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Google brings e-books to browser
News Google to launch online e-book store, challenging e-readers by taking e-books directly to browser.
Tags: Handhelds, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., e-reader, Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Web Browser, E-book, handheld, online store
Palm picks new pilot to run company
News Ed Colligan is stepping down as chief of the smartphone maker, and Jon Rubinstein takes over.
Tags: Handhelds, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Smart Phone, Ina Fried, Apple iPod, CEO, Apple iPhone, CNET Networks Inc., industry
Augmented reality: Not that real yet
News Why iPhone apps that act as a digital guidebook aren't quite ready for prime time and is a step down from using conventional mapping and search applications.
Tags: Smart phones, GPS receiver, Phone, App, Smart Phone, McDonald's Corp., GPS, Smartphone, Washington, Apple iPhone
Dell hints at smartphone plans
News PC maker has been long-rumored to have a handheld device in the works. When pressed by an interviewer on the subject, Michael Dell reveals more than an offhand comment.
Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Mobile, Smart Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Om Malik, handheld, Microsoft Windows, handheld device, blog
Booming gray market threatens cell phone industry
News Apple iPhone's official carrier in China is enduring meager sales, just one result of the expansion of global market for copycat handsets.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., MediaTek, Phone, cell phone, handset, China Unicom, Sales, handset company, China
Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic
News Company says its new silver-based ink can be used to print electronic circuitry on everything from flexible e-book screens to pill bottles.
Tags: Handhelds, Xerox Corp., Computing, desktop printer, silicon chip, Smith, Conference, E-book Reader, Manufacturing, Inkjet Printer
Gartner sees slowdown in smartphone sales growth
News Amid a general fourth-quarter slowdown in sales growth, Samsung and RIM made significant gains with their latest handsets.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Gartner Inc., Sales, smartphone sale, Western Europe, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., handset
Moto Droid off to a good start. But is it good enough?
News Motorola's Droid phone reports healthy figures in first week of sales, but will face competition from other Android phones coming on to the scene.
Tags: Google Android, Smart phones, Ed Zander, Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Phone, Motorola Inc., advertisement, Google Android, Smart Phone
Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon
News A new initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble.
Tags: Handhelds, Publisher, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., search engine, e-reader, Amazon.com Inc., BookServer, public domain, Amazon Kindle
Smartphone users, keep complaining
News Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Stephen King, RIM BlackBerry, software, mobile, Smart Phone, mobile software, Developer, Customer Satisfaction, Smartphone
Apple said to be working on 'world-mode' iPhone
News The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone", due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, Phone, AppleInsider, handset, UMTS, Carrier, AT&T Corp., Verizon Wireless, GSM
Amazon goes global with new Kindle
News New edition of the e-book reader that can wirelessly download books in more than 100 countries. Also: a price cut for U.S. consumers.
Tags: Handhelds, Forrester Research Inc., e-reader, e-reader sale, eReader, Sony Reader, U.S., Amazon.com Inc., Sales, online retail company
Asus Eee-reader to open like a book
News More details are surfacing about Asus' upcoming Eee-reader expected out by year-end. Most notable are the cheap price and hinged spine.
Tags: Handhelds, Sony Reader, Tablet, Webcam, ASUS, Laptop Computer, Amazon Kindle, microphone, Handhelds
Smartphones: A bigger target for security threats
News As the iPhone, BlackBerry, and other devices become more popular, harmful software such as viruses and spyware is emerging to exploit their vulnerability.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile, Security applications/tools, Apple Inc., Phone, Security, software, mobile, handset, Smart Phone
Microsoft's Windows phones hit the market
News Software maker, looking to get back into the cell phone conversation, is launching a big marketing push Tuesday touting the arrival of phones powered by Windows Mobile 6.5.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Phone, Operating System, iSuppli Corp., Microsoft Corp., mobile, Smart Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows
