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Go Mobile™
February 27, 2009
no. 218
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Go Mobile™ Featured Stories

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Mobile Trends
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Sony's latest portable fuel cell
Smartphones are becoming more complex than netbooks (EE Times)
Future mobiles could diagnose diseases with your breath (PC Mag)
Oberthur's motion-detecting SIM card offers many possibilities (Engadget)
TI's OMAP 4 will bring 1080p resolution, 20Mp to phones (Linux Devices)
Studies show phone apps downloaded often, but seldom used (MobileBurn)
Which mobile technologies will or won't get credit crunched? (The Register)
Texting: Good for kids after all? (The Register)
My kid was smarter before his smart phone (Post Chronicle)

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Laptops, Tablets, & Gear

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Netbooks
Netbook face off - XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu - which is best? (Wi-Fi Planet)
Six 10-inch netbooks face off - Lenovo edges to the top (Laptop)
Cheap laptops that offer solid value (Computerworld)
Archos previews Moorestown-based netbook, 9-inch tablet (UMPC Portal)
Asus Eee PC 1000HE review roundup (Engadget)
Gigabyte previews new netbooks ahead of CeBIT (Engadget)
LG launches X120 with 3G wireless (Liliputing)
Nokia considers making its own laptop (IDG)
Samsung NC20 has new Via Nano processor (Windows for Devices)
Gateway TC series

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MSI X340
Full-Size Notebooks
Apple's newest Macbook is not really the greenest (Inhabitat)
Dell preps Latitude XT2 multi-touch tablet with 11-hour battery (PC Mag)
Gateway unveils 14-inch TC7306u and TC7307u laptops (Engadget)
Lenovo labels some ThinkPads 'semi-rugged' (PC Mag)
Lenovo to offer auto-syncing BlackBerry sync card (Techworld)
MSI's X-Slim X320 and X340 coming in April (Engadget)
Toshiba unveils Tecra A10, M10 business laptops (Engadget)
WLG intros its XNote 510 with LEDs and haptic touch (SlashGear)
More Laptop reviews: Cnet / ZDnet, GottaBeMobile, Laptop, Maximum PC, Notebook Review, PC Authority, PC Pro, TabletPCReviewSpot, Trusted Reviews

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Handhelds & Smartphones

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Acer announces Tempo smartphones, with Windows Mobile 6.1 (Engadget)
Apple iPhone 3G's power is doubled with mStation's battery case / charger (Engadget)
Asus gets official with P835 WVGA smartphone (Engadget)
Dell debuts ink-free Wasabi mobile printer (Engadget)
Devotec Solar Charger review (BGR)
Garmin-Asus announces the Windows Mobile nuvifone M20 (Engadget)
HTC Launches Diamond2, Touch Pro2, & G2 (TrustedReviews)
HTC Touch Pro2 hands-on video (Engadget)
HTC Vodafone Magic - aka T-Mobile G2 - hands-on video (Engadget)
INQ1 wins "Best Mobile Handset or Device" at MWC (Engadget)
LG shows off phone with transparent keypad (BGR)
LG Arena KM900 hands-on video (Engadget)
LG Dare for Verizon review (Brighthand)
Dell Wasabi
INQ1
LG Versa hits Verizon stores March 1 (Brighthand)
Nokia E75 hands-on (Engadget)
Nokia 8-megapixel N86 hands-on video (Engadget)
NTT DoCoMo shows off futuristic modular phone (The Register)
Palm's Pre likely coming to Vodafone (Palm Infocenter)
Pantech's Matrix Pro dual-slider arrives on AT&T (Brighthand)
RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 now available (BGR)
Samsung Memoir now available for T-Mobile: a review (Engadget)
Samsung debuts touchscreen OmniaHD with 720p video (BGR)
Sony Ericsson's 12-megapixel Idou: video, pics (IntoMobile)
Toshiba TG01 hands-on video (Engadget)
Samsung OmniaHD
Symbian touch phones – a new era, or lipstick on a pig? (Techworld)

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Consumer Mobile Software

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Apple Safari 4
Multi-Platform: Consumer mobile software roundup: Jan - Feb, 2009 (MobileVillage)
Multi-Platform: Bolt debuts mobile web browser beta (PC Mag)
Multi-Platform: Google Sync debuts for iPhone, Windows Mobile, & SyncML devices (IDG)
Multi-Platform: Many libraries offer free books, audio, and video downloads (PDA Street)
Android: Seven preps Android email beta (Wireless Week)
Linux: Linux mobile tools for business professionals (Linux Planet)
Mac: Apple releases Safari 4 beta (AppScout)
Mac: Apple iLife 09 review: Editor's Choice (Laptop)
Palm: Splashdata Snap Palm OS utility review (The Gadgeteer)

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Palm WebOS: WebOS apps preview (Palm Infocenter)
Symbian, Windows Mobile: Mobiledit Lite syncs phones with PCs (PC World)
Windows Mobile: Windows Mobile 6.5 video walkthrough (Engadget)
Windows Mobile: Handmark's Pocket Express portal adds FreeRange app (PDA Street)
Windows Mobile: Mozilla 'Fennec' Firefox for Windows Mobile review (PC Mag)
Windows Mobile: Skype releases version 2.5 for Windows Mobile (Brighthand)
Windows Mobile: Torch Mobile offers free Webkit browser (Windows for Devices)
Windows: Microsoft previews list of improvements to Windows 7 (PC Mag)
Windows: ExpanDrive: FTP that doesn't suck (BGR)
Windows: Phoenix HyperSpace quick launcher review (Small Bus. Computing)
Windows: Free must-have netbook or notebook apps (Laptop)
Windows Mobile 6.5

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Mobile Enterprise News

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Enterprise Mobile Hardware
Glacier e4000 rugged tablet targets supply-chain use (Windows for Devices)
JLT introduces JLT 1214 rugged PC for industrial environments (TMCnet)
QSI's Treq-M4 in-cab computer targets fleet management, mapping (Windows for Devices)
Trimble's Yuma rugged tablet runs Vista (Windows for Devices)
Despite handheld cutbacks, officials foresee census success (Computerworld)
Trimble's Yuma
Enterprise Mobile Software
Antenna offers IM for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile (Wireless Week)
Citrix WebEx for iPhone coming to BlackBerry, Symbian, Win Mobile (PDA Street)
How enterprise information portals & social networking are converging (eWeek)
Enterprise Network / Device Management Products
Absolute launches Computrace BlackBerry tracker (ITWorld Canada)
Citrix makes XenServer free, adds management & automation app (PC Mag)
Elektron 2.0 RADIUS Server review (Wi-Fi Planet)
Motorola rolls out WLAN troubleshooter & RF manager (InformationWeek)
Enterprise Network Management Help
Getting good help: Why is wireless management still so hard? (Computerworld)
How to build a successful Unified Communications strategy (eWeek)
How to adopt a consistent mobile data protection process (eWeek)
Guidelines for securing IEEE 802.11i wireless networks (NetworkWorld)
802.11v will help companies manage WLAN traffic (InformationWeek)

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Industry News, Trends, & Analysis

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Notebooks: ARM demos its Sparrow multi-core netbook processor (PC Mag)
Notebooks: Intel demos 32nm processors, will spend $7B on plant updates (eWeek)
Notebooks: Toshiba boasts highest-bandwidth and highest density non-volatile RAM (PC Launches)
Phones: Will Apple kill the GSMA's upcoming "universal charger"? (Computerworld)
Phones: Mobile money tools for the masses: Do the numbers add up? (The Register)
Phones: Adobe upgrades Flash for phones, offers new SDK (Techworld)
Phones: Google releases Android 1.1 SDK (PC Mag)
Phones: Microsoft: Windows Mobile 7 will ship in 2010 (Brighthand)
Phones: Palm says goodbye to Palm OS phones (Brighthand)
Phones: nVidia demoes its Tegra chipset, showing 1080p video on Android (Engadget)
Phones: Stantum demos its "mind-blowing" multitouch interface on video (Engadget)
Phones: Sun launches JavaFX Mobile (eWeek)
Phones: Opinion: If Microsoft can't move faster in phones, it's dead (PC Mag)
Phones: The "Phonetastic Four" versus Windows Mobile (Engadget)
Phones: Smoothing the path for mobile Linux (RCR)
Networks: Roaming still costs too much (InfoWorld)
Networks: AT&T plots LTE launch in 2011 (Unstrung)
Networks: Rogers plans "4G" LTE launch in Vancouver for Feb 2010 Olympics (BGR)
Networks: Verizon LTE launch set for 2010 (ZDnet)
Networks: BT reprograms its business customers as secure hotspots (The Register)
Financial / Legal News
Apple sued by Picsel over iPhone smooth scrolling (The Register)
CSR to buy GPS tech provider SiRF (Wireless Week)
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux patent infringement (Business Insider)
Motorola sells Good Technology to Visto (Wireless Week)
Nokia wants 1,000 employees to voluntarily leave (Reuters)
RIM will pay fines for stock option backdating (Forbes)
RIM trumps VeriSign in Certicom bidding war (Reuters)
Sprint loses $1.62B, 1.3M subs in Q4 (Unstrung)
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