5 Reasons Nokia's N8 Is Dead On Arrival

The Nokia N8 phone is too overpriced, outdated, and outmaneuvered to succeed in the United States. Nokia - United States - Microsoft - IPhone - Mobile phone
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Can Control Your Home

Samsung’s upcoming tablet has been shown controlling not only a TV, but an oven, a washing machine, and more. Samsung Group - Washing machine - tablet - Android - Television
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Verizon Wireless going to tiered pricing

Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile carrier, will introduce tiered pricing in the next four to six months to take advantage of the growth in data traffic as it rolls out its faster, fourth-generation network. VerizonWireless - IvanSeidenberg - Wireless - Verizon - Telecommunications
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Mobile bank choices give clients more tools to tap

Smart phones let you watch NFL games, read books and check e-mail. Now a full suite of mobile banking services is just a tap away, too.
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BlackBerry unveils 'PlayBook' tablet computer

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is taking on iPad in the table computer game with a "PlayBook" aimed to capitalize on its strength -- the trust of business users keen on secure communications.
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Mobile bank choices give clients more tools to tap

Smart phones let you watch NFL games, read books and check e-mail. Now a full suite of mobile banking services is just a tap away, too.
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Motorola Annunces the Oasis Bluetooth Headset

Motorola today announced Oasis Bluetooth headset that looks sleek and is comfortable to wear. Oasis features a unique, behind-the-ear design that creates a comfortable, stable feel and dual-mics for superior noise cancellation. Oasis will be available starting October 3 ...
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HTC Hero to be first Android Flash phone

HTC is doing a great job of prolonging its time in the Android limelight, ahead of launches from larger rivals like Samsung and Motorola.
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Sony Ericsson drops Symbian for Android

Sony Ericsson has confirmed it has no plans to launch handsets using the Symbian mobile operating system in preference to the Google-backed Android OS.
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Blackberry maker unveils tablet computer

Blackberry maker RIM has unveiled a touchscreen tablet computer named PlayBook.
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Sony Ericsson: No plans for future Symbian phones

Sony Ericsson has said that it has no plans to continue developing phones running the Symbian operating system. "We have no plans for the time being to develop any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system," a Sony Ericsson spokesperson told Bloomberg. Sony Ericsson's chief creation officer, Rikko Sakaguchi, said that the firm has made a significant shift to support ...
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RIM lifts wraps off BlackBerry PlayBook tablet

Research In Motion Ltd. unveils a touch-screen tablet device called the BlackBerry PlayBook in an attempt to compete with the popular iPad.
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Will Windows Phone 7 save us from our phones?

A couple of YouTube advertisements for Windows Phone 7 devices have appeared that show how focused we have become on our phone displays. WP7 comes along to present info in a quick and glanceable...
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Sony Ericsson Completely Abandons Symbian

Sony's mobile phone unit is now almost exclusively focused on Android and has no more plans to use Nokia's now-outdated Symbian operating system.This is a further blow to Nokia as it is now pretty...
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Should Cell Phone Antenna Rise Above High School Football Field?

Not in my backyard. That is what some far west end neighbors are saying about a request from New Cingular wireless to operate a cell phone tower on Deep Run High School's football field.
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Jimmie Johnson revives NASCAR title bid with win at Dover

He takes his sixth Sprint Cup victory of the season and moves into second place in the Chase for the Cup standings. He takes his sixth Sprint Cup victory of the season and moves into second place in the Chase for the Cup standings.
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Sony Ericsson Says Bye To Symbian

Sony Ericsson has had some tough challenges of late and in an effort to turn its luck around, the company has confirmed that they are dropping the Symbian OS in favor of Google Android OS. The news was delivered by Aldo Liguori in a recent interview with Bloomberg. According to Liguori, Sony Ericsson has no [...]
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Sprint Climbs on Turnaround Talk

Sprint shares rose sharply in early trading on Monday after UBS predicted an imminent return to wireless revenue growth.
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Nokia Bureaucracy Stifled Innovation, Ex-Managers Say

What's Your Reaction? [Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's] biggest obstacle, according to Mr. Hakkarainen, as well as two other former employees and industry analysts, may well be Nokia's stifling bureaucratic culture.
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Reports: Windows Phone 7 handsets to arrive 21 October

Smartphones running Windows Phone 7 will hit shop shelves around Europe on 21 October, according to several...
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Sony Ericsson Says Bye To Symbian

Sony Ericsson has had some tough challenges of late and in an effort to turn its luck around, the company has confirmed that they are dropping the Symbian OS in favor of Google Android OS. The news was delivered by Aldo Liguori in a recent interview with Bloomberg. According to Liguori, Sony Ericsson has no [...]
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Samsung Spain: Free Gal Tab Keyboard Docks For Pre-orders!

The Samsung Galaxy Tab keyboard dock is one of the coolest accessories yet announced for the new 7" slate. It is set to cost around $100, but lucky customers in Samsung Spain will be able to get one...
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T-Mobile G2 Can Be Pre-ordered at Well Below the Official Price

The official price for the T-Mobile G2 is $200 with contract, but the online retailer Wirefly is beating that price by $50 for new T-Mobile subscribers. This Android OS smartphone will be a slider with a large touchscreen, fast processor, and other high-end features.
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Motorola Oasis Bluetooth headset hands-on

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Verizon Wireless going to tiered pricing

Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile carrier, will introduce tiered pricing in the next four to six months to take advantage of the growth in data traffic as it rolls out its faster, fourth-generation network. VerizonWireless - IvanSeidenberg - Wireless - Verizon - Telecommunications
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Motorola Annunces the Oasis Bluetooth Headset

Motorola today announced Oasis Bluetooth headset that looks sleek and is comfortable to wear. Oasis features a unique, behind-the-ear design that creates a comfortable, stable feel and dual-mics for superior noise cancellation. Oasis will be available starting October 3 ...
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Samsung mass producing 8GB DDR3 modules for notebooks, mobile workstations

Samsung Electronics has announced it already began mass production of an 8GB So-DIMM, or unbuffered DIMM (UDIMM), for notebooks and mobile workstations. The module is based on the company's 4Gb, 40nm-class DDR3 chips.
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Sprint BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 available today

The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 is now available from Sprint. The Curve 3G offers a 2 megapixel camera, 512MB of flash memory, a 2GB microSD card, and a full QWERTY keyboard. The Curve 3G 9330 runs the BlackBerry 5 operating system, but will get an update for the latest BlackBerry 6 OS sometime in 2011. It's available from Sprint online now for $49.99 with a 2-year service agreement and after a ...
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Sharp Galapagos Android Devices to Enter Tablet Fray

Sharp is launching two Android-based devices dubbed "Galapagos", and the strategy seems to be to fly under the iPad radar by declaring them e-readers rather than tablets. Android - Japan - E-book - Liquid crystal display - Apple
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Verizon Wireless Helps Find Lost Smartphones

Verizon Wireless announced a new phone recovery feature as part of its Total Equipment Coverage hardware insurance package. Verizon smartphone owners with an Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or WebOS device can load the Asurion Mobile Recovery App, then if the phone gets lost, users can locate the phone using GPS. Users can activate an alarm to sound even if the phone is in silent mode ...
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Windows Phone 7 Release Date Nears

Speculation over when devices based on Microsoft's new mobile operating system will hit the market is heating up.
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Samsung's next generation plasma HDTV reviewed

Samsung is counted among the top companies that manufacture Plasma HDTVs in the market. The new Samsung PN58C8000 is one of the three Plasma TVs that represent the top tier HDTV range from the company.
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Using Mobile Devices For Physical Activity With Touchy Game For iPhone

Touchy is an iPhone game in which players try to touch each others screen without letting their own screen be touched. This mobile mediated game provides an opportunity for people to be more physical with one another in our seemingly less-physical social times and is reminiscent of games like Twister. Touchy: the Twister of the Twenties. The game has been designed so that there is no need for ...
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Sprint BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 available today

The BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 is now available from Sprint. The Curve 3G offers a 2 megapixel camera, 512MB of flash memory, a 2GB microSD card, and a full QWERTY keyboard. The Curve 3G 9330 runs the BlackBerry 5 operating system, but will get an update for the latest BlackBerry 6 OS sometime in 2011. It's available from Sprint online now for $49.99 with a 2-year service agreement and after a ...
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Sony Ericsson axes Symbian from smartphone lineup

Sony Ericsson has unceremoniously axed Symbian's rapidly declining OS from its future smartphone lineup. read more
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Touch Sensitive Steering Wheels Could Replace In-Car Navigation Systems

If drivers are talking on cell phones and don't hear spoken instructions to turn left or right from a passenger or navigation system, they still can get directions from devices that are mounted on the steering wheel and pull skin on the driver's index fingertips left or right, a University of Utah study found.
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Sony Ericsson to Ditch Symbian, Possibly Exclusively Android?

It seems that Sony Ericsson is going to ditch the Symbian operating system for its mobile phones entirely . It appears that its future phones will exclusively use Google's Android operating system which would be a pretty big blow to Symbian. It does reflect the current interest level in Symbian though, which is not favorable. The only phone company really using the Symbian OS is Nokia and it ...
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Will Windows Phone 7 save us from our phones?

A couple of YouTube advertisements for Windows Phone 7 devices have appeared that show how focused we have become on our phone displays. WP7 comes along to present info in a quick and glanceable...
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Sanyo Zio M6000 (Cricket Wireless)

The Sanyo Zio isn't the fanciest Android phone, but it's an ideal beginner smartphone for Cricket customers. It's easy to use and its feature set offers the essentials, though we don't like that it runs Android OS 1.6.
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Sony Ericsson Ditches Annual Symbian Release

Sony Ericsson has decided to remove its annual Symbian release from the current roadmap.
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Nokia's New Chief Faces Culture of Complacency

A few years before Apple introduced the iPhone, research engineers at Nokia prepared a prototype of an Internet-ready, touch-screen handset with a large display, which they thought could give the company a powerful advantage in the fast-growing smartphone market.
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Palm Bay ex-convict insists he's innocent

Willie Jackson admits to stealing, beating people up, attacking law enforcement officers and joining in race riots in prison. But the 42-year-old Palm Bay man says he will never admit to the strong-armed robbery that landed him behind bars for most of the past 20 years.
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Jimmie Johnson revives NASCAR title bid with win at Dover

He takes his sixth Sprint Cup victory of the season and moves into second place in the Chase for the Cup standings. DOVER, Del. -- Jimmie Johnson revived his bid for a record- extending fifth consecutive Sprint Cup Series championship with a convincing win in Sunday's AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway.
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Motorola Acquires Aloqa

Motorola announced the acquisition of Aloqa GmbH, a privately-held developer of location-based software and technologies for use with smartphones. Motorola has added Aloqa to its nascent Motorola Mobility unit, which is comprised of Motorola's Mobile Devices and Home business.
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