Also, the mastermind behind the Fable series is cooking up another franchise. As rumored earlier this week, it appears that Limbo will indeed be making its way on [...]  |
| Free World of Warcraft to nab addicts Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:00 PM PDT 
Blizzard certainly knows how to tempt people into giving World of Warcraft a shot. In a similar way to how your local drug dealer may operate. There’s a reason World of Warcraft is often referred to as World of Warcrack. Because in the wrong hands it can be as addictive as Class A drugs. If [...]  |
| Microsoft kills Hohm, green credentials Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:00 PM PDT 
Microsoft has killed Hohm, its home energy monitoring service. And with it, its green credentials. Hopefully. Don’t you just love the way big business has tried to get involved with the campaign for a greener way of living? No, me neither. It stinks of jumping on the bandwagon, of trying to ingratiate with customers and [...]  |
| Smartphones overtake feature phones as Android suffers at hands of Apple iPhone Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:40 PM PDT 
More and more people are switching up from a feature phone, also known as a dumb phone, to a smartphone. The latter is expected to have eclipsed the former by the end of 2011. According to the latest report from Nielsen, the majority of new mobile handsets being purchased in the U.S. are now smartphones. [...]  |
| LTE service gets the ultimate Northern exposure Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:40 PM PDT 
If your town hasn’t got a next-generation mobile broadband service such as LTE, it can be frustrating reading about those able to get ultra-fast speeds without wires. If that’s the case, it won’t come as much comfort to learn [...]  |
| Android blunted, world awaits iPhone next Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:13 PM PDT 
Who would have thought it possible? Android was clearly on a roll, but the platform’s heady growth in the US was staunched by the arrival of the Verizon iPhone. Apple added a single carrier to the mix and, boom, the Google juggernaut has been neutered. Assuming Andy Rubin’s claim that Android is experiencing [...] Related [...]  |
