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Sprint Says All Smartphones Will Have Wi-Fi

In a surprising move, Sprint has said that it is requiring all of the smartphones it carries to come equipped with Wi-Fi capabilities. This will include an updated version of the much-anticipated Blackberry Tour, which was released for the Sprint network on Sunday. In effort to keep up with ...

Amazon.com Launche Wireless Superstore

If you were to look at the cellular phone market as a graph, there would be some periods of rabid growth, followed by periods of leveling off but the overall pattern would be continued expansion. Sensing the opportunity such a business model presents, Amazon.com, one of the world's largest...

Heidi Daus Jewelry

...Deco fashion , her fanciful jewelry is actually inspired by nature. Flowers, insects, foreign lands, and Heidi's own lush garden have influenced her creations. The end result is a beautiful vintag...

The Mercedes Folding Bike

... • Microsoft set to respond to Google OS next Monday? • Judge Tosses Out Foreign YouTube Lawsuits; Points Out Basic Copyright Law • Sony CEO dismisses price cut chatter on PlayStation • Search ...

T-Mobile To Begin Pre-Selling New Android Phone

In effort to reaise up some well needed capital, struggling wireless carrier T-Mobile today began pre-selling the myTouch 3G, its second Google-powered smartphone. T-Mobile, which currently sits in fourth-place in terms of sheer size among US carriers, is feeling the pressure amid a busy summ...

Animoto Releases Updated iPhone App

Animoto has released an update to their popular music video creation app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Videos 2.0 . The Animoto Videos application allows users to easily create and view professional-quality music videos on the go. With nearly 500,000 videos created through the application ...

China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk

...ocesses either as joint venture partners, by watching and learning, or by hiring select talent from foreign companies. ...

Satellite Hopes To Make Deadzones a Thing of the Past

The world's largest commercial satellite has been launched into earth orbit with the goal of providing mobile phone service to "dead zones" all across North America. Owned by Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, the satellite is designed to pick up and relay signals from mobile phones. ...

Verizon and Sprint to Launch Blackberry World Phone

You could say that with the help of Verizon, RIM's latest Blackberry is going on world tour. In fact, that's exactly what's going on in the latest word that Verizon Wireless will launch the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 for $200 with a new two-year contract. The Tour is loaded with m...

DHL makes exansion in China

... DHL Supply Chain is a key driver for DHL group's growth in China. The country continues to ban foreign companies from entering its domestic express mail market. DHL group has invested around $2....

Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa

...ees be H-1B visa holders. The H-1B is a temporary work visa used to allow companies to bring in foreign workers with "rare" talent on a temporary basis. Companies like Google and Microso...

Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer

We often talk about attempts to dethrone the immensely popular iPhone and it looks like consumer electronics giant Sony is about to take a stab at it next. Sony has released word that it is considering setting up a project team as early as July to make a new device that combines the functions...

Verizon's New Global Smartphone Aims for the Ozone

Tired of worrying about whether or not your cell phone will work when traveling abroad? Verizon understands where you're coming from and, with HTC, are planning on bringing a true global handset to the market. Set to run Windows Mobile 6.1 this new smartphone will run on both CDMA and GSM...

Motorola Karma Has Texting in Mind

AT&T and Motorola are working on a device with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard aimed at consumers looking to use their phones to send text messages and access social networking sites like Facebook. Calling this new handset the Karma, Motorola says that the design will be especially pleasing t...

T-Mobile's New Android Phone Coming Soon

T-Mobile's got an ace up their sleeve in the ongoing struggle to dethroning the Apple iPhone coming out this August. Calling it the myTouch 3G, its new Google Android equipped phone is a more equipped version of the popular G1. It will feature a built-in 3.2-megapixel camera, music player...

T-Mobile Aims High with the Dash 3G

T-Mobile has apparently stood-by and watched RIM and Apple dominate the market long enough. The company has announced its plans to enter the hotly contested smartphone scene with their Dash 3G, which is set to hit streets next month (July). T-Mobile says that the Dash 3G, which was designed b...

CIA recruits bankers

...me a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for bankers to come on board and "assess foreign economic policies and foreign financial issues" and "assess illicit financial acti...

Apple Updates its Software While the Government Rethinks Law

Apple today officially released the iPhone OS 3.0 software, updating 45 software patches to address rare security vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. The company said the new features include cut, copy and paste, MMS, and push notifications. Analysts expect ...

Nokia Announces Successor to the E71 Smartphone

Nokia has answered the question on the minds of business users all around the globe today by announced its E72- an updated version of its top-selling E71 business phone. The company says that the E72 builds on the successful E71; its hot selling QWERTY- equipped smartphone, by adding performa...

Motorola Rival Coming to Verizon

Texters on the Verizon network have reason to celebrate in the form of the Rival from Motorola. Designed specifically for the challenges of texting, the Rival features a 2.2-inch screen and a backlit QWERTY keyboard that lights up either red or green depending on entry mode. The handset offer...

Nokia Hopes Cell Phones will No Longer Require Chargers

Quick- what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of charging your cell phone? If you said a cord, an electrical outlet or even a docking station, you may want to read on. Nokia researchers are working on development of cellular phone charging by simply capturing ambient rad...

全球社会化网络版图

即使在网络世界，霸主地位也不是那么容易获得的。虽然 Facebook 已经成为世界上最大的社会化网站，并将在不久的将来在美国市场超过 MySpace，但是 Facebook 并不是在每一个国家的社会化网站中都排名第一。根据 Alexa 与 Google 的数据，美国 Vincenzo Cosenza 公司最近 绘制了一幅全球社会化网络地图 。从这张地图上可以看到世界不同地区的社会化网站新势力。 从这张地图可以看出，虽然 Facebook 席卷全球，但在很多国家却遭遇了不同社会化网站的抵抗，图中绿色区域为 Facebook 势力范围。在俄罗斯，V Kontakte 统治着社会化网站；在中...

Apple Slashes Prices on the iPhone

Apple Inc. slashed the entry price for an iPhone in half as well as lowered some of their laptop prices today; the company's first dramatic price cuts since the recession began a year and a half ago. The 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G, which came out last year, now costs $99, instead of $199. The 1...

Apple Rumors Are At the Breaking Point

...d a front facing VGA camera. If these rumors are true, then Apple will be announcing their complete dominance of the smartphone market. A budget model would make sure that everyone owns one, and the a...

In Search of a Cool Summer: Kunming, China

...ht nights. About half of those days saw rain. Kunming is no stranger to tourism. Almost a million foreign visitors a year come to the city. Another two million Chinese citizens vacation in the city ...

T-Mobile To Release Second Android Phone While Samsung Targets Photogs

T-Mobile, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier, is hoping to increase its rank by launch its second smartphone to run Google's Android operating system in a few weeks. While details aren't overly specific just yet, the new smartphone is slotted to run Google's codenamed "Cupcake&q...

Inq To Release Twitter Handset

It was only a matter of time… Let's face it, as a whole, the world is quick to adopt a trend, run with it, and then leave it for dead. First it was Myspace then Facebook. Now the world is Twitter-obsessed and to that end mobile phone maker INQ Mobile plans to launch a Twitter phone in time...

Palm Pre has Captured Wireless Carriers' Attention

Business users and smartphone fans alike are anxiously counting down the days until Palm's Pre hits the market. In a surprising move, the Pre will launch on June 6 for $200 exclusively for Sprint. As expected, the remaining domestic carriers have their sights set on the Pre as well. Earli...

Kinoma Introduces World’s First Mobile Social Media Browser

With today's release of Kinoma Play, the leading way to find, play and share media on a mobile phone is now also the best way to find, play and share media across social networks and media services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa. The new release of Kinoma Play for Win...

Nokia Announces 6600i - Slimmest Camera phone to Date

Nokia, the world's leading handset maker, has announced the 6600i Slide, its smallest 5.0-megapixel equipped slider to date. The company said that tucked within the handset's brushed steel shell is an upgraded 5.0-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash. It features a hidden external...

LG Glance Coming Soon To Verizon

While the slim candy bar-style handset may not be the first form factor that comes to mind for business use, but apparently that isn't slowing Verizon down any. The company is set to launch an all-new candy bar from LG next month aimed at business users known as the Glance VX7100. The han...

Samsung's Affordable T349 Comes To T-Mobile

T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, has launched the Samsung T349, a slim messaging phone with a 20-key, partial QWERTY keypad and XT9 enhanced predictive text for faster text messaging. Multiple messaging options include email, instant message, picture messaging, vide...

AT&T Considers Dropping Cost of IPhone Plans

AT&T is considering offering cheaper data plans with limited Web surfing as early as late May in hopes of significantly boosting iPhone sales. The possible price cut (to $60 a month; a $10 reduction off the current lowest plan) reflects the back-and-forth negotiations between AT&T and...

Pentax K-7 gets leaked

... A certain foreign website (thanks google translate) has got itself all up close and personal with the new Pentax K-7. It's certainly a fine looking piece of kit which may well come to be a ...

Military joins climate change battle

...gy sources. The report says: "US dependence on oil weakens international leverage, undermines foreign policy objectives, and entangles America with unstable or hostile regimes. Inefficient use a...

Nokia Announces World's Cheapest G3 Phones

Hey times are tough here in the US- Nokia realizes that not everyone wants to break the proverbial bank just to enjoy the high-speed capabilities of the G3 network. As such he world's top handset maker has unveiled its 2720 Fold and 7020 series phones, including the 2730 Classic - the chea...

Sprint Follows Verizon with Personal Wi-Fi

A week after rival Verizon Wireless announced its plans to offer a personal Wi-Fi device, Sprint says that its ready to launch its own "Mobile Hotspot" gadget, a portable unit that creates a localized Wi-Fi cloud to share high-speed Internet with wireless electronics like laptops, ne...

Alias 2 Announced for Verizon

Verizon Wireless has launched the Samsung Alias 2, a dual-hinge clamshell with a morphing keyboard that uses the same display technology found on the Amazon Kindle. Rather than a jumble of keys with small labels, the handset's keypad actually changes depending on what users are doing. So ...

H1B: Frying pan to fire

...There are few things more controversial in the world of IT HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well...

The 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China is Making China Visas Hard to Get

Foreigners who want a business visa to China in the next few months are evidently having a harder and harder time getting them. The China Law Blog has compared the situation to the politically inspired difficulty people had getting visas during the run up to the Beijing Olympics. © schuey ...

Facebook Comes to Windows Mobile

Software giant Microsoft has released a Facebook application that allows Windows Mobile 6 users create wall posts, share photos, send messages, update profile pictures and even upload videos. The free software, creatively dubbed Facebook for Windows Mobile 6 , is the first app to let users u...

BlackBerry Curve Dethrones iPhone

Oh boy, it seems like everyone under the sun has been scurrying to develop a smartphone that could dethrone the might iPhone and it looks like it finally happened, at least as far as the First Quarter of 2009 is concerned. According to market researchers at The NPD Group, Research in Motion&#...

HP to Get on the Blackberry Software Train

The BlackBerry line of smartphones is already known for being business-friendly but the software available for these phones is about to get a boost. Research In Motion (RIM) and computer giant Hewlett-Packard said they have agreed to a strategic alliance to design and sell business software fo...

Squarespace as a Situational App programming model

...ilt by developers tend to lag in usability for mere mortals. Paradigms familiar to the builders are foreign and inaccessible to the intended users, and it's proven extremely difficult to bridge th...

Microsoft Plans its iPhone Killer

Don't for a minute believe that a company can have the type of success that Apple has had with its iPhone and not have everyone else gunning for them. The latest in a long list of handsets designed to steal a piece of the iPhone pie comes from none other than the maker of Windows. Softwar...

Verizon Pushes for Apple iPad

Apple's iFamily is about to increase by a member if Verizon Wireless has its way. The wireless company is in talks with Apple to distribute a media pad device that would let users listen to music, view photos, watch high-definition videos and make calls over its Wi-Fi connection. The devi...

Samsung's First Android Phone Hits Europe

Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, today unveiled the I7500, its first Android-powered smartphone. Measuring just 11.9mm thick, the I7500 features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen display, high-speed 7.2Mbps HSDPA Internet and Wi-Fi connectivity. Additiona...

New Nokia Handset That Thinks It's a Credit Card

Just when we thought we'd seen it all- Nokia announces that its latest handset can act as a credit card! Its 6216 classic may look like a regular cell phone but it has the ability to securely store a user's credit card information on the SIM card using NFC (Near Field Communication...

PC Maker Acer Launches its Cellular Line

Computer giant Acer launched a complete line of smartphones for the Asia-Pacific region. The Taiwan-based company, best known for its PCs and laptops has finalized its ambitions to gain a share of the lucrative smartphone market. With its five new models, the company professes lofty ambition...

How Does Free Mobile TV Sound to You?

Of all the various mobile tech news subjects I come on and blog about, it's hard to imagine anything more exciting than announcements like the following. Broadcasters at the nation's capital have decided Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV for mobile devices. ...

Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones

Although sony was hoping to adopt Google's hot new Android software as soon as possible, delays associated with trying to develop its own take on the operating system have resulted in their opting to use the tried and true Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. This comes right as the ...

Apple About to Break Milestone

You know you're doing something right when you start posting numbers like Apple's been enjoying. The maker of the iPhone and iPod Touch is fast approaching a billion downloads for its online App Store. The company unveiled a Web page dedicated to tracking the number of downloads unti...

IPOs: don't blame Sarbox

... but secular trends for alternative financing." At the same time, the US continues to attract foreign listings despite Sarbanes-Oxley with, for example, Chinese video games maker Changyou.com ma...

Google Updates GMail For Android Users

The good news about a single company, in this case Google, owning a whole line of related aps is that they can address issues directly. The company has released a new version of Gmail for their Android-powered smartphones (that also works on Apple's iPhone software) that is not only faste...

Virgin Mobile Slashes Prices on Plans

Tough economic times means a fear of getting roped into a commitment for many potential wireless customers. That said Virgin Mobile is revamping some of its service rates in effort to compete against intense price-cutting among second-tier wireless competitors. Beginning April 15th, Virgin Mo...

Apple's Plans to Keep Next iPhone Quiet Foiled

Taiwanese handset component suppliers have started shipping parts for the successor to the Apple iPhone 3G possibly launching in June. Apple has been just pounded by persistent rumors of new handset launches, with reports of a next generation iPhone gaining momentum recently. The rumors int...

T-Mobile To Bring Android Into Homes

Google's Android mobile operating system is about to get a hefty push that could potentially help it make up some of the ground between leading systems like iPhone and Windows Mobile. T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier, plans to aggressively push into consumer home...

RIM Follows Apple With New Apps Store

Everyone else is doing it so it's got to be a good idea. That's the logic anyway when it comes to Apps stores these days. Apple is credited as leading the way with their immensely popular iPhone Store with Microsoft playing catch up through a similar store of their own. Research in Mo...

Foreign Tourists Allowed Back Into Tibet

...ists on April 5th, according to the Associated Press . Since last March Tibet has been closed to foreign tourists. The Chinese government was worried about political unrest. The number of visas ava...

Tibet Will Reopen to Foreign Tourists

...ll reopen to tourists on April 5th, according to the Associated Press . Tibet has been closed to foreign tourists for over a year now out of Chinese government concern over political unrest. The nu...

LG Brings DTV To Its Phones

LG realizes that to rekindle slumping sales, innovations in the cellular industry have to be above and beyond the norm. That said, the company has unveiled a new line of handsets that are capable of receiving free digital TV transmissions over the air. LG loaded its ATSC Mobile Digital Telev...

Unemployment to soar: bleak times ahead

... Angel Gurría. He paints a very grim picture. With trade flows expected to fall by 9% in 2009 and foreign direct investment inflows to further contract, after shrinking by about 20% in 2008, Gurría w...

Samsung Propel Comes to AT&T

With the Las Vegas CTIA show in full swing, there is just an overload of news to report. If there were trouble in the economy, you'd never know it based on this place! AT&T has been announcing just a flood of new models for the upcoming year. One of particilar note is the popular sam...

Verizon Confirms Netbook Rumors

I'm not sure if the recent downturn in the economy is even to blame anymore, but there is definitely a pattern of manufacturers swapping roles of late. First we hear about laptop makers Dell and Acer planning to make up for lost revenue by building smartphones and now the nation's ...

T-Mobile Gets Serious About Wireless Internet

T-Mobile, known for their cellular endeavors, has announced their latest innovation- the WebConnect USB Laptop Stick that allows USB-equipped devices to access 3G wireless Internet access. The plug-in USB device will act as a wireless antenna to connect any laptop, desktop, or PDA to T-Mobile...

US dollar under fire

...old more U.S. dollars and dollar securities than they do assets denominated in any other individual foreign currency. Still, the fact that China and other nations have gone on the offensive when the U...

Verizon "Intrigues" With Multi-Screen Phone

In a world excited about multiple-anything (think octomom), Verizon has capitalized on this trend with their latest phone. The nation's largest wireless carrier today introduced the Nokia 7205 Intrigue , a stylish clamshell with a hidden-until-lit external display. The Intrigue opens ...

Sony Bets on Digital Cameras to Move Phones

The problem with the slow economy is that many users are deciding to hold on to their old cell phones longer. This makes good economic sense for the user but the wireless carriers would prefer regular upgrades. To that end mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said it is betting heavily on camera ...

Apple Unveils iPhone Software Upgrade

While many view Apple's iPhone operating system to be one of the most-intuitive, there is apparently room for improvement as indicated by Apple's latest news release. Apple has unveiled its latest iPhone software upgrade with new features ranging from copy-and-paste and message notifi...

Facebook Comes to Apple i-Gadgets

When it comes to social networking it's tough to go anywhere without hearing about Facebook. Likewise Apple's gadgets seem to be the talk of the town when it comes to connectivity. It's only natural that these two giants collaborate to make mobile networking a part of daily life. ...