Top 10: Microsoft's Azure, Google's deals, IT money woes   31 Oct 2008 22:20 GMT
Microsoft's PDC was the source of the biggest news this week as the copany unveiled its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform. The company also let out some more details about the forthcoming Windows 7 OS and talked up its ambitions with Silverlight. Meanwhile, Google proposed settling lawsuits related to its book-scanning and indexing project, and word also seeped out through the Wall Street Journal that the company's search advertising deal with Yahoo could be scrapped because of regulatory issues.

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Android phone users get update for flaw   31 Oct 2008 19:00 GMT
Users of the G1 Android phone on Friday have begun receiving a software update that fixes a flaw that security researchers found earlier in the week.

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Japan's NTT DoCoMo aims to offer custom mobile phone videos (AFP)   31 Oct 2008 16:08 GMT

AFP - Top Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Friday promised to offer improved videos and custom services, seeking to boost profits as it faces intense competition in the saturated market.

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Banks, telcos to decide on wallet-phones (Reuters)   31 Oct 2008 13:24 GMT
Reuters - The potentially lucrative business of mobile phone wallets is waiting for banks and telecom operators to agree on each one's role and possible revenue flow in the future.
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Intel's Moorestown would make iPhone less secure   31 Oct 2008 10:58 GMT
Putting Intel's Moorestown chip package inside a future version of the iPhone would make the smart phone less secure, according to an independent security researcher.

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New Android apps a mixed bag, should improve   30 Oct 2008 20:40 GMT
Some of the new applications loaded to the Android Market since it opened on Monday don't work very well, crash the phone, aren't particularly elegant and in one case, uses commands written in Chinese.

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Unlocked G1: Not (yet) worth the effort   30 Oct 2008 18:37 GMT
A mere week after its release, the T-Mobile G1 phone has been unlocked. The dutiful folks at the Android Community posted pictures and a YouTube video of a G1 phone functioning with an AT&T SIM card. The site also claims -- but does not illustrate or explain how -- that the code works with any network SIM card.

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Motorola sees more phone weakness, delays spinoff (Reuters)   30 Oct 2008 16:02 GMT

Reuters - Motorola Inc warned its fourth-quarter results would miss expectations and said its struggling mobile phone business would weaken further in 2009, forcing the company to delay its plan to spin off the unit.

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Phone handset market stalls, Christmas fears rise (Reuters)   30 Oct 2008 11:04 GMT
Reuters - The world's top cellphone makers fear further weakening demand after reporting third-quarter growth grinding to a standstill, with only Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) gaining market share through price cuts.
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Sharp's profit down 35 percent on weak cell phones (AP)   30 Oct 2008 10:22 GMT
AP - Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. said Thursday its profit dropped 35.3 percent in the six months to September, hit by sluggish domestic demand for mobile phone handsets and a strong yen.
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