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May 2009 |
For those eager to get your hands on the Palm Pre but are cautious about straying from the almighty iPhone, here's some good news: According to reports, the Pre seamlessly syncs with iTunes. The one problem is that it cannot handle copy-protected songs, so if you've been amassing a legit iTunes library (i.e. downloaded from iTunes and not, you know, elsewhere), you may want to stick with Apple.
The program necessary for syncing handheld devices with iTunes is apparently built into the Pre. The questions ... |
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May 2009 |
Nine out of 10 emails coming to your inbox are spam, according to security vendor Symantec.
According to the company’s MessageLabs Intelligence Report, spam had increased by 5.1 per cent since April, reaching 90.4 per cent.
This is the highest level of spam since September 2007, and is a big increase from only two months ago in March, where spam "only" made up 75.7 per cent of all emails.
Symantec said that the increase in spam for May was due to email messages coming into inboxes that only consist... |
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May 2009 |
Nokia has finally opened its Ovi Store on a global basis to more than 50 Nokia devices. The store offers both free and commercial content - just go to http://store.ovi.com/ in your Nokia browser. The Ovi Store allows you to download and purchase applications, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, web and location-based services and more.
Customers in where the mobile operators have teamed up with Nokia can make use of automatic operator billing, which is downloadable from the Download! folder on t... |
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May 2009 |
A new report finds that the average teen sends and receives an eye-popping 80 text messages a day, with some kids losing sleep and pushing their aching thumbs to the limit just to keep up with the endless SMS threads. Are we talking a harmless distraction here, or a worrisome health threat?
The New York Times cites a Nielsen study that found that the average U.S. teenager sent and received more than 2,200 SMS messages a month in the last quarter of 2008�or as the Times notes, about 80 messages a day, d... |
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May 2009 |
HTC will from next month start selling Android-powered smartphones in China, the world's largest wireless market, under the OPhone name. The HTC OPhone will be a version of the HTC Magic which is the successor to the T-Mobile G, also knows as the HTC Dream.
China Mobile will release the phones with custom software and called OPhones, which refers to Open Mobile System, which China Mobile has named its own version of Google's Android operating system, so rest assured the OPhone is not a nameplay on the Ap... |
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May 2009 |
Engadget Mobile found themselves in possession of a number of internal AT&T documents, and one of these mysterious documents shows a new HTC Android device, codenamed the Lancaster. This model comes with a slide-out keyboard - like the HTC Dream - though the front looks similar to the design of the slightly newer HTC Magic.
The specs include HSDPA, Bluetooth, 3MP camera and a 240x320 screen. Hopefully this is incorrect, as all the other Android phones have 480x320 (HVGA) screens. The QVGA resolution ne... |
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May 2009 |
Time Magazine recently called YouTube one of the biggest tech failures of the past decade, which was hilarious. Hilarious in that the site is by far and away the most popular site for video on the web, and has revolutionized the way we view videos, period. Today brings another amazing stat about the site: Every single minute, over 20 hours of video are now uploaded to YouTube.
Think about that for a minute. In that minute, nearly a days worth of footage will have been uploaded. And the pace is quickening... |
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May 2009 |
Despite the dip in mobile phone sales, sales of smartphones continued to grow 12.7% for the first quarter, according to a new report from Gartner.
The report, "Dataquest Insight: Market Share For Mobile Devices," said smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, which represented 13.5% of all mobile device sales for the three-month period. The report found Apple, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) were the big winners for the quarter.
Nokia continued to be the global leader with ... |
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May 2009 |
Acer said it would be releasing this year a smartphone that's powered by the Google-backed Android operating system.
The PC maker jumped in the smartphone market this year with its Tempo line of devices. The company is looking to capture up to 5% of the growing smartphone market within five years by offering handsets that are free with contract or have a low price.
The majority of Acer's smartphones will run Microsoft's Windows Mobile, but at least one will use the Linux-based Android, according to th... |
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May 2009 |
NVIDIA's insurance company, The National Union Fire Insurance Company (NUFI) of Pittsburgh, filed a case in a California district court last week regarding NVIDIA's negotiations and settlement of other lawsuits the company faced from notebook makers regarding NVIDIA's faulty chipsets. In its court statement, NUFI said NVIDIA has "not permitted" it to join in NVIDIA's negotiations of chip claims or to reach other agreements. NVIDIA supplied GPUs to notebook makers that include Apple, ASUS, Compal, Dell, Fuji... |
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May 2009 |
Yahoo has offered a peek at how its search results are likely to be displayed a few months from now, as it tries to find a better alternative to the traditional "10 blue links".
"People don't really want to search," said Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo's search strategy, in a meeting with reporters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Their objective is to quickly uncover the information they are looking for, not to scroll through a list of links to web pages.
Yahoo's answer is to try to figu... |
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May 2009 |
The global positioning system could fail next year and repairs aren't moving quickly enough to prevent failure, according a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
It's unclear whether the U.S. Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in time to prevent disruption in GPS service for military and civilian users, according to the report.
The GAO said that the Air Force has struggled in recent years to stay within cost and scheduling constraints while building GPS satellites. So fa... |
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May 2009 |
Sony Ericsson plans to drop the flagship Walkman and Cyber-shot brands on its handsets in developed markets such as the UK.
Andre Jacquet, head of global marketing business management, said that the message conveyed by the brand names was no longer relevant. He added that as more consumers sought phones featuring a digital camera, music and internet services, sticking with the Walkman and Cyber-shot names was 'wrong'.
Sony Ericsson now plans to roll out an 'Entertainment Unlimited' proposition, which ... |
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May 2009 |
Canonical has begun beta-testing a file-synchronization service called Ubuntu One for its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system.
The closed beta test began Monday for invited members of the Ubuntu user community, with further testers able to sign up by requesting an invitation, Canonical said.
Ubuntu One offers file synchronization for systems running Ubuntu 9.04, code-named Jaunty Jackalope, and is intended to be available to the general public in time for the launch of Ubuntu 9.10, code-named Karmic... |
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May 2009 |
Mozilla Labs is challenging Web designers to help it find a more innovative way to represent browser tabs.
The Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Summer 09 aims to find a better way to create, navigate and manage multiple Web sites within the same browser instance, according to a Web site about the contest.
Mozilla, which came up with the concept of tabs in its Firefox browser as a way to manage browsing multiple Web pages at the same time, said that tabs worked well when people were only using them to lo... |
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