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Oil prices near $145 a barrel and high electricity bills mean electronics makers such as LG that develop green, energy-efficient products such as mobile devices, desktops and notebooks, and market them effectively to customers may get an edge in a gloomy global economy, firms say.
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Borrowing one of nature's best designs, U.S. scientists have built an eye-shaped camera using standard sensor materials and say it could improve the performance of digital cameras and enhance imaging of the human body. The device might even lead to the development of prosthetic devices including a bionic eye, they said.
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Apple's MobileMe joins Sharpcast SugarSync and Microsoft Live Mesh, among others, in the battle to provide seamless data synchronization and data sharing for mobile computing. But Apple MobileMe has come out with some cost and service issues that need resolving. J. Gerry Purdy, mobile and wireless analyst at Frost & Sullivan, explains.
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Numonyx and Hynix, which both make NAND flash memory, sign a five-year joint development agreement to develop memory and storage technology for a range of mobile devices, such as cell phones, as well as develop new technology for solid state drives (SSDs). Intel spun off Numonyx earlier this year.
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The U.S. Attorney and Secret Service claim an international crime syndicate was behind the identity theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX Companies, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW. The Department of Justice and Secret Service allege that the hackers used wardriving to hack networks and sniffer programs to capture card numbers and customer data.
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Delta plans to offer complete wireless Internet service, including access to corporate and personal e-mail accounts, SMS texting and instant messaging. Delta officials say the Wi-Fi service, supplied by Aircell, will work with laptops, smart phones and other PDAs.
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Mobile Linux will outsell Microsoft Windows Mobile and other rival OS makers in the mobile Internet device market by 2013, says ABI Research. Moblin, LiMo and Maemo will be the leading Linux mobile providers.
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The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is the first low-cost notebook or netbook from the PC vendor and this new laptop offers an Intel Atom processor along with a $399 starting price. The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 will compete against netbook offerings from HP, Asus and others.
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Mobile phone vendors Motorola, NEC and Panasonic unveil seven new Linux-based smart phones for the LiMo Foundation. Review a sneak peek of all seven LiMo Linux smart phones in this eWEEK slide show.
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Vonage Pro lets mobile workers take their home office phones with them. With features like Vonage Companion, users can set up their offices wherever they are.
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Location-based mobile social networks, such as Loopt, GyPSii and Pelago, could be a $3.3 billion market by 2013. But history and current trends suggest these startups won't be standing on their own for some time. Loopt has already won deals with Sprint and Verizon, GyPSii is working with Samsung and Garmin, Google's acquired Jaiku, and Nokia bought Plazes.
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The LiMo Foundation reveals the next swath of its Linux-based smart phones, which are designed to help users access the Internet from anywhere on the go. The new phones apply additional pressure on Google's mobile and wireless plans to bring phones based on its Android mobile operating system to the market.
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The management shake-up continues at Motorola, with former Qualcomm COO Sanjay Jha taking over Motorola's struggling handset division. Motorola is expected to spin off its handset division as a separate, publicly traded company.
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The National Legal and Policy Center claims Google is hypocritical in its privacy stance, and uses Google's Street View and Earth applications to find a senior Google executive's home. The experiment followed Google's claim in a court filing that privacy is tough to come by in a world of satellite imagery.
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Smart phones, blackberries or laptop computers could unwittingly offer up sensitive personal or business information to officials who monitor China's state-controlled telecommunications carriers.
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eWEEK Labs has gathered up a trio of suggestions for the best ways to capture screenshots, manage iTunes and control your desktop with the shiny new Apple iPhone 2.0 mobile device.
Apple delivered on its promise of a configuration tool for iPhones, but leaves security, application delivery and device visibility by the wayside.
eWEEK Labs' tests show that iPhone 2.0 update offers over-the-air sync and security improvements.
Ruckus Wireless' ZoneFlex Smart WLAN is well worth a look for small businesses considering a move to a controller-based architecture.
AirDefense and MetaGeek aim analysis tools at wider
audiences.
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