Loading ...In building the iPhone 3G S, Apple managed to punch up the product line without spending much more on components, a teardown analysis showed. Researcher iSuppli found that the cost of components and other other materials for Apple’s latest smartphone was $172.46. Add the manufacturing expense of $6.50, and the total is $178.96, or a [...]
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Palm has essentially bet its future on the success of its Pre smartphone and webOS operating system.Palm reported a loss of $105 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, but it does have some reasons to be optimistic. The company can take some solace in the fact that its eighth-consecutive quarterly loss was not as bad [...]
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Is the world ready for an eco-minded midsize near-luxury hybrid? Hiroyuki Koba, the Ducati-riding 47-year-old chief engineer of the Lexus HS 250h, likens himself to a conductor. And yes, this new Lexus is his symphony, an artful balance of several key elements (luxury, hybrid powertrain, advanced technology and ecological sensitivity) all directed to form a [...]
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Additional information has leaked out on the HTC Firestone, a Windows phone expected to debut later this summer. It’s expected to offer a large WVGA touchscreen, mobile broadband, and much more. The latest leak includes the best picture of this device so far. This unconfirmed report also says that this phone will debut with Windows [...]
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The Toshiba TG01 has debuted in a couple of countries, but probably not enough for those eager to get their hands on this high-end Windows phone.In a year that will see the release a number of models with large, high-resolution screens, the TG01 will still stand out thanks to its 4.1-inch, WVGA (800 by 480 [...]
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If you took it upon yourself to install the iPhone 3.0 tethering hack you may have noticed that you have a lot less voicemail than normal – as in zero. If so, it isn’t because people are just leaving you alone – they aren’t. What happened is that installing that .ipcc (carrier settings) file that [...]
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Storage utility software vendor Paragon Software Group on Tuesday said it had tweeked its Universal File System Driver technology to support Mac volumes on Windows systems. The driver is in beta release. The company said its Paragon HFS for Windows beta driver will support read-write functions for Mac OS X volumes; it will not support [...]
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Not even its chief executive’s liver transplant was enough to get Apple to break out of its secretive habits.SAN FRANCISCO – Apple is one of the world’s coolest companies. But there is one cool-company trend it has rejected: chatting with the world through blogs and dropping tidbits of information about its inner workings. Few companies, [...]
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A new Mafia video game has presented Twitter with an offer, but it’s one that Twitter thinks it can refuse. Experts say the rising social networking star could be making hay off ‘virtual currency’ in 140Mafia but Twitter hasn’t cashed in — yet. On Tuesday, a Twitter-based game called “140 Mafia” became the first to [...]
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