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  • Japan's largest mobile carrier invests US$14 million in Eye-Fi

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 2:44 pm

    NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, said Wednesday it had invested US$14 million in Eye-Fi, the maker of Wi-Fi-enabled memory cards.

  • Company makes watches that reward you for workouts

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 2:32 pm

    How much would you work out for $10?

  • Windows 8 on ARM on track, Microsoft says

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 12:49 pm

    Anyone can take Windows 8 for a spin now that Microsoft has launched the so-called "consumer preview" version of the software at an event in Barcelona on Wednesday.

  • Toshiba claims 'world's thinnest' tablet with Excite LE

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 9:10 am

    Toshiba will start shipping its Excite LE tablet next week, which the company claims will be the thinnest tablet yet.

  • Apple defends claims to iPad trademark in Chinese court hearing

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 8:58 am

    Apple's lawyers defended the company's claims to the iPad trademark in China on Wednesday during a high-stakes court hearing that could decide whether Chinese authorities ban the tablet for trademark infringement.

  • Analyst: Mac sales to business grow by 50 percent

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 7:11 am

    Apple is selling more Macs to businesses, according to an analyst, accounting for 20.5 percent of Mac sales in Q4 2011.

  • LightSquared's Ahuja resigns as CEO

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 4:30 am

    LightSquared Chairman and CEO Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his CEO post, in the latest change to rock the company that still says it wants to build a 4G network using frequencies next to the GPS spectrum band.

  • Sony: 1.2 million PlayStation Vita handhelds sold worldwide

    Posted February 29, 2012 - 1:31 am

    Sony said it has sold 1.2 million units of its new Vita handheld game console worldwide as of Sunday, after a boost from the device's launch in the U.S. and Europe last week.

  • Mobile Linux: It's not just Android anymore

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 9:23 pm

    The mobile world has been good to Linux, whose Android derivative has enjoyed a success that few could have predicted just a few short years ago.

  • 3 questions for Microsoft's Windows Phone chief

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 1:28 pm

    Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, made a cameo appearance at Nokia's Mobile World Congress 2012 press conference Monday, where Nokia announced a mid-priced Windows Phone, the Lumia 610. Myerson briefly talked about the new beta release of Skype for Windows Phone, about the fact that there are now 65,000 apps for the platform, and that handsets with the OS are now available in China and 27 other markets. He also discussed how Microsoft has lowered the system requirements for handsets, to create a broader range of lower prices.

  • Apple sets media event for 10 a.m. PT March 7

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 1:24 pm

    You may want to sit down, because we’re going to talk about the iPad—and sitting is really the most comfortable way to use it, isn’t it? Apple on Thursday invited members of the media to a special event on March 7 at 10 a.m. Pacific.

  • Alcatel One Touch intros budget Android smartphones

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 1:24 pm

    Alcatel One Touch has introduced 12 Android-based smartphones, including the Ultra 995, which will cost about US$250 and have a 4.3-inch screen.

  • RSA teams to bolster security for Apple, Google, RIM devices

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 12:35 pm

    RSA, the security division of EMC, today said it would collaborate with several mobile and virtualization platform vendors to integrate RSA two-factor authentication and risk-detection technologies.

  • Beamforming: 802.11ac promises great Wi-Fi enhancements, but you can get a jump today

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 12:35 pm

    During the past year, various members of the wireless ecosystem -- from industry advocacy groups to standards bodies to suppliers -- have been working tirelessly on new standards that will define Wi-Fi for the better part of the next decade. Now, with nearly unanimous buy-in to both 11ac and the 60GHz standard, the industry is well on its way to a quantum leap in Wi-Fi performance.

  • Intel lays out strategic mobile roadmap

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 11:30 am

    Intel used to talk endlessly about Moore's Law -- doubling the transistors that can be put on an integrated circuit about every two years -- as the source of ever-greater benefits for everyone in the PC value chain every two years like clockwork. But today, fittingly at Mobile World Congress, Intel CEO Paul Otellini in effect declared that the company could no longer wait on Moore's Law.

  • Whole Foods tries out Kinect-powered shopping carts

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 10:26 am

    Forget about Google tracking you across the Web, what about a shopping cart that can follow you around Whole Foods? That's what your future trips to the natural foods grocer may include, based on a recent product demonstration by Microsoft. The software giant was showing off a Kinect-powered shopping cart that can identify and talk to you, follow you around the store, scan items as you shop, and even put you through an automated checkout.

  • Nokia shocks tech world with 41 megapixel smartphone

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 10:24 am

    Afer days of teasing in advance of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Nokia has announced the 808 PureView, the first smartphone in the world to feature a sensor capable of snapping images up to the extraordinary resolution of 41 megapixels.

  • Five smartphone trends at Mobile World Congress

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 10:01 am

    Big smartphone vendors such as High Tech Computer (HTC) and LG Electronics are trying to get their mojo back after some challenging times, and they hope to do so by putting quad-core processors and big, high-definition screens in the products on show at Mobile World Congress.

  • Unified communications: Now mobile and in the cloud

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 8:54 am

    Effective communications, many would argue, is the key to business. But finding the appropriate technologies to support effective communications can be challenging for IT professionals. Unified communications is a concept that encompasses a variety of technologies, all capable of working together, and, yes, while communication is a human process, technology can enhance and improve it.

  • Thousands of Android apps available on PlayBook, says RIM

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 8:54 am

    Research In Motion said that "thousands" of Android apps are already in the Android player launched one week ago as part of the PlayBook OS 2.0 update.

  • McAfee unveils new mobile security tools

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 8:37 am

    McAfee used the venue of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as an opportunity to announce new techniques and tools for protecting mobile devices, data, and apps. Mobile devices are a huge target for malware and cyber attackers, and McAfee wants to ensure organizations have the tools to use the mobile devices securely.

  • 5 mobile technologies that didn't change the world

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 8:06 am

    Here are the five mobile technologies unveiled last year with promises that they would change the mobile world, but didn't.

  • Developing-market carriers call for sub-$50 smartphone

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 7:33 am

    Executives of mobile operators that serve developing countries called on the GSM Association on Tuesday to kickstart the development of a sub-US$50 smartphone.

  • Review

    Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

    Posted February 28, 2012 - 7:11 am

    Motorola's laptop dock for Android smartphones has terrible hardware -- and faces a new generation of post-PC competition

  • Intel, Visa partner on NFC payments

    Posted February 27, 2012 - 7:40 pm

    Visa and Intel have announced a partnership that should make it easier for consumers to make mobile payments via phones and tablets powered by Intel chips.

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