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Analyst: iPhone keeping smartphone growth alive
News Apple's iPhone ensured the smartphone market would continue its strong growth during the third quarter, while the rest of the market wavered.
Tags: Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Smartphone Growth, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, News.com, Needham & Co., Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp.
E-TEN Glofiish V900
Reviews The Glofiish V900's USP is its integrated digital TV tuner, which unfortunately doesn't perform well when on the move. Otherwise, it's a well-specified Windows Mobile handheld.
Tags: Mobile, TV, Storage, GPS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Backplate, E-TEN Glofiish V900, Glofiish V900, V900, software
Analyst predicts PC vendors must consolidate or die
News Bear Stearns PC analyst Andrew Neff after the bell Tuesday fired off what he called a "manifesto," recommending massive and immediate consolidation of the major U.S. PC vendors. Some of his contemporaries strongly disagreed.
Developers look past Apple's jammed iPhone App Store
News Software programmers are designing apps for Google-backed Android operating system, fired by frustration with Apple's rejections and delays.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Business applications, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, App, Ideaworks, Apple App Store, Iconfactory, Operating System
UK CIOs look to more efficiency, flexibility
News IT experts in the United Kingdom say greater efficiency and flexibility need to be on chief information officers' New Year resolutions, in light of a tough 2009.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Leadership, Outsourcing, CRM, Business, Back-office, CIO, payment
Apple's CEO conundrum
News Tim Cook has run Apple well in Steve Jobs' absence, keeping alive the question of whether and how soon he might be named CEO.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Leadership, Apple Inc., Sales, Apple iPod, chairman, CEO, senior vice president, Apple iPhone
Conficker postmortem: Hype distracted but threat is real
News Experts say media hype of Conficker worm may have distracted people from the real but less sexy threat--the ongoing, everyday risks on the Internet.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Security, Worm, removable storage, computer, Conficker Working Group, virus, network, researcher, Internet
Hackers steal customer data from gaming company
News After failing to extort money from the company by hacking into its databases, thieves try to squeeze money from customers.
Tags: Web sites, Data security, Hacking, Games
Mindmaker reels in US$17 million funding from S'pore
News US-based research and development (R&D) firm Mindmaker Inc reeled in US$17 million from Singapore in its fifth round of funding, which will be used to expand its staff and R&D efforts worldwide.
iPod's success lures Windows users to Mac
News A U.S. report estimates that 1 million PC users switched to Macintosh machines for the first time in 2005, a move driven by the success of Apple's iPod.
Tags: MP3 players, Desktops
"Quake" for kitties
News For close to a decade, video game designer Matt Wolf tried to home in on the instincts of 13- to 24-year-old males, the key demographic for most games. Now he is courting a much more finicky and inscrutable audience: cats.
Video games for felines
News For close to a decade, video game designer Matt Wolf tried to home in on the instincts of 13- to 24-year-old males, the key demographic for most games. Now he is courting a much more finicky and inscrutable audience: cats.
McAfee tool to check Web services security
News McAfee will be releasing a new tool designed to help users identify vulnerabilities in Web services applications.
Tags: PC security, Security applications/tools
Handheld makers try to end nosedive
News After a brutal six months marked by excess inventory and a steep drop in demand, the handheld industry is looking to new midrange devices and wireless access to get past its first major slump.
Analyst predicts PC vendors must consolidate or die
News Bear Stearns PC analyst Andrew Neff after the bell Tuesday fired off what he called a "manifesto," recommending massive and immediate consolidation of the major US PC vendors. Some of his contemporaries strongly disagreed.
