Mikael Ricknäs - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 12/03/2009 Gartner: Smartphone growth continues to slow

Sales of smartphones increased by 3.7 percent during the fourth quarter last year, compared to the same period in 2007, according to Gartner.

Article | 10/03/2009 Norwegian state TV sets up BitTorrent tracker

The Norwegian state broadcaster NRK has decided to set up its own BitTorrent tracker, and it also plans to offer content through this form of distribu...

Article | 3/03/2009 Cebit: Health monitoring comes to the iPhone

Heart patients will be able to check their electrocardiogram on an iPhone, using a new system demonstrated by Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems at...

Article | 18/02/2009 Universal phone chargers to finally become a reality

An initiative backed by both mobile phone manufacturers and operators will result in a universal charger based on the Micro-USB interface for new mobi...

Article | 17/02/2009 ZTE launches faster data card

ZTE's latest MF662 data card supports download and upload rates of up to 21.6Mbps (megabits per second) and 5.76Mbps respectively, the company announc...

Article | 17/02/2009 Acer takes on smartphone market

Acer has jumped head first into the smartphone market with its Tempo family of devices. They are all touch-enabled and based on Windows Mobile, the co...

Article | 17/02/2009 Samsung flexes muscles with Omnia HD

Samsung launched a whole host of new mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress, but the biggest attraction was the Omnia HD, which can record video i...

Article | 10/02/2009 Sony Ericsson links new camera phone with online services

The Sony Ericsson C903 Cyber-shot camera phone comes with integrated support for YouTube, Flickr and Picasa, and the slider phone also supports faster...

Article | 16/02/2009 Secretive Sony Ericsson shows 12.1-megapixel camera phone

Sony Ericsson is working on a touchscreen phone with a 12.1-megapixel camera it announced on Sunday, but details on the upcoming Idou device were scar...

Article | 16/02/2009 Pirate Bay trial to start on Monday

The trial against four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, will...

Article | 12/02/2009 Nokia cuts R&D staff in response to sales slump

Nokia is closing its R&D site in Jyväskylä, Finland. In the process about 320 employees will be laid off. The company is also making temporary cut...

Article | 10/02/2009 LiMo Foundation gets ready for next-generation platform

The next version of the Linux-based mobile platform LiMo is getting closer to launch and a number of operators are promising handsets during 2009, the...

Article | 6/02/2009 Amazon opens up payments Web service to all

Amazon continues to expand its set of web services. Flexible Payments Service (FPS), which allows developers to tap into Amazon's payments infrastruct...

Article | 29/01/2009 UK hopes to cut piracy by making it easier to find movies

The UK Film Council has launched a search engine FindAnyFilm.com so that film buffs will be able to find when, where and how more than 30,000 movies a...

Article | 28/01/2009 Startup introduces cloud marketplace

Deutsche Telekom spin-off Zimory has unveiled Public Cloud, a marketplace for companies that want to buy and sell hosted server capacity online.