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Nokia is expected to reveal a new mobile phone Dec. 1 at an industry event in Barcelona that many believe will be an improved touch-screen smartphone the company expects will challenge Apple's iPhone for mobile phone and smartphone dominance. Nokia still dominates the market for smartphone handsets, but sales dropped in the third quarter from a year earlier, and it lost share to Apple and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The battle for smartphone business has heated up since Apple introduced the iPhone last year, with all vendors trying to grab a bigger slice of a market that is seen growing despite the global recession.
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With the 2008 holiday shopping season here, consumers looking for that special gift are likely checking out the new Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro that hit the market earlier this year. The two new Apple MacBooks remain high on the list of must-haves this holiday season. For those interested in PCs, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway and Toshiba all have new notebooks ready for the 2008 holiday season as well. While laptops remain popular, there are still bargains out there for a solid home desktop PC.
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With all the talk about smartphones such as the Apple iPhone 3G, security vendors have sought to stir up discussions about mobile phone security. While those mobile and wireless malware threats haven't fully materialized, this holiday season may be the time for consumers to begin arming themselves for the mobile malware battles ahead.
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The revelation that Apple has authorized retail staff to match reseller prices might have some SMBs in the channel worried. But one Boston-based reseller says Apple's decision is just the reality of the current economic environment.
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As the 2008 holiday season approaches, there are a number of laptops and desktops that have just hit the market and might make a compelling gift this December. In addition to Apple with its new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba, Gateway and other vendors have new notebooks ready for the consumer market this holiday season. For those interested in a more conventional desktop, Dell is offering the $949 XPS Studio, which uses the new Intel Core i7 processor.
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A lawsuit claims the way the Apple iPhone lets users browse the Web infringes on a patent granted in October. The lawsuit was filed by EMG Technology in the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas, by Los Angeles real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht and two co-inventors. The suit alleges that the technology the iPhone uses to navigate and display some Web sites designed for small phone screens infringes on a patent obtained by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors and assigned to EMG.
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Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm, aimed at competing against Apple's iPhone and other smartphones, drew hundreds of people to Verizon Wireless stores looking to pick up the smartphone. Some problems ensued when stores ran out of the BlackBerry Storm.
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Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T. Verizon Wireless, th No. 2 U.S. mobile service, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group, heavily promoted four different phones last holiday season, but its focus this year is directed firmly at RIM's (Research In Motion) first touch-screen phone. Storm is Verizon Wireless's game changer and Verizon will do more marketing for it than any other phone in the fourth quarter. Both the Storm and Apple's iPhone cost $200 and includes a built-in camera, and music and video players. But the Storm has a different approach to touch-screen typing that RIM hopes will win over people addicted to the keypads on other BlackBerry e-mail devices.
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IT departments can reap the benefits of a lower total cost of ownership for their mobile workforce by replacing their field and remote staff's laptops with mobile smart phones. Knowledge Center contributor William Anderson explains the benefits of moving field and remote staff over to smart phones, and offers nine best practices for IT professionals to follow when doing so.
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IBM plans to acquire virtualization company Transitive, but company representatives say it is too soon to discuss the impact IBM's expanded virtualization portfolio will have on SMBs.
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Fed up with ugly routers and clunky hard drives, a growing number of consumers are looking for well-designed gadgets that complement decor instead of cluttering desktops and clashing with furniture. Many credit Apple's iPhone, with its strikingly simple forms, for raising the bar on expectations for good design in consumer electronics.
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IBM agrees to acquire Transitive, which has developed virtualization technology that will allow applications written for one processor and operating system to run on a completely different platform. Transitive is best known for software that allowed Apple Macintosh applications written for PowerPC platforms to run on newer Intel-based Macs. Transitive also created software that allows Solaris/SPARC applications to run on Linux systems.
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Parallels is preparing to release the 4.0 version of its Desktop for Mac virtualization software, which will add several new features to its existing virtualization software for Apple’s Macintosh, including the ability to handle four-way SMP along with support for 16 NICs per virtual machine. Parallels, which is competing against VMware’s Fusion product for the Mac, has also added more security features plus enhanced ways to take snapshots of virtual machines and rollback features.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell will not launch a new music player for this holiday season in order to compete against the Apple iPod. The Journal reports that Dell might still offer software that helps download music and movies onto a PC.
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VMware is looking to bring its virtualization technology to smart phones and cell phones in 2009 through a new virtualization platform called the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP. The platform will use a small-footprint hypervisor that will allow users to have multiple virtual machines on their smart phones in the same way a desktop or notebook can host different virtual environments. To help bring the platform to market, VMware acquired Trango Virtual Processors, a company that created a hypervisor for smart phones based on the ARM processor.
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Software Update Server and client-side update tools form the core of the patching model.
Review: Apple is stressing Keynote's ease of use, billing the application as a means for anyone to create "cinema-quality presentations."
Review: Warts aside, Apple's word processor refresh is worth a look from current and prospective iWorkers alike.
Review: VMware's Fusion allows Apple OS X users to run virtual instances of Windows.
Review: Now that it's got an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the Apple MacBook is one of the best budget laptops around. (PCMag.com)
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