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Article | 14/07/2010 Cheap chipsets for Google Android smartphones due out in Q3
Taiwanese chipset developer MediaTek will start rolling out low-cost chipsets designed for handsets that use Google's Android mobile software in the t...
Article | 14/07/2010 Hands-on with Motorola's Droid X
Verizon Wireless on Thursday will start selling Motorola's highly anticipated smartphone, the Droid X, a faster and multimedia-savvy successor to the ...
Article | 14/07/2010 Windows Phone 7 can be remotely located, wiped
Lose your phone much? If so, you may want to consider one running Windows Phone 7 (WP7) for your next replacement.
Article | 13/07/2010 Google's new weapon in fighting Apple App Store -- you
Despite recent reports that say Google's Android market will soon have 100,000 mobile phone apps, Google is still far short of the 225,000 apps availa...
Article | 13/07/2010 Droid X goes on sale Thursday amid flurry of ad promotions
The Droid X smartphone. The Droid X smartphone ships on Thursday, following an unusual pre-sales publicity campaign designed to entice the savvy tech...
Article | 13/07/2010 Microsoft releases WP7 tools beta; preview phones coming next week
Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is coming later this year and today Microsoft released a beta version of developer tools to enable software makers to build appl...
Article | 13/07/2010 BlackBerry Protect brings enterprise security to consumers
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today took the wraps off its latest offering for consumers, BlackBerry Protect, a free service meant to help...
Article | 13/07/2010 Complaints mar Google Android App Inventor
Google's App Inventor for Android has inspired some early complaints from users who claim they have not been able to install the software on 64-bit Wi...
Article | 13/07/2010 Don't buy Apple's iPhone 4, Consumer Reports warns
Consumer Reports magazine today said it won't recommend Apple's Phone 4 because of major reception issues when users touch the external antenna.
Article | 10/07/2010 Fring Enables 3G Video Calls on iPhone 4
The problem with Apple's iPhone 4 Facetime commercial is that not everyone has an iPhone 4, and that's just not happening.
Article | 11/07/2010 Technologist: Full immersion in the cyberworld is coming
Although many people already are engrossed in cyberspace, judging by the amount of communicating, socializing and commerce conducted online, we're at ...
Article | 12/07/2010 NTP sues smartphone makers Apple, Google and others
Patent holding company NTP, which received a US$612.5 million settlement from BlackBerry marker Research In Motion in a patent infringement case, has ...
Article | 8/07/2010 RIP Microsoft Kin, you won't be missed
It's been a week since <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/microsoft-kills-the-kin-910">Microsoft took its two fledgling Kin smartphones for ...
Article | 9/07/2010 Pew Research: Wealthy use laptops, poor have mobile phones
While the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project stated that wireless usage is up in almost all categories, some groups are trendi...
Article | 9/07/2010 US panel to investigate patent complaint against smartphones
The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into patent complaints filed by FlashPoint Technology, which alleges that four s...