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iPad costs $229 to produce, says iSuppli

SAN FRANCISCO – Apple Inc’s forthcoming iPad tablet computer will cost as little as $229.35 for the company to produce, according to an estimate on Wednesday from research house iSuppli. The group conducted what it called a “virtual teardown” of the iPad, since the device is not yet available and component suppliers have not been announced.

Iran to shut down Google email service: report

SAN FRANCISCO – The Iranian government plans to permanently suspend Google Inc’s email service in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Wednesday. Google said it experienced a sharp drop in email traffic in Iran, and that some users in the country were having trouble accessing Gmail, but said its networks were working properly.

Medicines not working? There’s an app for that

LONDON – Drugmakers are starting to get into bed with information technology companies as they struggle to prove the value of their medicines to governments and insurers. By using smart gadgets to monitor patients in real time, pharmaceutical companies believe they can improve clinical outcomes and establish the cost-effectiveness of treatments.

Yahoo executives address “misconception” about search

SUNNYVALE, Calif – Yahoo Inc executives defended the company’s commitment to Internet search on Wednesday, vowing to reverse the erosion of the company’s market share and to fix the “misconception” that the company has given up on the business it helped create. Speaking at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters on Wednesday, a string of Yahoo executives took the stage to provide a peek at innovations that Yahoo said will distinguish its product after it completes a deal to let Microsoft Corp handle the back-end technology that powers its Internet search service.

Accessory makers, app developers eye Apple’s iPad

SAN FRANCISCO – The iPad may still be weeks away from launch, but the companies that feed off the popularity of Apple Inc’s products are already hard at work prepping for the new tablet. The roughly 300 million iPods and iPhones sold over the past decade have given rise to a lucrative market for companies peddling a wide variety of accessories, including cases, adapters and docks.

Tune in, turn off, iPod generation finds perfect haven

VANCOUVER – An electronic graffiti wall, Wii consoles, DJ mash-ups and iPods for massage time — the Vancouver Olympic Village is plugged in to this generation of hip, digital athletes. Home to one of the most environmentally conscious places in the world, Vancouver has also gone to great lengths to make a “green” village, with low-flow toilets, compostable dinnerware and ubiquitous recycling.

MySpace CEO steps down

SAN FRANCISCO – News Corp has replaced the CEO of the social networking site MySpace less than a year after hiring him, and said a discussion of his priorities led both sides to agree to a parting. Owen Van Natta, whose resignation is effective immediately, will be replaced by Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn as co-presidents, News Corp said on Wednesday.

Google to build high-speed Internet network

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON – Google Inc plans to build a super-fast Internet network for up to half a million people, a project that could pressure telecommunications companies to loosen their control of Web access in the United States. The Internet company has locked horns with the likes of AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc over the issue of net neutrality: Google wants telephone companies to permit consumers to run any Web application they want, while carriers do not want to lose control of networks they have invested billions of dollars to build.

DigitalGlobe says modifies agreement with NGA

, its largest customer, to modify the government agency’s option to extend the term of the agreement. The amendment grants the NGA the option to extend the agreement for three months from April 1, 2010, to June 30, 2010, DigitalGlobe said in a statement.

Sprint revenue misses expectations, shares fall

NEW YORK – Sprint Nextel Corp’s fourth-quarter revenue fell 7 percent and missed Wall Street expectations as the No. 3 U.S. mobile service charged consumers less for phone calls to help curb subscriber losses. Sprint shares fell more than 10 percent on Wednesday as investors worried about price competition hurting its margins and about a disappointing fourth quarter for prepaid services, on which Sprint depended for growth in 2009.

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To stay organized and on time everyday Sony Ericsson mobile phone still provides the conventional features of time-management. The Organizer feature includes the following:

• File Manager – stores the music, video files and other files

• Alarms – Holds up to five alarms. Offers options such setting the alarm repeatedly for particular days or daily. Text and images can be added. If the phone is in silent mode the alarm will still go off which should be set.

• Applications – VideoDJ, MusicDJ, voice recorder, TrackID and Music Mate 4.

• Video Call – unlimited recording time.

• Calendar – three different views: daily, weekly and monthly

• Tasks – has two kinds which are Phone calls and Tasks. Notes looks similar with SMS messages to keep track of daily activities.

• Notes

• Synchronization – for PC to phone connection

• Timer

• Stopwatch

• Calculator – performs basic funtions.

• Code Memo

The VideoDJ application in the mobile phone is used to create your own video clip which makes use of existing images or pictures and incorporating audio. The MusicDJ application allows you to make customized polyphonic ringtones. Music Mate 4 is a very neat application for the reason that it helps musician tune a particular instrument.

The Sony Ericsson W890i mobile phone comes pre-installed with the popular game Sims 2 together with Lumines Block and Tennis Multiplayer. The Lumines Block game is based in the Tetris game. Tennis can be played by several players enables through a Bluetooth connection. And Sims 2 is the mobile edition of the popularly known strategic life simulation computer game.

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As Palm makes ever longer leaps and strides toward unseating the King of Smartphones in the hardware segment of the market by agreeing to let Amazon.com sell the Palm Pre for only $100 (with a 2-year Sprint contract), Apple continues to reign supreme in the software market, at least when it comes to smartphone apps, that is.

Just recently, the Apple iTunes App Store marked its 2 billionth download. The 1 billionth iPhone app download only happened just a few months earlier – on April 23, 2009 to be precise. Which lends to the question of whether a 3 billionth or even a 4 or 5 billionth iPhone app download will occur before the end of this year.

When an iPhone user notched that 1 billionth benchmark, Apple awarded him (or her) a whole bevy of free goodies from Apple. Will the 2 billionth downloader receive the same boon? The Apple press release on the achievement mentions nothing on the subject, so it’s doubtful. Maybe for the 1 billionth (with its two-week promotional campaign leading up to it) Apple thought it needed the extra push to get those apps downloaded.

But now that the iTunes App store seems, like the iPhone itself, to have a life of its own, perhaps Apple no longer sees the need to offer such incentives. If so, they’re probably right. With 85,000 apps and more than 125,000 members of Apple’s iPhone Developer Program serving over 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch users around the world there’s little marketing they can do at this point that will equal the chain reaction of word-of-mouth (or rather, word-of-text) that has already begun.

Analysts say that Microsoft and Symbian and even RIM are so heavily focused in the OS game – with, most notably in today’s news, 30 new smartphone devices slated to come out in the next year running WinMo 6.5 – that they’re lagging way behind Apple in terms of fun and useful applications to use on their smartphones. Even Google, probably the most likely to produce a similar breadth of apps for its Android OS, still has a lot of catching up to do.

Corey Bruhn is the owner of iPhone Mobile Mob, http://www.iphonemobilemob.com, who specializes in reporting news, updates and unique features of the Apple iPhone. Download our FREE iPhone Ebook to find out more about your iPhone.

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Nokia 6650 is an exclusive device for T-mobile Customers. This mobile is an S60 device which instead of using Ovi series uses T-mobile Services. This phone is equipped with FM Radio, 30 MB of internal memory supplanted by a Micro SD Slot, an integrated A-GPS and HSDPA connectivity.

Some Key Points about Nokia 6650 Black

A micro SD Card Slot with SDHC cards, which are available in the capacity of up to 12GB.

It has a Clamshell appearance feature

There is an Integrated GPS which supports Assisted GPS

FM Radio

The Assisted GPS is enabled to use T-Mobile Navigate Series for Navigation purpose

2.0 Mega Pixel Camera with LED Flash

The Operating System used is Symbian Operating System S60 3rd Edition

A built in USB Modem

The External Display has a touch functions so some functions like Music Player and Camera can be performed with the fingers

The phone has a stainless steel coverings

There is a comfortable keypad designed which makes all the things on the keypad comfortable under the fingers.

The dimensions are designed such that when attending a call the phone routinely reaches from top to bottom from ear to mouth

Some Physical Aspects of Nokia 6650 Black

This phone gives the outlook of a very copious and eye-catching phone. Stainless steel casing gives its outer surface a much brushed up look. The display of this mobile phone has a competence of displaying 262,000 colors. The exterior keys are out of sight with a glossy black area. The USB Port on the left is covered with a small plastic flap. On the right side of the phone there are two more flaps used to cover the headphone port , the charger port and the Micro SD Card Slot. All these flaps finish off the petite manifestation which this phone presents. The headset and the charger sockets are to the extreme right which may lead to the inconvenience of the right handed people while charging the phone or listening to the music.

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If you are an iPhone-owner

When you have become an iPhone-owner, certainly, you have tried all the possibilities the gadget has. You have checked the quality of the sound using your iPhone as a cell phone. You enjoy a possibility of storing about 2 movies and about 100 files of music tracks on your iPhone. Surely, you watch and listen something you have downloaded (films and music). You can take photos of rather a good quality via a built-in camera. You widely use the Internet and are very glad to have an opportunity to view full web pages (if to compare with a common mobile phone where you can find only simplified pages). And what is more, you can play iPhone games with the help of Safari web browser. Or you have a chance to obtain an iPhone game download.

Talking about iPhone games

While talking about iPhone games I’d like to mention some useful information about games in general. As you know, every person when he was young was keen on various games. It is absolutely natural for kids to play games. Indeed, for them to play means to be a child. It is not very important what games they do play: active, including some physical movements, or calm, involving mental activity. Playing computer games have become very popular nowadays among kids. If to speak about iPhone games, they are mostly popular among adults. Because of the fact that games become out of fashion very quickly and even pall on users, a lot of iPhone-owners are eager to get something new. Accordingly, they need some tips about how and where they can obtain new games on their iPhones.

How to obtain games on your iPhone

As I’ve already mentioned, there exist two variants how to obtain games on your iPhone. First of all, you have a chance to play online using Safari web browser. Or you can download games on your iPhone. There are a lot of different special websites which can help you to get an iPhone game download. However, I’d like to warn you of some dangers the sites can include. These dangers are viruses, adware and spyware that can make harm to your gadgets. So while getting your iPhone game download, you should be very careful and cautious.

If you don’t know what to download to iPhone, have a look at safe websites.

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