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  • Photos: 10 tech flops -- with cool names

    Have you ever thought that some tech companies occasionally invest more brainpower in naming their products than in making them successful? You're not the only one who thinks so.

  • Palm leads way in smartphones' mass market attack

    Smartphones, or phones that enable Web access and e-mail, are heading for the mass market.

  • What happened to WiMax's American dream?

    With US cellular operator Sprint Nextel and WiMax provider Clearwire suspending their partnership to build a new nationwide wireless network using WiMax, the future looks precarious for the much-hyped technology that was supposed to revolutionise the mobile Web.

  • Linux calling: Are mobile phones ready?

    The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.

  • SanDisk CEO flashes forward to phones

    SanDisk co-founder and CEO Eli Harari continues to fight the good fight against Apple's iPod juggernaut, but even he's starting to look toward the future.

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  • Wireless mobile phone under development

    Motorola and NEC America are co-developing an Internet Protocol office telephone that roams from Wi-Fi onto cell phone networks, the companies announced Tuesday.

  • Motorola looks to nanotubes for displays

    Motorola is conducting research in a new type of large flat-panel display which they claim has the potential of being cheaper than plasma or LCD (liquid crystal display) screens.

  • Motorola reads the writing on the Palm

    On Wednesday, Motorola released iSketch, a program that lets personal digital assistant (PDA) owners handwrite notes and make sketches on their devices, and then wirelessly send them as if they were e-mail, via infrared or cellular networks. IDC analyst Kevin Burden said such new technology will help change the perception of handhelds.

  • Mobile messaging conquers Everest

    The last phone-free sanctuary has just been conquered: In a stunt to promote mobile messaging, three companies have joined hands to bring cell phone service up the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest.

  • Mobile madness: From spandex superheroes to dating games

    The dot-eating snake is giving way to superheroes clad in ridiculous skin-tight costumes as the market for mobile phone gaming gets ready to explode.

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