Apple may be busy shuffling facts about to make their modest iPhone sales sound more impressive, and Microsoft may be bragging about the 14.3m Windows Mobile phones sold in the last 6 months, but when it comes to sheer volume of sales, they’re right at the back of the class compared to Symbian OS.
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Month: February 2008
Green Paper: Ban UK Illegal Downloaders
The government is scheming new plans to slap down illegal music downloaders hard, with the ultimate threat of having their Internet access cut.
Under a leaked Green Paper draft consultation, it’s been mooted that Internet service providers should be obliged to take action over users downloading pirated material, with a “three strikes” rule giving them an e-mail warning, followed by suspension, and then termination of their contract.
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Nokia High End N96 Announced
Featuring more bells and whistles than a loved up gang of NuRave Morris dancers, Nokia have unveiled their new Nokia N96 high end handset at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.
Billed as being optimised for video and TV, the N96 sports a beefy 2.8″ 16m colour TFT, QVGA (240×320 pixel) resolution screen, 16GB of internal memory and support for high-quality videos in a wide range of formats, including MPEG-4, Windows Media Video and Flash Video.
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Microsoft Buys Danger, Sidekick Makers
Microsoft’s wad may have failed to woo Yahoo yesterday, but they’ve had more luck flashing the cash at the software firm Danger Inc, makers of the software that powers T-Mobile’s hugely successful SideKick web phone.
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Samsung G810 S60 Smartphone Packs Wi-Fi, GPS
Samsung G810 have announced details of their top of the range Samsung G810 slider phone.
Packed with kitchen sink-including functionality including geo-tagging and Wi-Fi, the handset looks ready and willing to square up against the hugely popular Nokia N95 smartphone.
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Yahoo To Microsoft: No Thanks, Not Enough Money
The next twist in the Microsoft wants Yahoo story has just come to light.
Yahoo has filed a Form 8-K with the US SEC saying that after a jolly good think about it, Yahoo has decided that Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal to purchase them is not in the best interest of Yahoo.
Their detailed response was …
After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments. The Board of Directors is continually evaluating all of its strategic options in the context of the rapidly evolving industry environment and we remain committed to pursuing initiatives that maximize value for all stockholders.
Nokia Adds N78, 6210 Navigator And 6220 Classic Phones
Nokia, the undisputed heavyweight mobile phone-shifters of the world have announced three more multimedia phone models at the mobile industry’s annual knees-up in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress 2008. Continue reading Nokia Adds N78, 6210 Navigator And 6220 Classic Phones
Palm Centro Gets European Release
Palm have announced the European release of their Palm OS-based Centro smartphone, their smallest and lightest Palm smartphone to date.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Phone Packs ‘Panel Interface’
Wooargh! This one looks good! Sony Ericsson have just released details of their new XPERIA X1 ‘arc slider’ 3G HSDPA phone that comes with an intriguing new ‘panel interface’ running on top of Windows Mobile. Continue reading Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Phone Packs ‘Panel Interface’
ACDSee Pro2 Photo Manager (90%)
A long time favourite with the Digi-Lifestyle crew, ACDSee’s Windows photo manager has always impressed us with its ability to take a manly grip on large, unruly digital photo collections and slap them into nice ordered piles.
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