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09 May 2009
News: The 11 coolest things smartphones can do

Control five different devices with your Apple iPhone, play internet radio on your RIM BlackBerry... all the cool things your smartphone can do.
News: How 10 great products got their names

They sound right now, but how did our favourite products get their odd names? From iPod and BlackBerry to Twitter and Wikipedia, PC Advisor explains.
08 May 2009
Video: World Technology Update - 8 May 2009

Amazon intros a new Kindle, an Imagine Cup finalist is chosen and robotic mower saves you some work. All that news and more on this week’s World Tech Update.
News: Google chief refuses to quit Apple board

Google chief Eric Schmidt revealed he won't resign as a director at Apple, despite an inquiry by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into how Schmidt's position affect competition between the two technology firms.
News: Carphone buys Tiscali for £236 million

Carphone Warehouse is acquiring rival Tiscali in a deal which will create Britain largest home broadband ISP
07 May 2009
News: iPhone users demand new 32GB version

Over 2,000 iPhone users voting in an online poll have chosen storage as the primary enhancement that they'd like to see in the next version of the Apple iPhone, expected this June.
News: Mobile internet spending up, overall revenue down

While one of the fastest growing revenue segments for mobile operators is mobile Internet, driven by access fees and data traffic, average revenue per mobile user dropped between 5 percent and 15 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007.
06 May 2009
News: Apple to buy Electronic Arts?

Apple may have their sights set on Electronic Arts (EA), rather than Twitter, according to The Street, a NY Wall Street news site.
News: Microsoft bans Windows Mobile VoIP apps

Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB or that change the default browser on a device.
05 May 2009
News: BlackBerry users get native Gmail and Google Apps

Google Apps Connector for BES, which will become available to Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers, free of charge, this coming July, will enable corporate BlackBerry users to access Gmail, Google contacts and calendar via the native BlackBerry messaging, contacts and calendar apps, just as they would using Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.
News: RIM releases BlackBerry push API

RIM has given consumer application developers an API to build its BlackBerry push technology into their software.
04 May 2009
News: HP and RIM to partner on BlackBerry software

HP and RiM (BlackBerry) plan to design and sell business software together for RIM's popular BlackBerry smartphones.
01 May 2009
News: Palm 'Mini Pre' smartphone rumours emerge

Citing "one of our better sources", TechCrunch's Michael Arrington says Palm is preparing a second webOS-based mobile device, which the technology blog has dubbed the "Mini Pre".
29 April 2009
News: Acer to launch Google Android phone

Acer plans to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system this year.
News: Voice command coming to Windows Mobile 6.5

Microsoft has high hopes that a new speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile operating system will be attractive enough to draw people to the phone platform.
27 April 2009
News: Vodafone offers UK iPhone portal

Vodafone has launched a dedicated portal for Apple's iPhone, sparking speculation that O2's exclusive contract as Apple's official UK partner may be coming to an end.
News: Samsung i7500 is latest Google Android phone

Samsung has launched its first 'Google phone', announcing a new handset running the Android platform.
25 April 2009
News: The 15 best BlackBerry apps

We've put together the 15 best apps from RIM's app store BlackBerry App World. These apps will help you have fun and be more productive at the same time.
24 April 2009
News: 3 offers users free Skype calls

3 is the first UK mobile network operator to offer its users unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and messages without ever having to pay, as long as they have a compatible handset and a SIM card from the operator.
News: New Nokia phone has mobile-payment SIM card

The new Nokia 6216 classic handset, announced Thursday, incorporates support for NFC (Near Field Communication) technology on the SIM card, paving the way for operators to more easily deploy mobile-payment systems.