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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Mobile Flash apps get better distribution, more money — In advance of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe is making several announcements to encourage developers to build applications using its Flash and AIR platforms. The biggest announcements are a new distribution method …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Flash 10 coming to most smartphones in 2010 — BARCELONA—A full-fledged version of the Adobe Flash player is coming soon to a whole slew of smartphones. Unfortunately, Apple's iPhone isn't one of them. — Adobe announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress here Monday that Flash Player 10 …
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Computerworld, Technologizer, IntoMobile, Ryan Stewart, Technology Live and The Apple Core
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.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Did Adobe snub Apple with FlashPlayer 10, Palm Pre, and Development …
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:Microsoft Recite for Windows Mobile previewed
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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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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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Computerworld, HTC, Boy Genius Report, Boing Boing Gadgets, Electronista, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo and IntoMobile
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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eWeek, CNET News, Music Ally, Nokia, Nokia Conversations, Mashable!, Electricpig.co.uk and Engadget
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.
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 …
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.
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PhoneDog.com Cell …, Gearlog, UMPCPortal, Google Android News …, Engadget, Pocket PC Thoughts.com and Pocketables
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 Walters / Consumerist:
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.” — Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
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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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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:
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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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 …
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