Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Motorola vs. Apple: Who's the Better Mudslinger?

Apple and Motorola have started slinging mud as both attempt to dominate the smartphone market. Apple - Motorola - IPhone - Droid - Macintosh
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Verizon Wireless opening in 21 area HHGregg stores

By Mark Albright, Times staff writer Tuesday, July 27, 2010 As Best Buy starts renting mall storefronts locally for Best Buy Mobile stores, Verizon Wireless will set up shop inside all 21 HHGregg electronics stores in Florida by the end of the year. Staffed by Verizon employees armed with a scaled-down range of products to demonstrate, the four new bay area locations add to Verizon's footprint ...
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Sony Ericsson W995 Original Thorus Unit


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3G license auction set for late September

The National Telecommunications Commission will call the auction of licences for the 3G-2.1-gigahertz spectrum in the last week of September, according to the time frame approved yesterday by the NTC board.
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Sprint Nextel Posts Subscriber Gain

Sprint Nextel Corp. says it gained subscribers in its latest quarter, the first such gain in three years.
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Nokia's Crowdsourced Design Competition Shows Fans Really Do Want Android [Nokia]

# nokia When Nokia started crowdsourcing ideas for a new potential phone , I very much doubt they expected one of the key criteria named by partakers would be an "open source operating system with unlimited multitasking." Like...Android? Their fans want Android? More »
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Samsung Captivate Review


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Windows Phone 7: Everything You Need to Know

Microsoft will attempt to recapture its lost mobile crown with Windows Phone 7 this fall. Here’s everything you know before the first wave arrives.
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New BlackBerry Touch Screen Set to Debut

The wraps officially come off of the newest BlackBerry touch-screen phone next week.
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Nokia C3 Promo - Php 1,000 Off on July 31! One Day Only!

Get Php 1000 off on your Nokia C3 when you buy it on July 31 st! Nokia C3 is already very affordable at only Php 7,295. But Nokia Philippines has just decided to give true fans a treat by slashing a full thousand bucks off the price of units that will be bought on July 31, 2010 -- bringing the price down to just Php 6,295 ! Let's hear it from Nokia Philippines: One time, big time for the Nokia ...
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Samsung Debuts Swivel-Lens Camcorder, Wi-Fi Camera

Samsung's HMX-E10 camcorder does HD video and sports a 270-degree swiveling lens, while the ST80 camera offers WI-Fi and a 14.2 megapixel resolution.
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Android Takes A New Approach To Fighting Piracy With Licensing Service

Pirates looking to illegally copy Android applications are about to face a new challenge: today, Google's Android team announced that it is releasing a new application Licensing Service for Android. The service, which is meant to help developers secure their applications from piracy, forces apps to ping Google's home server at regular intervals to verify that they were legitimately purchased ...
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HTC Evo 4G Helps Sprint with Apple iPhone Battle

The HTC Evo 4G, despite being in short supply, helped Sprint achieve its best-ever churn rate during its fiscal second quarter â€" during which it saw $8 billion in revenue but a $760 million net loss.
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Verizon Wireless opening in 21 area HHGregg stores

By Mark Albright, Times staff writer Tuesday, July 27, 2010 As Best Buy starts renting mall storefronts locally for Best Buy Mobile stores, Verizon Wireless will set up shop inside all 21 HHGregg electronics stores in Florida by the end of the year. Staffed by Verizon employees armed with a scaled-down range of products to demonstrate, the four new bay area locations add to Verizon's footprint ...
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BlackBerry server in China? India wants a monitoring unit too

India has told the Canadian company which makes BlackBerry to provide unfettered access to its ecryption code or shut shop, after reports of it setting up a server in China to address Beijing's security concerns.
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Review: Sanyo DCDB10 DAB+ micro system

Sanyo's DAB+ micro system is high on price and low on real value.
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Windows Phone 7: Everything You Need to Know

Microsoft will attempt to recapture its lost mobile crown with Windows Phone 7 this fall. Here’s everything you know before the first wave arrives.
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Verizon Wireless opening in 21 area HHGregg stores

By Mark Albright, Times staff writer Tuesday, July 27, 2010 As Best Buy starts renting mall storefronts locally for Best Buy Mobile stores, Verizon Wireless will set up shop inside all 21 HHGregg electronics stores in Florida by the end of the year. Staffed by Verizon employees armed with a scaled-down range of products to demonstrate, the four new bay area locations add to Verizon's footprint ...
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Samsung Captivate Review


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Samsung outs R440, R480 laptop line

Samsung Philippines introduced their very first line of 14-inch laptops (R440, R480) in the Philippines yesterday, including a refresh of their netbooks (N220P, N150P). Samsung R440 specs Intel Core i3 350M @ 2.26GHz 2GB DDR3 RAM ATI Mobility Radeon HD5145 w/ 512MB DDR3 VRAM 320GB SATA HDD Super Multi-Drive 6-cell 4400mAh battery Windows 7 Home [...] Related posts: MSI Great Laptop Line-up ...
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T-Mobile G1 Blaze May Be the First with HSPA+

A high-end Android OS model reportedly headed for T-Mobile could be this carrier's first with HSPA+ service, giving it some of the fastest data transfer speeds available. The T-Mobile G1 Blaze is expected to offer a large display and sliding keyboard.
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Samsung Captivate Review


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LG reports 33% decline in quarterly profits

LG reports 33% decline in quarterly profits
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Zerofootprint and SANYO Canada Enter Into Strategic Partnership

Agreement Delivers Zerofootprint's State-of-the-Art Carbon Emissions Management Software to SANYO's End Customers Seeking a Comprehensive Energy Reduction Solution
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Android phone sales up 350% this year in UK

UK sales of Android phones have more than tripled since the start of 2010, with one in 10 new contract handsets now running Google's mobile OS.
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3G mobile broadband now in Desloge

U.S. Cellular announced that 3G Mobile Broadband service is nowavailable in the Desloge area. The network upgrade delivers data tocustomers 10 times faster on their wireless phones â€" at noadditional cost â€" through EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized)technology, commonly referred to as 3G.  
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Bluetooth 4.0 to show up in laptops, gadgets later this year

IDG News Service - The Bluetooth 4.0 low-power wireless networking specification has been approved, which means the technology may start appearing in devices such as smart meters and laptops later this year, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group reported earlier this month.
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Blackberry 6 and Bold 9800 May Debut Next Week


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Motorola Android Tablet Possible in Q4 2010

Motorola is rumored to be working on an Android-based tablet. Android - Motorola - Handhelds - Smartphone - Tablet PCs
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Mobile Phone Jammers May Be Deployed During Commonwealth Games

Indian security services are considering installing mobile phone jamming systems at Commonwealth Games venues durin g the sporting events due to take place this October.
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LG Optimus GT540 Android Phone - Php 12,900 Only, Specs, Promo Video

LG brings the most affordable Android phone in its global handset line-up to the Philippines. " LG Optimus GT540 is the ideal choice for early smartphone users who expect all the features of smartphones without the complexity," shares Dr. Skott Ahn , President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "This is a device that was designed for regular people who want to jump into the ...
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Motorola accuses Huawei of IP theft

US vendor Motorola is suing Chinese rival Huawei for allegedly stealing “proprietary trade secrets and confidential information,” according to US court documents.
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Children to carry GPS beepers in war on sex crime

South Korea will give school children GPS-embedded beepers as part of a trial to stem a wave of brutal sex crimes against minors.
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T-Mobile teaser site may be for Blaze handset

T-Mobile slapped up a new teaser site this week that is for a mystery device that sports HSPA+ connectivity. BGR dug down into that teaser site a bit and found references to the Vanguard/G1 Blaze that we have seen popping up around the web already. You might recall the photos of what is supposed to be the Blaze that surfaced last month. The handset is a slider design with a QWERTY keyboard that ...
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Sharp Solar Hybrid Waterproof Phone launched

Sharp launches Solar hybrid mobile phone for SoftBank in Japan. The SoftBank 842H 3G flip phone has a solar panel on the cover. Besides the solar cell the SoftBank 842H has more capabilities that make it a fin outdoor companion. The 842H is waterproof a...
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The sadly flawed Symbian world top-end line-up - looking to the N8

In this feature, I've been taking a long hard look at the top-end smartphones in the Symbian powered world over the last three years, pointing out their flaws and frailties , and - where appropriate - pointing out what should have been done to fix things up.
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Problems Possible with Some Touch-Screen Voting Machines

Advance voting is now underway in Kansas, but already one candidate says that there are problems with the touch-screen voting machines in Johnson County.
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Top 10 T-Mobile Phones

Check out the ten hottest T-Mobile phones, including models by Samsung, HTC, Research In Motion, Nokia and Motorola.
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Driver Killed In Palm Springs Crash With Utility Truck

The driver of a BMW was killed, Tuesday morning in Palm Springs, when a Verizon utility truck crashed into him at the corner of Dinah Shore and Crossley. Streets were shut down for most of the day as investigators tried to see who was at fault.
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Android's UK market share quadrupled in spring

Android's footprint in the UK grew over four times larger in the spring, analysts at GfK found today. Google's smartphone platform surged from just three percent in the UK during the winter to 13.2 percent by the end of June. The company didn't publicly release other OS data but suggested that it meant shoppers were now deliberately seeking out Android, not just the phones.... Google - Android ...
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Windows Phone 7 misses big-business support tools

Marketplace for your important apps Microsoft's re-reinvention of Windows Mobile risks hurting Windows Phone 7's widespread adoption by large companies.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
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Samsung outs R440, R480 laptop line

Samsung Philippines introduced their very first line of 14-inch laptops (R440, R480) in the Philippines yesterday, including a refresh of their netbooks (N220P, N150P). Samsung R440 specs Intel Core i3 350M @ 2.26GHz 2GB DDR3 RAM ATI Mobility Radeon HD5145 w/ 512MB DDR3 VRAM 320GB SATA HDD Super Multi-Drive 6-cell 4400mAh battery Windows 7 Home [...] Related posts: MSI Great Laptop Line-up ...
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Sprint expands NextMail voice messaging to all its devices

Computerworld - Sprint Nextel today said that its NextMail voice messaging service is now available on all of the devices the carrier sells. NextMail allows a user to send a recorded voice message to up to 50 e-mail addresses or text message addresses.
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Nokia seeks new CEO: WSJ

Nokia ’s share price lifted overnight on the back of a report the firm is interviewing for a new CEO to replace embattled leader Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
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HTC expands presence to China with HTC branded Android and Windows Mobile smartphones

Today HTC announced that it has expanded its brand to China by releasing new TD-SCDMA HTC branded phones through a partnership with China Mobile and China's largest electronics retailer, GOME Electrical Appliances Ltd. HTC will launch four HTC Sense enabled smartphones, including the HTC Tianxi, HTC Tianyi, HTC Desire, and HTC Wildfire. HTC did not discuss specifics as to when the phones would ...
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Android Takes A New Approach To Fighting Piracy With Licensing Service

Pirates looking to illegally copy Android applications are about to face a new challenge: today, Google's Android team announced that it is releasing a new application Licensing Service for Android. The service, which is meant to help developers secure their applications from piracy, forces apps to ping Google's home server at regular intervals to verify that they were legitimately purchased ...
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Google Maps Being Featured On Virgin Flights

The Red Touch-Screen Entertainment Platform Upgrades Include an Open Tab Service, Next Gen Google Maps and the First-Ever Digital In-Flight Shopping Platform. With this latest upgrade, travelers access to a host of new amenities, including next generation, enhanced terrain view Google Maps, an open tab service for the airline’s one-of-a-kind on-demand menu and the first ever seatback in-flight ...
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HTC Unveils New TD-SCDMA Smartphones for China Push

HTC unveiled the first four smartphones aimed at its own-brand push into China, as well as partnerships with China Mobile and Gome. ChinaMobile - TD-SCDMA - HTC Corporation - China - Asia
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