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  • Shortmail wants to do for email what Twitter did for status updates: keep them short, sweet, and most of all, fit for our 21st century attention spans. To understand Shortmail, all you really need to know is that it only lets you type 500 characters per email and organizes email chains into "conversations" organized by contact in a left column bar. Like...
    11 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • A litigious Apple recently filed an injunction against Amazon for using the term "App Store," but a judge determined that it's generic and therefore not protected. The clincher is that Apple was unable to establish a "likelihood of confusion" with Amazon's services, the essential ingredient in getting an injunction issued. Do you think there's a likelihood...
    08 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • The 32GB version of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s new TouchPad media tablet carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $318, according to the preliminary results generated by the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). When the $10.00 manufacturing cost is added in, the total cost to produce the high-end version of...
    07 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • Nokia Corp., battered by the popularity of smartphones, is abandoning the Japanese market after a brief foray with luxury cellphones costing as much as 20 million yen ($250,000). The Finnish handset maker is closing its last store selling high-end Vertu cellphones in Ginza by the end of July. Previously, it had four such stores in Japan, according to...
    06 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • Chinese equipment firm ZTE has announced what it claims is the world’s first commercial LTE micro base station. According to ZTE, the ZXSDR BS8920 also has the largest capacity of any LTE micro base station, offering 150Mbps with 2X10W transmit power and 2T4R modulation for a large footprint. The vendor says the micro base station is targeted at the "...
    06 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • No, it's not the famous Gizmodo phone from last year. But the iPhone 4 prototype on sale at eBay right now is a similar device Apple used in field testing. The phone seems to have all the trappings of a GSM iPhone 4, with a few cosmetic difference. (The "+" and "-" symbols are missing from the volume buttons.) It's unclear who the seller is, but bidding...
    05 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • Telecompaper has published its fifth annual report on the Dutch FTTH market. A host of new players has entered the market, and FTTH initiatives are underway in no fewer than 205 municipalities, almost half of the nation's 418. However, roll-out is going slower than some may hope. Adverse weather conditions (a lengthy frost period) hit the overall market,...
    04 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • We've been seeing a lot of clever tricks for joining Google+ without an official invite from Google. It's really easy. If you have Google+ and want to share with your pals, here's what to do: Make sure the person you want to invite is already in your Google contacts. If not, you can add in Gmail. From your Circles page, drag that contact into a new circle...
    01 Iulie 2011/ Continuare
  • Despite a design problem that forced a large-scale chipset recall, Intel Corp. in the first quarter managed to pad its dominant position in the global microprocessor business, according to new IHS iSuppli (NYSE: IHS) research. Intel during the first three months of 2011 accounted for 82.6 percent of global microprocessor revenue, up 1.6 points of share...
    30 Iunie 2011/ Continuare
  • Italian broadband provider selects Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper Networks to build additional network capacity and deliver Multiservice IP backbone. Customers of FASTWEB can look forward to further enhanced Internet speeds. Italy’s leading broadband provider has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper Networks to strengthen its IP backbone to meet...
    29 Iunie 2011/ Continuare

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