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Microsoft Reveals New Windows® Phones With Marketplace and My Phone Services — Microsoft mobile partners fly the Windows flag: HTC, LG and Orange preview first Windows® phones. — Today at Mobile World Congress 2009, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer along with key mobile partners …
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Guardian, Technologizer, Download Squad, Crave, I4U News, Local Mobile Search, DailyTech, Smartphones and Cell Phones, GottaBeMobile.com, Guardian and JCXP
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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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Silicon Alley Insider, TechFlash, GigaOM, Reuters, Computerworld, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Electronista, eWeek, Computerworld Blogs, Engadget Mobile, IntoMobile, Boing Boing Gadgets and jkOnTheRun
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 …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Bill Introduced In Pennsylvania To Ban All Portable Gadgets In School — from the seems-a-bit-extreme,-right? dept — We've seen various schools or school teachers/administrators try to ban bringing mobile devices into schools, and the whole concept seems backwards.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales — PC sales are in free fall as the weak demand for Windows desktops and full-size notebooks in a poorly performing global economy is being compounded by an influx of low cost netbooks, which are gobbling up the remains of profitability in the PC industry.
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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HTC, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Boing Boing Gadgets, Computerworld, Electronista and Obsessable
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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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Associated Press:
Casinos are warned about card-counting iPhone app — LAS VEGAS - Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos in the state about a card-counting program that works on Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPod Touch that illegally helps players beat the house in blackjack.
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 …
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Nokia:
Nokia's latest GPS devices showcase the best that Nokia Maps has to offer — Barcelona, Spain - Since the first Nokia Navigator made its appearance two years ago, the company has been updating and improving its location based services steadily and has now introduced the latest arrival in its Navigator line, the Nokia 6710 Navigator.
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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 …
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GPS Obsessed, WebOS Arena, CrunchGear, PreCentral.net, SlashGear, Gadgetell and SlashPhone
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.
John Cook / TechFlash:
I Can Has Cheezburger buys Twittypic, plans Digg-like service — When I last caught up with Ben Huh of I Can Has Cheezburger fame, the Internet entrepreneur was overseeing an expanding empire of off-the-wall entertainment Web sites. That unusual collection of cat photos …
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.
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned — Larry (@lhalff) and I have been recording a podcast for the past year called Citizen Garden that covers various topics related to the web, technology, and social networking. — Well, given Ma.gnolia's recent catastrophe …
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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.
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.
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker blogs:
New Internet? No Thanks. — Yesterday's New York Times ran a piece, “Do We Need a New Internet?” suggesting that the Internet has too many security problems and should therefore be rebuilt. — The piece has been widely criticized in the technical blogosphere, so there's no need for me to pile on.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Lenovo to launch 12-inch Atom netbook — Lenovo reportedly plans to launch an Atom N280-based IdeaPad S20 netbook featuring a 12-inch panel. The specification would break Intel's restrictions for netbook products that state devices cannot offer panel sizes larger than the 10-inch category, according to sources at notebook makers.
Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life blog:
Going mobile in Barcelona — If you fancy a couple of days in Barcelona right now, my advice is to forget it. The flights are full, a hotel room will cost you a fortune, and the place is full of geeky types talking a strange language - LTE, MVNO, HSPA - and pointing excitedly at the tiny screens in their hands.
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Archos: ‘Revolutionary’ 800gm, 9" Tablet. Moorestown products in 2010. — Update: English press release now available (PDF) — Tucked away in a press release about a 10″ 19mm-thick 10″ Atom-based Netbook to be launched in April is an announcement that Archos will be bringing a 17mm-thick 9″ Tablet to the market.
