TechWeb Mobile & Wireless Update - Monday, June 29, 2009
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*Review: Palm Pre Smartphone Mostly Pleases
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*Apple Bans 'Hottest Girls' iPhone App
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*Palm Posts $105 Million Loss
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*iPod Touch Firmware Upgrades Scant
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*MetroPCS Offers $5 International Calling Plan
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Review: Palm Pre Smartphone Mostly Pleases
Palm needs the Pre to be a smash. There is a lot to like about the handset, but the iPhone, RIM's Blackberry line, and a coming crop of Android devices pose serious obstacles.
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Microsoft Limits Free Windows 7 Upgrades
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Windows 7 Revealed: 24 Screen Shots Of Microsoft's Next Operating System
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Here's a first visual look at the Vista successor, as previewed at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
U.S. State Dept. Condemns China's Green Dam Filter As Boycott Brews
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China is insisting that computer makers install Web-filtering software known as Green Dam on all PCs sold in the country after July 1.
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Silver Lake’s Hutchins Touts the Cloud, Social Networking as Mega-Trends
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Private equity veteran predicts slow recovery but urges financial industry to invest in technology and innovation at SunGard City Day event.
BAI Retail Delivery News: HP Sees Infrastructure as Key to Branch Transformation
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HP launches Banking Innovation Center to show potential impact of emerging technologies.
UBS Joins DTCC Managed Accounts Service
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The centralized platform is designed to automate and standardize communications among sponsors, investment managers and service providers.
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Apple Bans 'Hottest Girls' iPhone App
Apple threw cold water on the "Hottest Girl" iPhone app, removing the software from the App Store after the developer started showing pictures of topless women.
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Palm Posts $105 Million Loss
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Palm has essentially bet its future on the success of its Pre smartphone and webOS operating system.
iPod Touch Firmware Upgrades Scant
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Just 1% of iPod Touch owners have downloaded and installed Apple's latest firmware, compared to 44% of iPhone owners.
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The unlimited international calling plan is an aggressive move in the highly-competitive prepaid mobile market.
Apple Approves First iPhone Porn App
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The "Hottest Girls" app was apparently approved because the iPhone 3.0 software includes age-verification controls for the App Store.
Verizon Intros HTC Ozone Smartphone
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The smartphone has a bargain price, Windows Mobile, Wi-Fi, 3G, and access to over-the-air e-mails.
Forecast: Electronics Industry To Recover In 2010
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Mobile phones are projected to be the first market to achieve a sustainable recovery, says Gartner.
Palm Pre Sees 1 Million App Downloads
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The Palm Pre's App Catalog is far behind Apple's App Store, but Palm could see a flood of interest once its SDK is released.
AT&T Expands Smart Grid Ambitions
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The carrier is teaming with Cooper Power Systems to sell wireless grid sensors to power utilities.
Microsoft Exec Predicts Mobile Ad Boom
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Improved networks and emerging markets are expected to fuel mobile advertising's growth from $3.1 billion to $28.8 billion within five years.
RealPlayer Aims For Mobile Devices
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The latest version of the popular media player software allows downloads of Web videos and transfers to personal music players and smartphones with a few clicks.
HTC Reveals Android-Powered 'Hero' Smartphone
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HTC has layered its own UI, called Sense, on top of the Google-backed Android in order to take advantage of gesture controls, widget support, and quick-launch icons.
Startup's iPhone SDK Steers Clear Of Apple's Objective-C
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Ansca's Corona takes advantage of the Lua scripting code to compile into an iPhone application that can be sold at Apple's App Store.
Intel, Nokia Partnership Facing Market Challenges
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Beyond the technology agreements, the companies will need to hone in on two or three form factors or risk market confusion, analysts suggest.
Cloudmark Goes After SMS Exploits
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The carrier-grade mobile messaging security system provides content filtering, reputation data, and monitoring of text and multimedia messages.
Apple Approves First Push-Notification Apps
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Push-notification system enables apps to gain a user's attention without killing iPhone and iPod Touch system resources.
Flash Coming To Smartphones In October
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A beta version of Flash 10 will be made available for Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, and webOS smartphones.
Intel Deal Gives Nokia More Mobile Options
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Collaborating with Intel may give Nokia the flexibility to create a new crop of mobile devices beyond the smartphone.
Intel, Nokia Partner On Smartphones, Mobile Devices
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The collaboration optimizes Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo Linux OS for Internet-connected devices, netbooks, nettops, and in-vehicle information/entertainment.
BlackBerry Getting VoIP From Agito
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The company's Mobility Router will enable businesses with a BlackBerry deployment to use VoIP over Wi-Fi, as well as extend the PBX and unified communications to the handset.
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Judge OKs Former IBM Exec's Dell Move
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David Johnson can begin work in Round Rock while breach of contract case is heard.
Goldman Seen Ahead of Morgan Stanley in Recovery
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The last two big names on Wall Street -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- have made strides in recovering from the turmoil that engulfed the industry last fall, but Goldman has probably mounted the stronger comeback.
Wall Street Eagerly Waiting for Carbon Credit Trading
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The opposition by the Republicans to the idea of carbon trading is a bit baffling, given that it is a classic Wall Street-driven solution for dealing with a serious problem.
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