Intel today confirmed long-standing rumors by announcing that it will acquire the Wireless Solutions (WLS) unit of German firm Infineon for $1.4 billion. The move gives Intel a significant expansion into the market for smartphone chips as it…
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones When Dell announced the Aero for AT&T, one piece of information was missing: what version of Android it would run out of the box.? I noticed a convenient link to chat with a Dell Representative and I decided to inquire about which version of the Android OS it would feature.? With the Dell Streak launching with Android 1.6, I would not have been surprised to find out the Dell Aero would run Android 1.5 or Android 1.6.? The lady at Dell I chatted with was nice enough to look up the information for me and said it would launch with Android 1.5 but would be updated to Android 2.1 if you download it from the Android Market.? Well, you can read the conversation for yourself below.? Time Details 08/24/2010 10:45:21AM System: “Thanks for choosing chat for your Dell Purchase needs. A chat agent will be with you shortly.” 08/24/2010 10:45:40AM Session Started with Agent (E&A_Madelle) 08/24/2010 10:45:44AM Agent (E&A_Madelle): “Welcome to Electronics and Accessories Sales Chat I hope you are doing well and thank you for waiting. My name is Madelle and I will be your Sales Agent today. Dell now offers Payment via Chat for a secure, fast, and more convenient way to order. What can I order for you today?” Hi there… Chats do occasionally disconnect due to ISP hiccups. Please provide your phone number so that I can contact you in case we get disconnected
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Those $29 Apple rechargeable batteries? ? Yeah, they are just rebranded Sanyos . ?The good news is that they are some of the best on the market, Engadget saying that they retain more than 75% of their charge after three years of use. Better news? ?You don’t have to pay that pesky Apple tax to get on board with?rechargeables. ? Amazon’s got some pretty solid deals on eneloops . Amazon sells the Sanyo versions for $18 for 4 batteries with charger.
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Section: Video , Content , Portable Video , Video Providers , Communications , Smartphones , Mobile Images via: AndroidLib The Blockbuster app for Android has just made its way into the Android Market. Of course, the app has been around for a little while but up until now it was limited to the handsets that it came pre-installed on, such as the Droid X. The app is free to download, but it does integrate with the Blockbuster On Demand service, which means you will need pay the rental or purchase price of the movie you want to check out. So free to download and not so free to use. Otherwise, if you are looking to be able to download and watch movies on your Android smartphone then this seems the app to get at the moment. As for me, I am going to continue to wait for something from Netflix.
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Apple has launched its own plug-in charger for AA batteries , extending its wireless device and energy efficiency strategies. In addition to making its wireless keyboards and mice more user friendly, the company’s new product will slash the amount of power that’s demanded by competing chargers. The Apple Battery Charger includes six AA batteries in the device’s $29 price tag. This hovers around the price of many of the other chargers on the market, but Apple says it has built in a little extra: the ability to save money, however little, on electricity. A lot of other chargers continue to suck power even after the batteries they carry are fully juiced. Apple’s spin the product consumes 10 times less electricity than these rivals — about 30 milliwatts once its charge cycle is finished (as opposed to an average 315 milliwatts), the company says
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Palm’s brain drain continues as it loses another executive to a major competitor. Mike Bell, most recently senior vice president for Product Development at Palm, has moved on to a similar role at Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group as Director of Smartphone Product Development, Engadget reports . In an internal email, Intel said that Bell “will help build and lead a team to build breakthrough smartphone reference designs to accelerate Intel Architecture into the market.” Bell was a “good get” for Palm. In 2007, the company managed to lure him away from Apple, where he spent 16 years working on a variety of projects including the iMac, Apple TV, and iPhone. His defection from Apple reportedly led to “screaming matches and threats of lawsuits” from Apple, according to Valleywag . It apparently infuriated Apple CEO Steve Jobs to such a degree that Palm didn’t dare to announce his hiring publicly.
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California Farmers’ Market Finder 2.3 Category: Lifestyle Price: Free, Version: 2.2 -> 2.3 ( iTunes ) Description: This is your guide to California Farmers’ Markets. As lovers of our local farmers’ markets, we struggled through web searches with old data and incorrect locations
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Hotel Tycoon Lite 2.1.1 Category: Games Price: Free, Version: 2.1.0 -> 2.1.1 ( iTunes ) Description: Hotel Tycoon Lite – Real time hotel business simulation game Build and manage your own hotel chain. ** Updated for iSO4 (Crash problem fixed clearly) You can build only 2-star hotels in the lite version. There are six virtual cities which has their own features. In the start, you have a small hotel and some amount of money. You can buy an empty real-estate in the market, and build a new hotel. As an owner, you are supposed to hire employees, advertise your hotels, make promotions, start services, renovate rooms. You can adjust the room price day by day.
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If there’s an opening for Google in the crowded social networking market already dominated by Facebook, it might be in helping users navigate through their many friend groups, according to a presentation from Paul Adams, the lead for user experience research at the company. Adams report comes at a critical time for the company, as it is reportedly working on a full-fledged social product to be launched later this year. Through studying the nuances of social interaction both off- and online, Google researchers found that people typically have between four and six friend groups and only have between two and six “close” friends, he said. College friends don’t necessarily mix with work friends, who don’t necessarily mix with a person’s family. While that’s an almost absurdly intuitive conclusion, it’s a difficult problem to design a product around. Facebook, while offering friend groups, has a fairly rigid interpretation of identity.
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Backup 1.6 Category: Productivity Price: Free, Version: 1.6 ( iTunes ) Description: Backup allows you to backup your contacts online, synchronize them and restore them on your new iPhone. It uses the OMA SyncML standard and is therefore compliant with the SyncML servers available on the market.
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