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Article | 11/10/2009 Microsoft loses Sidekick users' personal data

Contacts, calendar entries, photographs and other personal information of Sidekick users has almost certainly been lost for good following a service d...

Article | 11/10/2009 KDDI pairs a mobile phone with a robot

As mobile phones add more features and more users connect with social media, the cell phone becomes a more important part of people's lives. Japanese ...

Article | 9/10/2009 CEATEC: New gadgets, prototypes debuted this week in Japan

Ceatec, showcased many new technologies and prototype gadgets. We take you through our favourite tech products.

Article | 8/10/2009 CEATEC: KDDI shows low-cost joystick for mobile phones

Japanese telecommunications company KDDI showed a low-cost, 3D joystick for mobile phones at Ceatec on Wednesday.

Article | 9/10/2009 Motorola no longer on LiMo Foundation board

Motorola is so focused on Android that it has dropped its board seat on the LiMo Foundation, the mobile Linux group it helped found.

Article | 9/10/2009 New software could pit Motorola as competitor to Yahoo

The Motorola Cliq, on display for the first time at International CTIA this week, has hardware features such as a touch screen atop a slideout QWERTY ...

Article | 9/10/2009 Samsung to offer mobile access to Oracle, other software

Samsung has developed a mobile CRM (customer relationship management) service, based on Oracle products, that it partially hosts from a data center in...

Article | 6/10/2009 CEATEC: KDDI shows latest prototype phone based on fuel cell

The latest prototype cell phone based on a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) made its debut on Tuesday at the Ceatec show in Japan.

Article | 6/10/2009 CEATEC: DoCoMo's LTE chip offers download speeds of 100Mbps

NTT DoCoMo expects to have an LTE (Long-term Evolution) chipset that supports download speeds up to 100M bits per second ready for commercial use at t...

Article | 7/10/2009 CEATEC: iPhone finds a little love in Japan

The iPhone may be a runaway hit in most markets, but not in gadget-crazy Japan.

Article | 8/10/2009 Microsoft content with Windows Mobile launch

Not only was there a negative initial reaction to the launch of the latest Windows phones on Wednesday, there were news stories about all the bad revi...

Article | 7/10/2009 WinMo phones finally get app store with Windows Marketplace

Microsoft has launched the latest version of its operating system for smartphones, Windows Mobile 6.5.

Article | 7/10/2009 Microsoft shows Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones

Microsoft smartphone partners are expected to deliver about 30 new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices by the end of 2009, including HTC and Toshiba shown for ...

Article | 6/10/2009 iPhone Avoids Getting Shot in Apple Store

iPhones aren't without their problems, but do they deserve public execution? Apparently so. Donald Goodrich, 38, threatened to stuff his broken iPho...

Article | 6/10/2009 RIM extends BlackBerry app development to Web developers

Research In Motion (RIM) will preview on Tuesday technologies enabling application builders to use Web development skills to build programs for the c...

Article | 7/10/2009 Microsoft's mobile turnaround: what's at stake

With the "Windows phones" being announced Tuesday, Microsoft swallows its pride, confesses the error of its ways, and takes an oath that it will never...

Article | 7/10/2009 Adobe does 'end-around' Apple with Flash dev tool, says analyst

Adobe's decision to give Flash developers a way to craft iPhone applications is an "end-around" Apple's decision to ban Flash Player from its popular ...

Article | 7/10/2009 Android finally invades Verizon

Verizon announced that it is joining the ranks of mobile service providers embracing devices built on the open source Google Android operating system....

Article | 6/10/2009 CEATEC: Fujitsu application aims to improve your golf game

Are you having problems with your golf swing and can't figure out what the problem is? Fujitsu has a mobile-phone application now in development that ...

Article | 7/10/2009 Motorola describes close relationship with Google

On the day that Microsoft is launching phones that will run on its latest version of Windows Mobile, Motorola is singing the praises of open-source so...