Sprint Settles Big River Telephone Over Patent Agreement
Sprint has finally reached an agreement with Big River Telephone over
the lawsuit filled against it by the former as regards VoIP patent
right. Details of the agreement reached were not disclosed, but it is
clear that Big River Telephone would be allowed to wholesale telephone
services to other small cable operators.
Under the terms of the settlement, Big River [...]
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AT&T Releases 3G MicroCell
AT&T announced the launch of its 3G MicroCell, a femtocell(INFO)
router that connects to a customer’s home broadband internet
connection in order to increase indoor 3G reception quality. It works
with up to four users at once, people hitting 3G sites at maximum
speed all at the same time will log up many low-rent DSL or cable
lines.
The three other [...]
LG Releases GW620 Android smartphone
LG has joined the league of Android smartphone phone manufacturers
when it announced the release of its GW620 Android smartphone.
Earlier, Motorola and Samsung have released their own version of the
Android Smartphone which was launched with interesting and great
features. LG’s version equally comes with great features that users
would find very interesting and handy.
Those who have seen the [...]
Palm Pixi Now Available
Palm has finally released its Pixi, a tiny, sleek webOS-based handset
is due on the Sprint network in time for the holidays. With a visible
full keyboard and rubberized back cover, Palm Pixi is especially handy
for extensive messaging and social networking.
The phone will hit shelves sans-WiFi (EV-DO Rev. A only here), with
8GB of storage onboard (a nice [...]
Samsung S3650 Coming out soon
Samsung is getting ready to launch another low-cost touchscreen phone,
namely the Samsung S3650 Corby. The smallish rounded S3650 (called
internally Corby – it should have another marketing pet name) has a
2.8-inch QVGA touch display, a 2 megapixel camera, quad-band GSM
connectivity, Bluetooth, FM radio and microSD card slot. The S3650 is
only 13mm thin and weighs 92 grams.
Following [...]
Courts May Award Damages Against Publishers for Sending Unsolicited Text Messages
The Publisher Simon & Schuster may soon be forced to cough up the
roughly $90 million in fines and payouts associated with the class
action lawsuit it’s facing for the ill-advised Stephen King promo.
This was made known by the court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
which has decided unanimously that a text message campaign led by the
company [...]
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HTC Firestone Smartphone Leaked and Possibly Rendered Again
Some new information has surfaced about another HTC phone with its
main attraction being an 8-megapixel camera. The HTC Firestone was
mentioned a while back and now a new picture that was released may
give us the first glimpse of it.
The Firestone will feature a 3.6” WVGA touch screen, Wi-Fi, and a
Qualcomm 8250 600 MHz processor. On top [...]
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HTC Announces Third Android Powered Smartphone, The HTC Hero
Unveiling its third powered smartphone branded The Hero, HTC promises that this sense user interface device will be available on some other existing devices. This will give added capabilities such as an expanded Home screen with unique HTC widgets and tighter integration with social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook.
The HTC Hero represents the most usable [...]
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Flash comes to Android Courtesy Adobe and HTC
Adobe and HTC are bringing Flash to Android on its new Hero smartphone. The implementation will support video and audio codecs familiar to users of Flash on the desktop.
Speaking on this new development, David Wadhwani, vice president and general manager, Platform Business Unit at Adobe said that “With close to 80 percent of all videos [...]
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Steve Jobs of Apple Survived Liver Transplant
According to a report made available by Bloomberg, Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs who underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital has “an excellent prognosis”, as stated by the doctor at the hospital that performed the operation.
This would be the first time Jobs would officially speak about the state of his health since [...]
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