News Clips
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| InformationWeek: Mobile mail for all - services and low-cost phones connect workers to e-mail The costs associated with smartphones have restricted their use at many companies, meaning the non-BlackBerry crowd has had to make do without ready access to mobile e-mail. But now, many phones have QWERTY keyboards and are ready for work. Consumer-oriented products put email capability directly into the hands of end users, while providing form-factor flexibility. Read the Story |
07/29/08 |
| Washington Post: Satellite radio merger approved The government has approved the long-delayed merger of the nation's only satellite radio companies, combining Sirius and XM into a single entity with 18 million subscribers. The decision last night came almost a year and a half after the companies first proposed joining. Based on yesterday's closing share prices, the deal is valued at $3.3 billion, not including debt. Read the Story |
07/28/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: Generation Text: emailing on the go sends some users into harm’s way Mike Munoz was simultaneously tapping out a text message and walking to the beer keg at a recent wedding when he smacked right into the bride. She teetered perilously as other guests rushed over to steady her. "Who would miss someone wearing a white dress and an 8-foot train?" mutters Mr. Munoz, a 44-year-old car-dealership manager in surburban Portland, Ore. "She didn't get hurt or tear her dress, and I didn't get kicked out of the wedding for almost killing the bride." Read the Story |
07/25/08 |
| Associated Press: Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. The consortium announced Wednesday is an important development in the race to create a definitive way to replace tangles of video cables, but doesn't end it - both Sony and Samsung also are supporting a competing technology. Read the Story |
07/23/08 |
| New York Times: Phone giants fight to keep subscribers With millions of people snapping up the iPhone, AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the popular phone, should be quite pleased with the stream of revenue it can expect from customers. But AT&T, the biggest telecommunications company in the United States, has a problem: analysts say consumers are dropping traditional landlines faster than expected. The company, which still gets 32 percent of its revenue from its landline business, reports its second-quarter financial results Wednesday and is expected to talk about how its traditional phone service is contracting. Read the Story |
07/23/08 |
| Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: 3G cell system moves a lot of data fast Here's a question: During the past couple of months, how many times have you heard the expression "3G"? You probably have heard it at least a thousand times, because every ad and every article for the new iPhone has called it the "3G iPhone." The obvious question is: what is 3G? Read the Story |
07/21/08 |
| Computerworld: Meet tomorrow’s mobile phones The cookie-cutter approach to designing mobile phones could disappear in the next few years as designers get more daring and more personal. "All phones today do the basics well," says Shiv Bakhshi, an analyst at research firm IDC. "But that won't be enough in the future." We asked a dozen designers and industry leaders to predict how mobile phones will change and to guess when the technology behind the new concepts will be available. Read the Story |
07/21/08 |
| Wall Street Journal: The Mossberg solution: ways to unlock the potential of a BlackBerry If you're a BlackBerry user, you're probably getting tired of hearing about all the things Apple's iPhone can do. Rumor even has it that a more iPhone-like BlackBerry is in the works. But don't despond: Your current trusty emailing device has a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about. Read the Story |
07/16/08 |
| New York Times: A million new iPhones sold in the first weekend Apple said Monday it sold one million new iPhone in the initial weekend, on par with estimates set by analysts. The original iPhone, introduced in late June 2007 in the United States only, sold about 270,000 unites in its first two days. Sales topped one million by early September. The new devices is sold in 21 countries. Read the Story |
07/15/08 |
| USA Today: Buyers go through heck and back for iPhones Most Apple Stores were sold out of the new iPhone by Sunday afternoon even though consumers had to wait hours to buy and activate them. Friday, Apple introduced the new version of the iPhone. It saw huge customer lines, and its system crashed as thousands of people worldwide tried to activate their new phones. Read the Story |
07/15/08 |