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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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
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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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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference
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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.
New York Times:
Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in Classroom — SAN FRANCISCO — The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom. — At a conference this week in Washington called Mobile Learning 09 …
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.
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Huawei says to sell 2-3 Android phones this year — BARCELONA (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies said on Monday it aimed to start selling 2-3 phone models using Google's Android software platform while introducing more models next year. — Edward Chen, head of Huawei's devices unit …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Microsoft and Red Hat team up on patent-free interoperability — For years Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge its patent portfolio has a precursor to interoperability discussions. Today, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization.
