Saturday, September 18, 2010

Windows Phone 7: Won't find it at Verizon or Sprint this year

Windows Phone 7, which debuts next month, will not available on Verizon Wireless or Sprint until 2011. Verizon Wireless - Sprint Nextel - Windows Mobile - Microsoft - Windows Phone 7
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Verizon Wireless Won't Sell Microsoft Windows Phone 7 When Software Debuts

Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, won’t sell handsets with Microsoft Corp. ’s Windows Phone 7 operating system when it debuts later this year, a blow to the software maker’s efforts to reach a broad market.
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Windows Phone 7 to start on GSM, then CDMA in 2011


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Video review: Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350 ebook reader with touch screen

Sony has finally gotten it right: a touch screen E-Ink ebook reader that doesn't suffer from glare and poor contrast. We take a look at Sony's most affordable and portable fall 2010 ereader, the Pocket Edition PRS-350. It has ...
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Sprint to provide personal cell towers for some

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans to give some mobile phone customers $100 pint-sized cell towers to improve coverage, a move that may put pressure on other competitors to follow suit. "In certain situations, where you have really bad coverage in your home,... Sprint Nextel - Mobile phone - cell phone - Telecommunications - Science and Technology
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LG CEO steps down after mobile sales loss

LG CEO Nam Yong is stepping down October 1 do to slumping mobile phone sales.
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LG Electronics CEO resigns: WSJ

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- LG Electronics' chief executive, Nam Yong, resigned on Friday, as the South Korean company continues to struggle with tailoring its cell-phone business for smart phones, The Wall Street Journal reported on its website. He'll be replaced by Koo Bon-joon, a member of the founding family of the LG conglomerate, who has been chief executive of LG International, the report ...
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Sony Ericsson Partners With AXN And NK In Poland

Sony Ericsson Partners With AXN And NK In Poland
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Espresso and GPS Enliven Our European Road Tour

Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart is making a 60-day, 15,000-mile drive around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. This week, he road-tests a Spot GPS Messenger, an Iridium satellite phone, a portable espresso maker and more.
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Espresso and GPS Enliven Our European Road Tour

Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart is making a 60-day, 15,000-mile drive around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. This week, he road-tests a Spot GPS Messenger, an Iridium satellite phone, a portable espresso maker and more.
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Blog - Multi-Touch Control of Robot Swarms

The new Dream controller for Microsoft Surface could help speed up search-and-rescue operations. The Dream controller (short for Dynamically-Resizing, Ergonomic and Multi-touch) is a new program designed for Microsoft's Surface touch-screen that lets one or more people take control of a single robot, or a swarm of them. The software offers new ways for users to manage search-and-rescue robots ...
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HTC Desire HD Video Tour

HTC is launching two new phones into Europe and the Asia Pacific, and top of the list is the HTC Desire HD, the successor phone to the HTC Desire. The Desire HD sports a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 4.3-inch 480 x 800 WVGA screen, 1.5GB of internal storage, 768MB of RAM, Android 2.2 (Froyo), [...]
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BlackBerry posts record revenue on Torch sales

BlackBerry posts record revenue on Torch salesBlackBerry posts record revenue on Torch sales
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Palm Beach State College faces conservatives' ire after banning group from club rush event

Palm Beach State College faces conservatives' ire after banning group from club rush event
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Android and Windows 7 close competition gap with market rivals

Dubai With a majority of the mobile phone makers putting their weight behind it, the Android operating system is well on its way to claim the number two position behind Nokia’s Symbian platform. It could do that within the next two years, according to analysts.
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T-Mobile UK HTC Desire owners get Android 2.2

The Froyo wait is finally over for HTC Desires with T-Mobile Posted by Devina Divecha
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20. Thai telecom shares slump after 3G auction halted

BANGKOK: Shares in Thailand's top three telecoms operators fell sharply yesterday after a court ordered a temporary halt to an upcoming auction for third-generation (3G) mobile phone licences.
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Kensington intros Bluetooth Keyboard Case for iPad

Kensington has demoed its upcoming Bluetooth Keyboard Case for the Apple iPad. The keyboard is built into the case, much like the Sena Bluetooth Keyboard case, which effectively turns the iPad into a touch screen netbook. Short cuts to iPad functions such as the homescreen button and media playback functions are included on the keyboard. To power the keyboard, the case integrates a built-in ...
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Cell phone app blocks texting while driving

An Orlando, FL man has invented a BlackBerry app that prevents texting while driving.
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Video review: Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350 ebook reader with touch screen

Sony has finally gotten it right: a touch screen E-Ink ebook reader that doesn't suffer from glare and poor contrast. We take a look at Sony's most affordable and portable fall 2010 ereader, the Pocket Edition PRS-350. It has ...
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Apple iPhone 3G 16 GB Black for ã200

Just upgraded to the IPhone 4 so selling the 3G. I've had this phone for about a year but have had it well protected in a case and it's in prefect condition with little to no wear and tear at all. Comes with a free case (although the wear and tear on that is visible).
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Smart Phone Snapshot: Will Sullivan's go-to Android apps

Welcome to the first installment of an occasional feature on the Mobile Media blog: "Smart phone Snapshot." The premise is simple: I ask people working in journalism why they have certain apps on the home screen of their smart phones.
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Windows Phone 7: Is Microsoft 'all in'?

Now that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing and is expected to launch in October, the tech industry is watching closely to see whether Microsoft has a winner. Deb Shinder spells out Windows Phone 7's key advantages and disadvantages.
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Nokia teams with Aardman Animations on latest ad

Nokia has teamed up with Aardman Animations to create a Guinness World Record for “Smallest stop-motion animation character in a film”, with their new short film: ‘Dot’, shot entirely on the new Nokia N8.
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Sprint Adds Calgary Scientific Medical Imaging App on Android Evo 4G

Sprint will offer Calgary Scientific's ResolutionMD Mobile medical-imaging application on its HTC Evo 4G Android smartphones to allow doctors to access X-rays, MRIs and CATscans.
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Sanyo Innuendo On Sale from Sprint

Sprint recently began offering the Sanyo Innuendo for sale from its web site. The Innuendo is a sideways clamshell that has a 2.8-inch internal display and a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The Innuendo also has a touch-based external dial-pad with haptic feedback and a proximity sensor that deactivates the screen when it is held close for phone calls. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel ...
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Most Mobile Phone Owners Don't Use Mobile Apps

New and more compelling mobile applications are driving the ravenous demand for new smartphones but most mobile phone users aren't even using the apps they already have.
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Android Took Share from Apple, RIM, Microsoft: comScore

Android grew its U.S. smartphone market share from 12 percent to 17 percent in the three-month period ending in July, vaulting over Microsoft's Windows Mobile and nibbling at RIM's and Apple's pieces of the pie.
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Android on the march

Google's Android isn't a phone. It's software that Google is giving to smartphone makers for free today â€" to build revenue later. And it's a revolution in the mobile market
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Mobile banking options multiply

In the past year banks have significantly expanded their mobile offerings as more customers seek on-the-go services and concerns about wireless security ease.
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Looxcie Bluetooth Headset with Built-in Video Camcorder

Looxcie has released a wearable camcorder that's mounted on a Bluetooth headset. You can recorder HVGA video and use your Android smartphone to view, edit and share you videos. Here is more info on this unique Bluetooth headset: ...
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Games bad news a boon for TV

New Delhi, Sept. 17: Bad news surrounding the Commonwealth Games is good news for the television networks that have bought broadcasting rights, with public interest in the event on a high.
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Palm Beach State College faces conservatives' ire after banning group from club rush event

Palm Beach State College faces conservatives' ire after banning group from club rush event
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HTC not content with simply making phones

The Taiwanese handset maker has slowly been evolving beyond smartphones. Today's announcements confirms its ambitions.
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Android and Windows 7 close competition gap with market rivals

Dubai With a majority of the mobile phone makers putting their weight behind it, the Android operating system is well on its way to claim the number two position behind Nokia’s Symbian platform. It could do that within the next two years, according to analysts.
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T-Mobile Extends Android Lineup With Its First Mobile Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tabâ¢

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States1, today announced the first mobile tablet in T-Mobile’s Android™ portfolio, the Samsung Galaxy Tab™. A powerful, entertainment device ideal for home or on the go, the Galaxy Tab features a vibrant seven-inch touch screen, speedy ...
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Touch screen IC shipments to buoy Elan September revenues

Touch panel IC designer Elan Microelectronics expects to see revenues in September 2010 bounce back to better than the level of August, buoyed by a ramp-up in orders from both the notebook and consumer electronics sectors, according to the company.
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Samsung launches Galaxy tablet for US market

Samsung has struck deals with four US carriers to begin selling a Google Android-powered tablet computer during the coming holiday season.
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Nokia almost promoted Star Trek with incredible retro sci-fi communicator flip phone

Back in 2009, Nokia teamed up with Paramount for a cute little moment in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, in which a young James T. Kirk â€" driving a stolen car and being chased by the police â€" is called by his mother mid-pursuit. The ring’s the thing: Kirk appears to be a Nokia man, [...]
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LAWRENCE: Court sends cell tower case back to zoners

The township Zoning Board of Adjustment has been ordered to reconsider the Cellco Partnershipâs application for a use variance to build a cell tower on the Petersonâs Nursery property on Route 206.
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Palm webOS 2.0 feature video leaked

A video of Palm's new webOS 2.0 operating system was posted on YouTube earlier today. The clip walks through some of the new features of webOS 2.0. Some highlights include visual enhancements, separate pages for different applications, a revamped phone app, and QuickOffice for opening Microsoft Office files. The video has since been pulled from YouTube, although Engadget has a still-working copy ...
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HTC moves beyond the phone, marginalizes Google in the process

At HTC's London event on Wednesday, they company showed off two things. As expected, there were a couple of handsets: the Desire HD and Desire Z. But what HTC opened with was not handsets, but a new websiteâ€"htcsense.comâ€"and its accompanying phone front-end. The phones were nice enough. The Desire HD is a GSM/UMTS/HSPA equivalent to the EVO 4G available in the US exclusively on Sprint; the Desire ...
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Book mobile: Access West Palm library on your phone

Book mobile: Access West Palm library on your phone
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Palm Springs: Kids can learn to knit and skateboard at Ace Hotelâs family art retreat


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Palm Beach State College faces conservatives' ire after banning group from club rush event

Palm Beach State College faces conservatives' ire after banning group from club rush event
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Android gains US smartphone market share: comScore

Google's Android operating system increased its share of the US smartphone market in the quarter which ended in July while Blackberry maker Research in Motion, Apple and Microsoft lost ground, digital tracking firm comScore said.
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Android and Windows 7 close competition gap with market rivals

Dubai With a majority of the mobile phone makers putting their weight behind it, the Android operating system is well on its way to claim the number two position behind Nokia’s Symbian platform. It could do that within the next two years, according to analysts.
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