TOKYO - Sony Corp. said Tuesday its April-June profit plunged to 34.98 billion yen ($326.9 million) -- about half that recorded a year ago -- as a strong yen, the absence of "Spider-Man 3" revenue and faltering results at its cell phone operations battered earnings. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company, which makes the Walkman player and the PlayStation 3 game machine, had recorded...
Rabu, 30 Juli 2008
San Francisco - Mobile computing has become a dominant focus in the open source arena, a theme on prominent display at a major open source technology convention last week. The OReilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., highlighted mobile efforts along with Linux, Web computing, and languages. Mention of various mobile efforts abounded, including LiMo (Linux Mobile), Intels Moblin,...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a bigger-than-expected 47 percent fall in quarterly profit and cut its outlook, hurt by its struggling mobile phone joint venture with Swedens Ericsson (ERICb.ST), while rival Matsushita (6752.T) nearly doubled its profit on rising flat TV sales. Sony lowered its group net profit forecast for the year to March by 17 percent, citing the slump at Sony Ericsson...
A California judge ruled Tuesday that Sprint Nextel would have to pay $73 million in a class-action lawsuit regarding early termination fees. The ruling is tentative, as Sprint will have about two weeks to come up with a response before a final decision is made in Alameda County, Calif., Superior Court. "Now that the ruling is in, the outcome is clear," said Scott Bursor, an attorney representing...
NEW YORK - Twinkle, twinkle, little Internet router. And cell phone. And digital video recorder. And cable modem. And game console. And power strip. And TV -- even though it's turned off. Turn off the lamps in a living room or bedroom today, and chances are good the room will still be aglow with the tiny diode lights of a half-dozen gadgets. They can be useful indicators of what state a gadget it...
SAN FRANCISCO - The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law. The judge, in a tentative ruling issued late Monday, said Sprint will have to pay $18.3 million to customers who sued over the fees and credit $54.8 million to those who were charged...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children whose mothers used cell phones frequently during pregnancy and who are themselves cell phone users are more likely to have behavior problems, new research shows. The finding "certainly shouldnt be over interpreted, but nevertheless points in a direction where further research is needed," Dr. Leeka Kheifets of the UCLA School of Public Health, who helped conduct...
LG Electronics plans to start adding Dolby Mobile to high-end phones later this year, it said Wednesday. The two companies have reached a deal that will make South Koreas LG the first cell phone maker to incorporate the Mobile version of Dolbys system into its handsets. Dolby Mobile is an audio processing system tuned to match the processing and audio capabilities of cell phones. As cell phones...
Gameloft has released a new portable version of Uno, (iTunes link), now designed for iPods. Players in the card game attempt to whittle down their hands, while simultaneously sabotaging their opponents' hands with special "action" cards. Competition can include either AI players or live ones taking turns on the same iPod. Nine different rules settings can be used including "7-0" and "Jump-In," and...
The UK storefront for iTunes has joined those in Canada and the US in offering discount movie rentals, Apple has announced. The site now advertises a "99p Film of the Week" program, letting people rent a single movie at a sharp discount over the normal cost of �2.49. The chosen debut movie is John Frankenheimer's Ronin, a 1998 thriller about the life of spies in a world without good, evil or the Soviet...
A new application demonstrates early copy and paste functions on the iPhone, its creator claims. Proximi has developed an application called MagicPad, a rich text editor similar in function to TextEdit. Unlike the built-in Notes application, users can type up documents using six fonts, five sizes and eight colors;...
Palringo says that it has brought its self-named instant messaging client (iTunes link) to the iPhone. In contrast to apps such as AIM, Palringo is able to interact with several different IM platforms, including not just AIM but iChat, Yahoo, ICQ and Google Talk, as well as less common options such as Jabber...
Sales of other phones on Rogers Wireless' network virtually ground to a halt the day of the iPhone 3G announcement in late April, company president Nadir Mohammed said today during a call discussing the company's latest quarterly results. Although the cellular business helped drive Rogers' year-over-year quarterly...
SyntheFX has released a handy iPhone app for A/V and theater professionals. Luminair 1.0 allows remote control of intelligent DMX512-A lighting systems via the iPhone. DMX is a widely-used standard for digital control of stage lighting, special effects and fog machines. Luminair uses Artistic Licence's Art-Net...
Audio accessory maker iLuv has announced a full line of form-fitting cases for the iPhone 3G, including a unique two-toned silicone model. There are four models available: a basic silicone case in black or white, the two-toned silicone model, and hard cases in acrylic or clear plastic. All of the cases allow...
Real Dice has announced Multiplayer Championship Poker for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Texas Hold'em game features live multiplayer games, with options such as ring games, sit-n-go tournaments and multi-table events. The game is not indigenous to the iPhone, and players from other platforms with the game...
CellSpin Soft has adapted its CellSpin mobile blogging software for the iPhone and iPod touch, providing a GUI-based blogging tool for audio, photo and text capture. Users can link and upload to blogging, social networking and photo sharing sites over a secure connection, allowing fully mobile blogging and podcasting....
China-based OEM manufacturer Better-Power Electric has developed a unique combination speaker and charger for the iPod and iPhone using a 4800mA, 3.7V Lithium-Ion Battery. The company says the device can charge an iPhone in 50-80 minutes and also works with various iPods and other mobile devices via USB. The...
Selasa, 29 Juli 2008
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Motorola Inc (MOT.N) will create three businesses within its home and networks mobility business to focus on the sectors growth potential, the cell phone maker said. The home and networks mobility business, led by Dan Moloney, will now comprise three businesses: broadband home solutions, broadband access solutions and cellular networks, the company said. The unit, which...
Cell phones have always been about helping you keep in touch. Now theyre helping you stay healthy. Eager to discover the next new trend in cell phone technology, Japanese mobile carriers are developing and rolling out services that tie a users desire to keep fit with their cell phone and network-linked services. First off the starting block has been KDDIs Au unit, which launched a service earlier...
Verizon reported net income of US$4.5 billion for the second quarter of 2008, up 9.6 percent from a year ago, due largely to growth in mobile and data services, the company said. Verizon Wireless added 1.5 million customers in the quarter, bringing its total customer numbers to 68.7 million. Mobile revenue was up 11.8 percent and mobile data revenue up 45.3 percent, Verizon said Monday. In addition,...
As part of D-Links green initiative, the company has become the first to come out with "green" Wi-Fi routers for the home network. More particularly, D-LINK has incorporated "green" features into some of the brands Xtreme N WiFi routers. The current routers integrated with "green" features available for shipping are the D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router, D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router, and the D-Link...
More people connect to the Internet in China than in any other country in the world, a Chinese consulting and research firm announced. BDA reported Thursday that China surpassed the United States to rank first among nations for its number of Internet users. The firm said that the China Internet Network Information Center counted 210 million Internet users in China at the end of 2007. Nielsen/NetRatings...
Users around the globe are increasingly turning to their mobile phones to get directions, according to new data from ComScore. The report found that 8% of U.S. wireless subscribers and 3% of European mobile subscribers accessed maps from their mobile handsets between March and May 2008. This represents a growth rate of 82% and 49%, respectively, compared with the same period last year. "The mobile...
The proposed partnership of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to deploy a nationwide WiMax network is being opposed by AT&T and the Rural Cellular Association, both of which have asked the FCC to examine the deal. Citing the FCCs earlier scrutiny of mergers and competitive combinations for mobile wireless partnerships, AT&T last week asked the FCC to be consistent in examining and approving partnerships....
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) posted a higher quarterly profit on strong wireless sales, but its shares fell on worries about its declining landlines and weaker-than-expected growth in its FiOS Internet and video service. FiOS, delivered over a high-speed, all-fiber network, is a key part of Verizons strategy to bolster its landline business and compete with cable companies...
In a move that will help Samsung increase its presence in location-based services and mobile social networking, the company announced a multiyear deal with GyPSii. The Amsterdam-based GyPSii has developed a mobile networking platform that utilizes location data. Under the terms of the deal, GyPSii will be provide technology, products, worldwide data center infrastructure, and branding rights to...
Verizon Communications second-quarter profit topped views, but sales missed estimates as shrinking demand for wireline service and disappointing sales of high-speed Internet and digital TV overshadowed solid wireless growth. Adjusted for one-time items, the telecom giant earned 67 cents per share for the quarter that ended June 30, up 15.5% from a year earlier and 2 cents over the average estimate...
China Telecom finalized a deal on Monday to buy China Unicoms CDMA business, another big step towards consolidation among Chinese telecom companies. China Telecom is paying 43.8 billion yuan (US$6.41 billion) for the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network, which had 43.17 million subscribers as of June 30. It will also take on 29.3 percent of China Unicoms total employees, the two companies...
The effects of tough price competition in the electronics and cell phone businesses hit Sonys profits during the April to June quarter, it said Tuesday. Net profit fell 47 percent against the same period last year to 35 billion (US$326 million) while sales were virtually unchanged at 2 trillion. But the unchanged sales figure hides a good deal of movement within several of Sonys key business areas...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a bigger-than-expected 47 percent fall in quarterly profit and cut its outlook, hurt by its struggling mobile phone joint venture with Swedens Ericsson (ERICb.ST), while rival Matsushita (6752.T) nearly doubled its profit on rising flat TV sales. Sony lowered its group net profit forecast for the year to March by 17 percent, citing the slump at Sony Ericsson...
TOKYO - Sony Corp. said Tuesday its April-June profit plunged to $326.9 million (34.98 billion yen) -- about half that recorded a year ago -- as a strong yen, the absence of "Spider-Man 3" revenue and faltering results at its cell phone operations battered earnings. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company, which makes the Walkman player and the PlayStation 3 game machine, had recorded...
Agent 18 has expanded three of its most popular case lines � EcoShield, ClearShield and FlowerVest � to include versions for the iPhone 3G. Each of these cases offer full access to all of the iPhones connectors, buttons and camera, as well as allow the iPhone to be docked into any universal docking device without...
Minggu, 27 Juli 2008
NEW YORK - AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons. As major U.S. Internet companies stake their ground abroad in anticipation of the next billion people coming online -- and the advertising revenue...
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