Users may help to vet Android apps   25 Jul 2008 10:57 GMT
Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.
Source: InfoWorld

Samsung's second-quarter net profit surges (AP)   25 Jul 2008 04:38 GMT

AP - Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones.

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Samsung Elec Q2 net disappoints, outlook grim (Reuters)   25 Jul 2008 02:20 GMT

Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the world's top maker of memory chips, posted lower-than-expected quarterly profit and faces a tough second half with a sluggish chip market and lower margins in flat screens and mobile phones.

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Users May Help to Vet Android Apps (PC World)   25 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT
PC World - Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.
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Not so fast, 3G   24 Jul 2008 22:06 GMT
You can't miss the slogan--it's plastered everywhere. "Twice as fast. Half the price." Just this morning, in fact, Apple posted a bunch of new ads that repeatedly drive the point home about the 3G wireless speeds of the iPhone 3G as surely as if we were all strapped to that chair from A Clockwork Orange.
Source: InfoWorld

Plugging iPhones into small businesses   24 Jul 2008 19:44 GMT
Apple's iPhone drew criticism when first released because of tepid enterprise business support. Small businesses felt the pain of iPhone envy more sharply than their enterprise counterparts because of the high up-front cost of the first iPhone and the back-end support requirements for high-end e-mail and communication servers.
Source: InfoWorld

Once media-shy Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war (Reuters)   24 Jul 2008 18:53 GMT

Reuters - The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.

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China's mobile users top 600 million: govt (AFP)   24 Jul 2008 16:02 GMT

AFP - The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines.

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Lab test: Apple gets iPhone 3G right for business   24 Jul 2008 10:00 GMT
With the iPhone 3G's banner opening weekend and newsstands looking like a rack of brochures for the device, a review of the iPhone 3G at this point might be pro forma, except for one thing: Much of the iPhone 3G and the new iPhone 2.0 software remains an enigma to professionals and enterprises, users set apart by, among other things, their tendency to use punctuation in their e-mail. These users demand more from a handset than a cellular browser and YouTube.
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Nokia shares rise on Qualcomm deal (Reuters)   24 Jul 2008 07:25 GMT
Reuters - Shares in the world's top cellphone maker, Nokia (NOK1V.HE), rose on Thursday after it signed a patent agreement with U.S. firm Qualcomm , ending three years of legal battles.
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