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HTC slaps phone firmware site with cease and desist letter

You might be familiar with firmware impresario Conflipper by now, a man who’s earned a reputation tearing apart ROMs — often for unreleased devices — and pulling out the juicy bits for everyone to see. Turns out the dude runs a site called Shipped ROMs with… yes, you guessed it, a bunch of shipped ROMs [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

InMobi Launches $2 Million Mobile Advertising Developer Fund

Yesterday I wrote about InMobi’s bold plan to grab mobile advertising market share while the getting is good. Apple and Google are distracted in an ugly turf war over iPhone/iPad advertising; meanwhile, InMobi, one of the largest international mobile advertising networks and backed with U.S. venture capital, is just starting to make inroads into the [...]

[ More ] June 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

San Francisco passes law requiring mandatory display of phone radiation levels

Despite scientific studies showing no link between tumours and mobile phone radiation, San Francisco have decided that it is in the consumer’s best interest to clearly display the specific absorption rates (SAR) emitted by every phone sold. The law requires phone retailers to display this information next to each phone in their store in at [...]

[ More ] June 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |