By: Clint Boulton HTC Feb. 25 said it would launch the Android 2.2-based HTC Merge handset through several North American carriers as part of its spring smartphone lineup. The Merge includes a QWERTY slide-outkeyboard and 3.8-inch touch-screen display running HTC’s Sense user interface. HTC offers this picture of the device. The smartphone also integrates with Exchange ActiveSync [...]
By: Nathan Eddy BIA/Kelsey, an adviser to small to medium-size businesses in the local media space, launched Social Local Media, an advisory service dedicated to covering the growing social media ecosystem and the opportunities for driving revenues with social platforms. SLM was created to address the developing social segment of what the firm estimates will be [...]
By: Clint Boulton Google Feb. 22 made its full Android 3.0software development kit (SDK) available to developers, more than three weeks aftershipping a rough preview version to give developers a taste of the “Honeycomb” build. The APIs are final, which means developers can write apps for the platform and publish them to Google’s Android Market store for free [...]
By: Jeffrey Burt Acer, which over the past couple of years has muscled its way into becoming one of the top PC manufacturers in the world, is now looking to reclaim a part of the highly competitive U.S. server market. Acer on Feb. 21 unveiled a lineup of server and storage offerings powered by x86 processors [...]
By: Nicholas Kolakowski Microsoft and Nokia dealt with the reverberations from their newly announced partnership this week. Whatever the ultimate success of the deal, which will see Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7software ported onto Nokia devices, Microsoft did earn one early benefit from the rumors heading up to the Feb. 11 announcement: According to new data from analytics firm Flurry, [...]
By: Nathan Eddy Intelligent network-security and data-protection solutions specialist SonicWall announced the availability of the Secure Remote Access Virtual Appliance and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual Appliance. The appliances add to the existing SSL VPN small and midsize business and enterprise-class hardware lineup and further expand the company’s virtualized appliance offerings that include management, reporting and e-mail [...]
By: Clint Boulton Seeking to undercut Apple’s subscription service, Google Feb. 16 unveiled a payment service to let publishers set their own prices and terms for digital content they serve on tablets, smartphones and Websites. Google One Pass allows readers to purchase newspapers and magazines from publishers using a single sign-on with an e-mail account and password. [...]
By: Don Reisinger Apple could be working on a new iPhone that would be smaller and cheaper than current versions of the device, according to recent reports from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. So far, Apple hasn’t confirmed that such a device is on track for shipment later this year, but some speculate that the device [...]
By: Nathan Eddy Samsung’s latest tablet device offers a larger screen and runs Android 3.0, specifically designed for tablet computing. BARCELONA—Samsung kicked off what is likely to be a tablet-heavy Mobile World Congress convention with the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer, powered by Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system and offering a 10.1-inch touch [...]
By: Don Reisinger At a special event unveiling the future of its WebOS plans on Feb. 9, HP showed off the TouchPad, its answer to other tablets on the market, including Apple’s iPad and theSamsung Galaxy Tab. For now, details about the device are sketchy, but it’s expected to be made available over the summer. Pricing is still [...]
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