Let's Be Honest: Microsoft's Mobile Business Is A Fantasy (Windows 7 Mobile Business is flawed)
Monday 6th of September 2010 08:31:58 PM
Posted by admin / Under Mobile Phone
| Everyone's excited about the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 software, which Microsoft bulls are hoping will mark Microsoft's return to relevance in the mobile industry. Reviews of the software have been good, and the only major complaint is that it's a year behind the rest of the industry--namely Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android. In the rapidly evolving smartphone world, being a year behind is a recipe for trouble. If Microsoft focused huge resources on the problem, however, it might be able to close the gap. But Microsoft actually has a bigger problem in mobile, one that threatens to turn Windows... |
Motorola Droid Getting Android Froyo Update Next Week
Monday 6th of September 2010 08:31:58 PM
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| Until now, only users of Google's tragically short lived Nexus One had access to Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo), but according to a communiqué from Verizon, the original Droid will be getting the update next week. This is big news for a large segment of the Android user base as the Droid was a very popular phone. Android 2.2 brings some useful new features to the platform. For instance, Google's new Jun-in-time compiler speeds up applications dramatically, and the browsers new JavaScript V8 engine makes web pages render much faster. We're going to be very interested to see how Motorola handles... |
Motorola Droid X in serious lockdown
Monday 6th of September 2010 08:31:58 PM
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| Motorola's eagerly anticipated Droid X smartphone is expected to hit the hot summer streets in just a few hours. But don't plan on hacking, rooting or modding the Android-powered device anytime soon. â¨In addition to locking down the smartphone with an encrypted bootloader, Motorola has instructed its obedient Droid to brick itself if the kernel, bootloader or ROM becomes noticeably compromised. |
Mobile, Alabama Man Indicted ... Related to Desecration of Synagogue
Monday 6th of September 2010 08:31:58 PM
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| NOTE The following text is a quote: Mobile, Alabama Man Indicted on Federal Civil Rights and Weapons Charges Related to Desecration of Synagogue WASHINGTONThe Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Mobile, Ala., has returned a three-count indictment charging Thomas Hayward Lewis, 24, of Mobile, with violating and conspiring to violate the civil rights of congregants of the Congregation Tree of Life Messianic Synagogue in Mobile, as well as possession of an unregistered firearm. The indictment alleges that on or about the night of Jan. 3, 2009, Lewis spray painted the Tree of Life Synagogue with anti-Semitic... |
Mobile phone number suspended after three users die in 10 years
Monday 6th of September 2010 08:31:58 PM
Posted by admin / Under Mobile Phone
| A mobile phone company has suspended the number 0888 888 888 after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years. The first owner Vladimir Grashnov the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel which issued the number died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48. Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning. The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a... |



