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The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket

December 19th, 2006 · Comments Off

Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a ‘Google phone’ which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are.
The collaboration between two of the most powerful brands in technology is seen as a potential catalyst for making […]

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21 year study finds mobile phones do not cause cancer

December 7th, 2006 · Comments Off

The largest ever investigation into the link between mobile phone use and cancer has concluded that there is no relationship.
420,000 mobile phone users in Denmark have been studied for 21 years and the results showed that they were no more likely to develop the disease than the general population.

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Zune Drops To Fifth In Market Sales

December 6th, 2006 · Comments Off

Microsoft’s portable music player Zune seemed to be off to a promising start, ranking second in U.S. market sales in the week that ended November 25. However, any revelry was short-lived as the device drops out of sight and into a fifth place ranking during its second week of sales.

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Defect in Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras

November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off

First it was the company’s laptop batteries that ended in recalling almost 10 million units, now it looks like Sony has been hit with a dodgy batch digital cameras.
Sony has announced that its Cyber-shot compact digital cameras might not work in warm and humid areas and that it would repair any affected cameras free of […]

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Cell phone owners getting new rights

November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off

Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
Other copyright exemptions approved by the Library of Congress will let film professors copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations and let blind people use special software to read […]

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The top 5 camera phones for Christmas 2006

November 18th, 2006 · Comments Off

With only a few weeks for Christmas we have been receiving quite a few emails asking which camera phones we would recommend. Several high quality models are on the market but until you are able to use and test the phones its impossible to choose between them.
Luckily the team at mad4mobilephones.com have been able to […]

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Apple iPhone contract goes to Hon Hai

November 17th, 2006 · Comments Off

Is Apple’s iPhone coming even closer to release? The latest rumour floating around the Internet is that Hon Hai Precision, a manufacturing company based in Taiwan, has won a contract to manufacture 12 million mobile phone handsets for Apple.
The Commercial Times, which is the source of the report, said that the phones will launch during […]

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Apple iPhone may be on the way

November 16th, 2006 · Comments Off

Apple may release an iPhone within the first six months of next year, according to a published report.
Foxconn Electronics will make the music handset, said DigiTimes.com, which covers Taiwan IT companies, citing the Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times.
The first shipment of 12 million units is reportedly to be released in the first half of 2007.

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Microsoft Zune music player has no future

November 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

If anything is doomed to failure, it is the Microsoft Zune. I have no idea who is marketing this device within the company, but from what I can tell, this is going to become a major turkey in the product mix. As far as I can tell, Microsoft should simply turn over all its marketing […]

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Microsoft Zune on sale today

November 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

Microsoft’s Zune player goes on sale today in stores across the USA. Its launch was inaugurated with concerts kicked off in Seattle, Washington, and continuing to Atlanta, Chicago and Miami, with the day culminating with shows in New York and LA.
Bill Gates took to the stage in Seattle, where he demonstrated the Zune-to-Zune sharing feature […]

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