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Yes Virginia, there really is a Google Phone! And no, I don’t mean all those Android-powered devices, but instead a Google-branded phone that is made by an original equipment maker. The company has started giving away these devices to its employees, who started tweeting about it last night, and the company had to make an announcement this morning. In a blog post on the Android Blog, Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management writes:

We recently came up with the concept of ..read more

Back in October we reported that Nokia was filing suite against Apple, Inc. for infringing on, “patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.” Today Apple has fired back with a counter suit and a little shot across the bow from Apple’s General Council Bruce Sewell, “other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours.” We’ll stay on top of this one as it develops.

UPDATE: You can download a copy of Apple’s ..read more

Okay, maybe the “not really a bird” thunderbird won’t be taking the place of the Gallic rooster as the avian mascot of France, but as far as the French military is concerned, Thunderbird is number one. Back in 2003 the French military began debating whether it would be wise to continue using a proprietary email client, such as Microsoft’s Outlook, or if it would be of greater benefit to transition to an open source client like Mozilla’s Thunderbird. In 2007 ..read more

It’s astonishing to consider how long it can take for technology that already exists, and isn’t all that expensive to execute, to come to market. Case in point are the following three existing technologies, which range from virtually guaranteed life-savers to huge conveniences — where are the VCs and the go-to-market moves?

The Pocket Doctor. Great strides are being made when it comes to turning smartphones into devices that function as medical diagnostic and imaging tools. Because our phones are constantly ..read more

John Cox in Network World describes Eight ways Wi-Fi will change following approval of the 802.11n wireless standard:

Ok so we said before about Freeview HD, when it was coming etc. Now Some masts are pumping out the signal, why aren’t there any set top boxes out there to pick this free HD signal up. Well I can’t personally explain that but what I can say is that the first set top boxes are outed and will be released next year.

Humax HD-FOX T2 should be out in Q1  next year. Firstly it’ll tune its self with its auto-tune ..read more

Filed under: Hardware, Apple History, This Old Apple

With our zippy Intel Macs able to eagerly boot up Windows 7 in Boot Camp, VMWare, Parallels, and VirtualBox, it’s difficult to fathom that it was ever a problem to run Microsoft operating systems on our Apple boxes.

The situation wasn’t that good just a scant 15 or so years ago. Back in the bleak days before the triumphant return of Steve Jobs to 1 Infinite Loop, Apple had a broad and confusing ..read more

The problem of information overload is one of the most frustrating and inspiring issues on the web today — inspiring because of all the cool, hard and unimagined ways it will be dealt with. Today we bring you Cascaad, the latest and greatest startup attacking the problem.

This morning we had a chance to talk to Erik Lumer, CEO of Cascaad. You may remember Lumer as the chief and co-founder of Babelgum, the European video startup that underwent oh-so-many strategy changes. ..read more

Not satisfied with merely dual-booting two operating systems on a mobile phone, VMware is developing virtualization technology that allows two operating systems to run simultaneously on a mobile phone. Consider the scenario where you can receive your corporate email using Windows Mobile and post an update to twitter using Android — same phone, at the same time. Sounds great, doesn’t it? VMware is currently working on optimizing the virtualization technology so the incoming/outgoing data from each OS is managed efficiently ..read more

Avril Lavigne. Luke Wilson. Whoopi Goldberg. Those three names don’t exactly jump out and immediately connect with us when we see them. And isn’t that the point of advertising? The point of branding? To connect to something, identify with it, and relate to it. Sure jazzy music and clean visuals (or dark, ominous tones with scary eyes) will help liven up your advertisement, but if you’re bringing a celebrity in to help, why don’t you make sure the celebrity is ..read more