It's hardly the first company to implement the technology in a smartphone, but it looks like RIM finally has an answer for folks not satisfied with the GPS capabilities of their BlackBerry. It's now announced the simply-named 'Locate Service' for developers, which relies on cell tower triangulation to to either augment the phone's built-in GPS, or completely replace it when a GPS signal isn't ...
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Sony Ericsson posts profit in Q2
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday reported a euro12 million ($15.5 million) net profit for the second quarter, up from a euro213 million loss the year before, due to the continued success of
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Samsung dismisses Apple's claims on smartphones
SEOUL: South Korean cellphone manufacturer Samsung Electronics Tuesday dismissed claims by iPhone maker Apple that all smartphones suffer dropped signals when held in a certain way.
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Smartphones drive Sony Ericsson 2Q profit
Sony Ericsson continued along the road to recovery during 2Q10, reporting its second consecutive quarterly profit as rising handset prices offset lower unit shipments.
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Motorola, U.S. Real Estate: Hot Trends
Motorola, U.S. Real Estate, Boeing Dreamliner and International Monetary Fund are the trending topics on Google and Yahoo.
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Symbian puts another deck chair on the Titanic
iPhone and Android devs beckoned Symbian has taken a step forward in its strategy of trying to siphon off iPhone and Android developers.…
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Your comments: Check the fine print on T-Mobile's no-contract deal
Existing T-Mobile customers can opt for no-contract plan, but they're held to their old contract's early-termination fee.
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Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone coming to Orange UK
Orange UK has announced that it will soon offer the Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone to its customers. The Zylo offers the Walkman music player and is among the first devices to feature FLAC audio playback support. The player also offers TrackID, and the PlayNow music store. The Zylo provides easy access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and lets users share their photos to Flickr ...
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LG aiming to boost their 3D hardware
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc says it aims to raise shipments of 3D notebook computers by 30 percent in 2011, as it makes a huge bet on booming sales of 3D products led by televisions.
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Sanyo to sell its semiconductor unit to US maker
TOKYO (AP): Panasonic's Sanyo Electric Co. signed a $366 million deal to sell its chip unit to ON Semiconductor Corp., allowing the US manufacturer to expand its business in the Japanese market, the companies said Thursday.
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The Hindu Business Line : Coming soon: Made-for-mobile Bollywood movies
Bollywood is all set to dial 3G mobile services in a big way. Production houses are looking at additional revenue streams through delivery of film-based content such as music, video and games on mobile.
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Nokia Siemens buys Motorola wireless network unit for $1.2B
Motorola has found a buyer for its wireless network equipment unit: Nokia Siemens Networks will pay US$1.2 billion for most of that business, the companies announced Monday.
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Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone coming to Orange UK
Orange UK has announced that it will soon offer the Sony Ericsson Zylo Walkman phone to its customers. The Zylo offers the Walkman music player and is among the first devices to feature FLAC audio playback support. The player also offers TrackID, and the PlayNow music store. The Zylo provides easy access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and lets users share their photos to Flickr ...
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Android Makes Money Through Ads
The Android Operating System is open source, and therefore Google doesn't make money from licensing the OS to cell phone manufacturers. However, smartphone users do a lot of searching from their phones, much more than in the past. With improving mobile speeds, it is easier to get access to this data. And when users search, Google is right there with ads, its bread and butter. Steve Jobs once ...
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Samsung says no significant smartphone signal complaints
Samsung says no significant smartphone signal complaintsSamsung says no significant smartphone signal complaints
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Windows Phone 7 in depth: A fresh start
Windows Phone 7 is a clean slate that Microsoft can use as a foundation to build something entirely new, and it's not like any other phone you've used. Microsoft - Slate - Windows Phone 7 - Operating system - Microsoft Windows
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LG Electronics introduces 3D-enabled PC lineup
LG Electronics Inc, South Korea's second-biggest consumer electronics maker today said it has developed 3D capable personal computers.
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LG CF3D 3D Projector ships soon, Amazon Germany takes Orders
LG unveiled the LG CF3D 3D projector at the CES 2010. Today LG mentioned the LG CF3D again in a press announcement that featured a new 3D notebook and a 3D gaming monitor. The release of the CF3D is very near. Amazon and other stores in Germany are taking ...
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Can Windows Phone 7 Save Microsoft's Mobile Bacon?
Windows Phone 7 is inching closer to market. Microsoft has sent the operating system for its brand of mobile phones to the labs of carriers for testing, as well as to developers of applications for the phones, which are expected to reach the market in time for holiday shoppers.
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Windows Phone 7 in depth: A fresh start
Windows Phone 7 is a clean slate that Microsoft can use as a foundation to build something entirely new, and it's not like any other phone you've used. Microsoft - Slate - Windows Phone 7 - Operating system - Microsoft Windows
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Motorola i1 set to crash onto Sprint on July 25th
Sprint has finally announced availability and pricing for their new, ruggedized Android smartphone, the Motorola i1 . Set to land on the Nextel network come July 25th, the i1 packs a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 3G EVDO Rev.A, all in a chassis that’s resilient to dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain. There’s also push-to-talk functionality, WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as ...
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In-Depth Look at Windows Phone 7 Reveals Promise, Polish
Windows Phone 7 is coming out in the next few months. We take an in-depth look at the beta version of Microsoft's next mobile operating system.
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LG aims to up shipments 30%
SEOUL - SOUTH KOREA'S LG Electronics Inc said on Monday it aimed to raise shipments of 3-D notebook computers by 30 per cent in 2011, as it makes a huge bet on booming sales of 3D products led by televisions. LG, the world's second-largest maker of TVs, forecast global sales of 3D notebook computers would increase five fold next year to 1.1 million units and jump to 13.8 million units by 2015.
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Motorola i1 set to crash onto Sprint on July 25th
Sprint has finally announced availability and pricing for their new, ruggedized Android smartphone, the Motorola i1 . Set to land on the Nextel network come July 25th, the i1 packs a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 3G EVDO Rev.A, all in a chassis that’s resilient to dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain. There’s also push-to-talk functionality, WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as ...
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The more we see RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 9800 touchscreen slider , the more impressed we are. In the latest batch of videos to sneak out to Salomondrin, the 9800 demonstrates its BlackBerry OS 6 media and browser credentials, making short work of not only the previous browser but what you’ll find on the iPhone and Android devices. Video demos after the cut There’s also a nifty overview of OS 6 ...
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LG Electronics introduces 3D-enabled PC lineup
LG Electronics Inc, South Korea's second-biggest consumer electronics maker today said it has developed 3D capable personal computers.
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Verizon Expands V CAST Apps to BlackBerry Smartphones
Verizon Wireless said today that V CAST Apps is now available on select BlackBerry smartphones. V CAST Apps is currently available on the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm2 9550, Curve 8530 and Tour 9630 and will be coming in the ...
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IPhone 3G and 3GS Battery Test: IOS 3 vs. IOS 4
With its slower processor and limited memory, the iPhone 3G doesn’t support all of the new features in iOS 4â€"most notably, multitasking. Even with the reduced... IPhone - IPhone OS - Computer multitasking - Smartphones - Handhelds
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Youth Mobile Insights from USA
Our Youth Research Partners have built their own trusted offline social networks over a number of years. Here’s just some of direct insights we’ve sourced from these networks. You won’t get this in a focus group.
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Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Windows_Phone_7_in_depth_preview'; It's been a long road, hasn't it? Well, in some respects, it hasn't -- in fact, it's only been about two years since development of Windows Phone 7 as we know it today kicked off -- but when you consider that this product will be replacing Windows Mobile 6.5 , that puts things in proper ...
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LG W63D 3D Gaming Monitor announced
LG unveiled today the W63D 3D monitor aimed at gamers. With full HD, 70,000:1 contrast ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, the W63D delivers sharp picture quality. Thanks to copper panel electrodes, the W63D boasts a high brightness of 400 cd/m². Rated at 1...
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Bluetooth Aids Thieves in Gas Station Credit-Card Scam
Bluetooth wireless making it easy to retrieve stolen card numbers from gas pumps. Bluetooth - Credit card - Wireless - Data Communications - Shopping
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3G phone users keep increasing
The number of 3G phone users on the Chinese mainland reached nearly 22 million by the end of May and new 3G users accounted for a quarter of the total number of new mobile phone users, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday.
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LG W63D 3D Gaming Monitor announced
LG unveiled today the W63D 3D monitor aimed at gamers. With full HD, 70,000:1 contrast ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, the W63D delivers sharp picture quality. Thanks to copper panel electrodes, the W63D boasts a high brightness of 400 cd/m². Rated at 1...
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Nokia in an uphill battle
Body text goes hereThis sounds like a fine strategy, but with each passing earnings report, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is looking more like a company that ships merchandise in large volumes, but with relatively ...
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Verizon Wireless Corporate Classic: Runners finish 5K road race in Morristown NJ
MORRISTOWN â€" Chuck Torri hasn't jogged in at least two decades. Yet Torri certainly stood out from the crowd at the Verizon Wireless Corporate Challenge this evening.
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Mobile, iPad Games to Reach Xbox 360 Quality 'Within a Year,' Says Developer
The CEO of mobile games developer Fishlabs, Michael Schade, has proclaimed that an "iPad HD" will be headed to the market within the next year and that mobile devices will be shipped with rendering capabilities greater than those of the Xbox 360 in that same time frame. A new iPad doesn't seem like a stretch, but could we really see mobile devices on par with the 360 so soon? Schade certainly ...
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Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview
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Motorola Near Networking Deal
Motorola could announce a $1.2 billion sale of much of its equipment division to Nokia Siemens Networks as early as Monday, according to a published media report.
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YouTube upgrades mobile-device site
YouTube has upgraded its mobile website to make it more convenient and appealing to watch videos on touch-screen devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Motorola Inc.'s Droid X.
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LG R590 3D Notebook unveiled
LG Electronics today announced the launch of its first 3D notebook dubbed LG R590 3D. The LG R590 3D captures all the benefits of 3D in a portable form factor. The LG R590 3D with 15.6-inch display is powered by an Intel Core i7 CPU with HM55 chipset a...
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