According to ABI Research, 2.1 billion mobile devices will sport HTML5 browsers by 2016—largely thanks to Apple, which has shunned Adobe’s Flash in favor of the Web standard. While the HTML5 standard isn’t expected to be complete until 2020, per the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), ABI Research is forecasting swift growth Apple has been [...]
Mozilla plans to use the open-source technology that underpins its popular Firefox browser to build a new operating system, which it believes can compete with Google’s Android. According to Silicon Filter, a ChromeOS-like “GeckoOS” could mean that developers could focus their energy on building just one application in HTML5 that would run on a large [...]
According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the point-to-point microwave transmission market is forecast to exceed $6 billion by 2015 as demand for mobile backhaul will drive radio transceiver shipments to reach nearly 3 million units. The largest market for microwave equipment is expected to be the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, [...]
Verizon Wireless today announced a netbook with LTE connections, available online on July 28. The HP Pavilion dm1-3010nr (which appears to be a $400 HP dm1) features a 4G LTE card with download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps, a 11.6-inch display, 1.60 GHz AMD Dual-Core Processor [...]
Intellectual Ventures of Bellevue, Washington, has been accused of being a patent troll, before. Now Planet Money and NPR’s This American Life provide an in-depth look at the enterprise, formed by Nathan Myhrvold, boy genius. Myhrvold worked at Microsoft for 13 years, where he founded Microsoft Research in 1991. Intellectual Ventures, it is alleged, accumulates [...]
Apple has begun removing e-reading apps, for the Amazon Kindle, Borders Kobo, and Barnes & Noble Nook Kids, says Paid Content, while the Google eBooks app has disappeared from iTunes completely. Apple is enforcing its new in app-subscription rules that require app developers to strip out any links to external mechanisms for purchasing digital books [...]
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