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Microsoft Dreams of a Live Mesh

Irina Haltsonen, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 9:10 PM PT Comments (8)

In this new millennium, our lives are becoming increasingly digital, thanks to proliferation of devices — from MP3 players to digital cameras to cell phones and of course computers. The challenge is to keep a handle on the data on these digital devices and the software programs that go with these devices. Microsoft thinks [...]

Housing Info Flows to the iPhone

Irina Haltsonen, Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (1)

Looking for a new house to buy but don’t have enough time to browse the Internet, either at home or in the office? As of today, iPhone users can use a new application from Silicon Valley-based startup Terabitz to look at property listings, photos, local neighborhood information, recent sales and driving directions to properties while [...]

On Sale: The iPhone (well, in Europe, at least)

Irina Haltsonen, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM PT Comments (5)

Well the iPhone may be hard to come by in the U.S. these days, but they’re practically giving them away overseas. As Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster notes today, two more mobile phone retailers — Britain’s 02 and Carphone Warehouse — have cut the price of the 8 GB iPhone by 37 percent. This follows [...]

The Zombies Are After Our iPhones

Irina Haltsonen, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM PT Comments (14)

If you’re a security company like Radware, it’s your job to find and create patches for vulnerabilities, but it’s also your job to poke and prod in the hopes of finding some newsworthy exploit to get your firm’s name in the paper. Radware struck media gold with its findings of a vulnerability in the iPhone [...]

Unlimited Plans Could Create Unlimited Trouble

Irina Haltsonen, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 5:00 PM PT Comments (13)

Will consumer adoption of unlimited mobile plans cause your call quality to suck? ABI Research seems to think so. In a report released today, ABI Research says unlimited plans can lead to more phone calls, more data use and worst of all, more YouTube-related video streaming. And that leads to more of a burden on [...]

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