San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the Bay Area's first airport to employ a secure barcode-scanning system for paperless boarding passes so travelers with Internet-connected smartphones, like BlackBerrys and iPhones, can check-in using their handhelds. The system, which is currently being ...
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Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS owners should expect a software update on Sept. 25, AT&T revealed today, and while the new software will let U.S. customers send MMS text messages, it won't switch on tethering, the company confirmed Thursday. Artwork: Chip Taylor On Thursday, AT&T...
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First Impressions: Nokia X6 03 September 2009 High end Comes With Music phone with social networking focus Nokia's Xseries is its new line of social entertainment phones - photos, music, social networking, the whole shebang. At Nokia World 2009, we've just seen the X6 and its lower spec broth...
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In a bid to compete more squarely with Apple's App Store, the developers of the Android mobile OS are improving the way people browse for applications on Google phones through what is known as Android Market. As part of a software upgrade (Android 1.6, aka Donut) Android handset owners will be abl...
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Sony Ericsson unveils Xperia Pureness 04 September 2009 Style-based phone with hidden key pad Sony Ericsson has unveiled the Pureness - the latest release in the Xperia family that recently saw the introduction of the Xperia X2 . According to the company, the Sony Ericsson Xperia...
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LG reveals three Windows Mobile 6.5 phones 04 September 2009 QWERTY keyboard-based smartphone revealed No sooner has Nokia announced a raft of new mobile hardware including the X6 and N900 phones along with Sony Ericsson's news on the new Xperia X2 handset, then LG get's in on the act with...
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New Samsung handset resembles Corby 07 September 2009 Design features QWERTY keyboard instead of touchscreen Samsung is about to release a new mobile phone that strongly resembles the new Corby handset but, instead of the attendant touchscreen, this new design sports a full QWERTY keyboard i...
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News From The East: Samsung reveals Giorgio Armani phone 07 September 2009 Handset features gold trim and AMOLED screen Samsung has announced the much expected Giorgio Armani mobile phone. The new style handset has been much rumoured and was expected, by many, to be based upon M...
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Spotify launches on iPhone and Android 07 September 2009 Premium subscribers can get free apps for their phones It’s here, it’s here! We’re as excited as anyone about awesome online music streamer Spotify ( finally ) making it to iPhones, iPod Touches and Android ...
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LG BL40 Chocolate ships in Europe 07 September 2009 New Black Label Series phone out now News has reached us that the flagship handset in LG's Black Series range of mobile phones, the BL40 Chocolate , has been released in Europe. The company will wait until October to release the phone to the...
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LG and Vodafone announce Windows phone 04 September 2009 Early October launch date for new handset in UK LG and Vodafone have just announced a new mobile phone based upon the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. It is unknown, at this time, if the new handset is one of the three ...
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Vote now - Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 07 September 2009 It's the very last week to vote and go in the running to win a Nokia 5800 Comes With Music Have you voted in the Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2009? This Friday we're closing the reader survey and hopefully you'll be getting in your vo...
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In this week鈥檚 show, 3D TV sets and imaging hardware are a trend at IFA in Berlin, Nokia unveils new phones at Nokia World in nearby Stuttgart, Gmail goes down, China Mobile displays smartphones at an event in Beijing, and eBay sells a portion of its stake in Skype.
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While the Apple iTunes App Store approval process may be long and hard on many would be developers, the hair-pulling and tears is worth it, according to one iPhone developer. Bottle Rocket 's Calvin Carter told Macworld the process is important and necessary and not simply Apple needlessly nitpi...
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Apple made it official Friday, announcing it will sell the iPhone 3G in China over the next three years. But the question now is, how many of China's 1.3 billion citizens will want or can afford the iPhone? For almost a year now, rumors of a Chinese iPhone introduced by the country's second lar...
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Network providers gather data that tracks where customers go with their cell phones, a potential privacy infringement that researchers are trying to eliminate. See also: 5 lab technologies that could reinvent cell phones Providers need the location information to efficiently route calls...
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Just like traditional marketing practices in print media where newspapers and magazines can afford to sell copies inexpensively, the same manner is expected to happen in the telco industry space once it does digital marketing -- the modern advertising technique via the Internet and mobile phone dev...
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This is traditionally a slow news week in IT, and this year did not break with that tradition, leaving us time to enjoy the waning days of warm weather here in Boston between following the flurry of reports about Apple's new OS, which captured the lion's (or the leopard's as it were) share of major ...
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Apple says it's not to blame for a series of exploding iPods and iPhones , according to a report published on Friday. The company has been under fire, so to speak, for devices overheating and shattering across Europe and the U.K. Sheesh...and you thought the data rates were bad. Exploding iPhon...
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Apple will sell somewhere between five and seven million iPhones in China in 2010 as a result of its deal with the country's second-largest mobile carrier, a Wall Street analyst said today. The Chinese market will account for about 15% to 20% of Apple's worldwide iPhone sales next year, said Brian...
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