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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:20 pm | By Kat Asharya
Google has bought game developer SocialDeck, making it the fifth social-networking acquisition for the search engine giant since the beginning of August.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:58 am | By Kat Asharya
India has withdrawn its threat to ban BlackBerry services for at least two more months, after Research in Motion agreed to give security officials "lawful access" to its encrypted data.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:07 am | By Kat Asharya
Samsung said Monday that it has shipped over a million Galaxy S smartphones during the device's first 45 days in the United States.
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Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:22 pm | By Kat Asharya
Samsung today announced that the Fascinate, an Android-powered smartphone for Verizon, is now available for pre-order at Best Buy locations.
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Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:06 pm | By Kat Asharya
Microsoft is planning to spend $400 million to market its Windows Phone 7 operating system, as the company tries to gain ground on rivals Apple and Google during the upcoming holiday season.
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Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:30 am | By Kat Asharya
Developers have created a version of the Android operating system that can run on Nokia phones, giving users the ability to access Google's software.
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:16 pm | By Allen Tsai
Scientists at Research in Motion have filed a U.S. patent application for a new way to change between numeric and QWERTY keyboards, and portrait and landscape layouts -- by sliding, twisting and rotating the device.
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:18 pm | By Kat Asharya
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile control 90 percent of the wireless market, making it hard for smaller companies to compete, according to government report.
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:42 pm | By Kat Asharya
Verizon is rolling out an Android 2.2 update for the Droid Incredible today, with the first group of owners receiving an over-the-air download and others getting it in the next few days.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:27 pm | By Kat Asharya
Target will add mobile phone centers to about 850 of its 1,743 stores by December, with a nationwide rollout expected by the middle of next year.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:56 am | By Kat Asharya
GroupMe has raised $850,000 from investors to develop an application that enables group chat through text messaging and voice calls from any phone in the world.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:14 am | By Michael Barnhard
Federal agents seized over $150,000 in cash, hidden in shoe boxes, from the house of Apple executive Paul Shin Devine, who is being charged with selling company secrets and taking over $1 million in kickbacks from iPhone accessory suppliers in Asia.
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Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:59 pm | By Allen Tsai
Apple is holding a music-themed event next Wednesday, prompting speculation that the company may unveil a snazzier line of iPods or revamp its long-neglected Apple TV project.
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Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:15 pm | By Allen Tsai
Google today introduced a feature within Gmail that allows users to make calls through the Web to landlines and mobile phones, expanding its business beyond search to Internet-calling services similar to Skype.
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Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:19 pm | By Allen Tsai
AT&T today announced plans to sell the Sony Ericsson Vivaz, a Symbian device with high-definition video recording, on September 5 for $80.
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Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:28 pm | By Allen Tsai
Dell released the Aero, its first U.S. smartphone, on AT&T for $100 with a two-year contract, making the company the latest computer maker to enter the competitive mobile device market.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:45 pm | By Kat Asharya
Smartphones will make up over half of Asian handset sales by 2015, with estimated 477 million units to be sold, according to an industry report.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:56 pm | By Kat Asharya
Researchers have created an Android application that can take simulations from extremely powerful supercomputers and help solve calculations further on smartphones.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:11 pm | By Kat Asharya
A British woman has shattered the world record for typing the world's fastest text message, beating the previous record by almost 10 seconds with a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:41 am | By Allen Tsai
Should consumers be allowed to install any application they want on their iPhones? Or will the flood of lower-quality apps, which will undoubtedly follow, ruin the experience?
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