PC World – NTT DoCoMo will switch off its second-generation cell phone network in just over three years, the company said Friday.
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NTT DoCoMo to End 2G Cellular Service in 2012
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Reuters – Shares in Nintendo Co Ltd sank 12 percent after the Wii video game maker cut its earnings and game console sales forecasts, raising doubt over growth at a company that had previously defied the global financial crisis.
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Nintendo shares slide 12 percemt as crisis hits growth
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You know who’s blabbing again? That reclusive set of business people who always seem to be “familiar with the matter,” that’s who. This time, they’ve got the Wall Street Journal in a twist over renewed rumors that Dell is “preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month.” Next month, is of course the big cellphone coming out party known as Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — an event Dell has flat-out denied any intention to attend. Still, the evidence presented by the WSJ is pretty overwhelming. First, sources say that a variety of smartphone prototypes, including one with a QWERTY-less touchscreen and another with a sliding keyboard, have already been built running Android and Windows Mobile. Second, Dell’s smartphone team “spent much of last year” meeting with suppliers, carriers, and Asian phone manufacturers. Dell’s team includes the former head of Motorola’s phone division (Ron Garriques) and another Moto employee (John Thode) who heads up Dell’s netbook group. The latter being of interest since the iPhone and BlackBerry Storm are considered netbooks by their makers. Oh, and Dell still hasn’t made good on its purchase of Zing and its plans to build an all encompassing media ecosystem to manage your audio and video files across PCs and mobile devices. Sources do contend that plans have not been finalized and Dell may still abandon the effort. But with Acer making the jump into Smartphones next month and other non-traditional players having great success in the space at the expense of the former cellphone powerhouses, one thing is clear: PC guys “will just walk in” and figure this out. Right Ed?
Filed under: Cellphones
WSJ: Dell “preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month” originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
It’s no secret that the Windows 7 beta that’s creeping about the world is generating a lot of excitement — people want this OS, like, now. To that end, Kelly Poe of Nashville, Tennessee has started up a “Release Windows 7 Now” campaign to get Microsoft to move its behind a little faster. It hasn’t gained that much steam yet — as of this writing, he’s only collected 153 votes — but hey, you just never know, right? Right.
Update: Kelly Poe’s actually a man… sorry about that, Kelly!
[Via PC World]
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Windows fanperson revs up “Release Windows 7 Now” campaign originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We thought we’d seen all that Palm intended to reveal about the magical company-saving Pre at CES a few weeks back, but quality footage continues to roll in — and it just gets even better when it’s being shown off by an exec instead of your standard-issue PR type. Peter Skillman, Palm’s design VP, does the honors here with a 4-plus minute overview of some of the cooler things the Pre has to offer, including a demo of the Touchstone inductive charger at about 2:26 in (curious fact: it apparently uses the “same technology that are in gecko feet” to stick to the table). At the 2:06 mark, he puts down the Nokia N95 for looking like a post-apocalyptic industrial design nightmare of exposed hardware and mechanisms (our words, not his), which is kinda funny since we’d never really considered the N95 as a Pre competitor. Finally, he wraps up with a quick look at the Amazon music store starting around 3:19 — and at a first glance, it looks a heck of a lot prettier than the one we get on the G1. Not to say we’re going to let the prettiness of the store affect how much DRM-free music we buy. Wait, yes we are. See the full video after the break.
[Via PreCentral]
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Palm’s VP of design shows off Pre features, scoffs at N95 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.