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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 ...

Ok You're Right [50 Cent]

... ok ok ok ok ok ok *screwed* ok ok ok ok ok ok *screwed* Hook: when they talk about me, they say i be tripping what they say about doesn't make me mad i think they hating 'cause they see ...

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...

O2 to Launch Toshiba TG01 with Nimbuzz Pre-Installed

...etary technical barriers that separate popular VoIP/IM communities — such as Skype , Google Talk , and Yahoo! Messenger — as well as the social networking sites Facebook , MySpace , ...

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...

Gmail 终于卸下 Beta 标签

... Google 今天正式将 Gmail、Calendar、Docs 和 Talk 四项服务中的 Beta 标签移除，以便为进军企业市场开路。 在软件行业中，Beta 版是介于 Alpha 版和最终发行版之间的一个软件版本，通常理解为公测版，该版本的周期一般为几周或几个月。但 Gmail却有所不同，自 2004 年 4 月 1 日发行至今，Gmail 中的 Beta 标签已经存在了足足 5 年...

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 ...

Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 3)

...This is the third part of Robert Hanfield's talk in PMMS Leadership in Procurement: A Global Perspective in Troubled Times. In this part Robert touches upon issues such as early retirement policie...

Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?

... The blogosphere is buzzing with talk that Sarah Palin's shock resignation was to head off an embezzlement scandal. Brad Friedman at the Brad Blog broke the story. "I've now been ab...

Neverland's future: up for grabs

...operty last year. And now Colony Capital isn't ruling anything out. "It's premature to talk about the future of the property," Colony Capital spokesperson Owen Blicksilver told Acce...

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. ...

What the jobless figures tell us

...e, textiles, cars and electronics, are still uniformly gloomy. That is worrying." For all the talk of recovery, all signs are saying things are getting worse....

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...

Succeeding on the Internet

...ces that are outside of what your company focus may be, diluting your time. The article goes on to talk about things like training, transparency, talent, service, and even bookkeeping. While it doesn&...

NetworkingForPros.com Puts You on the Web

© Dmitry Baranovskiy I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for eCommerce and business. The site is NetworkingForPros.com . When I look across the web at the mome...

Blackberry Tour 9630 coming soon to Verizon Wireless

The much anticipated new Blackberry device known Tour is coming to Verizon Wireless on July 12. It is now available for pre-ordering at a discounted price of $199.99 on a two year contract. Two versions of the device will be shipped, one with a 3.2 Megapixel camera and the other one without it b...

Your Company Website

...I talked yesterday over at BizPlanHacks about getting customers through your company website. Do you have a company website? You should. SimplWeb has an online course available to help you star...

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 con...

Jackson's estate: the blooduckers zero in

...p scoring off him in death the way they did in life,'' Lubica writes."Already there is talk that there might be a CD and DVD in Jackson's last L.A. rehearsal before he was to leave fo...

INQ1 wins Phone of the Year Award:

... built-in tools, messengers and services: Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, Last FM and Ebay. It stores all Social Networking, IM and mobile contacts in one place ...

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3

...9;s Smith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work' • Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading • Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting • Did ...

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...

Saving Money on Your Car Insurance Tips

...ey do not think to ask questions about what they are buying. One thing that you definitely want to talk about is what kind of auto insurance discounts you qualify for. This is very important because t...

HTC Hero Android Smartphone Officially Launched

HTC has officially launched a new Android Smartphone known as the HTC Hero. It is the most exciting Android device launched thus far and will come with a customized UI known as the HTC Sense. According to HTC, the HTC Sense UI will be based on three basic principles: Make it Mine, Stay Close and...

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...

Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...

Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics: What is a grant? Who can qualify? How do you apply? What types of grants are available? What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant? Why would a grant application not b...

Can Wind Power Make a Profit?

...oan with a $30,000 annual payback. It's not an unusual example. One solution no one likes to talk about, raise the cost of electricity. In the debate on alternative energy sources, many people 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...

US Immigration Overhaul "Essential"

© jurvetson The Obama Administration made it clear this week that overhauling the immigration system in the U.S. is a priority for his administration. Obama told the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference that U.S. borders must be strengthened to thwart illegal immigrati...

Enjoying First Grade

My son is truly enjoying first grade. It has been 2 weeks and he is already having a blast. Though we both have to adjust to waking up early (classes are from 710 to 1130 in the mornings and 1 to 4 in the afternoons), we have slowly gotten there. I don't just rely on one alarm clock, I hav...

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

... If you've been retrenched as a banker or hedge fund manager, don't worry. There's plenty of work out there, if you want to become a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for...

Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?

...ve, and ultimately destructive side bets that financial institutions make. And finally, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and ...

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 ...

A GM name change?

Last month, Harvard Business School set off the debate about a name change for GM . It suggested going for an American theme, although somehow I don't think Stars and Stripes Automobile Manufacturing Co. is going to cut it in a global market. But a name change might be necessary. "If ...

Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion

... " Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May , capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000." Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, "Emerging Markets funds wer...

Just Koogle it.

Now I've heard everything. We have reports of a new kosher search engine called "koogle" developed in Israel that allows religious Jews to search the Net without compromising their religious standards. Koogle screens out such forbidden material as sexually explicit images or pict...

Nokia Announces Successor to the E71 Smartphone

...have the option of setting up instant messaging accounts from the likes of Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk or Ovi directly from the homescreen. Additionally users are granted a lifetime license for Nok...

Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking

Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...

Vopium-Free VOIP Application for Smartphones

Vopium is a carrier-grade mobile telephony service designed to offer affordable and reliable international calls from any mobile handset. By using the Vopium application on their mobile to make calls from their home country, consumers and businesses alike can save up to 90% on international mobi...

Unemployment: are the numbers lying?

So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...

Drug pushing Eli Lilly

... alleging the drug company treated them as second class citizens in the area of pay and promotion. Talk about an ethics bypass. Eli Lilly is a company now worth watching....

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...

Recession and marriage

It seems the recession is saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices means it's just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marr...

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...

Art Funds

According to Friedrich Kiradi, head of Merit Alternative Investments GmbH and director of the world-wide first Art Photography Fund. "Investments in material assets such as real estate, commodities, as well as art, continues to be an area that investors seem to be focusing on, with the gro...

Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank

... (BGI), including the iShares business. BlackRock's BGI buyout will break its own record in a hedge fund transaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management busine...

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...

Venture Capitalists Fight for Carried Interest

...tware - Mac and Windows • Talk Social News - If it's social, we're talking about it. • dailyRT | the most popular tweets on the web • iFollowBack.com • JustHearIt.com - A Web Created B...

Entrepreneurial Life

© tedmurphy I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneurs in general. Author Lisa Bourne was lucky enough to get Copyblogger's Brian Clark, John Jantsc...

Social Networking With Purpose

Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks. The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...

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...

Apps adoption not so terrible

...tually have the data say they are doing just fine. Google Enterprise president David Girouard, in a talk at Bank of America and Merrill Lynch's US Technology conference ( available here ) says the...

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...

Sipgate vs. Skype

...- Left your mobile phone at home? Simply go online and divert calls to your office line - Want to talk to friends in an ad-hoc conference? Bridge them with the touch of a button - Missed calls whil...

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...

Introducing the Sony Ericsson Aino Touch Screen Handset

...rs: Facebook, YouTube, FM Radio, Video Streaming, IM, Email Colours: Obsidian Black, Luminous White Talk time GSM: Up to 13 hrs (GSM), Up to 4.5 hours (UMTS) Standby time: Up to 380 hrs (GSM), Up to 3...

Alienware Invades with New M17x Notebook

...try level career • McAfee VirusScan Enterprise v8.7i Retail + Patch 1 • Let's talk about Windows 7 Starter • Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave • Google's Top Policy Executive...

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...

More housing woes

... There's been plenty of talk lately about the US housing market bottoming out and that it can only go up from there. But people are clutching at straws. A good example is the paltry 0.3% increa...

NewsCorp negotiates with "parasite" Google

... Talk about putting their foot in it. Gawker has an interesting piece on how Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of "stealing" his copyright and of how his lieutenant at The Wall Street J...

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...

The Genius Visa

© Keith Allison You've probably never heard of the genius visa. Les than 10,000 people a year are allowed into the U.S. on it. People who are at the absolute top tier of their field in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, or business. Its formal name is the O-1 visa, and BusinessWeek...

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...

MBAs and Entrepreneurs

...nation with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest" of what...

Samsung i637 Jack Review

...PA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, EDGE Memory: 256MB ROM, 256MB RAM, 16 GB microSD support Battery: 1480 mAh Talk time: Up to 7 hours Standby time: Up to 12 days Here is a video review of the Samsung i637 Ja...

The recession: blaming the business schools

...ecently, the majority of Harvard's MBAs went into jobs in investment banking, private equity or hedge funds. These were the careers of choice. You can make long lists of high-profile MBAs who brou...

Why is Apple Rejecting PhoneGap-Built iPhone Apps?

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AT&T Considers Dropping Cost of IPhone Plans

...r-cost plans could also help AT&T distance itself from rival Verizon Wireless, which is also in talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to its network. As the cost of touch screens, the most expens...