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March 2009 |
High Tech Computer (HTC) will ship "at least" three smartphones this year that use Google's Android software, HTC's CEO said Tuesday.
HTC, already the largest maker of smartphones that use the Windows Mobile OS, was first to the market with an Android-based smartphone last year, when it teamed up with Google and T-Mobile to launch the G1 in the U.S.
The Taiwanese handset maker last month announced its second Google phone, the HTC Magic, or G2 as some are calling it. The handset is being sold first in ... |
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March 2009 |
Ericsson has performed the world's first live demonstration of a VDSL2-based technology achieving data transfer rates of more than 0.5Gbps. This will allow operators to offer low-cost, high-performance connectivity to an increased range of mobile backhaul customers, enterprise users and residential customers.
The Ericsson demonstration achieved data rates of more than 0,5 Gbps over twisted copper pairs using the latest technology for line bonding and crosstalk cancellation for DSL, also known as "vector... |
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March 2009 |
No one can deny that green and clean agendas are rising to the surface in the mobile communications market. ABI Research forecasts that in 2009 over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and that nearly 70 million mobile devices will be ethically disposed of or will be recycled in 2009.
To meet the growing need for detailed market information about these green initiatives, ABI Research has launched a new Clean Telecoms Research Service.
Vice pres... |
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March 2009 |
It was shocking to me anyway that we already have 34 million Americans working at least occasionally from home today. And that’s with broadband to only 56% of US homes. But that’s what the data say. And with our Consumer Technographics survey of 61,033 US and Canadian consumers, you can be confident that the numbers are accurate.
But it’s even more surprising to run the numbers forward to 2016 and see how many Americans will work from home then: 63 million! We just published our US Telecommuting forecast... |
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March 2009 |
Google has strengthened its mobile services with the debut of a service called Voice that could be a challenge to Skype and other phone firms.
It lets customers make cheap international calls and gives them a speech-to-text feature for voicemail.
The services are available thanks to Google's acquisition of phone firm GrandCentral which gives users a lifelong universal phone number.
"This could be big. Google is seen as disruptive," said analyst Jon Arnold.
"They are a wild card in telecoms and w... |
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March 2009 |
Flagship handset plagued by software freezing and speaker faults.
Sony Ericsson has suffered a new setback as one of its latest flagship handsets, the C905, has suffered high levels of returns.
Software freezing and speaker faults on the eight-megapixel C905 camera phone are responsible for returns as high as 30%, in some areas.
Sony Ericsson’s UK and Ireland managing director, Nathan Vautier, said: ‘We understand the specific quality issues were on early [batches of] C905 handsets in 2008, and we ... |
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March 2009 |
We recently received Toshiba's latest X305-Q725 laptop, which targets the mobile gaming sector. We have our own thoughts on what is best in this sort of market, and we know plenty of people that think this sector is a joke, to put it bluntly. However, while many people have no interest in desktop replacement notebooks, there are users that want this sort of system, and this review is targeted at that audience. Everything clear? Good, let's continue.
This is the first laptop we've been able to test that s... |
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March 2009 |
Online music service Last.fm has waded into the row between YouTube and the Performing Right Society.
Founder Martin Stiksel said he hoped a resolution can be found to avoid illegal services from taking over.
He urged both parties to find a "workable solution, which he hoped would include cheaper and "less complicated" licenses.
YouTube is removing all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach agreement with the PRS.
Thousands of videos were made unavailable to YouTube users from l... |
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March 2009 |
Samsung just went officially offical with the S5600, an affordable 3G touchscreen handset announced at Mobile World Congress, but now it’s got some company: the S5230. The S5230 differs in that it has a slightly bigger screen (3″, 240 x 400) and has no 3G - otherwise, they’re pretty much identical, right down to the TouchWiz UI, 3 megapixel camera, and Shazam-powered music recognition.
One small, interesting difference is that the S5230 has handwriting support, while the S5600 doesn’t - perhaps som... |
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March 2009 |
Norway's public broadcaster NRK receives 94 percent of its revenue from a license fee paid by TV-owning households in the country, and it's charged not with making money, but with getting its content in front of as many people as possible. To do that, NRK has just launched its own BitTorrent tracker to distribute its TV shows—DRM-free, of course. NRK takes its distribution mission so seriously that it's even providing subtitle files so that non-Norwegians can translate the shows easily.
Given what th... |
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March 2009 |
Popular social networking site Facebook.com admitted on a blog post today that over the weekend, a hard drive failure led to the temporary loss of 10% to 15% of its users stored photographs.
According to the company, several drives failed at once during a routine upgrade Friday night.
"You may have noticed in the past day that some photos aren't appearing or are displaying a 'question mark' graphic when you go to view them. We're trying to fully understand what happened, since simultaneous hardware fa... |
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March 2009 |
Asustek Computer Inc. unveiled a new laptop at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, today that comes equipped with a 1TB solid-state disk (SSD) drive, a 16-in. high-definition display, a Blu-ray drive and leather-covered panel rests.
The Asus Lamborghini VX5 laptop comes with an LCD cover designed to remind users of the Lamborghini Reventon sports car's aluminum-alloy fuselage.
Its piano-painted mirror surface is also supposed to mimic the car's finish. The notebook comes with a 1TB SSD from pureSilic... |
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March 2009 |
Asus is to phase out its seven-inch-screen Eee PC netbooks in mature markets, company Chairman Jonney Shih said on Tuesday.
During a press conference at the CeBIT technology show, Shih told told ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet UK that the manufacturer would concentrate on its 10-inch netbooks, which he said customers preferred. He denied recent reports that Asus would phase out its 8.9-inch netbooks. However, he did say that it would cut seven-inch Eee PCs--the original size for the line--from its catalog... |
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March 2009 |
Hewlett-Packard Co. today said it has closed down its online backup service after less than a year of operation.
HP did not provide a reason for closing the service other than to say, "HP continually evaluates product lines and has decided to discontinue the HP Upline service on March 31, 2009."
Patricia Kinley, a spokeswoman for HP's Personal Systems Group, said the company stopped backing up files as of Feb. 26.
"HP will keep the file-restore feature of the Upline service operational through Marc... |
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March 2009 |
When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other handset has since been able to come close to the iPhone’s Safari web browser in terms of user experience. And, the latest data on mobile web usage suggests that the iPhone has a co... |
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