Google, Apple pile pressure on phone world (The Malaysian Insider)
HELSINKI, Feb 12 — At next week’s mobile trade show in Barcelona, visitors can find a programme that measures how high they can throw a Nokia smartphone, an apt metaphor for Nokia’s efforts to raise its game. But gravity might not favour the world’s biggest maker of cellphones, as the focus of the US$169 billion (RM575 billion) industry shifts to software and services, the “mindshare” that is ...
RealPlayer SP beta converts videos for cellphones, iPods (MacNN)
RealNetworks on Monday released a beta version of its RealPlayer SP software for Mac. The utility, which builds upon the features of RealPlayer 11, provides tools for downloading and converting videos into formats compatible with a variety of cellphones and other devices such as iPods and Apple TV. Users can download online videos, from sites such as YouTube, and convert the content or share ...
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It’s official: Wal-Mart to start selling iPhones on Sunday (USA Today)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc said Friday it will start selling certain models of Apple Inc's iPhone Sunday, but the popular cellphones will not priced as low as some anticipated.
iPod thefts up (Newstalk 1010 CFRB)
Police are urging iPod users to be wary of possible muggers after recent increase in thefts of the devices. Nine teens were arrested and charged over the weekend after five people were robbed and beaten with a meat tenderizing mallet for their iPods and cellphones.
iPhone: Money Machine
Less than two years after saying it would enter the business, Apple now says it is the third-biggest maker of cellphones in the world by revenue, after Nokia and Samsung. And it sold more phones than Research In Motion, the maker of the iconic BlackBerry, says the NY Times. Apple sold 6.9 million 3G iPhones in the first quarter, more than their first model sold in a year. In the quarter ended in September, Apple said iPhone sales represented 39 percent of the company’s $11.6 billion in rev
Nintendo to launch camera- and music-capable Nintendo DS
The move would pit the top-selling portable game gear with Apple Inc iPod and camera-embedded cellphones in general.