Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
It’s time for a dramatic showdown between two bitter enemies: on one side we have mBrainSoftware’s PDF+, and on the other, we have the titan Adobe Software’s Reader LE. If you haven’t figured it out, both applications are designed to open Adobe’s standard PDF (portable document format) documents on a mobile phone. No easy feat considering phones aren’t exactly made to display entire contents of books.

Adobe Reader LE vs. PDF+
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Tags: adobe, pdf
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Nokia’s got a new site: Nokia Catwalk.
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
In the latest of a series of lawsuits between best buddies Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp., a judge has ordered an indefinite delay to the proceedings. The order comes only a couple weeks before a major licensing agreement with the two companies is set to expire.

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Tags: qualcomm
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Telecom stocks took a beating today, along with most markets around the world. A nearly 9% drop in the Chinese stock market, as well as fears of slowing economic growth for both the U.S. and China were responsible for the heavy losses.
Just look at these numbers:
Nokia -5%
Motorola -3.38%
Verizon -4.5%
Sprint/Nextel -5.5%

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Monday, February 26th, 2007
The HS-81 stereo headset is a wired handsfree headset that also doubles as a nice pair of headphones.

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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Designed for the few Nokia handsets that actually use a 3.5mm plug (aka the standard one that every pair of normal headphones uses), the Nokia HS-62 Advanced (hah!) Headphones are padded, foldable, and feature 40 mm speakers.

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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
“Thousands” of workers at Nokia’s two plants in Finland took part in what I would call the lamest attempt at a strike ever.

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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Here’s a pretty decent deal on the Nokia 6030 phone + a $100 airtime card.

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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
The battle over the coveted iPhone name is over. Or is it?

Apple and Cisco declared a truce in the iPhone legal battle.
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Tags: cisco
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Just when you thought the L’amour collection was dead and gone, Nokia pushes over the top with yet another fashion phone: the 7373 Special Edition.

The Nokia 7373 Special Edition: designed by Giambattista Valli.
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Tags: 7373 special edition
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