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What’s new in cell phones at CommunicAsia

04 Sep 2010

While we at Crave can’t make the trek across the ocean to Singapore, our colleagues at CNET Asia are braving the convention floor to scope out the newest and hottest handsets. They’ve make an impressive haul so far, even getting their hands on the elusive LG watch phone and the Samsung Blue Earth solar-powered phone. [...]

Grading the analysts

29 Aug 2010

I know that analysts have to make a living, and that living isn’t going to be paid by startups like Jive or Alfresco. Our money is focused on R&D so that we can serve customers, not analysts. At a certain size, however, we’ll start giving back to the analyst community. The analysts can help us [...]

Kodak’s touch-screen digital photo frame

24 Aug 2010

We’ve all got a few of those types on our lists every year. And now there’s a kinda cool feature for one of them: Kodak now makes the Quick Touch. While you don’t have to touch the area of the frame where the photo would be (fewer greasy fingerprints!), the border can be swiped with [...]

Google buys Korean blog platform TNC

23 Aug 2010

In spite of how wired Korea is, Kim added that there is indeed a place for Google. “I think the Korean web industry needs a player that can, as a balancing force, provide more options to the users and help create a more open web,” he wrote.
No price has been named, but Google has made [...]

Cutting the cord for all-you-can-eat wireless plan

23 Aug 2010

The deal becomes even more compelling if more services are added or if the total price on the unlimited packages drops. Sprint’s plan offers unlimited voice as well as unlimited data, text, e-mail, Web-surfing, Sprint TV, Sprint Music, GPS Navigation, and push-to-talk service, all for $99.99 a month. T-Mobile includes voice, unlimited text messaging, and [...]

SproutCore to spruce up Apple’s Safari Web applica

23 Aug 2010

Check out Roughly Drafted or a similar article from Appleinsider for more details on how SproutCore works for Web developers; I’m not going to be able to do the topic proper justice without a few Web development courses.
Apple may be looking at an open-source solution as a way to get around Adobe Systems’ Flash [...]

Report Hong Kong gazillionaire increases stake in

23 Aug 2010

Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong telecom mogul who invested $60 million in Facebook last year, has upped his stake to $100 million and may invest even more, MarketWatch reported Thursday.
According to MarketWatch, Li made the initial announcement during the earnings call for his company, Hutchison Whampoa. “Facebook is doing very well and we could have [...]

Microsoft plans new Windows Live, Live search rele

23 Aug 2010

Microsoft said it is also planning its next update for Windows Live. The company began the second generation of the Internet services suite last July.

We’ll be doing our best here at CNET News.com to ferret out more product details, but we wouldn’t say no to some help. Whether you are at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or [...]

Five quick-and-simple Microsoft Word timesavers

23 Aug 2010

Apply formatting via keyboard shortcuts
I thought I knew all there is to know about pasting, but then I found out that you can copy and paste only the formatting of a selection, not the selection itself. To do so, select those items with formatting you want to copy, press Ctrl-Shift-C, choose the items you want [...]

Photos Gadgets at Ceatec, day 1

23 Aug 2010

CHIBA, Japan–The entire Makuhari Messe convention center here in Chiba, just outside Tokyo, is packed to the gills with technology. But it’s not just completed products. Though several halls are, of course, full of TVs and phones and notebooks and Blu-ray players, there are also entire halls dedicated to parts: LEDs, LCD screens, batteries, and [...]