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Oct 2008 |
Apple and AT&T's decision to subsidize the price of the iPhone 3G is paying off with an increase in sales to lower-income folks.
Comscore released data earlier this week indicating that while most iPhone users are in the $100,000-a-year income bracket, those earning between $25,000 a year and $75,000 a year are the fastest-growing segment of new iPhone customers. iPhone adoption among those making $25,000 to $50,000 a year has grown 48 percent since June, according to the report.
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Oct 2008 |
Casio, in conjunction with KDDI AU, on Monday announced the upcoming release of the EXIFILM-series W63CA flip phone that features one of the most advanced cameras in the industry, with an 8.1-megapixel camera carrying a nine-point autofocus and a wide-angle mode. The CDMA handset also sports a 3.1-inch, 480x800 OLED screen that rotates in the same fashion as a tablet PC's screen and can be left facing outside so users can enjoy streaming video provided by the phone's 1Seg support in Japan.
Apart from the... |
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Oct 2008 |
Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 1.5 terabyte drive (model ST31500341AS) ($225) packs a lot of performance into its 8-head 4-disc drive, proving that you can have size and speed in a single internal hard drive.
Windows says that the 3.5-in. drive has 1.36TB of capacity, and Seagate says the random-read seek time is less than 8.5 milliseconds and random-write seek time is less than 10 milliseconds. Our battery of tests showed good performance despite the large capacity.
I installed the drive into ... |
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Oct 2008 |
LTE (the long-term evolution of 3G) is the next generation of cellular technology, theoretically capable of supporting downlink and uplink speeds of at least 100Mbps and 50Mbps respectively, while mobile WiMax — or 802.16e — is a variant of the wireless standard for broadband specifically designed for mobile technologies and theoretically capable of symmetrical speeds of up to 70Mbps.
According to a new report by analyst firm In-Stat, mobile WiMax looks set to outpace LTE in the short term at least, as i... |
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Oct 2008 |
Looking to add some tunes to your digital collection?
Dell Inc. this week announced that it's teaming up with Universal Music Group to pre-load some of its new PCs with 50- or 100-song bundles. According to the Dell Web site, the pre-loaded music bundles add $25 for 50 songs and $45 for 100 songs to the price of the machine.
The bundles range from mixes of blues music to classical and classic rock.
The company noted that the pre-loaded music is not available on the Dell XPS One desktop or on the In... |
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Oct 2008 |
Last week, Google’s Patrick Chapman and Matt Cutts announced that they’re experimenting with a new security feature aiming to alert webmasters on the potential for having their sites hacked due to the outdated version of their web applications, starting with Wordpress only :
“Recently we’ve seen more websites get hacked because of various security holes. In order to help webmasters with this issue, we plan to run a test that will alert some webmasters if their content management system (CMS) or publis... |
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Oct 2008 |
Benjamin G. Edelman, a professor at Harvard Business School, estimates Google makes between $32 million and $50 million in gross profit each year -- potentially much more -- from placing its AdSense text ads on so-called typosquatting sites.
The scam has been around for years. Companies will buy domains like "ccartoonnetwork.com" or "bankkofamerica.com" hoping that users will misspell domain names when entering them in the browser window. Then, when users land on those pages, they click the Google AdSen... |
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Oct 2008 |
As if there weren't enough health scares over mobile phones already, heavy users were yesterday given another reason to cut down on their habit.
It can bring you out in a rash.
Doctors claim 'mobile phone dermatitis' is a risk for those who develop an allergic reaction to the phone's nickel surface.
The British Association of Dermatologists is warning other doctors about the newly-identified allergy as it suspects many cases are going unreported or untreated.
Cases reported in journals so far in... |
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Oct 2008 |
An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones -- will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?
In the Android Market terms of service, Google expressly says that it might remotely remove an application from user phones. "Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion,"... |
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Oct 2008 |
Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, reported on Thursday a 30-percent drop in third-quarter net profit to 1.087 billion euros (1.046 billion dollars), amid falling sales and lower prices for its handsets.
For the July-September period, the mobile phone goliath reported net sales of 12.24 billion euros, a five-percent decline from the 12.90 billion it posted a year earlier.
Nokia also announced that, in line with a warning issued last month, its market share was shrinking, ticking in at just... |
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Oct 2008 |
The huge growth in internet telephone traffic is jeopardising the capability of police to investigate almost every type of crime, senior sources have told The Times.
As more and more phone calls are routed over the web – using software such as Skype – police are losing the ability to track who has called whom, from where and for how long.
The key difficulty facing police is that, unlike mobile phone companies, which retain call data for billing purposes, internet call companies have no reason to keep ... |
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Oct 2008 |
When Skype 4’s first beta was released in June, there were howls of dismay about the free IP telephone operator’s interface. The new look took possession of your entire screen and made it impossible to do anything else other than chat to your mates or make a phone call.
Now Skype has released its second beta, it looks as if they have listened to some of the complaints. If you don't like the new look, you can now switch to Skype's classic view. It is possible to move between the expanded default view that... |
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Oct 2008 |
Research in Motion has finally announced details about its long-rumored iPhone competitor, an almost-all-touch-interface 3G handset with a twist: The screen itself is a big hardware button.
The ability to mechanically click the entire screen (RIM calls the feature Click-Through technology) is the centerpiece of the BlackBerry Storm's touch interface. As with the iPhone, you can scroll and select by dragging and tapping with your fingertip. But to initiate action, instead of double-tapping, you confirm a ... |
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Oct 2008 |
A significant jump up from 5-megapixel camera phones, Sony Ericsson’s latest beast boasts a whopping 8.1-megapixel sensor. The C905 also throws in face detection, image stabilisation and a dual flash (Xenon and LED) in a bid to become the king of camera phones.
Aesthetically, Sony Ericsson seems to have struck a nice balance between looks and size. Aside from the camera lens cover rocking slightly from side to side, build quality feels excellent and the materials used are of a high quality. The spring-op... |
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Oct 2008 |
LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, and PRADA Group (Prada) today announced that the partnership that created the PRADA Phone by LG will release its second handset before the end of the year.
Almost identical to the highly successful original, the new telephone has a hidden secret. In one smooth movement the ultra-thin keyboard slides from under the handset. As serenely as it appears it slides invisibly, effortlessly away - a modern icon of mobile style... |
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