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Along with Windows Phone 7, Nokia will use Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Microsoft adCenter for in-app advertisements, and will merge its Ovi app store into Microsoft Marketplace. Microsoft promised to start using Nokia Maps for its location services, and will take advantage of Nokia’s customer billing services in regions where credit cards aren’t widely…

iSync plugins for Mac OS XiSync plugins lets users sync contacts and calendar data between their Mac and mobile phone models that Apple doesn’t natively support via its iSync application. nova media’s plugins add support for more than 250 different mobile phone models.iSync plugins is priced at €9.95, or US$11.84, and is available for download…

Word of Mr. Kerris’s new position first surfaced thanks to The Loop, and was later confirmed by MobileCrunch.During his time at Apple, Mr. Kerris also worked on the the iLife suite, along with the Final Cut Pro and Logic development teams.Mr. Kerris’s experience will come in handy at HP since he’ll be involved in helping…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaking at a media event in 2010Mr. Cross saw Mr. Jobs walking through Apple’s main lobby talking on his phone. Before he could get close enough to talk, Mr. Jobs was out the door where he hopped into a waiting car.The fact that Mr. Jobs was seen at the headquarters for…

The most important thing to appreciate about a browser is how it serves the user. If the user has never had a security snafu or a compromise, a browser is likely deemed “good enough” and then the browser choice is based on other factors, such as look-and-feel, features, loyalty to, say, Apple and so on.…

Rumor claims boxed software on the way out for Apple StoresThe Mac App Store is Apple’s new online service where customers can purchase applications for their computer in the same way that they buy apps for their iPhone and iPad at the iTunes-based App Store.While the idea of offering customers software downloads instead of retail…

“Our monthly channel checks indicated continued strong sales of the iPhone 4, as it remained by far the top-selling smartphone at AT&T,” Mr. Walkley said. “Further, our checks indicated Verizon is planning for strong demand for the CDMA iPhone 4 launch scheduled for February 10 (this Thursday).”Verizon announced it would be carrying the iPhone 4…

Suspects caught in fake iPod schemeTwo brothers, Edward and Bahram Zahab, have been arrested as part of the investigation. The former was charged with three felony counterfeit goods sales counts, and the latter was charged with one count.The fake iPods and iPhones were smuggled into the country as parts where they were assembled and packaged…

U.S. Movie Electronic Sell Through and Internet Video on Demand Movie Market Share Ranking in 2009 and 2010 (Ranking by Percentage of Total Consumer Spending) Source: iSuppli While Apple is technically competing in the movie electronic sell through (EST) and Internet video on demand (iVoD) businesses, a market that grew 60% in 2010, iSuppli said…

AOL plans to group all of its online news content, which includes Engadget, TechCrunch, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and several other companies, under a new umbrella called Huffington Post Media Group.AOL buys The Huffington Post“The new group will have a combined base of 117 million unique visitors a month in the United States and 270…

Apple doesn’t take kindly to software piracyAccording to the lawsuit, the company didn’t even attempt to make the software it was selling appear legit. “Notably, some or all of the infringing copies distributed by Defendant were in the form of burned (i.e., ‘homemade’) DVD+R and CD-R media, with the titles handwritten in marker,” the filing…

The commercial is pushing the company’s Xoom tablet, the same tablet that Moto ostensibly pushed by lampooning the iPad in an earlier commercial touting Google’s upcoming Honeycomb release of Android OS. In the new piece, however, Motorola presents a lone Xoom user surrounded by a sea of attractive iPhone and iPad users – we know…

The insane demand for the iPhone 4 at Verizon suggests not only demand for a great product but some disaffection with AT&T. Personally, while I think there will be an initial burst of movement away from AT&T combined with Verizon customers abandoning their Android phones in favor of the iPhone, it’ll all settle out in…

While at Macworld, I had the opportunity to see and hear the new iWOW 3D from SRS. I also was able to bring one home to try and test. This product will not actually be available until March. The iWOW 3D is a dongle attachment for iPhones, iPods, and iPads, that, when attached to speakers,…

The PowerPak by Technocel is a universal charging solution that combines a backup rechargeable battery pack with a rapid home charger. It recharges a handheld device at the same time as it recharges itself via a wall outlet. It provides up to 3 hours of extra talk time, using a 1000 mAh internal lithium ion…

“All companies should have succession planning policies and succession plans in place, and boards should periodically review and update them,” said in an analysis of the proposal. “ISS believes that shareholders would benefit by having a report on the company’s succession plans disclosed annually. Such a report would enable shareholders to judge the board on…

Verizon stated in a memo (PDF), “If you use an extraordinary amount of data and fall within the top 5% of Verizon Wireless data users we may reduce your data throughput speeds periodically for the remainder of your then current and immediately following billing cycle to ensure high quality network performance for other users at…

“I hope one day people will say ‘this is as cool as HP’, not ‘as cool as Apple’,” Mr. Apotheker told the BBC. He made the case that HP was the only company in the PC space that was “equally good on the consumer side and on the [enterprise] side,” and that this would help…

The interview from a network that Mr. Murdoch’s company owns was part of the marketing blitz Mr. Murdoch and News Corp. are engaging in to promote the release of The Daily, a new iPad-only (for now) daily newspaper. Technically, Mr. Murdoch is fudging history a bit in that it was Steve Jobs who recognized Steve…

Customer: “Here it is. It won’t make phone calls.” *hands it to me* Me: “Ma’am, this is an iPod Touch.” Customer: “That’s exactly what that dumba** in the phone department told me. God, are all you people stupid?! iPods look like this!” *holds up an iPod Classic* The solution, of course, is printed right on…

TMO: In the context of declining to use DRM, what is O’Reilly’s philosophy and strategy regarding the publishing of online books?Andrew Savikas: Tim O’Reilly likes to say that books are “user interfaces on information.” In other words, books are a technology, just like any other. They’re devices for sharing ideas. And like any other technology,…

Intel fixing Core chip flaw“In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives,” the company said in a statement. “The chipset is utilized in PCs with Intel’s latest Second Generation Intel Core processors, code-named…

“Unfortunately, with little notice, Apple changed the way it enforces its rules and this will prevent the current version of the Reader for iPhone from being available in the app store,” Sony stated on its Reader Web site. “We opened a dialog with Apple to see if we can come up with an equitable resolution…