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May 5-9, 2008

Handhelds & Smartphones
MWg previews 2008 phones, including a Win Mobile 7 device (The Register)
BlackBerry 9000 preview model gets video tour (Engadget)
HTC's Touch Dual enters U.S. market (PDA Street)
Verizon adds Samsung's Glyde (Engadget)
Philips hops on 'iPhone killer' bandwagon with Xenium X800 (The Register)
Nokia's E66, E71 seen in the wild (Engadget)
Palm's 'Skywriter' smartphone spied on web? (The Register)
Feature: the new Pocket PCs (and other smartphones) (PC Mag)
BlackBerry Curve now available on Verizon, Sprint soon (Engadget)
HTC unveils Touch Diamond to challenge 3G iPhone (PDA Street)
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 shipping in September (PDA Street)
LG Vu TV-phone officially available from AT&T (Engadget)
Celio Redfly laptop-like phone companion review (Windows IT Pro)
Notebooks, Tablets & Gear
Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 leaked (Engadget)
Toshiba previews limited edition 13" Portégé M800 (TechDigest)
Contento's 7-inch flat panel tablets support PoE, Windows CE (Windows for Devices)
iRex launches iLiad Book Edition e-reader (MobileRead)
Lenovo IdeaPad U110 overview and video (Engadget)
Consumer Mobile Software / Services
Yahoo offers Go 3.0 beta for Windows Mobile phones (Windows for Devices)
Orb opens iPhone for TV, video (The Register)
TouchLauncher gives Palm OS home screen iPhone icons (TreoCentral)
iPhone 2.0 beta includes Chinese handwriting recognition (MacRumors)
Mobile / Wireless Enterprise
MIT's beta system lets mobile apps adapt to users' different devices (eWeek)
Review: Ruckus Wireless' ZoneFlex WLAN system (Infoworld)
Microsoft upgrades mobile device support (IT Week)
Akonix users get Blackberry archiving boost (Network World)
Datalogic's new barcode scanning PDA has VGA display (Windows for Devices)
NetMotion Wireless mobile VPN gets VoIP support (Techworld)
Adventures in extreme telecommuting: working from Greece (Computerworld)
Network News
Clearwire - Sprint joint venture plans to fight LTE (Unstrung)
Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to form $14.55B WiMax company (PC Mag)
AT&T officially lists WiFi hotspot access with iPhone plans (MacRumors)
BT offers Wi-Fi based mobile broadband (Techworld)
Orange doubles its mobile broadband base (Unstrung)
Telecom Italia to sell 3G iPhone; Vodafone to sell iPhones in 10 countries, including India & Italy (Reuters)
Three slashes mobile broadband to £5 (Techworld)
Best WiFi hotels of 2008 (HotelBuzz)
Industry News
News roundup - May 9, 2008 (Wireless Week)
News roundup - May 8, 2008 (Wireless Week)
Best Buy buys half of Carphone Warehouse for $2.1B (PC Mag)
News roundup - May 7, 2008 (Wireless Week)
Sun preps mobile version of its JavaFX developer platform (Information Week)
Trolltech's Qt release adds support for Win CE, Mobile (Windows for Devices)
News roundup - May 6, 2008 (Wireless Week)
Qwest drops Sprint in favor of Verizon Wireless (Unstrung)
Google challenges Verizon's open network commitment (eWeek)
Many wireless resellers are struggling or going bankrupt (USA Today)
News roundup - May 5, 2008 (Wireless Week)
Trends & Analysis
More South Koreans using coupons sent to cellphones (Reuters)
Ofcom report predicts the future of wireless (The Register)
Wi-Fi phones up 60%; WLAN gear up 20% (EE Times)
Mobile app development idles (eWeek)
Sony unveils palm-sized methanol fuel cell (PC Mag)
Could Sprint ditch Nextel? Makes sense (Cnet)
What's the true meaning of unified communications? (Techworld)

April 28 - May 2, 2008

Handhelds & Smartphones
Fujitsu convertible UMPC gets optional 60GB hard drive & HSUPA (Windows for Devices)
Cellphones that could save your life (Forbes)
LG Vu hands-on (Engadget)
Hands-on with China's customizable zzzPhone (PC Mag)
Garmin Nuvifone hitting AT&T for $500 plus? (Engadget)
Devotec's portable solar charger is small & inexpensive (Engadget)
AT&T to cut iPhone price by $200, says Forbes report (Computerworld)
RIM BlackBerry Curve & Samsung Glyde to hit Verizon May 9 (Engadget)
RIM BlackBerry clamshell preview (BGR)
LG's enV(2) now available from Verizon (Engadget)
Buy.com taking pre-orders for Nokia N810 WiMax Edition (PDA Street)
Apple iPhone coming to Canada on Rogers (Engadget)
RIM's 3G BlackBerry launch faces delay (PC Mag)
Treo 500 now available from O2 UK (Palm Infocenter)
Nokia showcases 6600 fold, 6600 slide, and 3600 slide (Engadget)
Samsung's i640v Windows Mobile phone hands-on (Engadget)
Notebooks, Tablets & Gear
Dell's redesigned Vostro business laptops now available (Laptoping)
Motion Computing Tabet PC has camera, RFID reader (Windows for Devices)
Lenovo's IdeaPad U110 available for order (Engadget)
Lithium Ion laptop batteries are in short supply (IDG)
Consumer Mobile Software / Services
Tellme offers voice-enabled search app for BlackBerry users (PDA Street)
Microsoft releases Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Windows for Devices)
Skype adds Java-based VoIP client (Windows for Devices)
Mobile / Wireless Enterprise
5 ways to build your virtual office (PC World)
SugarCRM betas support for iPhone, BlackBerry (IDG)
Ribbit adds voice-to-text VOIP to Salesforce.com (eWeek)
Mobile app development moves beyond CRM, but slowly (Network World)
Review: BlackBerry Professional Software not yet perfect for rollouts (CRN)
Zurado's "Please Explain That" app lets phones receive location-based info (Windows for Devices)
Netgear tunes SMBs to 802.11n signal (Network World)
Hospital techies claim 'white space' Wi-Fi will interfere with equipment (Cnet)
Network News
Vodafone bundles mobile data with all plans (The Register)
Wi-Fi News from Interop (Wi-Fi Planet)
Interop Las Vegas highlights (Network World)
10 hot wireless products from Interop Las Vegas (CRM)
April Wi-Fi news bits (Wi-Fi Planet)
T-Mobile USA unwraps $1-per-day prepaid option (RCR News)
T-Mobile to finally launch 3G network, initially without data support (BGR)
Wayport marks 10,000 McDonald's network deployments (Computerworld)
Industry News
News roundup - May 2, 2008 (Wireless Week)
News roundup - May 1, 2008 (Wireless Week)
Adobe launches Open Screen project to promote "one Web" (eWeek)
3Com's new CEO to be based in China (The Register)
AT&T, Verizon report strong earnings despite poor economy (eWeek)
Radio Shack, Tellabs, others blame Sprint for poor earnings (Unstrung)
Trends & Analysis
Is the Palm OS dying? (Palm Infocenter)
Asia/Pacific dominates mobile growth (Unstrung)
Has telecommuting fallen from grace? (eWeek)
Recyclers harvest old mobiles for gold & other metals (Reuters)
Mobile phone sales show sharp growth (PC Mag)

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