Motorola Reports a Small Profit, Held Back by Phone Sales

From PC World: Motorola's fourth-quarter sales fell 20 percent year-on-year, but the company still made out a small profit, unhampered by the exceptional charges that plunged it into loss a year ago, it reported Thursday. It expects to make a loss in the first quarter, however.

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Firefox Mobile inches towards 1.0, sheds Flash support

From CNET News.com: It's been a long slog getting Firefox Mobile off the ground, but on Wednesday, Mozilla announced a third release candidate for its mobile browser. (Our First Look video gives an overview of RC2, the previous version.) Once code-named Fennec, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia...

AT&T profits up 25 percent on wireless growth

From CNET News.com: AT&T posted a 25.6 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings as its wireless and new TV businesses continued to grow.

In the quarter that ended December 31, AT&T said Thursday, it earned $3.09 billion, or 51 cents a share. During the same period a year ago...

Apple Delivers Sleek, 'Magical' iPad, Starts from $499

From DailyTech: Apple today announced the iPad, a promising new tablet device which the electronics manufacturer swears will revolutionize the mobile computing industry, much as its iPhone did. The new device runs a modified version of OS X similar to the iPhone. Unlike the iPhone...

Google Voice Finally Returns to the iPhone

From DailyTech: Google Voice became the face of complaints about both AT&T's service policies and Apple's App Store policy. The app, which would allow for free SMS texts and domestic calls (using data rather than the voice network), was set to promise iPhone owners a way to escape...

MSI Refreshes Wind Netbooks, Faces Tough Competition

From DailyTech: Micro-Star International (MSI) is known among enthusiasts for its graphics card designs and motherboards. However, the Taiwan-based OEM makes a variety of other products including servers and barebones PCs. Among its most successful entries outside the component...

Ubuntu tries Mozilla's search-ad revenue plan

From CNET News.com: Tapping into a new revenue source, Ubuntu Linux's corporate backer Canonical has signed a partnership to use Yahoo's search results by default in the version of Firefox it ships.

The move takes a page from the Mozilla playbook. Firefox is set up by default to...

Google Social Search out of Labs, into beta

From CNET News.com: Google's Social Search product is ready for wider testing.

First announced back at the Web 2.0 conference, Social Search allows Google searchers to link their Google Profile with the various profiles they have on social-networking sites such as Facebook and...

Seagate and LSI Team Up for PCI Express Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technologies and LSI Corp. on Tuesday announced collaboration to deliver PCI Express-based solid-state drives (SSDs) for data center and cloud computing environments. The companies did not say when actual solutions are projected to hit the market.

LSI and...

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