Friday, July 2, 2010

HP completes $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein will lead a new division responsible both for the phone business and for creating new tablets and even netbook computers that will use Palm's webOS operating software.
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T-Mobile to Stop Selling Current Sidekicks

T-Mobile USA will stop selling its current Sidekick mobile phones effective Friday, though it will keep the Sidekick brand alive.
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Android 3.0 Rumors Take Off

Google just started shipping Android 2.2 this week, but rumors about the next major version of the mobile OS have already emerged. Android - Google - Mobile operating system - Handhelds - Searching
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Nokia board reshuffle sees new global marketing chief

Nokia has promoted its director of global brand management, Steven Overman, to the role of vice president, global head of marketing creation at Nokia, as the handset manufacturer faces increased pressure from its smartphone rivals.
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Nokia on Long Comeback Trail After Smartphone Misses

Nokia's inability to produce smartphones that can compete head-to-head with Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones is causing it major problems. Apple - Nokia - iPhone - Smartphone - iPhone 3G
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iPhone games maker Tapulous acquired by Disney

Walt Disney has acquired Tapulous, the maker of the popular iPhone play-along music game Tap Tap Revenge, to bolster its ability to create mobile games.
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Touch screen mobile devices' sales to double

Global market for touch screen mobile devices will increase by 97 per cent to reach 362.7 million units in 2010 in comparison to 184.3 million units sold in 2009, a report by Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company said.
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HTC Droid Incredible Survives Burning

The HTC Droid Incredible is a pretty decent handset on features alone, but could it be that this Android phone has some rugged features build into it as well? By no means does this one account confirm its durability, but it’s interesting to note that late one evening, an Android Central forum user who [...]
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Touch Screen Module Revenue Forecast to Reach $14B by 2016

Mobile Phones Ranked Top Application for Touch Screens on Unit Basis, While Mini-Note PC/Slate PCs Emerge as New Growth Segment (PRWeb Jul 2, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/DisplaySearch/touch_screen/prweb4214834.htm
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Western Europe mobile phone market grows, dominated by unprecedented growth in smartphones in 1Q10, says IDC

The mobile phone market in Western Europe grew 8.1% on year to 42.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, according to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker. Shipments of smartphones surged in the quarter to 12 million units, 57% higher than in last year's first quarter, to represent 28% of total shipments. Traditional mobile phones (TMPs) declined 4% on year to 30.7 million units, showing ...
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Verizon Wireless to offer Apple iPhone in January


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Palm Deal Gives HP Chance to Revitalize Smartphone Business

HP has long been a marginal player in the smartphone business, but with the Palm acquisition complete, they’re back in the game. Palm must make the most of this opportunity to to find new success in the mobile world working within HP's corporate culture.
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LG Opens Bigger Application Store, Android Apps Coming Later

LG today announced the opening of an all-new LG Application Store, with more than twice as many apps targeting users of both feature phones and smartphones in 33 countries. Having comprehensively updated its Application Store, LG is now ready ...
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T-Mobile to Stop Selling Current Sidekicks

T-Mobile USA will stop selling its current Sidekick mobile phones effective Friday, though it will keep the Sidekick brand alive.
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BlackBerry still leads in smart-phone market

It's easy to think that Apple and Google are leading the smart-phone race. Apple released its iPhone 4 a week ago and promptly sold 1.7 million of them in three days. Earlier, Google said about 160,000 phones running its Android operating system were being... Apple - IPhone - Smartphone - Google - BlackBerry
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Analyst: Intel buys cell-phone chip maker

Intel Corp. continues to make a push back into the cell-phone chip business--''sometimes under the radar''--as it acquired Comsys Mobile Communication and Signal Processing Ltd. for $30 million in late May, according to Forward Concepts Co. Business - Intel Corporation - Mobile phone - Intel - Signal processing
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Motorola Details Breakup Plans

Motorola disclosed it will spin off its mobile handset and home products business while renaming itself Motorola Solutions. Motorola - Business - Motorola Solutions - Telecommunications - Equipment
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iPhone games maker Tapulous acquired by Disney

Walt Disney has acquired Tapulous, the maker of the popular iPhone play-along music game Tap Tap Revenge, to bolster its ability to create mobile games.
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Motorola spin-off: Motorola Mobility

Motorola Inc. said Thursday it will spin off its mobile devices and home business into a separate company called Motorola Mobility. The company had already announced its planned separation for the first quarter of 2011, but had not released many details about the nature of the spin-off.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-07-02 11:39 UPDATE 2-Sanyo finalising chip unit sale to ON Semi-sources

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HTCâColumbia looking for Tour de France stage wins on several fronts

Team HTC-Columbia brings a squad to this year’s Tour de France capable of winning stages of all types, team manager Bob Stapleton said Friday at a team press conference held before a packed house at the race’s headquarter in Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena
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iPhone games maker Tapulous acquired by Disney

Walt Disney has acquired Tapulous, the maker of the popular iPhone play-along music game Tap Tap Revenge, to bolster its ability to create mobile games.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-07-02 09:59 UPDATE 1-Sanyo finalising chip unit sale to ON Semi-sources

TOKYO, July 2 (Reuters) - Japan's Sanyo Electric is close to finalising the sale of its semiconductor business to U.S.-based ON Semiconductor, three sources told Reuters on Friday. ON Semiconductor will pay between 20-30 billion yen ($228 million-$342 million) for the unit, Kyodo news agency said. Sanyo, majority owned by Panasonic Corp, aims to reach an agreement with the firm, based in Phoenix ...
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LG Opens Apps Store

LG today opened a redesigned application storefront for both feature phones and smartphones. The market launched in 23 markets around the world and LG plans to open the market in 10 more by the end of the year. The ... (follow link to read)
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H-P Completes Palm Purchase

H-P has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and is taking aim at Apple and RIM.
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Sprint to launch its version of 4G network today

Sprint launches its version of 4G service to customers in the Richmond area today, promising download speeds up to 10 times faster than the current 3G network. With the new service comes faster Internet speeds, better access to multimedia and the ability to do live video chats, spokeswoman Kathleen Dunleavy ...
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Games Convention: Mobile Gelegenheitsspieler unter der Lupe

Studie über das Konsumverhalten wird auf GCO vorgestellt
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NZXT's Touch-Screen Fan Controller Priced

This touch screen setup allows for easy fan control. Touchscreen - NZXT - Hardware - Video Games - Utilities
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iPhone games maker Tapulous acquired by Disney

Walt Disney has acquired Tapulous, the maker of the popular iPhone play-along music game Tap Tap Revenge, to bolster its ability to create mobile games.
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H-P Completes Palm Purchase

H-P has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and is taking aim at Apple and RIM.
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Samsung Heavy wins $1.7 bn shipbuilding deals

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Games Convention: Mobile Gelegenheitsspieler unter der Lupe

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T-Mobile USA discontinuing Sidekick LX and Sidekick 2008

Today T-Mobile said that as of July 2 it would no longer offer the T-Mobile Sidekick LX and Sidekick 2008 phones. Read the full story here.
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HTC EVO 4G Update Halted After Complaints

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Nokia: the fight begins now, Symbian^4 N-Series device later

Nokia's newly appointed Mobile Solutions chief , Anssi Vanjoki, has penned an impassioned post over at Nokia Conversations today where he sets out his perspective on the company's current position and future challenges. Describing the Finnish phone maker as "a challenger now," rather than an incumbent, Vanjoki wants to introduce a "laser focus on quality," with his two central aims being to ...
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Nokiaâs Anssi Vanjoki is âobsessedâ with reclaiming smartphone top spot

Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki, new head of Mobile Solutions at the Finnish company, has set out his stall over at the company’s official Conversations blog , and he’s not setting himself a simple task. ”I am committed, perhaps even obsessed,” he writes “with getting Nokia back to being number one in high-end devices.” Meanwhile, Vanjoki confirms that while the N8 will be the last Nseries device to run ...
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LG Opens Apps Store

LG today opened a redesigned application storefront for both feature phones and smartphones. The market launched in 23 markets around the world and LG plans to open the market in 10 more by the end of the year. The ... (follow link to read)
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Android update: the key features

Google claims new software, dubbed Android 2.2 Froyo, could facilitate fivefold increase in performance speeds Nexus One users can today get their hands on the latest Android software update, dubbed Android 2.2 Froyo. The over-the-air update will be restricted to Nexus One handsets initially, and will be gradually rolled out throughout this week. Six months after the release of Android 2.1 ...
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India gets tough with Blackberry, Skype: report

NEW DELHI, July 1, 2010 (AFP) - India has given Internet telephony pioneer Skype and the makers of BlackBerry handsets a deadline to fall into line with strict security-monitoring regulations or be blocked, a report said Thursday.
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HP completes Palm deal, hints webOS netbooks

HP today formally completed its buyout of Palm and alluded to more types of webOS devices in its future. It still plans to make smartphones but has also alluded to netbooks using Palm's software. Until now, HP had mostly centered on tablets and even printers for its expansion of webOS beyond the phone.... WebOS - Hewlett-Packard - Smartphone - Palm - Palm Pixi
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Samsung AMOLED Lifetime To Double

Samsung's Super AMOLED display is excellent, but the company has no plans to sit on its laurels. OLED-Display reports that Samsung plans to improve the efficiency of their screens from 20 cd/A to 40 cd/A. This will come along with a doubling of the displa...
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BlackBerry still leads in smart-phone market

It's easy to think that Apple and Google are leading the smart-phone race. Apple released its iPhone 4 a week ago and promptly sold 1.7 million of them in three days. Earlier, Google said about 160,000 phones running its Android operating system were being... Apple - IPhone - Google - Smartphone - Android
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Verizon Wireless outs Open Catalog Program for Brew developers

During the Uplinq 2010 conference in San Diego today, Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm announced that Verizon Wireless will be the first carrier to launch a Brew Open Catalog Program. The catalog will help cut down developer's time to market and lets them market directly to consumers, and it will be available for a variety Verizon multimedia handsets and feature phones that support the Brew ...
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Nokia demos MeeGo running on a phone

Last week Nokia announced that future N-series phones would not use the Symbian operating system. While Symbian will still be used for lower-end smartphones Nokia is moving to MeeGo for high-end devices. A week later and a video has appeared of MeeGo 1.1 running on a prototype Intel Aava phone and Nokia N900. This is just [...]
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Bluetooth Rear View Mirror Kit for $65 + free shipping

Meritline.com offers this Bluetooth Rear View Mirror Kit for $64.99 with free shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find for such a kit by $7. Clipped to your rear view mirror, it connects to your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. It features an FM ...
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