Altair Semiconductor finds a place among mobile innovators

BARCELONA — Altair Semiconductor, based in Israel, is a smaller company that showed off its LTE radio chips — and the tablets and routers they’re being installed in — at a small booth at Mobile World Congress this week. Among the thousands of companies exhibiting at the event here, Altair is a prime example of …

HTC testing new models after patent case; shares jump

TAOYUAN, Taiwan | Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:11am EST TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – HTC Corp has begun testing new phone models that work around technology cited in a patent lawsuit won by arch-rival Apple Inc, and HTC’s chief executive voiced optimism over the company’s ability to meet challenging market conditions. Speaking to media at the …

Eric Schmidt’s VC Fund Loves Slice, A New App For Online Shopping Addicts

Slice is a new app that aims to make receipt-keeping and package-tracking so simple you don’t even need to do anything. Plug in your email address one time, and Slice digs through years of e-receipts and turns them into itemized products on goslice.com. Since Slice monitors your email account for receipts (don’t worry, it’s extremely secure …

Nokia Lumia 800 Review

The Nokia Lumia 800 was introduced at the recent Nokia World by Stephen Elop (Nokia’s CEO) who said “it’s the first real Windows Phone”. It’s a bold statement, but it’s true that in the past, Windows Phone have often inherited from designs that were not the very best handset makers could offer. Unlike others, Nokia …

Hard Candy selling cases for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5

The iPhone 5 case Hard Candy is offering for pre-order. (Credit:Hard Candy) Case maker Hard Candy is betting that Apple will announce two new iPhones today, and it’s already selling cases for those devices. According to Cult of Mac, which spoke with Hard Candy CEO Tim Hickman, the case maker received dimension data “from three …

Nest Learning Thermostat: Shiny Toy or Serious Tool?

It looks a bit like a hockey puck, but it’s designed to keep your home warm in the winter, while cooling it in the summer. but while it is indeed slick, it’s a lot smarter than a hockey puck; so smart, in fact that it can learn. I’m talking, of course, of the Nest Learning …

Update to Popular Note Taking App Now Available – 7notes 1.4

New version makes it easier to create, share and save memos on iPhone. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 29, 2011 7knowledge Corporation, an innovative productivity application developer for tablet and smartphone devices, has released 7notes 1.4, an update version of the popular application for iPhone that includes new features and functionality to make it easier …

Protect Ya Tech: The 10 Best iPhone 4S Cases Available Now

Since Apple made the official iPhone 4S announcement early last week, it would be an understatement to say the company experienced a rough few of days. not only did it receive a shit load of backlash for not introducing what many anticipated to be the iPhone 5, but the company’s co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, …

Does Your Business Need an App?

In 2009, Howard Steinberg realized that in order to maintain his company’s presence in the diabetes lifestyle market, he would need to take the experience mobile. “we did not have a short-term monetization strategy. It was all about widening our engagement footprint into a rapidly emerging channel,” said Steinberg, founder and CEO of dLife, “as the leader …