A decision by Nokia and Qualcomm to settle their long-running intellectual property dispute over wireless technologies comes as welcome news for the mobile industry.
It’s unclear whether the agreement was triggered by a German court case on Wednesday (which ruled that Qualcomm’s patent claims against Nokia were invalid) or the looming court battle in Delaware [...]
Posted By Ben Wood On July 24th, 2008
Walking down Brick Lane in London over the weekend, I saw this poster:
It’s advertising a “secret” party somewhere in the area. The location is given in a QR barcode, which is the seemingly random mosaic that covers most of the poster. As the instructions suggest, it’s not meant to be read by eye, but with [...]
Posted By Robert Caunt On July 22nd, 2008
You may already be aware that Bluetooth headsets have improved dramatically in recent years. Noise-cancelling technology is a mass-market selling point, with products such as Aliph’s Jawbone and Motorola’s H12 showing how far we’ve come from the early days, when Bluetooth earpieces only worked in quiet offices. While these products do a fantastic job cancelling [...]
Posted By Tom Byrd On July 16th, 2008
Last weekend, I went to Open Tech 2008. I saw Bill Thomson snapping away in a couple of sessions, and I remembered I hadn’t visited his Web site for a while.
Surfing to his site after the weekend, I encountered a Wordle. If you haven’t seen them before, Wordles are graphical representations of written items — [...]
Posted By Robert Caunt On July 14th, 2008
