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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:27:34 +0200

.::Dish to pay TiVo $104 million after court ruling (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp will pay $104 million in damages to TiVo Inc after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Dish's appeal of a patent infringement case.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:01:46 +0200

.::iPhone 3G Entices Mobile-Carrier Defections (NewsFactor) ::.

NewsFactor - The NPD Group, a market-research firm, reports that 30 percent of the U.S. consumers who purchased Apple's iPhone 3G from its release on July 11 through August switched mobile carriers in order to join AT&T, which holds exclusive U.S. sales rights for the red-hot device.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:01:24 +0200

.::New Readers, Software Heat Up E-Book Market (NewsFactor) ::.

NewsFactor - The battle over e-readers is heating up rapidly, thanks to new hardware entries from the world's two leading e-book manufacturers and the surprising popularity of e-book software on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. Although the total number of e-books is still well short of a single Steven King press run, the next-generation devices point to a steadily maturing market for digital literature.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:40:04 +0200

.::Top court stays out of DVR patent fight (AP) ::.

AP - The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:03:47 +0200

.::IPhone 3G Boosts Apple's Smartphone Share (PC Magazine) ::.

PC Magazine - The launch of the iPhone 3G boosted Apple's smartphone marketshare within the United States from 11 to 17 percent, according to an NPD report released Monday.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:00:01 +0200

.::Dream Capture adds H.264 support (Macworld.com) ::.

Macworld.com - The Dream Apps has released Dream Capture 2.2, an update to their video recording software for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users, Dream Capture costs $9.95.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:31:02 +0200

.::Apple's 'Brick' Is an Innovative Manufacturing Process (NewsFactor) ::.

NewsFactor - New laptops from Apple, maker of such advanced products as the iPhone, the iPod and the Mac, could be made from bricks. An aluminum brick, that is.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:35:33 +0200

.::TiVo Wins Dish Suit As Supreme Court Refuses Case (PC Magazine) ::.

PC Magazine - TiVo scored a victory Monday when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a $74 million DVR patent case against Dish Networks.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:52:20 +0200

.::D.Telekom seeks stolen data on 17 million mobile users (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Thieves have hijacked sensitive data on millions of Deutsche Telekom mobile phone customers, the German company has acknowledged in its second major security scandal this year.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:40:01 +0200

.::RealNetworks Halts Sales of RealDVD (PC Magazine) ::.

PC Magazine - RealNetworks has agreed to abide by a court-ordered temporary restraining order and has halted sales of its RealDVD DVD ripping software.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:30:00 +0200

.::Mono 2.0 lets .Net apps run on Linux (InfoWorld) ::.

InfoWorld - Mono 2.0, an open-source runtime enabling .Net-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix, is being released Monday, featuring capabilities for a number of .Net technologies.

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:25:14 +0200

.::ASEAN may slash mobile roaming fees by half next year: report (AFP) ::.

AFP - Roaming fees for mobile phone users in Southeast Asia making calls outside their own country may be cut by half early next year, according to report Sunday citing a Malaysian minister.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:01:21 +0200

.::Family-friendly Wii out to win battle-loving gamers (AFP) ::.

AFP - Eric Nofsinger is betting that Nintendo's hot family-friendly Wii videogame consoles can win the hearts of "hardcore gamers" that lust for battle in action-packed virtual worlds.

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:49:00 +0200

.::Hanky-panky distorts Obama iPhone app results (CNET) ::.

CNET - It looks like either somebody drinks a lot of coffee and talks really fast, or somebody diddled with the results of the phone recruitment feature in the Barack Obama campaign's iPhone application.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:50:05 +0200

.::Obama takes campaign to the iPhone (AFP) ::.

AFP - The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in its latest bid to use Internet Age technology to trounce Republican rival John McCain and connect with supporters, has released free software that turns Apple iPhones into political rallying tools.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:18:07 +0200

.::RIM CEO: AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry (AP) ::.

AP - A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. is still undergoing testing by AT&T Inc., and RIM's co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new iPhone this summer.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:34:50 +0200

.::Nokia touch-screen to miss Xmas in mature markets (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Nokia's answer to Apple's iPhone will go on sale in seven countries in Asia, the Middle East and Europe this year but will miss the Christmas shopping season in most developed markets.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:22:29 +0200

.::Microsoft installs XP, Office on cheap Portuguese laptops (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:37 +0200

.::Nokia takes on Apple's iTunes, iPhone (Reuters) ::.

Reuters - Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, launched its free music package on Thursday, issuing a challenge to Apple Inc's dominance of the digital music market.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:01:59 +0200

.::AFP to boost mobile phone content services (AFP) ::.

AFP - Agence France-Presse will add mobile phone information services in Arabic, German and Portuguese in 2009 as it seeks to further boost revenues from the key new sector, agency chairman Pierre Louette said.