Archive for December, 2010
Android Sending Text Messages To Wrong People?
Mashable is reporting that there is a known bug in the Android software and that a small number of people are sending text messages that are either going to the wrong recipient or to no one at all. Although we hadn’t heard about it on twitter, comments or in our email box, this problem has [...]
BREAKING: Craig McCaw One Of The Godfathers of Wireless is Resigning Tomorrow From Clearwire
Kirkland WA- Chairman of Clearwire Craig O McCaw is resigning from his position tomorrow. Bloomberg announced this after the bell this evening. Craig McCaw started in wireless with McCaw Cellular and some cable properties, eventually turning them into cellular one, AT&T wireless and then Nextel Partners. McCaw was a pioneer who some thought was a [...]
ROM Spotlight: MIUI
I have been using the rom MIUI for a while now. I have used plenty of roms with custom themes and have like most of them; however, MIUI has always stood out to me. Sure I am still very impressed with Saphire and of course the rom juggernaut Cyanogen, and I still use them, but [...]
The Big 5 Carriers? Thats How It Will Be If Google Has Their Way
The title isn’t meant to mislead anyone in any way. That is correct Google becoming a Wireless Carrier… Or so there moves are reflecting… Remember in 2008 when the FCC opened up spectrum bidding Google came in with a giant bid of 4.6 Billion to start it… While they didn’t win nor at the time [...]
Skype Offers $1 Credit To Those Affected By Outage
On December 22, 2010 Skype experienced the worst outage in their companies history. The outage lasted over 24 hours and kept many people that have turned to Skype as an alternative to a home or office phone, without service. As the service started to go back online Skype did offer a detailed video and text [...]
More Tablets at CES: Viewsonic Bringing 4G Phone Capable Tablet?
A very reliable publication, The Wall Street Journal, is reporting today that California based Viewsonic is bringing a tablet to CES that is 4G capable and phone equipped as well. The Wall Street Journal says that Viewsonic’s newest tablet adventure will run Android and feature a 4″ screen. The Wall Street Journal is referring to [...]
Motorola Olympus To Debut At CES?
The Android community has been following the story of the Motorola Olympus since Taylor Wimberly over at Androidandme.com first reported it at CTIA. We watched him journey through San Francisco to get all the information he could from Motorola and Nvidia. It all started with some facetime that Wimberly had with Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay [...]
Honeycomb is Android 2.4 Not 3.0 As Reported
Androidandme.com Pocketnow.com and now Thedroidguy.com have all seen a very interesting entry in our Google Analytics. When clicking through operating system and then drilling down to version we’ve seen our share of 2.2, 2.3 and 2.3.1. Last night we received a click through from Android 2.4, presumably Honeycomb. You may remember a few months back [...]
CES: LG Expected To Bring Honeycomb Tablet As Well
All this talk about Honeycomb has made us hungry… The Korea Times Newspaper is reporting that in addition to the LG Optimus 2x handset, mobile 3d televisions, LG has a little honeycomb favored treat to be revealed at CES as well. We already know that the Motorola Xoom is coming. There has also been some [...]
HTC Tablet Trademarked, HTC Scribe?
HTC has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office for the HTC Scribe. The patent was filed on December 26th by HTC’s patent law firm in Seattle, WA home to HTC’s United States’ offices. HTC has filed the patent for the name Scribe as “handheld wireless device, namely, a tablet [...]
Xoom Official Name for Motorola Tablet But Not Because it Zooms on 4G
We reported last week that many patent searches revealed that Motorola was looking to trademark the name Xoom. At that time it seemed it was a logical name for the new Motorola Honeycomb tablet Andy Rubin showed off at All Things Digital D: Dive Into Mobile earlier this month. Well today Droid-Life is reporting that [...]
Ford Sync Now Syncs With Google Maps
Ford has upgraded their sync system by way of a new app available now for iPhone, iPad and Android called Sync Destinations. The new Android app allows you to sync your Google Maps with the internal navigation system on Ford models outfitted with My Ford Touch and Ford Sync. Sync Destinations will allow you to [...]
Paul Allen Invented Android???
Paul Allen, the infamous partner in Microsoft who has now made it his conquest in life to sue over patents, has refiled a patent suit against Google, well for just about everything. According to Foss Patents, it’s not uncommon that those who bring forth patent and intellectual property lawsuits, have to go back to get [...]
