AP – Deutsche Telekom AG said Friday it narrowed its fourth quarter loss and posted a much-improved full-year profit, with U.S. cell phone customer numbers rising sharply even as Germans continued to turn away from traditional land-line connections.
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NewsFactor – Stung by user outrage about its policy-making, Facebook is asking its members to help guide the site’s terms of use. On Thursday, the popular social-networking site announced “a new approach to site governance that offers its users around the world an unprecedented role in determining the future policies of the service.”
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It seems like just yesterday that Big Red was firing up its EV-DO Rev. A network in America, and already we’re seeing signs of life with Rev. B. In all honesty, though, we’ve known about the next iteration of EV-DO (and the next-next, for that matter) for years now, but said Chinese carrier has just completed what it calls the world’s first EV-DO Rev. B VoIP call on its CDMA2000 system. In other words, this is the first time a CDMA carrier has achieved a 9.3Mbps download rate and 5.4Mbps upload rate. The lovely part of this is that ZTE can upgrade from Rev. A to Rev. B without any additional hardware, thus paving the way for a quick commercialization in Q3 2009. Huzzah!
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ZTE completes EV-DO Rev. B VoIP call on CDMA2000 system originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Adding further fuel and confusion to the Nokia laptop fire sparked by yesterday’s comments from CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasuvo, we have DigiTimes reporting that Nokia is actively seeking Taiwanese manufacturing and design partners for its netbook — a very specific laptop form-factor. DigiTimes‘ sources wag their gossipy fingers in the direction of Compal and Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai Precision Industry) as the two most likely joint design manufacture (JDM) partners. However, instead of an ARM Cortex A9 Sparrow-powered device as speculated by Mobile-Review, DigiTimes claims that Nokia is developing a netbook powered by either Qualcomm’s Snapdragon (currently based around the ARMv7 architecture used in the ARM A8 Cortex CPU) or Intel’s Atom platforms. Of course, we could be looking at multiple form-factors from Nokia (MIDs, Netbooks, and laptops) in harmony with their successful approach to the mobile phone market.
Update: The chipset rumors are actually more closely aligned than they appeared at first glance. Mobile-Review said the Nokia’s Sparrow-based device wouldn’t ship until 2011 — that’s plenty of time for ARM-based Snapdragon to adopt the Cortex A9 processor.
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Nokia laptop a Snapdragon or Atom-based netbook? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Engadget_takes_on_the_Authors_Guild_about_the_Kindle’; As you’re no doubt aware, this week’s launch of the Kindle 2 came complete with copyright controversy — the Authors Guild says that Amazon’s text-to-speech features will damage the lucrative audiobook market. To be perfectly frank, we’re of two minds on on this debate: on one hand, we’re obviously all for the relentless progression of technology, and on the other, we sussed out the fundamental reasons for the Guild’s objections almost immediately. It’s pretty easy to find the first set of arguments online, but we wanted to make sure we weren’t missing anything, so we sat down with Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken and asked him some burning questions. Read on!
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The Engadget Interview: Paul Aiken, Executive Director of the Authors Guild originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.