Android News

With AT&T’s proposed T-Mobile merger dead in the water, it seems the company is looking towards new, less FCC offensive ways to spend their money. Enter Qualcomm who has just sold off their 700MHz spectrum to AT&T for use in its budding 4G LTE network. The deal has actually been approved in a 3-1 vote [...]

Wow.. a lot of news came through over the weekend which resulted in a busier than usual Monday. For everything that we couldn’t get through we’ve placed here — in the Android Overload. This is where you can come and read up on all the handpicked Android/Google/mobile related stories that just didn’t make the cut [...]

We heard the rumors circulating for awhile now and it looks like the inevitable has happened — Sony has just bought Sony Ericsson for €1.05 billion. I’m sure some of you are confused with the news thinking, “Wait. Sony bought Sony?” Not quite. Sony Ericsson was actually its own separate company (Ericsson) that turned into [...]

It has just been made know that Google recently bought 1,023 patents from IBM in a move that will no doubt help the internet search giant defend the Android OS from rivals like Apple and Microsoft (boo — hiss). The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s show that Google acquired these patents back in August 17th [...]

Sometimes the tech industry has a way of blindsiding us. Sometimes it has a way of blindsiding us twice in the same week. Such was the case when HP announced earlier today that it would cease all of its current webOS operations, including the discontinuation of the newly launched TouchPad tablet. The news follows only [...]

Now, I wouldn’t say this is the BIGGEST news we’ve heard today but I found it interesting. Apparently Google recently acquired the domain name Android.Me and although it’s not currently in use — just what are they planning to do with it? Google is already using the domain Android.com to display some general information on [...]

In other acquisition news, it appears Android developer extraordinaire, Steve Kondik AKA Cyanogen, was picked up by Samsung Mobile for an undisclosed amount according the recent change in his  “work” status today on Facebook. Seems Steve found himself a software engineering job for the Korean based company thanks to his exceptional work on CyanogenMod, a [...]

Given the fact that some of HTC’s biggest competitors have been patent hoarding lately, HTC decided to do a little shopping of their own. What they came back with was graphics chip maker S3 Graphics and their patent portfolio from Via. In what could be seen as a very smart move by the Taiwanese company, [...]

Nvidia, not just happy with making mobile processors like their Tegra 2 chips for tablets and smartphones, has just bought a wireless modem company named Icera for $ 367 million dollars. There are a bunch of components that go into making our favorite devices. Besides mobile processors which seem to get most attention these days, [...]

AT&T has purchased T-Mobile for $ 39 Billion, immediately making them the largest carrier in the United States. The process could take 12 months to complete, but if and when it does, there could be some pretty crazy implications. If you take the statements from AT&T and Deutsche Telekom (parent company of T-Mobile) you’ll predictably [...]