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Steve Jobs happy Intel bought Infineon WSL?
Sep 1st
According to CEO Paul Otelini, he made sure Steve Jobs was comfortable with the purchase before Intel acquired Apple iPhone 3G baseband supplier, Infineon WSL.
Intel chef Paul Otellini says he checked the opinion of Apple CEO Steve Jobs before buying German chipmaker Infineon Technologies’ wireless unit for US$7.7 billion. The deal makes Intel a major supplier of the baseband chips that let mobile phones connect to cellular networks.
“Steve was very happy,” Otellini told Fox Business TV. “The industry was abuzz that this business unit was on the market, and there were a number of competing companies for it. I think they are very happy that Intel won the bid.”
It makes sense, given Intel’s existing relationship with Mac hardware, that they’d want to keep their new, high profile, mobile customer happy. The question is, did Intel check with Steve Ballmer before buying McAfee?
[Channel News via 9to5mac]
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Motorola Charm Rooted!
Sep 1st
Boom! And just like that, the XDA-Developers have rooted the Motorola Charm. The handset was rooted via the Universal Androot method, but the NAND isn’t unlocked during the process, so reverting back to stock is quite simple. No custom ROMS yet, but I am betting they are already in the pipeline. If you want instructions hit up the thread here.
As always folks, flash with caution and make sure to follow directions to a T.
Source: XDA-Developers
Motorola Charm Rooted! originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
Angry Birds Beta Hitting Android Very Soon
Sep 1st
A beta version of that crazy game about the pissed off birds is coming to Android very soon. So soon in fact, you can sign up now, and have the beta available to you this Friday! To sign up, click here! it. That’s right, it should not be long before an official version drops in the Android Market. Can’t wait to kill those pigs and waste some time.
Source: Droid-Life
Angry Birds Beta Hitting Android Very Soon originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
Apple to live stream September 1 special music event
Sep 1st
Throwing caution — and bandwidth! — to the wind, Apple has just announced that tomorrow, for the first time in recent memory, they’ll be live streaming one of their keynote events:
Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com.
No word on Windows, Linux, Android, webOS, or any other kind of compatibility, so have your Apple gear ready. TiPb will be following along and providing our usual commentary and color so if you plan on watching, come watch along with us.
[Apple PR]
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Score a Display Pod for Your App at APPNATION!
Sep 1st
Hey, Everybody! As you may have heard, we are going to be LIVE on the Expo floor at APPNATION in SF, Sept 12-13th and we’re looking to connect with as many Android devs and Android faithful from our colorful dev community as possible. To sweeten the deal, we have partnered with the APPNATION organizers to offer five (5) FREE “DroidStands” on the Expo show floor as part of the show’s DevNation area.
This is a $995 value for Android Guys readers, which gives you a demo pod DROID area to showcase your latest apps to all the attendees including big companies like Disney, AOL and the venture capitalists who may be interested in investing in your app or company. Think of this as a little “Android Guys Village” — one that we want to pack it with the coolest devs out there, and who will hang with the Android Guys team including Ray as he DROIDcasts LIVE from APPNATION. (www.appnationconference.com).
Simply reply in comments below with the “Top Reason(s) Android Guys should OBVIOUSLY give me a free DroidStand at APPNATION” and tweet with the hashtag #APPNATIONCONF
by no later than Thursday, September 9th at 5 PM California time, and we will pick the most compelling suggestions from the group. Winners will be announced live on the Thursday night AndroidGuys DroidCast and featured in a blog post.
Ready, Set, Droid! Game on!
Score a Display Pod for Your App at APPNATION! originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
Archos adding a slew of Android tablets including the 101
Aug 31st
With two Archos 5 tablets in my rearview mirror, I am definitely looking forward to the new 101. The nomenclature is shorthand for the 10.1″ screen with 1024×600 resolution.
The specs can be found here but the most notable are:
- Android 2.2
- ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor accompanied by a 3D OpenGL ES 2.0 for graphics
This unit would/could be just another tablet that can be bought unlocked from a carrier and without a data plan but with WiFi springing up all over the place, who cares? We don’t need no steenkin’ 3G!
Archos adding a slew of Android tablets including the 101 originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
Motorola: “Do NOT Load the Leaked 2.2 Upgrade”
Aug 31st
Handset maker Motorola is advising Droid X customers to shy away from manually installing the leaked Froyo builds making their rounds. According to them, this could leave you S.O.L. when it comes to the official update.
WARNING: Do NOT load the leaked 2.2 upgrade that has been floating around on the Internets. There is currently no upgrade path from that load to the official 2.2 load that will be released by early September. Unless you have some plan to flash your phone back to the current official load, you could be stuck on the leaked version.
We understand that you guys get anxious about the latest and greatest, but let’s not forget, the real deal is expected by early September.
Motorola: “Do NOT Load the Leaked 2.2 Upgrade” originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
