Monday, December 13, 2010

Mobile Ends Year With A Whine And A Whimper

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Monday, December 13, 2010

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TOP STORY
- Mobile Ends Year With A Whine And A Whimper

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- Global CIO: Apple, IBM, Or Microsoft: Who Has #1 Most-Valuable Software Product?

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Internet Evolution: Socially Challenged

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- Cell Phones Significant Part Of Traffic Deaths

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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Mobile Ends Year With A Whine And A Whimper
At the All Things D mobile conference, the major players say mostly nothing at all, and innovation emerged from a few surprising places, namely Plantronics (with Voyager Pro UC), RealNetworks (Unifi) and Jawbone (Thoughts).
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- Connecticut AG Demands Google Street View Data
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has given Google until Dec. 17 to turn over the data that was wrongfully collected from personal and business Wi-Fi networks.
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- Global CIO: Apple, IBM, Or Microsoft: Who Has #1 Most-Valuable Software Product?
The top software-product franchise gets a value of $110 billion, and both Oracle and Microsoft have two entries in the Top 6. But who's #1?
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- 40 Tech Gifts For The Holiday Season
From TVs to smartphones, green gadgets to slightly goofy gadgets, jaw-dropping sound to peaceful wake-up calls, here are 40 ideas for the holidays or any other gift-giving occasion. Prices are rounded to nearest whole dollar and are suggested retail unless otherwise noted. In some cases, there's no wiggle on the price tag; in others, it pays to shop around for the best deal.
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- Qualcomm Will Offer Refunds For FLO TV Devices
The mobile subscription-based TV service will end in March and Qualcomm is reported to be shopping the spectrum used for the service to carriers.
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- Snapstick Streams Mobile Content To TVs
Linux-based software enables any Web content displayed on a smartphone, laptop, or tablet to be pushed to a television over Wi-Fi.
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- EA Releases Pogo For iPhone
The advertising-supported Pogo Games App escalates the mobile gaming competition between Electonic Arts and rival Zynga.
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- Internet Evolution: Socially Challenged
T's under pressure to deliver Facebook-like social networking inside companies. Yet the biggest worry is getting employees to use it. What's going on?
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- Writing Windows Custom Controls
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- Cell Phones Significant Part Of Traffic Deaths
By Ed Hansberry
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a report on 2009 traffic statistics a few months ago and it should come as no surprise cell phones had a big impact. In traffic deaths that were related to distracted driving, cell phone use of some sort was related in eighteen percent of the incidents.
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- Windows Phone 7 Moves Forward
By Ed Hansberry
Microsoft's new mobile platform is due a big update in early 2011 and developers already have an early copy of the software. Copy and paste is the biggest anticipated feature of the update.<br />

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- Best And Worst Smartphones Of 2010
By Ed Hansberry
Now the year is about over, it is worth taking a look back over the year at the smartphones that were released this year. If you are about ready to make a purchase, you can use this to see what is worth looking at or what is worth running from when the sales rep pulls one out to show you.
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