Engadget:
Roku owners already have access to Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand and MLB.tv, but now the set-top box is about to get a lot more interesting. Starting tonight and running throughout the next fortnight, existing owners of the Roku SD, Roku HD and Roku HD-XR will receive an automatic (and free) update that delivers ten new c (Read More)
Engadget:
The Powermat may have slung "inductive charging" into the mainstream (at least to some minor extent), but it's still far too niche to be taken seriously by any electronics aisle in Target. Take that same technology and shove it into wood, however, and you've got something that each and every table owner on the planet could (Read More)
Ars Technica:
The Queen announced on Wednesday that her government would deliver Internet piracy legislation; today it arrived in the form of the massive Digital Economy bill meant to modernize the UK's approach to everything from copyrights to broadband to video game ratings to domain names. The bill contains no sanctio (Read More)
Engadget:
Although we like to think of the US and European markets as the center of the cellphone universe, there are big (Big!) sales to be had elsewhere behind the unstoppable force of globalization. And when it comes to absolute numbers, markets just don't get any bigger than China with its estimated 700 million subscribers. Rumor (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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TechCrunch:
Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, is back on his one-man crusade to defend the App Store from the latest wave of criticism pointed in its direction.This time, Apple is having to battle the news of Facebook’s all-star developer Joe Hewitt quitting the platform, more high profile app rejections, and t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Web-based productivity suite Zoho is launching a new product today, Zoho Recruit. A niche product, Zoho Recruit, is an application designed to help HR Departments and staffing agencies management recruitment. Zoho Recruit, which is an offshoot of Zoho People’s recruitment technology, is an Applicant Tracking System that hel (Read More)
Gizmodo:
When I think escalating mega cellphone carrier ad war, I think actor Luke Wilson. Oh wait, no I don't, and yet here he is, again, striking back on behalf of AT&T against Verizon Wireless. Now, good on AT&T for fighting back with more ads and not more silly lawsuits and all, but the Verizon holiday ad lineup is pretty stro (Read More)
Wireless-sector News - Congoo:
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc has won a seat at the smartphone table. Two years after the Web search leader announced its plan to barge into the market, a dozen phones are using Google's Android mobile operating. (Read More)
Phones Review:
We have a video preview for your entertainment today of Nokia’s latest smartphone the Nokia N900, although the unit they review is only a pre-production Nokia N900, but the reviewers do say it is still a pretty impressive piece of equipment.In the words of Nokia “the N900 is a handheld PC” and of course bring something bran (Read More)
GigaOM:
TripIt, a travel aggregation service that is currently offered as application on the iPhone and Blackberry is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily and TheAppleBlog are all fans of TripIt and the And (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
» Mobile ads aren’t a big hit with consumers. [MediaPost]» Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) like TomTom will hit their sales peak in 2012. [Mobile-Ent]» Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is adding support for Windows Live Messenger in its messaging platform. [Cellular News]» Watch manuf (Read More)
New York Times:
Ciena will buy Nortel Networks' optical networking and carrier ethernet business for $769 million after outbidding Nokia Siemens Networks in a three-day auction, Reuters reported Sunday, citing unnamed sources. (Read More)
Engadget:
After so much speculation and rumor, it's hard to believe that Dell's first cellphone is ready to launch. And while we've already seen the official press release announcing the Mini 3 for Brazil and China, today we get a followup release with a bit more detail. As expected, the Chinese Mini 3i variant is quadband GSM/EDGE o (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Sweden] Much hyped (and loved) music streaming service Spotify has extended its mobile reach significantly today with the release of an app for phones powered by the Nokia-led Symbian operating system.This follows earlier clients for both iPhone and Android and means that the service will now be accessible on millions more (Read More)