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• 24 August 2011

• News: Samsung Canada learns to avoid wireless bill shock

  As the staff of enterprises increasingly adopt smart phones, tablets and laptops as essential working tools, the odds also increase that their IT or telecom managers will run into bill shock.

• News: StackMob aims mobile cloud platform at Heroku customers

  StackMob hopes to make it easier for Heroku's customers to extend their applications to mobile phones, by adding its service as a Heroku add-on.

• News: Asia Pacific CE desires surveyed

  Among Chinese respondents, HDTVs were the second most cited device when considering CE purchase intentions in the next six months.

• News: Apple to produce 58 million iPhones in Q3, Q4 2011

  Apple will post two bumper quarters for iPhone production in the second half of 2011, FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger reckons.

• News: Top 10 Free Apps for Your $99 HP TouchPad Tablet

  If you managed to snag a HP TouchPad for $99, you’ll want to get the most out of your bargain tablet. The HP App Catalog is one of the smallest out there, but it’s where you’ll want to go for the few good apps, and best of all--free apps--to keep you entertained until hackers port Android 3.0 on the TouchPad.

• News: Dutch court slams brakes on Samsung Android phone sales in Europe

  A Dutch court Tuesday issued a European Union-wide injunction ordering the immediate halt of sales for Samsung's Android-based Galaxy smartphones.

• News: Samsung launches new Galaxy smartphones

  Samsung has announced four new Galaxy Android-based devices and revised the naming strategy for its whole phone lineup.

• News: Apple wins ban on Samsung Galaxy smartphones

  Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction banning Samsung from selling its Galaxy smartphones in Europe.

• News: Samsung Galaxy S, SII and Ace ban in detail

  A court in The Hague Wednesday banned the shipping of three Samsung Galaxy smartphones to Europe as of Oct. 15, ruling that the company has infringed an Apple photo management patent.

• News: Samsung launches 4 Android phones, changes naming convention

  Samsung has announced four new Galaxy Android-based devices and revised the naming strategy for its whole phone lineup. The four new phones, the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro, are the first to sport the new naming convention and all run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

• News: Samsung Launches 4 Android Phones, Changes Naming Convention

  Samsung has announced four new Galaxy Android-based devices and revised the naming strategy for its whole phone lineup. The four new phones, the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro, are the first to sport the new naming convention and all run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

• News: Nokia looks to attract users with new Symbian phones

  Nokia announced Belle, an update of Symbian, along with three phones running the software, on Wednesday at an event in Hong Kong, as it tries to keep consumers interested in the OS.

• News: Report: Sprint will get the iPhone 5 in October

  Sprint will for the first time sell an iPhone, starting with the next generation of the phone, in mid-October, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

• News: Five of the best Android apps for students

  With the A-Level results out, you're probably mentally gearing up for your stint at university. Here's five free apps for smartphones running Google Android that will help improve your student life.

• News: Apple 'to launch 8GB iPhone 4'

  Apple suppliers are building a cheaper, 8GB iPhone 4 which will be offered as a low-cost alternative to the forthcoming iPhone 5, according to reports.

• News: SDK for Windows Phone 7.5 apps will arrive in September

  The final version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 will arrive at the end of September. It allows developers to take advantage of new features in Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango, Microsoft said in a blog post on Tuesday.

• News: BBC finds 3G coverage in UK isn't as operators claim

  3G coverage in the UK is "nothing like as uniform as the picture painted in the coverage map issued by the mobile operators", says the BBC.

• News: Phone thief accidentally IDs himself via Photobucket

  Photobucket has a cool mobile application that allows users to automatically upload mobile pictures to the company's photo-sharing website. That's something that Korey Heess is unlikely to forget anytime soon, after allegedly snapping a picture of himself that was used by police to identify him as a smartphone thief.

• 23 August 2011

• News: Remains of the Day: All things to all people

  Next-generation iPhone rumors are back: It'll run on Sprint! It'll have a cheaper version for the developing markets! Meanwhile, if you're reading this on your iPad in the bathroom, I just want to caution you to watch out for, uh, malware. And Samsung takes aim at one of Apple's most ardent defenders with its latest legal filing. The remainders for Tuesday, August 23, 2011 are sorry, Dave--they're afraid they can't do that.

• News: Mozilla's WebAPI eyes cross-platform mobile apps

  Mozilla developers are in the early stages of building an open application interface for smartphones and tablets called WebAPI.

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