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It was a slow last week, largely due to the Hari Raya holidays here. So with a few public holidays in hand, I decided to spend the week relaxing and catching up with friends and family over long lunches and dinners. In between those lunches and ...
Sep30
And to think that it was almost dismissed as a cheap, plastic toy. The debut of Nintendo's DS games console at 2004's Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA was greeted with wide derision by watching technology experts; their attention fixated instead ...
Sep30
Smartphones with consumer-oriented functionality score best in a customer satisfaction study released Wednesday from Ann Arbor-based CFI Group. A new generation of smartphone, lead by Apple’s iPhone and including Google’s Android and Palm Pre, is ...
Sep30
The phone company Wednesday announced it's buying privately held Plusmo for an undisclosed sum to help it build widgets and apps for mobile phones, PCs, and TV. Details of the transaction were not available. Plusmo builds applications and widgets for ...
Sep30
There’s something about an iPhone music app. For musicians, it’s like having an instrument in your pocket. For nonmusicians, it’s a way to coax sounds — often programmed to stay on key no matter what note one actually plays — out of what ...
Sep30
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in U.K. and Irish markets today. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are from the last market close. Anglo American Plc (AAL LN): The ...
Sep30
About 120 media and tech folks gathered at Google yesterday and will again today for the UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit , to explore the intersection of new technology and journalism. 1. Why did the Rocky Mountain News disappear, despite having ...
Sep30
But Android is beginning to blossom in the market for this class of device, which is really a hand-held computer that performs many laptop-like functions. In August, T-Mobile began offering a new $200 myTouch Android phone. Motorola will shortly ...
Sep30
Last March, I got a look at ngmoco's upcoming project lineup, which included announcements of more Rolando 2 and a quick look at an iPhone shooter called Eliminate. Whatever I saw (and at this point, it's reduced to a hazy recollection), it didn't ...