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  • Motorola Announces the VE 66 Multimedia Phone Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 12:08PMMotorola unveiled the VE 66 phone this week, a new slider phone with a 5 megapixel camera and 2.2 inch screen.
  • Anti-trust/Competition Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 11:16AMThis week, in separate new matters, the United States and the European Union announced the detection and prosecution of price fixing agreements among competitors.
  • The Annual M2M 100 Named by M2M Magazine Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 10:51AM(AP:http://www.specialtypub.com/m2m/) Today, M2M magazine revealed the companies named to the 2009 M2M 100. Published for the fifth time, this annual directory recognizes the leading technology providers in the machine-to-machine industry.
  • Motorola announces VE66 slider with 5 megapixel camera Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 2:02PMToday Motorola announced a new slider cell phone, the VE66. The VE66 brings its 5 megapixel camera to the cell phone party, alongside an LED flash and autofocus.
  • CableLabs Recaps Advanced-Ad Interop Event Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 1:21PMCableLabs said 15 vendors participated in the addressable-advertising interfaces interoperability event last week at its Louisville, Colo., headquarters.
  • Lumidigm / Innometriks Biometric Reader Passes TSA Evaluation for TWIC Pilot Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 5:00AM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and FALLBROOK, Calif.----The Transportation Security Administration has evaluated and passed the Innometriks Rhino™ for deployment in critical pilot tests of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program.
  • Nokia to Launch First 3G Handset for China Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 4:19AMNokia will launch its first TD-SCDMA handset with China Mobile.
  • Chips are down for Transmeta Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 3:34AM Silicon Valley darling sold The low power chip company Transmeta has been sold to Novafora - the VC-backed "video processor" firm.…
  • Voting-machine firm sued for GPL violations Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 12:42PM— Nov. 07, 2008 — Yet another Linux device maker has been sued over alleged GPL violations.
  • Multitasking mania: Getting a grip on life with just two hands Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 12:28PMYou sit down to make a note about a project, and the phone rings. While you’re talking, someone pops in with a question as the computer chimes the arrival of an important e-mail, and you remember you forgot to make dinner plans.
  • Online startup aims to improve patent quality Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 12:14PMWASHINGTON - A new startup company wants to have a say in the high-stakes patent disputes that loom over many industries.
  • DoCoMo Invests in Mobile Camera Developer Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 11:45AMSiimpel Corporation, a supplier of optical micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) based solutions for the mobile market, announced that it has completed an investment round in support of its MEMS technology and product development for mobile camera applications.
  • Wireless Infrastructure Revenues Grew 3.7% YoY in Q3 2008 to $12.2 Billion Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 11:15AMThe global wireless BTS infrastructure market revenues for the top OEMs grew by 3.7% for the third quarter of 2008 to $12.2 billion compared with the third quarter of 2007, according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research.
  • Apple Poor at Converting iPhone Queries into iPhone Sales Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 1:00PMNielsen Mobile has estimated that there are 3.6 million mobile subscribers 13+ actively using the Apple iPhone, as of October 2008. While some sources suggest that the iPhone has overtaken Motorola’s RAZR in sales, their analysis of Q3 acquisitions shows a very close race at the top.
  • Replaced handset segment to rise by 15 per cent in UP Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 12:41PMSurge of young consumers coupled with cellular phones making inroads as an essential item, the replacement market of mobile handsets in Uttar Pradesh is booming.
  • Business briefs, Nov. 16, 2008 Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 10:49PMNew cell site BEEKMANTOWN — Unicel customers in Clinton County can now benefit from better coverage and signal strength, a larger calling area, better voice quality and access to high-speed data transfer and other features.
  • GTEK tapes Motorola for network Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 10:13AMVietNamNet Bridge - GTEK, a Ho Chi Minh City based telecommunications company, said it had selected Motorola to supply wireless local area network (LAN) infrastructure for a number of projects it had won in Hanoi and HCM City .
  • The week in hardware: Shanghai, AMD, and LCD price fixing Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 8:58AM AMD launched Shanghai and revealed its roadmap for 2009-2011, we reviewed Nehalem, UMB looks dead, and LCD manufacturers hate you. All that and more inside. Read More...
  • Farewell, old friend Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 7:27PMWanted: one healthy carrier pigeon to replace reliable, yet antiquated cellphone used by an old-school customer for more than a decade. That’s right. The time [...]
  • Linux house offers flash life expectancy modeling Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 5:57PM— Nov. 06, 2008 — Linux professional services and consulting firm Embedded Alley (EA) says it can help device developers choose between available NAND flash devices and filesystems.
  • U.S. stocks drop as retail sales spur concern Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 4:21PMU.S. stocks fell, capping a second straight weekly loss, as a record drop in retail sales and weaker demand for mobile phones raised concern about the depth of the recession.
  • U.S. Stocks Drop as Retail Sales Slump Spurs Consumer Concern Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 3:50PMNov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks tumbled, capping a second straight weekly loss, as a record decrease in retail sales and weaker demand for mobile phones raised concern about the depth of the recession.
  • After Hours: GM, Ford up as loan proposal gains key support Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 3:15PMGeneral Motors and Ford see their shares rise in the evening, lifted after a report that President George W. Bush is in favor of extending loans to the struggling U.S. auto industry.
  • Microsoft Appoints New Head of China Operations Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 8:42PMMicrosoft has tapped a former Motorola executive to head its operations in China.
  • LCD makers express regret over US price-fixing fines Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 5:14PMSharp, LG Display and Chunghwa Picture Tubes plead guilty to fixing prices on LCD panels, and pledge to retain public trust.
  • CableLabs Unifies Specs For Unicast Video Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 4:21PMCableLabs has released specifications defining how cable headend equipment delivers personalized TV services, bringing architectures developed by Time Warner Cable and Comcast together under one umbrella.
  • Tatara Systems Appoints New Executive Vice President of Operations To Accelerate the Global Market Penetration of ... Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 6:49AM ACTON, Mass.----Tatara Systems, the leader in SIP-based femtocell convergence, today announced that Marc Cremer has rejoined Tatara as the executive vice president of operations based in Acton.
  • 3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 6:43AMLG, Sharp and Chunghwa Picture Tubes agreed on Wednesday to cooperate in an antitrust investigation being run by the Justice Department.
  • Portfolio Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 6:17AMThe Better Business Bureau has launched a program designed to link consumers with companies accredited by the BBB.
  • (AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-13 11:39 UPDATE 1-Microsoft to spend $1 bln on R&D in China Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 6:08AMBEIJING, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will spend more than $1 billion in China over the next three years on research and development, an executive said on Thursday. The research spending does not include the $300 million the company has already committed to build a new research and development facility in Beijing, said Zhang Yaqin, chairman of China Research and Development for Microsoft. ...
  • Microsoft to spend $1 bln on R&D in China Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 5:54AMBEIJING (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will spend more than $1 billion in China over the next three years on research and development, an executive said on Thursday.
  • Business Notes Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 5:46AM Kentucky Delta to cut 40 flights a dayat Cincinnati airport next year Delta Air Lines plans to cut 12 percent of flights, or about 40 a day, out of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport , as the company restructures its hub, the airline said Wednesday. The flight reductions will begin next year. The 263 remaining flights will be bunched more closely together as Delta ...
  • 3 LCD firms plead guilty in price-fixing scheme Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 9:42PMThree Asian electronics firms have agreed to plead guilty and pay $585 million in fines for conspiring to drive up the prices of LCD screens used in computers, TVs, cell phones and other electronic devices.
  • Samsung Behold review (T-Mobile) Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 9:22PM Beauty is in the eye of our Samsung Behold review, as we try out the most advanced touchscreen phone, with the new TouchWiz UI, now available on T-Mobile.
  • Top 15 cell phones Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 9:21PM The LG Lotus from Sprint is still the hottest cell phone in town, but what about all these new touchscreen cell phones? Check them out here.
  • Motorola Zine ZN5 5-megapixel camera phone comes to T-Mobile Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 9:19PM The Motorola Zine ZN5 is now available from T-Mobile with a healthy price tag, boasting a 5-megapixel Kodak camera and Wi-Fi connectivity.
  • LG, Sharp, Chunghwa say guilty in LCD case Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 9:17PMLG Display Co Ltd. , Sharp Corp. and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. have agreed to plead guilty and pay $585 million in fines for fixing prices of liquid crystal displays used in a wide variety of electronics, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
  • LCD makers settle price-fixing charges, agree to fines Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 9:10PMThree LCD makers agree to plead guilty to price-fixing charges and pay $585 million in fines.
  • LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 8:57PMJustice Department antitrust regulators hit the companies with fines adding up to US$585 million, in connection with a flat-panel price-fixing scheme.
  • IPTV Over GPON and Bonded DSL Key Components of BroadbandSuite 3.0 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 6:19PMANAHEIM, Calif.
  • Metacafe, diamond firms downsizing, Proxy closes down Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 5:34PMYet more layoffs were reported yesterday, ranging from high tech to low. In its second round of downsizing within months, Metacafe is firing 11 workers in Israel and three to five U.S. employees.
  • Cortex-A8 module gets 3G dev kit Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 4:35PM— Oct. 31, 2008 — Bsquare has announced a new 3G development kit designed to work with Windows CE and the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP35x evaluation module (EVM). The "3G Wireless Dev Kit" lets OEMs incorporate 3G connectivity in TI OMAP35x processor-based designs "in up to 60 percent of the time typically required," says Bsquare.
  • VMware Pushing Virtual Machines for Smartphones, Will Support Parallel OSes [Virtualization] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:19AMVMware, which consumers know mostly for their Fusion desktop virtualization software, is moving into the mobile space, albeit surreptitiously. The company has announced VMware MVP, a thin layer of...
  • Preparing Your Enterprise for Virtualization Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:15AMVirtualization carries the promises of flexibility, lower costs, ease of deployment and simplified server management. However, when condensing the physical resources of your enterprise, are you considering how to make applications easily accessible to the growing number of remote users within your enterprise? IT managers rushing toward virtualization within the data center are finding that ...
  • Cloud Computing as a Competitive Advantage: Change at the Speed of Business Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:15AMThe pace of change in modern business is breathtaking. Successful companies are embracing change by innovating aggressively, mastering operational efficiency, and leveraging new regional and global business opportunities. This session addresses key ways that Cloud Computing, in the form of the Business Operations Platform (unifying BPM Architecture, Lifecycle and Teams) is a competitive edge for ...
  • Motorola Unveils VoWLAN Smartphones, Solutions Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:11AMMotorola released VoWLAN smartphones as part of its Total Enterprise Access and Mobility solution set.
  • Review: Motorola KRAVE ZN4 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:04AM These days mobile phone manufacturers are stuggling to differentiate their phone models from everyone else’s. The Motorola KRAVE is part of that differentiation with a unique spin on the traditional flip phone. In this latest iteration the flip is see thru but also enables the user to control some functionality of the phone while [...]
  • Power Panel: Time of Virtualization, SOA & Cloud Computing Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:00AMIn this session, a panel of instructors will conduct a Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services Workshop. The panel of experts will present a hands-on session focusing on data quality, data services and data access issues, problems and solutions. The workshop is an opportunity for audience members to view and discuss problems with a panel of experts. The goal of the session is to engage the ...
  • iPhone surpasses RAZR as top selling handset Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 1:02AM"The displacement of the RAZR by the iPhone 3G represents a watershed shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality," said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD. "Four of the five best-selling handsets in the third quarter were optimised for messaging and other advanced Internet features."
  • The Ticker Monday, November 10, 2008 @ 11:28PM-AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless said they have completed a network buildout that clears up cell-phone dead zones inside all Big Dig tunnels. ...