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Microsoft hit with software sales ban in China - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Microsoft is in hot water in China this week, after a court ruled that it infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property by including certain fonts in its operating systems. The ruling ... 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 »

This guy gets paid a king's ransom to make a template cell phone? - Oct 29, 2009

Blogs See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/technology/companies/29moto.html?ref=technology Say we can keep politics at 10 percent of your time a day. For some guy to coordinate exterior design, PCB design, OS vendor, make a phone, then coordinate ... Read story »

Photoshop CS3 works with Snow Leopard - Aug 28, 2009

Crave An Adobe Systems executive is trying to calm Photoshop users who were alarmed to hear an earlier but still widely used version of Photoshop isn't supported on Snow Leopard, the new ... Read story »

Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iPod touch firmware get update to 10.6.1 and 3.1.1, respectively - Sep 14, 2009

Crave Just a couple of weeks after its release, Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system has received a major update, from 10.6 to 10.6.1. Apple recommends all users running ... Read story »

Acer delays its Android Netbook - Jul 29, 2009

Crave Is Acer backing off the idea of an Android-based Netbook? A new report out of Taiwan, where the PC maker is based, says the production of the previously announced dual-boot Netbook ... Read story »

Do you really need SanDisk's 90MB/sec CompactFlash? - Sep 15, 2009

Crave Despite its being out of vogue at the moment, I'm still a big believer in the faster-is-better philosophy. That said, I also recognize that it's not always worth the extra ... Read story »

Get a Windows 7 PC before October 22 - Sep 28, 2009

Crave Dying for a new desktop or laptop with a fresh, factory-installed copy of Windows 7 on it? We all know the official start date for the Win 7 era is October ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS on Chinese Netbook next month? - Oct 3, 2009

Blogs Google announced their plans to make an operating system for computers earlier this summer, and its eagerly awaited release date is 'sometime in 2010'. But a Chinese manufacturer might be about to ... Read story »

Panasonic and NEC announce new open source LiMo phones - Aug 12, 2009

Crave Panasonic and NEC announced nine new cell phones on Tuesday that use the open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system called LiMo. As the mobile phone market evolves, software is becoming more crucial ... Read story »

LiveAndroid software gets functions - Jul 10, 2009

Crave The developers of the LiveAndroid project have released the second alpha version of their software, which allows users to try out Google's mobile operating system without having to install it ... Read story »

Acer to sell Android phones, Netbooks - Jun 3, 2009

Crave An Acer Aspire One Acer announced on Tuesday a version of its Aspire One Netbook that will run the Android operating system. The manufacturer made the announcement at the Computex ... Read story »

Dell to launch Android phone? - Aug 13, 2009

Crave "A source with knowledge of the situation" tells TechCrunch that Dell plans to introduce a mobile phone in China in the next few days. "The information we’ve received is extremely thin," ... Read story »

Windows Mobile 6.5 phones launching October 6 - Sep 2, 2009

Crave HTC's Touch Pro2 is among the new phones expected to ship with Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft is hoping that a new crop of phones this fall will help the company in ... Read story »

Can the Droid save Motorola? - Nov 2, 2009

Features Motorola's new Droid is expected to be a hot seller. But will it be enough to turn Motorola around? Read story »

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