Apple trying to expand iPhone presence in China

From CNET News.com: Apple is wasting little time in expanding the reach of the iPhone in China.

Just two weeks after signing a deal with China Unicom, Apple is once again in talks with rival China Mobile to offer the iPhone as well.

China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou confirmed...

iPhone gets .Net app development

From InfoWorld: Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages.

Leveraging Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows applications...

LG Unveils Its First Android Smartphone

From PC World: LG Electronics has joined the ranks of mobile phone makers putting Google's Android mobile operating system into smartphones, unveiling the LG-GW620 on Monday.

The launch follows the debut of Motorola's first Android-based smartphone, Cliq, which was announced last...

iPhone MMS Shows Up Early

From PC World: Some lucky iPhone owners are reporting that multimedia messaging has started working on their iPhones. The earliest report about MMS activation came from Mediaite blogger Ash Kalb on Saturday who says select U.S. iPhone customers now have MMS support. Kalb reported MMS...

802.11n Wi-Fi standard finally approved

From CNET News.com: As predicted last month, the IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard.

Finalization of the new wireless networking standard--which is capable of delivering throughput speeds up to 300 megabits per second (and even higher)--took...

Report: Gelsinger out in Intel executive shakeup

From CNET News.com: Intel is expected to announce a management shakeup Monday that will see Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger leaving after 30 years at the chip giant, according to a report in the New York Times.

Management changes will include sales and marketing chief Sean...

Windows 7's XP Mode Cripples Malware, Gives Attackers Headaches

From DailyTech: No computer system is completely secure. Inherent insecurities exist in even the most secure systems, be it in the form of exploitable features in the operating system code or the big organic “insecurity” sitting in front of the machine, typing on the keyboard. That...

AMD Launches Congo Ultrathin Mobile Platform

From Tom's Hardware: Along with the new Vision branding initiative, AMD today also launched its new ultrathin mobile platform – codenamed Congo.

AMD had already decided that it wasn't going to partake in a war against Intel for the netbook market by creating an Atom competitor, but...

AMD Tigris Notebook Platform is Good at Video

From Tom's Hardware: Along with the launch of the new Vision branding initiative and the ultrathin mobile platform Congo, AMD today also debuted its new mainstream notebook platform codename Tigris.

Of course, the mainstream segment covers all AMD-powered notebooks outside of the...

Apple fixes Flash snafu in Snow Leopard and 33 bugs in Leopard

From InfoWorld: Less than two weeks after Apple launched Snow Leopard, the company today issued the new operating system's first security update. In a separate upgrade, Apple patched 33 vulnerabilities in 2007's Leopard, and about half as many in the even older Tiger.

Today's...

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