Not even two weeks after the introduction of their Android operating system, and offers of $10 million USD in bounties for software, it seems that the Californian colossus is preparing a bid of $4.6 billion USD or more for a piece of the soon-to-be-free 700MHz wireless spectrum — and what’s more, they’re apparently planning on […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - ISuppli reiterated its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones this year, rising to more than 30 million in 2011. The two models of the iPhone on the market sold more than Research in Motion’s Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio and any individual smartphone model from Motorola, Nokia or Samsung.
Sales […]
The honeymoon isn’t over. A little more than a month after the Apple iPhone went on sale, nearly 90 percent of iPhone owners who answered a PC World survey said that they love their almost-new toy. But they also had a few complaints–most notably regarding the iPhone’s voice and data networks–and lots of suggestions.
About 13 […]
Verizon Wireless subscribers to stay connected in a greater number of countries around the globe – most of which are using GSM as their network technology today. According to the company, the new 8830 offers connectivity in North America, Australia as well as more than 160 countries in Europe, parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America […]
Motorola, the second-largest handset maker in the world behind Nokia, has been struggling to regain its footing in an increasingly competitive market for the past several quarters. For the first quarter of 2007, the company reported a net loss as prices on phones continued to plunge.
Chief Executive Officer Ed Zander, who ended a bitter proxy […]
Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of PlayStation 3 consoles.
Total computing power of the system is now at around 700T Flops (floating point operations per second), with nearly 400T Flops of that […]
The Cell Broadband Engine is widely known as a powerful, but rather complex chip to work with. IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), however, are helping to educate students on the unorthodox processor with the first program in the U.S. structured around the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine. IBM, Sony, and Toshiba […]
Sony sees opportunity in the idle computing power of 6 million PlayStation 3s. It’s considering offering product discounts and other incentives to entice owners to leave their game consoles on, so Sony can corral them into a supercomputing grid it could lease to businesses. Companies, particularly in the medical industry, have approached Sony with the […]