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Worst of the Week: Apple season

Apple appears set to unleash the mobile device markets latest moving target with a planned iPhone event next week. While exact details of the event are of course top secret (unless you hang out in local bars), it matters little to most consumers as the words “new” and “iPhone” automatically results in people digging out their camping equipment and setting up shop in front of their local Apple retailer.

Why Steve Jobs matters

Why Steve Jobs matters

When I think of Steve Jobs, feelings of wonder and absolute awe rush over me. Jobs is without a doubt, the most iconoclastic creative mind of the modern age. If that makes me a fanboy, so be it. If liking Apple Inc. products makes me a fanboy, I’m fine with that too. Jobs is in [...]

Saving an extinct species – How I rescued an HP TouchPad

Saving an extinct species – How I rescued an HP TouchPad

I have a confession to make, I’m a history buff. I’m a sucker for historical novels, love a good period drama and, probably most importantly, I read history when I was at university. So it’s really no surprise that as soon as the HP TouchPad made the transition from current product to relic of the digital past, I absolutely had to run out and buy one. Oh, yeah, that and the $100 price tag, which you’d have to be a dodo to ignore.

RIM mulls music service as MetroPCS bundles Rhapsody

RIM mulls music service as MetroPCS bundles Rhapsody

RIM believes it could hit a harmonious note with consumers by launching its own music streaming service say sources. The news comes on the same day wireless phone carrier MetroPCS announced it had struck a deal with subscription digital music service Rhapsody.

Cell phones don’t increase risk of child cancer say scientists

Cell phones don’t increase risk of child cancer say scientists

The European Parliamentary Assembly (EPA) has been making much ado about nothing when it comes to the dangers of cellphones on children, according to a new report which found no link between mobile phones and child cancer.

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Intel says Nokia to blame for six month delay entering phone market

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13 September 2011 by Sylvie Barak

Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini blamed erstwhile partner Nokia for its current delay in bringing Intel powered smart phones to the world’s markets.

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Fujitsu and Follie Follie get fragrance friendly

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11 September 2011 by Carolyn Green

In an attempt to freshen up the conversations of Asian women, Fujitsu along with Follie Follie, a women’s accessories company in China, has come to the rescue this summer with a phone that will get your tongues wagging and noses twitching.

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Apple arts and crafts with RCR

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10 September 2011 by Carolyn Green

Today we bring you RCR’s very own decorate-your-apple-like-a-geek arts and crafts cleverness.

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Marvell announces single-chip LTE world modem for the masses

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09 September 2011 by Sylvie Barak

Underdog chipmaker Marvell has just unveiled a new single-chip LTE world modem called the PXA1801.

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Worst of the Week: Four days of fog and shame

09 September 2011 by Dan Meyer

Not sure if I am like the rest of you, but short work weeks are somehow the most awesome and most frustrating things ever invented by the Dalai Lama. As such I both love and hate these four-day work weeks with a passion I usually reserve only for breakfast.

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RedHat calls the cloud a goat rodeo

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08 September 2011 by Sylvie Barak

The cloud has been called many things by marketeers in its amorphous lifespan, but “goat rodeo” was probably a first on Thursday, as RedHat’s VP of biz dev Mike Evans fumbled for the right words to describe the nebulous buzz.

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Intel hungry to hire software developers

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08 September 2011 by Sylvie Barak

Speaking at Intel’s Software Day in San Francisco on Thursday, Doug Fisher, corporate VP and GM of the software and services group’s software division said Intel was putting a key emphasis on pulling in application developer talent to help drive Intel architecture forward.

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Texas Instruments doesn’t want its new low-power chips to interfere

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07 September 2011 by Sylvie Barak

Texas Instruments Inc., has unveiled its latest sub-1 GHz RF performance line of chips which it hopes will find wide application within the “Internet of Things,” – in anything from smartphones to smart grids.

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Samsung Mobile asks you to defriend contacts on Facebook for a Tab

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07 September 2011 by Sylvie Barak

Tablets may be the new chic, but Samsung USA’s latest marketing ploy leaves a bad taste, after the firm took a page out of Burger King’s book and ran an ad to win a new Galaxy Tab by unfriending contacts on Facebook.

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Handy iPhone case: Lend me your ears and I’ll give you my hand

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07 September 2011 by Carolyn Green

Dokkiri, a Japanese company, is attempting to place a helping hand in your pocket, stuck to the back of your iPhone.

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