On Tuesday June 10, Mozilla announced that they will soon begin selling "ultra-low-cost" Firefox OS devices in India. Back at MWC, Mozilla announced that they had begun working with Spreadtrum to "deliver turnkey Firefox OS reference designs with Spreadtrum's entry-level smartphone chipsets."Spreadtrum Press Releases, "Spreadtrum and Mozilla Take Aim at Global Smartphone Accessibility with Turnkey Solution [...]
Because everyone loves a white gaming console... At Sony's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) press conference on Monday they revealed a bunch of new games. Unlike EA, it appears most of their new software is coming soon, with release dates in tow. One of those new software offerings is the highly anticipated Destiny for PS4. Sony [...]
Earlier this week during the Computex Conference in Taipei, Microsoft showed off some new Windows Phone partners. Among the new hardware partners are BLU, InFocus Corp., Prestigio and Yezz. However, the biggest Windows Phone news out of the conference was a subtle hint than HTC may be on board as a new partner. When Nick [...]
If you've been thinking about getting a shiny new Xbox One but you've been waiting to pull the trigger than today is the day you may want to get to your neighborhood Gamestop. Tomorrow (June 9th) is the day that the new Kinect-less Xbox One hits the stores and in celebration (or to blow out [...]
Towards the end of April, Facebook announced FbStart, a new program providing mobile developers with a ton of free tools and resources. Somehow, we missed the initial announcement, but this is such a great opportunity for developers that we felt it would be prudent to mention it, even if we are more than a month [...]
There's a war going on between Netflix and Verizon and it doesn't appear that it's going to slow down anytime soon. Netflix has been trying to become more transparent to it's customers and at the same time, they've been working on deals directly with broadband providers to get the optimal speed for their users. Netflix [...]
On Tuesday, June 3, Sony launched a new smartphone, the Xperia T3. The Xperia T3 was, "created exclusively for those looking to stand out from the crowd."Sony News Center, "Stand out from the crowd with the stylish and slim Xperia T3 smartphone from Sony," 3 June 2014 Sony has already released its new high-end [...]
Although Apple just recently announced their $3 billion dollar acquisition of Beats by Dre, the most recent change in MFi specs was probably in the works much earlier. MFi specs are the standards that Apple puts out for their hardware partners to make officially sanctioned accessories to support Apple devices. Typically there are a lot [...]
Much of the talk in the wireless industry lately has been about Sprint possibly acquiring T-Mobile. Sprint's parent company, Softbank has been in talks with T-Mobile's parent company Deutssche Telekom have been in discussions over the last year. Three years ago the nation's second largest wireless carrier AT&T had also tried to buy T-Mobile but [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google "plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts."Alistair Barr and Andy Pasztor, The Wall Street Journal, "Google Invests in [...]
