Thursday, August 5, 2010

Sprint, Clear expand 4G in California, Delaware, Florida

Wireless provider Sprint and its 4G partner Clear on Monday said they have expanded the network coverage of their WiMAX network to some cities in California, Delaware, Florida and Michigan. The service launches today in Modesto and Stockton in California; Jacksonville in Florida; Wilmington, Delaware; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 4G service on either network provides about 3Mbps to 6Mbps in ...
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LG gears up green energy initiative

LG Electronics recently unveiled the world's first solar-powered air conditioner as part of its "green" energy initiative. Over the next five years, the South Korean company will promote energy efficiency across all it business groups, including solid-state lighting.
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Android Smartphones Sold More Than Blackberry, iPhone

Google's Android operating system appeared on 33 percent of all of the U.S. smartphones purchased in the second quarter. NPD said sales of Android handsets beat Research in Motion's Blackberry devices and Apple's iPhone.
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LG gears up green energy initiative

LG Electronics recently unveiled the world's first solar-powered air conditioner as part of its "green" energy initiative. Over the next five years, the South Korean company will promote energy efficiency across all it business groups, including solid-state lighting.
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BlackBerry stock loses $2.7billion as Indonesia joins ban demand

BlackBerry stock loses $2.7billion as Indonesia joins ban demandBlackBerry stock loses $2.7billion as Indonesia joins ban demand
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FaceTime over 3G comes to jail-broken iPhone 4

David Neal, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 3 August 2010 at 15:36:00 My3g app offers 3G video calls on cracked handsets Apple iPhone 4 users frustrated by the inability of their phone to offer 3G FaceTime video calls can be frustrated no more. Jail-broken handset users, i.e. people who have cracked their device to make it more open, can download an application that makes the video calls possible over a 3G ...
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Samsung intros PL90 camera with built-in USB plug

Samsung tackled a longstanding problem with compact cameras today by adding a new entry-level model, the PL90. Borrowing a cue from Cisco's Flip cameras and Samsung's own pocket camcorders, the PL90 has its own swiveling USB plug. The connector not only eliminates the risk of losing a USB cable but, as it uses a full USB jack, can charge the camera's battery without needing a separate AC adapter ...
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Leaked HTC Glacier Could Be T-Mobile's Ultra-Fast Project Emerald Android Phone [Android]

# android Either HTC has signed up T-Mobile for a couple of new handsets, or that Project Emerald HTC Vision/Vanguard/G1 Blaze has another new name: HTC Glacier . It's appeared in GLBenchmark's database , with results that that are off the scale. More »
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Android 2.2 Screenshot Tour: Our Favorite Features in Froyo [Screenshot Tour]

# screenshottour Android 2.2, or "Froyo," was announced months ago , but it's just now rolling out to popular Android phones like the Droid , Incredible , and EVO 4G . So what new and improved features should you look for now that you've updated? Take a look. More »
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LG Mobile Launches on 2degrees

LG Mobile is set to launch its first two handsets available on New Zealand’s newest mobile network, 2degrees.
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Wear your GPS on your face

When it comes to using a GPS most people use a mountable stand-alone device in their car or their mobile phone. A research team at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo is offering another option by embedding GPS technology into a pair of eyeglasses. The good news is the solution doesn’t require a person to [...]
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Why mobile advertising is benefiting from innovation

What’s the most used internet application on your Symbian phone? It’s likely that the web browser is going to feature quite highly if we were to have a survey, and the huge number of eyes that mobile websites can gather is only going to grow in the future.
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Windows Phone 7 to excel on speech

Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple's successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices.
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T-Mobile feels the heat vs rivals, loses subscribers in second quarter


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Wear your GPS on your face

When it comes to using a GPS most people use a mountable stand-alone device in their car or their mobile phone. A research team at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo is offering another option by embedding GPS technology into a pair of eyeglasses. The good news is the solution doesn’t require a person to [...]
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Samsung Announces Two-Terabyte EcoGreen Hard Drive

Samsung Electronics today announced the F4EG, the world's highest-density, environmentally friendly hard disk drive (HDD) for the desktop market. The EcoGreen F4 features a 2-terabyte (TB) capacity - 667GB for each of its three disks - and is capable of storing up to 880 hours of DVD video or 500,000 songs in MP3 format.
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Nokia, Samsung lose handset market share

Nokia and Samsung - the world’s top two handset makers - both lost market share in Q2, under pressure from OEMs as well as high-end smartphones, according to IDC.
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Vonage makes Facebook phone call app for iPhone, Android

Vonage, a pioneer of home phone service over the Internet, has a new application for the iPhone and Android phones that provides free calls between Facebook users. Facebook - iPhone - Android - Vonage - Handhelds
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Nokia C3

Budget Qwertyphone that looks the business Review It might look like Nokia's high-powered, business-centric E72 , but the C3 offers a stripped-down spec with a price to match and the emphasis on social networking with a full, hard-key Qwerty keyboard.…
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BlackBerry maker to resist pressure

A top executive of the maker of the BlackBerry smartphones said in an interview published Wednesday that the firm would not give in to pressure to allow foreign governments to access customer data.
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Motorola mulls Android tablet PC to challenge iPad

Motorola Inc, maker of the Droid smartphone, is planning to release a tablet computer based on Google Inc's Android software to challenge Apple Inc's iPad, according to two people familiar with the plan.
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HTC Glacier dual-core Android phone benchmarks spotted: is this T-Mobileâs Project Emerald?

The HTC Glacier has hitherto been a single, mysterious mention buried in HTC’s site ; now, according to some leaked benchmark stats, it could be the next big thing in Android handsets. AlienBabelTech spotted the Glacier’s scores buried with no accompanying image in the GLBenchmark 1.1 database, comfortably out-performing single-core 1GHz rivals, and since T-Mobile USA are tipped to be working on ...
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