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- 24 October 2008
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Video: World Technology Update - 24 October 2008
In this week’s show: T-Mobile's G1 Google phone is on sale, Intel discloses mobile platform plans, robots and an invisibility cloak from Tokyo and Apple iPhone sales hit 10 million.
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News: Teen blamed for Steve Jobs 'heart attack' report
The fake internet report posted to CNN's iReport site earlier this month claiming Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack was posted by a teenager who doesn't appear to have posted it to manipulate the company's stock price, according to Bloomberg News.
- 22 October 2008
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News: Vodafone offers new HP iPAQ phones
Two new HP iPAQ Voice Messenger and Data Messenger phones are set for launch in the UK through Vodafone.
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News: Symbian lets developers see how code performs
Symbian has announced it is allowing developers to see how their code performs on the mobile operating system.
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News: Google releases Android source code
Google is making the source code for its Android platform freely available.
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Hollywood Webgear
Lights! Cameras! Action! Who says webcams need to be dull little units that are as boring and unobtrusive as can be? Hollywood Webgear aims to be part of the action.
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News: RIM unveils tools for BlackBerry web apps
Research In Motion (RIM) is offering a new set of tools that will allow developers to create web apps for BlackBerry handsets. These will also work offline and expand beyond the Java platform, which has been core to BlackBerry apps.
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News: Apple sells 10m iPhones
Apple has confirmed it has sold more than 10 million iPhones this year, hitting its target two months earlier than it hoped.
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News: 200m downloads in Apple's iPhone App Store
Apple has announced that 200 million downloads have taken place in its App Store, since its launch 102 days ago.
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News: T-Mobile Google Android G1 hits the US
T-Mobile's G1, the first handset using Google's Android platform, has gone on sale in the US.
- 20 October 2008
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News: Mobile phone viruses on the increase
Mobile phone viruses and spam looks set to rise, says the Georgia Institute of Technology Information Security Center (GTISC).
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News: HSBC lets customers bank from their BlackBerry
BlackBerry users who bank with HSBC can now view their balance from their handset.
- 18 October 2008
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News: October 2008's 8 coolest gadgets revealed
October 2008 saw Japan's biggest electronics show: Ceatec. More than 196,000 visitors to Ceatec got a chance to see the best of the Japanese electronics industry, including some exciting prototypes of devices that are still a long way from hitting the market.
- 17 October 2008
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PDT Wall-E-like Minoru 3D webcam
PDT has launched the Minoru 3D webcam. We're sure it's no coincidence that the design makes us think of the recent animated film Wall-E.
- 16 October 2008
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News: T-Mobile G1 to hit UK this month
T-Mobile has announced the G1, the first smartphone to use Google's Android platform, will hit the UK on 30 October.
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News: Google Android 'kill switch' removes phone apps
Months after Apple sparked uproar for building a 'kill switch' into its iPhone software, it has emerged that Google Android also includes a feature which allows the company to remotely remove applications
- 14 October 2008
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News: Happy birthday, mobile phone!
The first US commercial cellular call was placed on October 13, 1983 from the president of Ameritech Mobile Communications in Chicago to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell in Germany - using Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X portable cellular phone.
- 13 October 2008
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News: Analyst: Microsoft to buy BlackBerry
Microsoft may have its eye on Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the Blackberry range of handsets, says one analyst.
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News: LG to add keyboard to Prada phone
LG will later this year launch an updated version of its LG Prada phone that sports a qwerty keyboard.
- 10 October 2008
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News: Apple iPhone vs Blackberry Storm
This week saw the launch of the Blackberry Storm - RIM's rival to the iPhone. The device features RIM's first touchscreen complete with a 'clickable' screen that the company says simulates the feel of a physical keyboard. The Storm can connect to either EV-DO Rev. A or HSPA 3G cellular networks and features 1GB of onboard memory storage and a card slot that allows for up to 16GB of additional storage.
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