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10:35 AM ET, February 16, 2009

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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5 features, new mobile services  —  Microsoft is trying to reignite excitement around its mobile business with a string of announcements today at Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain.  Microsoft is set to announce a new version of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life blog:
Going mobile in Barcelona  —  If you fancy a couple of days …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Did Adobe snub Apple with FlashPlayer 10, Palm Pre, and Development …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Palm Pre to Receive Flash Support in 2009
Discussion: Edible Apple
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Meet the HTC Magic, the Android-powered Vodafone exclusive formerly known as the G2  —  Y'all might know the next Android phone from HTC as the G2, but around these here parts we know it as the HTC Magic.  An exclusive to Vodafone in Europe, the Magic is of debatable sexyness when compared to the T-Mobile G1 …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Touch Pro2 is awesome in ways the Touch Pro never could be  —  So, how do you make HTC's Touch Pro — already near the top of the WinMo heap — an even beefier device?  For starters, you can throw out that nasty VGA screen of yesteryear and up it with a 3.6-inch 800 x 400 replacement.
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Dan Nystedt / PC World:
HTC Unveils Updated IPhone 3G Rival and Touch Pro2  —  High Tech Computer (HTC), the largest maker of handsets that run Microsoft Windows Mobile software, unveiled updates to two of its most popular smartphones ever on Monday, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 handsets.
Discussion: IntoMobile
Nokia:
Productivity comes first: new Eseries devices optimized for efficiency  —  Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today unveiled two new additions to its Eseries range, the Nokia E75 and Nokia E55, which are the first to ship with the company's new email user interface.  Both devices also come standard …
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James / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia E55 unveiled
Discussion: Electronic Pulp and Engadget
Mike / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia E75 launched
Chris Davies / Pre Community:
GSM Palm Pre on Vodafone at MWC09  —  We've just finished up both a long video demo of the Pre - over 25 minutes, which we're currently editing and processing - but we wanted to share at least one detail from this morning.  Palm aren't announcing the GSM version of the Pre at Mobile World Congress …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
ARM's Multicore Chips Aim for Netbooks  —  BARCELONA—ARM, the company that has designed most of the processors in mobile phones, on Monday announced a new, low-cost processor called “Sparrow” at the Mobile World Congress trade show.  The company said it is aiming to conquer the netbook market …
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PC World:
Arm to Show Its First 32-nanometer Smartphone Chip
Discussion: CNET News
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Nokia Unveils Ovi Store, Application Sales To Debut In May  —  At the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has unveiled its initiative to try and repeat the runaway succes of Apple's App Store with its own mobile storefront dubbed Ovi Store.  This was an expected move as the rumors …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update  —  It was the “aha!” moment that Stephanie Rosalia was hoping for.  —  A group of fifth graders huddled around laptop computers in the school library overseen by Ms. Rosalia and scanned allaboutexplorers.com, a Web site that, unbeknownst to the children, was intentionally peppered with false facts.
Discussion: HeyJude and TeleRead
Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Dear Obama: Please consider open-source a waste of your time  —  Ruby on Rails will not save the planet  —  Last week, several big names in open source tossed a letter at American President Barack Obama, urging him to mandate that no government IT purchase be made without someone scrutinizing the software license.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia enables $99 Android/Windows CE mobile internet devices  —  Nvidia is announcing today that it wants to enable $99 mobile internet devices that can play high-definition graphics.  —  The so-called MIDs are smaller than laptop computers but less functional.
BBC:
Pirate Bay file-sharing defended  —  The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyright theft.  —  The Pirate Bay is the world's most high-profile file-sharing site and is being taken to court by media firms including Sony and Warner Bros.
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
TI sees projectors as popular as cell cameras  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc has unveiled a new version of its mini-projector technology, which it sees as the next big thing in wireless after the now ubiquitous cell phone camera.  —  The chip maker is eyeing growth in features …
Discussion: IntoMobile
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Vint Cerf: Despite Its Age, The Internet is Still Filled with Problems  —  Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and widely recognized as one of the “Fathers of the Internet” last week said that the issues facing the Internet today are as complex as they were pre-Internet.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel scores LG as a customer for mobile internet device that can make phone calls  —  Intel is announcing an important new collaboration with cell phone maker LG Electronics in a strategically important market for the world's biggest chip maker.  —  Intel has been touting mobile internet devices …
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Business Wire:
LG Electronics, Intel Collaborate on Future Mobile Internet Devices
Discussion: UMPCPortal
 
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Mobile operators combine to flog customer data
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DVD Sales Are Way Down, and High-Def Is Slow to the Rescue
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New York Times:
Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in Classroom
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Science gleans 60TB of behavior data from Everquest 2 logs
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Huawei says to sell 2-3 Android phones this year
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Link by Link: As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes
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Moving Mobile Linux forward: Opera joins the LiMo Foundation
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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