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Article | 24/07/2009 Several Chinese Android phones due in Europe this year

At least three Chinese companies have put Google's Android operating system on mobile phones they say will launch in Europe this year.

Article | 24/07/2009 First Garmin-Asus smartphones due out next week

The first smartphones from the new joint venture between GPS device maker Garmin and electronics vendor Asustek Computer will be available in Taiwan n...

Article | 23/07/2009 Samsung: just one step closer to a Holodeck

Samsung has a new phone coming out, but you would have never guessed it by the buzz surrounding the presentations the company has been giving.

Article | 23/07/2009 Sony Ericsson Google Android phone revealed

An online retailer is listing a version of Sony Ericsson's Windows Mobile smartphone the Xperia, with one major difference. The new Xperia appears to ...

Article | 24/07/2009 Sharp's latest cell phone recharges with a solar panel

An hour in the sun will provide 6 minutes of talk time and 6 hours of standby time. The phone has just gone on sale in Japan.

Article | 24/07/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 24th July, 2009

In this week’s show a mobile phone offer sounds too good to be true and probably is, MIT students work on building an electric car with rapid recharge...

Article | 23/07/2009 Indian farmers use mobile phones to control irrigation

Mobile Operator Tata Teleservices is testing technology that allows farmers to use their mobile phones to remotely monitor and switch on irrigation pu...

Article | 23/07/2009 Is the Palm Pre suffering from high return rates?

The Palm Pre might be subject to excessively high return rates, according to an equities market researcher. But then again it might not.

Article | 23/07/2009 iPhone app predicts IPv4 doomsday

If you're the kind of person who walks down the street worrying about the depletion of IPv4 addresses, the iPhone can now tell you how long you have u...

Article | 23/07/2009 O2 resolves internet access issue for iPhone

O2 has restored internet connections and MMS services for the "vast majority" of its mobile phone customers, including Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPh...

Article | 23/07/2009 Apple can't meet iPhone demand amid record profits

Global recession? Not for Apple, whose Wall St. financials are blissfully unaware of Main St. reality. Apple's sadness? They can't keep up with demand...

Article | 23/07/2009 iPhone suicide case spotlights tech's dark side

The computer or smartphone you're using now, do you know who made it? Where it was made? Never mind the logo or brand on the case. It won't tell you m...

Article | 22/07/2009 RIM: UAE Carrier's Blackberry update was spyware

A Blackberry firmware update pushed out to subscribers of United Arab Emirates carrier Etisalat contained spyware, Research in Motion confirmed Tuesda...

Article | 22/07/2009 Apple iPod sales slow but iPhone makes up for it

Apple beat analyst expectations and appears nearly untouched by the economic downturn, reporting its best non-holiday quarterly revenue and earnings i...

Article | 21/07/2009 Apple, BlackBerry grab 35% of global profits

Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry smartphones may be tiny players in terms of market share but they command a giant slice of mobile profits. In 2008...

Article | 21/07/2009 Medicinal marijuana? There's an app for that!

We've seen a lot of unexpected, and sometimes cool, iPhone apps approved by Apple, but today's news might top the rest. Apple has approved a marijuana...

Article | 21/07/2009 New apps will give iPhone Blu-ray power

You'll soon be able to control Blu-ray content right from your iPhone. Universal has announced plans to launch a new series of iPhone apps that'll int...

Article | 20/07/2009 Orange and T-Mobile to offer iPhone 3G in the UK?

Apple's iPhone 3G could soon be available on T-Mobile and Orange in the UK.

Article | 21/07/2009 Mobile apps: What's in your future?

More predictions about the future of mobile devices are coming out of the MobileBeat Conference in San Francisco. Ilja Laurs, the head of GetJar -- a ...

Article | 21/07/2009 3G-satellite system coming to AT&T gets first call

Though not as dramatic as the moon landing that took place 40 years ago Monday, a phone call over a satellite launched earlier this month was the firs...