RIM to give away server software

From CNET News.com: BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is trying to hold on to business customers with a free version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server software.

Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced here Tuesday during his keynote address to the Mobile World Congress that the company...

Google Apologizes for Buzz Privacy Blunder

From DailyTech: There's an old saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me". Google's new Buzz service now falls under that probationary truism, as it has become embroiled in a privacy mess.

Google officially launched its Google Buzz service -- a social networking...

Verizon CTO Confirms LTE Coming to 25-30 Cities in 2010

From DailyTech: Mobile World Congress 2010 is going on in Spain right now and so far, there have been significant announcements and unveilings of new products at the show. LTE and other 4G services and devices are big topics at the show this year.

Verizon Wireless made a big LTE...

Google changes Buzz privacy settings again

From CNET News.com: Having launched its new Buzz service last week, melding some mimicry of Twitter and Facebook, Google seemed to take a page straight from the latter's Beacon of customer service by creating start-up settings that were anything other than comfortable, anything other...

Samsung Readies Netbook with Google Chrome Operating System

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics has announced plans to introduce a smartbook running Google Chrome operating system. The device will allow Samsung to test the market of ARM-based mobile computers which can boast very long battery life, but which cannot run Microsoft Windows and...

Adobe AIR 2.0, full-featured Flash Player coming to smartphones

From InfoWorld: Adobe Systems is readying a mobile version of Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), its runtime for running Flash and Web applications outside of a browser. The company plans to demonstrate AIR 2.0 running on a Google Android-based smartphone today at the Mobile Word...

Expo Notes: Microsoft Goes Big on Office for Mac 2011 Promo

From PC World: Macworld Expo without Apple is a strange enough concept, but Macworld Expo with Microsoft as one of the largest and most visible companies present? It may seem like something out of Bizarro World, but Microsoft had one of the most prominently displayed booths on the...

Apple's late to the Core i5 laptop party

From CNET News.com: As performance laptops based on the Intel Core i5 processor proliferate, older Core 2 models look, well, old. That means Apple's core silicon is past its prime.

What began as a trickle about a month ago is now a torrent of new Core i-based notebooks. Although...

Sony Ericsson shows love for Android

From CNET News.com: Executives from Sony Ericsson, the struggling European handset maker working hard to make a turnaround in 2010, said most of its new phones introduced this coming year will sport the Google Android operating system.

On the eve of the Mobile World Congress trade...

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