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Flash memory market to fall, forecast says - Nov 3, 2008

Crave This USB drive is made of solid gold, but its golden age is over. With all the buzz about solid-state drives that Intel, Super Talent Technology, and other companies have ... Read story »

Analyst: Motorola may exit handset business - Jan 30, 2008

Crave Good things don't seem to be happening at Motorola, but bad news is certainly coming in droves. Just last week, the company reported an 84-percent decline in its fourth-quarter profit and ... Read story »

Video game industry sales down 17 percent--again - May 26, 2009

Crave For the second straight month, video game industry sales tumbled nearly 17 percent year over year, a downward trend for a market segment that had previously seemed resistant to the economic ... Read story »

The most significant thing this week: A new genre of phones defined--the App Phone - Nov 6, 2009

Blogs I've never called the iPhone or Android phone a smartphone. Somehow, the smartphone was reserved for phones which were much more limited in capability. My first smartphone was the Sony Ericsson ... Read story »

Iran's mobile phone market shrinks - Aug 10, 2009

Blogs The worldwide mobile phone market recorded another quarter of year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09) and current trends in Iran show a similar situation. Mobile phone prices have ... Read story »

Is it the end of the iPod classic? - Jul 23, 2009

Crave If you've read the stories on Apple's latest earnings, you may have noticed that Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer took the time to break out the sales of each model ... Read story »

Report: 2009 to be PC industry's worst year since dot-com implosion - Jul 15, 2009

Crave At the end of this year, the number of PCs shipped is expected to be lower than the previous year, a rarity for the industry. In fact, it would be the ... Read story »

Market to be dominated by smartphones and low-cost handsets - Aug 14, 2009

Crave Midrange cell phones could soon fall by the wayside as consumers in developed markets are opting for more advanced smartphones, while wireless users in developing nations gobble up low-cost devices. Two ... Read story »

Researchers demo spoofed SMS messages - Jul 31, 2009

Crave Luis Miras and Zane Lackey prepare for their presentation on SMS spoofing at Black Hat. LAS VEGAS--Researchers at the Read story »

Ready-made ringtones from Apple soon - Sep 3, 2009

Crave Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to have them available in time for next week's press conference, music industry sources told ... Read story »

Are manufacturers shifting resources away from satnav devices? - Dec 3, 2009

Crave When Motorola's Droid smartphone debuted on Verizon, the inclusion of Google Maps Navigation beta--real-time, turn-by-turn, rerouting GPS-fueled directions--sent the stocks of standalone GPS navigation manufacturers Garmin and TomTom crashing. If a ... Read story »

YouTube in talks with movie studios to offer film rentals - Sep 4, 2009

Crave YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top movie studios about obtaining licenses to stream feature films on a rental basis. YouTube is discussing the service ... Read story »

MobileOne (M1) to offer iPhone later this year - Oct 13, 2009

Crave By the end of this year, SingTel won't be the only telco operator to sell the iPhone in Singapore, ending its exclusive deal with Apple after the launch of the iPhone ... Read story »

The search for the perfect e-commerce hosting service - Oct 13, 2009

Blogs I have been using Bizhosting as my e-commerce hosting service for the last seven years, and I am moving on to a new host for my online business. When I first ... Read story »

Spring Design wants to stop Nook sales - Nov 4, 2009

Crave Could a legal challenge threaten the launch of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader? In a new lawsuit, start-up Spring Design is seeking not only monetary damages from Barnes & Noble, but ... Read story »

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