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Alltel Wants To 'Touch' Mobile Pros With Smartphone
Alltel joins Sprint and AT&T by offering the business-focused HTC Touch Pro, which features a touch screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Researcher Slashes 2009 Forecast For PC Shipments
Rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and financial system are likely to lead fewer businesses to invest in technology next year.
Best Buy Offering O2 Wireless Service
With the prepaid wireless plans, users with unlocked GSM handsets can call internationally at no additional charge.
Growth In Online Advertising Revenue Slows
From the fourth quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of 2008, the industry saw its first quarter-to-quarter revenue drop since the second quarter of 2004, an IAB report shows.
Google's Lively Set To Die In December
The 3-D interactive chat environment will join the list of Google misfires when it closes, less than six months after launch.
Symbian Foundation Gets More Members
With a major Japanese carrier on board, the number of companies supporting Symbian's free, open source goal has climbed to 59.
Nokia, IBM Bring Lotus Notes To S60 Handsets
By enabling corporate information to easily go to its handsets via Lotus Notes and ActiveSync, Nokia is making a stronger push for the enterprise market.
T-Mobile, Yahoo Partner On Web2go Mobile Search
The Yahoo service will be available on most of T-Mobile's new phones, including handsets made by Motorola, Nokia, Research In Motion, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.
Wyse Revamps Thin Client OS For Collaborative Computing
Version 6.3 connects to Microsoft Terminal Services 2008 and supports Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol with 32-bit color and font smoothing.
Cell Phones As Wallets One Step Closer
The GSM Association called for most mainstream cell phones to have NFC technology, which paves the way for phones to be used as contactless payment devices.
Xerox Touts 'Greener' Printing Toner
Six 25,000-gallon tanks of the toner arrived this week at Xerox's Webster, N.Y., plant, where production of the new product is expected to begin next year.
Adobe Flash Hits Home Run With MLB
During the 2008 season, the site presented video in standard-definition TV quality at 1.2 Mbps in 16-by-9 widescreen format.
Microsoft Cuts Zune Prices For The Holiday
Microsoft, which launched the Zune more than two years ago, has failed to make a dent in Apple's iPod empire.
Monty Python Launches YouTube Channel
And now for something completely different...the comedy troupe makes it clear it would prefer payment to litigation.
Adobe, Zend To Link PHP Apps To Web Users
The partnership will allow for exchanging messages between PHP business logic and the end-user-oriented Web applications built with Adobe's Flash Player and Flex components.
Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced
Just in time for global warming, scientists have sequenced the genome of the extinct woolly mammoth, last seen roaming the Earth about 10,000 years ago.
Google's Gmail Gets Dressed Up In Themes
Other recent features include adding voice and video chat as well as the ability to send and receive SMS messages.
IPhone Tops Mobile Ad Traffic
Requests from the iPhone have jumped from 28 million in July to 236 million in October, according to AdMob.
HP Revamps Online Customer Support
Consumers of HP notebooks, desktops, printers, and monitors can get information from an overhauled peer-to-peer support forum, free online classes, and online video tutorials.
Semiconductor Industry Faces First Year Of Revenue Decline Since 2001
The global economic downturn may make 2008 the first year-to-year decline for the industry since the dot-com bust of 2001, said iSuppli.
Cell Phone Makers Go Green With Chargers
The companies have agreed to a common energy rating system that will enable customers to know which chargers are the most energy efficient.
YouTube Live Event Streamed From Virgin Airline
The demonstration will launch the airline's beta test of its Gogo in-flight Internet service.
Google Voice Search Turns 'Fish' To 'Sex'
Users of the latest release of Google Mobile App for the iPhone have complained that the voice-recognition program doesn't understand some British accents.
HP Unveils Tablet PC With Multi-Touch Screen
The screen makes it possible to use a variety of gestures, including swipes, pinches, double-taps, and finger rotations, to manipulate content similar to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.
Nokia Committed To TD-SCDMA Standard
By adhering to China's homegrown 3G standard, Nokia is poised to capitalize on the country's rapid mobile adoption rate.
Verizon-Alltel Merger Nearly Done, U.S. Cellular Next?
The sixth largest cell phone provider has 6.2 million subscribers and uses the same CDMA infrastructure utilized by Verizon and Alltel, making an acquisition relatively easy.
GM's Worldbook Project Aims To Save Troubled Automaker
GM's Worldbook project standardizes data on engineering specs worldwide, to help GM build cars more quickly and at lower costs.
CA To Overhaul Big Iron With Mainframe 2.0
The management company claims mainframes can represent only half the cost of distributed client-server architecture for light workloads.
Sun Gives MySQL A Query Analyzer
The analyzer is hoped to push MySQL query execution closer to the performance range of large commercial database systems.
Despite Downturn, Nortel CEO Keeps Upbeat Tone
Nortel's fortunes have soured as telecom companies scale back spending on the equipment it makes and the
company faces intense competition from European and North American rivals.
HP Foresees Strong 4th Quarter, Despite Economy
Without EDS revenue added to the total, HP would have experienced a 5% growth in revenue for the year, or 2% after adjustment for the effects of currencies.
iPhone Turns Into Wii-Like Controller
With software from Social Gaming Network, players can turn an iPhone or iPod Touch into a motion controller for games on a PC screen.
Nvidia Unveils Supercomputer Design
A workstation with up to four Tesla C1060 GPUs would deliver enough horsepower to handle large computational workloads common in scientific research and the oil and gas and medical industries.
Camera With 1.4 Billion Pixels Defends Earth From Asteroids
The Pan-STARRS cameras each have 1.4 billion pixels on an area approximately 40 centimeters square.
Yahoo CEO Casts Departure In Positive Light, Lists Successes
Jerry Yang praises the company's tangible progress, despite a tough external environment, and says he'll "always bleed purple."
Forecast Lowered For Global Semiconductor Market
World Semiconductor Trade Statistics said the economic slowdown is impacting the industry, but predicted the market would pick up considerably in 2010.
Amazon Bolsters Its Cloud With Content Delivery
With its relatively simple interface and services, CloudFront is aiming to meet content delivery needs of startups and Amazon Web Services customers.
Apple Hit With Another iPhone 3G Lawsuit
The complaint said the iPhone is not as fast as advertised, and the casing is susceptible to cracking.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Calls For Innovation Bailout
As an adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, Schmidt tells U.S. companies to apply the technological principles that created the Internet economy to the nation's energy infrastructure.
Tech Researcher Slams 'Misleading' HP News Release
The Robert Frances Group said Hewlett-Packard misinterpreted its report on the advantages of upgrading old computer systems with energy-efficient ones.
Asus Rolls Out Fast Touch-Screen Smartphone
The netbook maker's P565 has an 800-MHz Marvell processor, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G connectivity, and it sports a 2.8-inch touch screen.
SuperSpeed USB Spec Completed
USB 3.0, expected to hit the market in 2009, is expected to be up to 10 times faster than Hi-Speed USB.
Red Hat CEO Whitehurst Talks About Slowdown, Virtualization, Linux
In an exclusive interview, Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst opens up about the open source software firm's short-term prospects in troubled times and longer-term opportunities for growth.
AT&T Intros LG Incite Smartphone In U.S.
The handset has a 3-inch touch screen, built-in Wi-Fi, document editing, 3G connectivity, and GPS with navigational abilities.
Got IT Secrets? This Web Site Will Reward You Handsomely
Article One Partners is encouraging people to contribute their knowledge of "prior art" of important intellectual property.
Capgemini Sharpens Cloud Consulting With Amazon Deal
The company also launched a new group, the Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, that will help businesses evaluate and implement cloud services and offer cloud consulting.
Top Cyberspace Lawyer Challenges RIAA's Music-Sharing Lawsuits
Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson is defending Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student who has been charged with illegally downloading songs.
HP Sees Stronger-Than-Expected 2009, Shares Up
Fears of a sharp slowdown in PC spending had increased after the world's largest chip maker Intel shocked markets with a revenue warning.
Google Mobile App With Voice Search: First Look
Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible to do a Google Web search using only your voice. Mostly it is fantastic.
Mobile TV Sees Little U.S. Interest
Adoption is at only 1% because of limited channels and poor networks, but a JupiterResearch report shows interest in watching recorded content on mobile handsets is on the rise.
