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Nokia Philippines GM takes a new assignment

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2009

After years serving as Nokia Philippines general manager, it’s time for William Hamilton-Whyte to move on and face new challenges. Whyte will step down as Nokia Philippines GM and will head to Vietnam to lead the Nokia Vietnam subsidiary.
“I have accomplished my goal for Nokia here in the Philippines. It’s time for me [...]

Yahoo and Microsoft enters search partnership deal

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2009

Yahoo! and Microsoft signed a 10 year agreement in which Microsoft will license Yahoo’s core search technologies, and Microsoft’s Bing will become the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo sites.
Under the agreement, Yahoo! would focus on its core business of providing consumers with great experiences with the world’s favorite online destinations [...]

Belkin announces adaptor for Apple iPod Shuffle 3G

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2009

Belkin has announced a new hardware attachment for the third generation Apple iPod Shuffle which lack controls on the main player’s body.
The attachment would allow iPod Shuffle owners to control the playback functions on the device with any headphone.
Belkin’s device would enable users to use any headphone as the controls are located on the attachment [...]

Twitter parades a new homepage

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2009

Twitter has launched a new homepage for visitors who are not logged in to the service. The new hompage has a big search box which enables anyone to search for the latest content posted on the service.
In addition, the homepage also highlights the latest trending topics on the web as generated from the content [...]

Microsoft launches Page Hunt game

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 29, 2009

Microsoft has launched a game for web pages named Page Hunt. It loads random web pages and the user is required to type in the keywords they believe are the best for the page.
The game then checks for search results for those keywords and award points to the user base on the quality of [...]

Western Digital rolls out 1TB notebook drive

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2009

Western Digital has launched the world’s first 2.5” hard disk drive with 1TB capacity. WD will also use its new 2.5” hard drive to enable 1TB external hard disk drives (HDDs).
The new WD Scorpio Blue hard drives based on 333GB platters will be available in 750GB (model WD7500KEVT) and 1TB (model WD10TEVT) capacities and [...]

Samsung and Intrinsity have together announced a new mobile processor that could someday power the Apple iPhone. This new mobile processor from Samsung is rated at 1GHz.
It is similar in architecture to the processor that currently powers the Apple iPhone.
Apple iPhone 3GS is powered with a 600MHz Samsung processor based on the ARM [...]

RIM launches BlackBerry Curve 8250

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2009

Research in Motion revealed their new smartphone model BlackBerry Curve 8250.
It feature a 2 megapixel camera in addition to support for technologies like Wi-Fi, Video Recording, a battery capable of 4.5 hours of talk time.
It lacks 3G connectivity which makes it a lower end mobile phone. It features a trackpad instead of the [...]

Palm fixes Pre vulnerabilities

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2009

Palm has release a security update for the webOS operating system for the Palm Pre. It should stop the system from crashing when a user clicks on over long URLs; greater than 4063 characters.
It may be possible to exploit this flaw by creating a crafted URL that could inject code into the device. Links [...]

Time Warner Buys Back Google’s 5% Stake in AOL

Posted by: ADMIN on: July 28, 2009

AOL Inc. announced that parent Time Warner Inc. bought back a 5% stake ($283 million) in the online unit — originally purchased by Google Inc. for $1 billion in 2006, as AOL seeks to revive its fortunes as an independent entity.
AOL, which is being spun off by Time Warner said in a filing with [...]


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