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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...

Article | 20/07/2009 Navigon joins the iPhone party with MobileNavigator Lite

German GPS manufacturer Navigon has released an Australian version of its MobileNavigator Lite app for the iPhone, allowing users to try the software ...

Article | 17/07/2009 Palm Pre SDK is out

The long-awaited Palm Mojo Software Development Kit, for building applications for the Palm Pre device and the webOS platform, is now generally availa...

Article | 18/07/2009 Verizon's exclusivity compromise: unimpressive gesture

All hail Verizon, the champion of change -- right? After all, the cellular company has caved into government pressure and agreed to loosen its grip on...

Article | 17/07/2009 3 Mobile expected to sell out iPhone 3GS just three days after launch

Australian telco 3 Mobile has almost sold out of Apple's iPhone 3GS online on the day of launch.

Article | 17/07/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 17th July, 2009

In this week’s show Microsoft hosts its Worldwide Partner Conference, a survey reveals many IT professionals plan to skip Windows 7, a new LG Black La...