Author: Steven Callas

Steven served as a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Noisecast from its inception until January 2012. His enthusiasm for the telecom industry and his knowledge of both the business and geek side of the sector drove most of his editorials. Follow him on social media for his latest news and freelance articles.
Features

Drops in Q4 income and revenue suggest HTC needs to rethink its strategy

The era of unmitigated growth for HTC is over. The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer posted its fourth quarter 2010 financials this morning and the results were not welcoming. Year-over-year the fourth quarter revenue shrank 2.5% to $3.35 billion (NT$ 101.42 billion) and HTC’s net income dove 26% to $364 million (NT$ 11.02 billion). The results don’t come as a complete surprise as HTC’s November results showed … Continue reading Drops in Q4 income and revenue suggest HTC needs to rethink its strategy

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Yahoo names PayPal’s Scott Thompson as CEO

Yahoo has had a rocky fourth quarter as it sailed the seas of the internet with no captain at the helm. Since the firing of Carol Bartz in September, the drama and turmoil coming out of Yahoo were dangerous signs of a company succumbing to internal power struggles, disorganization, and lack of direction. Hoping to reverse its fortunes, Yahoo announced today that PayPal president Scott … Continue reading Yahoo names PayPal’s Scott Thompson as CEO

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GoDaddy boycott fails

The highly anticipated boycott of GoDaddy that occurred yesterday went out with a whimper instead of a bang. The boycott encouraged people who had their domains registered with GoDaddy to transfer them to other providers due to GoDaddy’s support of SOPA, the controversial bill that is currently being shopped around on Capitol Hill. The boycott was spearheaded by popular online community site Reddit. The participants … Continue reading GoDaddy boycott fails

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Porn company sends HTC a cease and desist letter for the Vivid

What do dildos and smartphones have in common? We don’t know, but Vivid Entertainment is pretty convinced that the HTC Vivid infringes on the porn company’s trademark. Usually porn and smartphones are two industries that are mutually exclusive from each other, with the exception of people using their smartphones to get access to pornography, but Vivid’s lawyers have shot off sent a cease and desist … Continue reading Porn company sends HTC a cease and desist letter for the Vivid

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE coming to AT&T November 20, free smartphone in tow

What nice timing! Right after our Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 review hit, Samsung sent us the heads up that the LTE version of its tablet will be available from AT&T stores and website on November 20. AT&T has been rolling out its LTE coverage this year and November 20 will also mark the date when AT&T flips on the LTE switch in six new markets, … Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE coming to AT&T November 20, free smartphone in tow

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Reviews

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Review

At first glance it seems that Samsung’s product development strategy is simply “offer all the sizes.” Their product line is slowly expanding to have tablets and phones that exist in every inch range between 3 and 11 as shown by their Galaxy Tab 10.1, 7.0, and now the 8.9. Oh yeah, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is also on the way. However, there’s something about the … Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Review

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Apple wins: Adobe ends mobile Flash browser plugin

For the past few years consumers and professionals alike have ridiculed Apple for not supporting Flash on their iOS devices. Adobe Flash is found everywhere on the web, why would Apple so fervently aim to cripple their consumers’ web browsing experience? Apple held its ground in fully backing HTML5 and the H.264 video codec while others like Android and BlackBerry took advantage of integrating Flash … Continue reading Apple wins: Adobe ends mobile Flash browser plugin

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Features

The HTC Edge raises glaring battery life questions

Yesterday PocketNow published the first renders of the upcoming HTC Edge smartphone, a Tegra 3 powered quad-core successor to the HTC Rezound. The device looks much more appealing than the HTC Rezound which is quite ugly when compared to other Android phones in its class and features some pretty impressive specs on paper. A 720p HD screen and 1GB of RAM? Beats Audio and a … Continue reading The HTC Edge raises glaring battery life questions

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Features

What we learned from the GTA V trailer

The GTA V trailer that Rockstar Game release today is already being dissected frame by frame all over the internets but we decided to ditch all the “omg there’s a bodybuilding area meaning working out will be back” speculation and focus on the highly plausible things instead. So here’s a list of things that we learn from the trailer that are either features that are … Continue reading What we learned from the GTA V trailer

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Sony ditches Samsung in LCD partnership

All good things come to an end, and so ends the joint venture between Samsung and Sony known as S-LCD Corporation. Formed in 2004, the Korean company supplied high quality liquid crystal displays for use in Sony and Samsung’s televisions and mobile phones. Other companies, such as HTC, also used S-LCD screens in their devices as well. Now Sony is working out the last details … Continue reading Sony ditches Samsung in LCD partnership

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HP kills off webOS, but there’s hope for your TouchPad

For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again … Continue reading HP kills off webOS, but there’s hope for your TouchPad

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Almost 40% of Android phones never ran a current version of Android, 83% still don’t run Gingerbread

It is no secret that Android fragmentation is a very real and very prominent issue despite it being denied by top Google brass. Now there is a chart by Michael DeGusta of The Understatement that puts the evidence Google claimed didn’t exist into black and white (red, yellow, orange and green, actually). Me Gusta DeGusta took all the Android phones that were sold in the … Continue reading Almost 40% of Android phones never ran a current version of Android, 83% still don’t run Gingerbread

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RIP Sony Ericsson

In line with previous rumors and speculation, Sony has finally dropped the ax on the Sony Ericsson joint venture and buy Ericsson’s stake outright for $1.5 billion in cash. The deal will make the mobile phone manufacturer a “wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony and integrated into Sony’s broad platform of network-connected consumer electronics products.” Ericsson’s massive mobile patent library that Sony Ericsson used to its advantage … Continue reading RIP Sony Ericsson

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Nokia announces Lumia 800 and Lumia 710

Today at Nokia’s annual Nokia World conference we finally got an official look at the first babies to come out of the Redmondpoo marriage. The Lumia line is made up of sweet, sexy, candy-like phones that run Windows Phone 7. It is worth noting that Lumia is Spanish for “prostitute,” something else that is often called sweet, sexy, and Candy. Joking aside, Nokia Lumia 800 … Continue reading Nokia announces Lumia 800 and Lumia 710

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Netflix streaming coming to UK and Ireland in early 2012

Britons and Irishfolk rejoice! Long have you coveted Netflix, the crown jewel of the Yankee media experience. Since the European music equivalent, Spotify, has landed on our shores, it is now only fair that the North American video equivalent, Netflix, land on yours. Come early 2012 Netflix will be providing its streaming services for movies and television shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland. No … Continue reading Netflix streaming coming to UK and Ireland in early 2012

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