Vodafone’s Sure Signal femtocells see a couple days of outage
Wireless customers around the globe with femtocells securely stowed in their homes might start to take five bars of signal strength for granted, but there are still plenty of gotchas; your internet service could go down, for example, taking your phone with it — and it turns out that your carrier can inadvertently bring it to its knees on occasion, too. It looks like a whole lot of Vodafone’s Sure Signal-branded units in the UK have been acting up the past couple days due to network registration issues; new and existing Sure Signal customers alike have been affected, turning homes back into the barren, 3G-less wastelands they were before the device existed. Most (if not all) of the Sure Signals are now back in action, but considering that the outage lasted a lot longer than a few brief moments, let’s hope that the Voda techs behind the scenes learned a lesson or two in the process.
[Thanks, paddyg12006]
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Opera Mini for iPhone tops 1 million downloads
Just days after announcing that its Opera Mini browser was approved for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, Opera today announced that there have been over 1 million downloads of the browser from Apple’s App Store. The browser serves as an alternative to Apple’s own Safari web browser.
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Sony Ericsson Q1 Results Are In, Back In The Black
Sony Ericsson today posted their Q1 results for 2010, and the results are… good!
Despite most analysts predicting a net loss (a recent Reuters poll of analysts showed an average estimated loss of €157m), Sony Ericsson have gone and surprised everyone by turning a €18m profit.
This time last year they posted a €370m loss, and have posted losses for the last 7 quarters. Needless to say, this is a great turn-around for the company.
Staff cutbacks and a shift of focus to higher-margin smartphones are to thank, with this profit coming despite selling about 28% less handsets than they did in Q1 2009. Their new strategy has meant their average price of handset has now increased from €120 to €134, and their margins have shot up from 8% to 30%.
With this strategy proving a success, expect Sony Ericsson to continue to release high-end handsets like the Xperia X10 and Vivaz/Pro in the future.
[via The Register]
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Microsoft changes naughty ‘sexting’ Kin ad, camera to be used for clothed chests only
As a card-carrying member of the Upload Generation, your Kin is about a lot of things: chilling with your peeps and BFFs, taking pictures and video of all of life’s most awesome moments, keeping tabs on your MySpace pals, and documenting the fascinating story of your nipples without a pesky American Apparel V-neck getting in the way. Or wait… maybe not? Microsoft has just pulled a Kin ad briefly featuring a young gentleman snapping shots of his PG-rated parts underneath his t-shirt in response to Consumer Reports‘ concerns that the move encourages “sexting” — a growing problem amongst the world’s technologically-savvy (and hormone-riddled) youth — saying that it “takes the issue of sexting very seriously and it was never our intent to promote it in any way.” It looks like Microsoft has kept the commercial around on the Kin site and just removed the offending portion — it was only about a second long — so hanging out in underground speakeasies with fake hipsters is still okay, apparently. Follow the break for the original, unedited video.
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Palm’s head of software and services resigns
Palm filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week stating the resignation of Michael Abbott, the senior vice president of software and services with the company. His last day with be April 23rd, 2010. Abbot’s role was the load the application platform and services development for Palm’s webOS operating system.
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