Tech News » country http://www.techcaoz.com aggregate tech and gadget news with related videos Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:33:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 South Korea slaps Qualcomm with massive fine for anticompetitive behavior http://www.techcaoz.com/7951/south-korea-slaps-qualcomm-with-massive-fine-for-anticompetitive-behavior.html http://www.techcaoz.com/7951/south-korea-slaps-qualcomm-with-massive-fine-for-anticompetitive-behavior.html#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:11:57 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/south-korea-slaps-qualcomm-with-massive-fine-for-anticompetitive-behavior Qualcomm is no stranger to legal action , but at the end of the day, you've gotta hit 'em in the pocketbook if you want to get a company to change its ways. South Korea's antitrust authorities have decided that the wireless chipmaker is guilty of some nefarious deeds, imposing a $260 billion won fine -- that's 26 with ten zeroes after it -- or about $209 million, which is a new record for the agency. The company has a rather large operation in South Korea dealing with giants Samsung and LG , and that seems to be where the problem starts -- South Korea claims that they're offering better contracts to companies who deal exclusively with Qualcomm and shun its competitors, which the government is taking issue with. ]]> Qualcomm is no stranger to legal action , but at the end of the day, you’ve gotta hit ‘em in the pocketbook if you want to get a company to change its ways. South Korea’s antitrust authorities have decided that the wireless chipmaker is guilty of some nefarious deeds, imposing a $260 billion won fine — that’s 26 with ten zeroes after it — or about $209 million, which is a new record for the agency. The company has a rather large operation in South Korea dealing with giants Samsung and LG , and that seems to be where the problem starts — South Korea claims that they’re offering better contracts to companies who deal exclusively with Qualcomm and shun its competitors, which the government is taking issue with.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/7951/south-korea-slaps-qualcomm-with-massive-fine-for-anticompetitive-behavior.html/feed 0 BlackBerry Tour Review: Part 2 http://www.techcaoz.com/7763/blackberry-tour-review-part-2.html http://www.techcaoz.com/7763/blackberry-tour-review-part-2.html#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:39:10 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/blackberry-tour-review-part-2 My, my, what a long road we’ve traveled . We’re back at it just like we promised . We combed through the BlackBerry Tour we had a while ago, but now that we have a Verizon unit in hand it’s a whole new ball game. ]]> My, my, what a long road we’ve traveled . We’re back at it just like we promised . We combed through the BlackBerry Tour we had a while ago, but now that we have a Verizon unit in hand it’s a whole new ball game.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/7763/blackberry-tour-review-part-2.html/feed 0 Sarah Palin Shuns Press: Talks to Twitter, Facebook Instead http://www.techcaoz.com/7685/sarah-palin-shuns-press-talks-to-twitter-facebook-instead.html http://www.techcaoz.com/7685/sarah-palin-shuns-press-talks-to-twitter-facebook-instead.html#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:44:34 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/sarah-palin-shuns-press-talks-to-twitter-facebook-instead Sarah Palin yesterday announced her plans to resign from the role of Governor of Alaska, leaving the press clueless as to why. Does she plan to retire from politics completely, or is she preparing to make a 2012 presidential bid? Palin is talking to no one…except Twitter and Facebook. ]]> Sarah Palin yesterday announced her plans to resign from the role of Governor of Alaska, leaving the press clueless as to why. Does she plan to retire from politics completely, or is she preparing to make a 2012 presidential bid? Palin is talking to no one…except Twitter and Facebook.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/7685/sarah-palin-shuns-press-talks-to-twitter-facebook-instead.html/feed 0 Palm Pre: takeaways from Premier night http://www.techcaoz.com/7160/palm-pre-takeaways-from-premier-night.html http://www.techcaoz.com/7160/palm-pre-takeaways-from-premier-night.html#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:45:13 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/palm-pre-takeaways-from-premier-night Tethering is not supported and Sprint has no plans to offer a tethering add-on. The company says it just isn't a very good user experience and would prefer folks added on a data card line instead. About 1,000 invitations were sent out to randomly-selected Premier customers for this evening's events at ten locations across the country. We've heard intermittent reports of folks getting in with no invite, but the Chicago store was staying firm. ]]> Tethering is not supported and Sprint has no plans to offer a tethering add-on. The company says it just isn’t a very good user experience and would prefer folks added on a data card line instead. About 1,000 invitations were sent out to randomly-selected Premier customers for this evening’s events at ten locations across the country. We’ve heard intermittent reports of folks getting in with no invite, but the Chicago store was staying firm.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/7160/palm-pre-takeaways-from-premier-night.html/feed 0 T-Mobile’s HTC Dash 3G and Touch Pro2 training kicks off on June 16th http://www.techcaoz.com/7123/t-mobile%e2%80%99s-htc-dash-3g-and-touch-pro2-training-kicks-off-on-june-16th.html http://www.techcaoz.com/7123/t-mobile%e2%80%99s-htc-dash-3g-and-touch-pro2-training-kicks-off-on-june-16th.html#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:22:54 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/t-mobile%e2%80%99s-htc-dash-3g-and-touch-pro2-training-kicks-off-on-june-16th T-Mobile fans, we’ve got good news and bad news. The good news — internal training on HTC’s Dash 3G (Snap) and Touch Pro2 is set to kick off June 16th on the east coast. In other words, we’re likely very close to seeing both handsets get official. The bad news — training doesn’t wrap up until July 2nd in Baltimore/DC so the rumored July 1st release date for the Dash 3G is pretty much not going to happen. ]]> T-Mobile fans, we’ve got good news and bad news. The good news — internal training on HTC’s Dash 3G (Snap) and Touch Pro2 is set to kick off June 16th on the east coast. In other words, we’re likely very close to seeing both handsets get official. The bad news — training doesn’t wrap up until July 2nd in Baltimore/DC so the rumored July 1st release date for the Dash 3G is pretty much not going to happen.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/7123/t-mobile%e2%80%99s-htc-dash-3g-and-touch-pro2-training-kicks-off-on-june-16th.html/feed 0 Twitter And Bing Shutdown In China As Tiananmen Date Looms http://www.techcaoz.com/6792/twitter-and-bing-shutdown-in-china-as-tiananmen-date-looms.html http://www.techcaoz.com/6792/twitter-and-bing-shutdown-in-china-as-tiananmen-date-looms.html#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:14:01 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/twitter-and-bing-shutdown-in-china-as-tiananmen-date-looms It’s widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship - to put it mildly - on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which is served from outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for some time and although Wikipedia was blocked for a while, it’s gradually become more available. However today Chinese authorities have brought the the Great Wall of China on a number of services including Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail, Blogger and a number of other sites. The picture is patchy across the country between ISPs and geography, but my sources - who all agreed to be named in this post - say the ban is blanket ban is closing. ]]> It’s widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship – to put it mildly – on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which is served from outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for some time and although Wikipedia was blocked for a while, it’s gradually become more available. However today Chinese authorities have brought the the Great Wall of China on a number of services including Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail, Blogger and a number of other sites. The picture is patchy across the country between ISPs and geography, but my sources – who all agreed to be named in this post – say the ban is blanket ban is closing.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/6792/twitter-and-bing-shutdown-in-china-as-tiananmen-date-looms.html/feed 0 Android 1.5 Cupcake rolling out OTA http://www.techcaoz.com/5991/android-15-cupcake-rolling-out-ota.html http://www.techcaoz.com/5991/android-15-cupcake-rolling-out-ota.html#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 05:17:39 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/android-15-cupcake-rolling-out-ota It looks like G1 owners in the U.S. are getting the Cupcake update for their G1’s pushed down over the air. The update should appear on devices soon, and there have been many reports of the update across the country. Looks like most everyone should get it today. ]]> It looks like G1 owners in the U.S. are getting the Cupcake update for their G1’s pushed down over the air. The update should appear on devices soon, and there have been many reports of the update across the country. Looks like most everyone should get it today.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/5991/android-15-cupcake-rolling-out-ota.html/feed 0 TELUS’ HSPA soft-launch on track for September 2nd, full rollout expected in October http://www.techcaoz.com/5686/telus%e2%80%99-hspa-soft-launch-on-track-for-september-2nd-full-rollout-expected-in-october.html http://www.techcaoz.com/5686/telus%e2%80%99-hspa-soft-launch-on-track-for-september-2nd-full-rollout-expected-in-october.html#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 18:36:21 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/telus%e2%80%99-hspa-soft-launch-on-track-for-september-2nd-full-rollout-expected-in-october Aaaaand we’re back with some more news regarding TELUS’ HSPA soft-launch. We’ve spoken to a few more people who have been able to confirm to us that TELUS is indeed going to be flipping the switch on parts of its HSPA network on September 2nd — though at this point in time we’ve been unable to get confirmation as to which markets this will occur in. All we know for now is that Vancouver will be one of the lucky markets and, if all goes to plan, the majority of the country will be able to bask in the glory of the new network by the end of October. In other TELUS network news, we know a lot of people have been complaining about a sudden uptake in network interuptions. ]]> Aaaaand we’re back with some more news regarding TELUS’ HSPA soft-launch. We’ve spoken to a few more people who have been able to confirm to us that TELUS is indeed going to be flipping the switch on parts of its HSPA network on September 2nd — though at this point in time we’ve been unable to get confirmation as to which markets this will occur in. All we know for now is that Vancouver will be one of the lucky markets and, if all goes to plan, the majority of the country will be able to bask in the glory of the new network by the end of October. In other TELUS network news, we know a lot of people have been complaining about a sudden uptake in network interuptions.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/5686/telus%e2%80%99-hspa-soft-launch-on-track-for-september-2nd-full-rollout-expected-in-october.html/feed 0 Obama Inauguration: Check Out These Real-Time Visualizations http://www.techcaoz.com/5668/obama-inauguration-check-out-these-real-time-visualizations.html http://www.techcaoz.com/5668/obama-inauguration-check-out-these-real-time-visualizations.html#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:22 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/obama-inauguration-check-out-these-real-time-visualizations The MIT SENSEable City Lab recently released visualizations of mobile phone call activity over the week of President Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009. The visualizations are of course stunning, but they also aim to answer the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama's Inauguration Day, when did they arrive, where did they go, and how long did they stay? MIT says that the objective of these visualizations was to determine how a city performs during a special event or a sudden emergency. ]]> The MIT SENSEable City Lab recently released visualizations of mobile phone call activity over the week of President Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009. The visualizations are of course stunning, but they also aim to answer the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama’s Inauguration Day, when did they arrive, where did they go, and how long did they stay? MIT says that the objective of these visualizations was to determine how a city performs during a special event or a sudden emergency.

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]]> http://www.techcaoz.com/5668/obama-inauguration-check-out-these-real-time-visualizations.html/feed 0 EU to Music Industry: Get Your Act Together http://www.techcaoz.com/5565/eu-to-music-industry-get-your-act-together.html http://www.techcaoz.com/5565/eu-to-music-industry-get-your-act-together.html#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 15:24:37 +0000 admin http://www.techcaoz.com/eu-to-music-industry-get-your-act-together When we talk about an online music or video service, almost inevitably we’re talking about the US version of it, because - due to copyright issues - the service (or at least some of its content, as is the case with YouTube) doesn’t work in the bigger part of the world. The usual explanation I hear is “it’s due to copyright laws,” but the entertainment industry has, in fact, the power to change things; they’re just slow and reluctant to do so. The biggest problem is the fact that music rights are sold separately in each European country, and collecting societies - various groups which collect copyright-related fees and give them to the artists - have different contracts that allow artists to collect payments only from an agency based in their country. This is what’s stopping Apple from offering iTunes in some European countries; if they were able to set up a single store for all of Europe, it’d be much easier. ]]> When we talk about an online music or video service, almost inevitably we’re talking about the US version of it, because – due to copyright issues – the service (or at least some of its content, as is the case with YouTube) doesn’t work in the bigger part of the world. The usual explanation I hear is “it’s due to copyright laws,” but the entertainment industry has, in fact, the power to change things; they’re just slow and reluctant to do so. The biggest problem is the fact that music rights are sold separately in each European country, and collecting societies – various groups which collect copyright-related fees and give them to the artists – have different contracts that allow artists to collect payments only from an agency based in their country. This is what’s stopping Apple from offering iTunes in some European countries; if they were able to set up a single store for all of Europe, it’d be much easier.

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