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Trials and Tribulations for Apple, Origami, HP and Gateway

March 6, 2006

Three bits of news got me thinking about personal computers last week. The first was the "surprise" announcement from Apple that it was getting into speakers and, yawn, building an Intel-based Mac Mini. The second was the HP/Gateway settlement, and the third was the "secret" Microsoft Origami projec...

Rivals Take Aim at RIM

February 18, 2006

By focusing on e-mail devices for corporate clients, Research In Motion (RIM) has been able to carve out a small but lucrative niche in the wireless handset market. As competition among wireless device suppliers intensifies, large companies such as Nokia, Motorola and Microsoft have set their sights...

Experts Question RIM’s Proposed ‘Work-Around’ for Blackberry

December 2, 2005

Experts are raising uncomfortable questions about Research in Motion's proposal to maintain the viability of its Blackberry wireless network through a technological "work-around" if the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va. issues an order to shutter its services in the U.S. The work-around -- as cur...

HP, Cingular Partner on New iPaqs

October 19, 2005

Hewlett-Packard and Cingular are touting their collaboration on the new iPaq 6500 series, heralding the Pocket PC handhelds as the first in the U.S. capable of connecting via Cingular's high-speed EDGE wireless network. The companies said they would cram digital wireless voice and data capability, g...

Palm Treo Smartphone Soon to Offer Blackberry Features

October 18, 2005

Palm and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion yesterday announced that the Palm Treo smartphone will soon feature BlackBerry Connect, allowing BlackBerry e-mail, calendaring, and support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino, among other features, beginning next year. Analysts, who had expected...

Palm, RIM Taste BlackBerry Bond

October 17, 2005

Palm and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion today announced that the Palm Treo smartphone will soon feature BlackBerry Connect, allowing BlackBerry e-mail, calendaring, and support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino, among other features, beginning next year. Analysts, who had expected suc...

Motorola Shoots for the Hip With Sleek SmartPhone, Oakley Headsets

July 26, 2005

Motorola showed off a sleek, new smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard and announced it had designed, in partnership with fashion sunglass maker Oakley, eyewear that includes a Bluetooth-enabled headset. The new products were revealed this week at Motorola's analyst conference, dubbed Motonow, ...

Threat From Mobile Device Viruses a Sleeping Giant

July 2, 2005

Communication security experts do not all agree that cell phone and mobile device viruses pose imminent threats to U.S. consumers. Whether virus attacks become a problem in six months or five years might depend on how cell phone carriers react now to the threat potential. A Gartner report by securit...

RIM Wins Another Victory in NTP Patent Dispute

June 23, 2005

Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile messaging device, won another round in its intellectual property fight with U.S.-based NTP as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continued its re-examination of patents that are the basis of NTP's case. Shares of RIM ros...

Microsoft Launching Wide-Ranging Mobile OS Today

May 10, 2005

In the comic book series X-Men, Magneto is a supervillain bent on world domination. Microsoft is associating its Magneto with world domination, too -- domination of the global mobile operating system market. Magneto, the code name for version five of the Redmond, Wash., software maker's mobile opera...

Mobile Phone OS Battle Heats Up

June 22, 2004

Cell phones are no longer used simply for voice communications; increasingly, they support text messaging, e-mail, Web surfing and even video transmissions. With this transformation has come the need for a more sophisticated mobile operating system. Half a dozen vendors, including Microsoft and Symb...

BlackBerry Patent Stuggle Hits Appeals Court

June 7, 2004

The U.S. Court of Appeals is set to rule on whether the communications company Research In Motion (RIM) will have to stop selling its BlackBerry e-mail device. The dispute is over who owns the patent for technology used in the bestselling gadget. The Canadian company was sued by technology patent co...

RIM’s World-Capable Color BlackBerry 7230 Arrives

August 11, 2003

In an effort to provide businesspeople with an affordable, all-in-one mobile device, T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion have introduced the triband BlackBerry 7230 wireless handheld. For many business travelers, the ability to use the same device for wireless voice and e-mail connectivity while tra...

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AI’s Real Bottleneck Is Power, Not Compute

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Experity AI Care Agent Helps Cut Admin Workload in Urgent Care

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Calix in 2026: A Quiet AI Power Play for Smaller Broadband Providers

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Law Firms Grapple With Hallucinated Legal Logic, Shadow AI

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Malicious Traffic Surges 245% Since Iran War Began

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AI Apps Generate Revenue but Struggle With Retention

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Google and MediaTek Move to Challenge the PC Status Quo

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Meta Enlists AI to Enforce Age Restrictions

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Galaxy XR Is Impressive. The Problem Is Nobody Needs It (Yet)

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Robotics Framework Aims to Prevent Conflicts in Shared Spaces

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Aptera Reaches Milestone in Solar-Powered Vehicle Production

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Favored Google Search Results Can Cost Consumers Cash

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Data Centers in Space: Pi in the Sky or AI Hallucination?

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WWDC: Apple Unifies Operating Systems, Makes iPad More PC

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