Stories by Mikael Ricknas

Marvel Offers Digital Extras for Comic Book Fans

Marvel Comics next month will release a new application to add content enhanced with augmented reality to some of its comic books.

By Mikael Ricknas | 26 March, 2012 21:12

Tags: Apple, applications, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, internet, Marvel Comics, qualcomm, software

New SIM Card Will Lead to Thinner Phones

A new SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM, will free up room in phones for additional memory and larger batteries, allowing manufacturers to create thinner devices, German card maker Giesecke & Devrient claimed.

By Mikael Ricknas | 05 December, 2011 22:06

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, Giesecke & Devrient, hardware, hardware systems, Mobile and Wireless, smartphones

WiMax roaming demonstrated for first time in Taiwan

Operators Clearwire International, Tatung InfoComm and VMAX have for the first time demonstrated mobile WiMax global roaming, the WiMax Forum said on Monday.

By Mikael Ricknas | 27 October, 2009 08:56

Tags: Clearwire, taiwan, WiMax

Cheap Facebook phone wants to attract the masses

Mobile phone outfit INQ Mobile, hopes to attract the masses to mobile data with the new INQ1, which comes with built-in support for Facebook, Skype, Last.fm and Windows Live Messenger as well as a low price tag.

By Mikael Ricknas | 14 November, 2008 01:30

Tags: 3 mobile, Facebook, INQ1

New Nokia device highlights cheap smart phone trend

Nokia's E63 smartphone, announced Wednesday, will cost US$250 before any subsidies -- a price that puts the phone maker ahead in a burgeoning price war and which one analyst described as "eye-popping."

By Mikael Ricknas | 13 November, 2008 09:43

Tags: e63, Nokia, smartphone

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