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You may have heard the argument: When talk turns to converged consumer electronics devices, many tech industry observers point to the clock radio as one of the few success stories. Everything else, no matter the maker, tends to sacrifice usability in the name of feature-lust. So what to make of Sprint’s new HTC-designed, UTStarcom-produced, PPC6700? [...]

San Francisco is playing host to the CTIA trade show, an annual event that celebrates the wireless industry in the US. Ironically, in the week when mobile world’s high-and-mighty do a show-and-tell, Computer Industry Almanac projects that China will be the #1 mobile country on the planet - with 398 million subscribers by end [...]

Motorola CEO Ed Zander was fairly dismissive of iPod Nano. His comments got widespread play, and well he has been doing some damage control since then. However, I think there is something Moto should learn from Apple: if you are a one product company - black and pink RAZRs don’t count - then you have [...]

Business Gets A Nervous System: The next revolution in information technology: a field-level nervous system for every business. Commoditized technologies, wired employees, cheap storage and processing power will unleash a new wave of productivity gains.
Seven Technologies That Change Everything: Ajax, BioGenerics, Deep Web Search, HD Radio, Hybrid Cellphones, Micro Fuel Cells, and WiMAX.
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Force 10 Networks, the heavyweight in the 10 gigabit networks space, got some serious cash infusion today - about $40 million - which brings the total to about $300 million in five rounds of funding, with hopes to go public next year. Much of the money is going to be used to compete with Big [...]

Homeland security folks might be based in Washington DC, but they are not doing a good job of monitoring the government-wireless networks which are open for anyone to peruse, according to Boston-based Newbury Networks. They went on a war drive and found in-securities, literally at every corner. Amongst those were Price WaterhouseCoopers, the U.S. Senate [...]