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• 01 January 2009

• Video: The best future tech products of 2008

  PC Advisor's round-up of the most exciting technology prototypes demoed during 2008

• News: US and UK first to get Google Android App Store

  Google's Android App Market will begin selling applications in early 2009.

• News: Smartphone security warning

  A single malformed text message can prevent some Nokia smartphones from receiving further messages via SMS (Short Message Service) - and the offending message can be sent from almost any Nokia phone, even non-smartphone models.

• 31 December 2008

• News: Apple iPhone - a year in review

  If 2007 was Year Zero in the life of the Phone That Changed Everything, then 2008 skyrocketed forward to the year that the device truly came of age.

• 29 December 2008

• News: Wear latest phone/MP3 player on your wrist

  LG Electronics plans to debut a wristwatch-style 3G phone at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month.

• 24 December 2008

• News: Apple iPhone beats BlackBerry Storm satisfaction ratings

  In its most recent consumer smart phone survey, ChangeWave found that the Storm's satisfaction rating was more akin to a mid-tier handset and significantly below that of people who own Apple's iPhone.

• 23 December 2008

• News: Mobile web usage grows 463 percent

  Data traffic to mobile phones jumped 463 percent in November compared to the same month last year, according to the latest State of the Mobile Web report from Opera Software.

• News: HP iPhone app enables wireless printing

  HP has launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.

• News: Struggling Palm wins $100m investment

  Struggling smartphone maker Palm received a cash infusion from a venture capital firm on Monday that could lift the company from its sagging fortunes.

• News: Intel invests in iPhone 3G graphics firm

  One day after Apple took a 3.6 percent stake in Imagination Technologies, the company that developed the technology used in the 3G iPhone's graphics chips, Intel responded by increasing its own stake in the company - and said it would consider an outright acquisition of Imagination if another bid emerged.

• 19 December 2008

• News: RIM tackling BlackBerry Storm shortage

  Research In Motion (RIM) has admitted it's struggling to keep up with demand for the BlackBerry Storm touchscreen smartphone, but said supply problems should clear up in the coming weeks.

• 18 December 2008

• News: Vodafone offers music-tracking phone app

  Vodafone is teaming up with Last.fm to offer mobile phone users an app that tracks the music they listen to and builds an online profile they can share with their friends.

• News: BMI trials SMS during flights

  Bmi has announced its letting passengers use their mobile phones on flights, but only to text.

• News: Apple iPhone & iPod touch get remote access app

  Remote access software LogMeIn has launched an app that allows iPhone or iPod touch users to remotely access their PC or Mac.

• 17 December 2008

• News: Mobile phones to become primary web-access device

  Mobile phones will be the primary device used for accessing the web in 2020, claim analysts.

• News: Lenovo Mobile 'Google phone' pictures emerge

  Pictures of a Lenovo Mobile smartphone bearing the logo of China's largest mobile operator have spread online, rumoured to be proof of an upcoming Android handset that's based on China's homegrown 3G mobile standard.

• News: Palm Software Store mimics Apple's App Store

  Palm launched an online store where users can buy software directly from their handsets, becoming the latest phone maker to follow in Apple's footsteps with an application store.

• 16 December 2008

• News: Carphone Warehouse offers free mobile phone

  The Carphone Warehouse is giving away a free handset to customers that stump up for £30 worth of air-time.

• 15 December 2008

• News: Microsoft launches iPhone photo app

  Microsoft has launched an app for Apple's iPhone.

• News: Apple's iPhone to get MEMS gyroscope

  Nintendo's Wii-style advanced motion-sensing abilities is coming to Apple's in 2009, according to reports in Taiwan.

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