Category Archives: Industry

LG sold 1 million Prada phones

Posted on September 24, 2008 by GULLIVER

LG Electronics announced that worldwide sales of series of phones LG Prada had reached one million units. In March 2007, when the phone LG Prada first appeared in the market, he was quite widely accepted as a phone, which combines … Continue reading →

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Samsung still hopes to acquire SanDisk

Posted on September 17, 2008 by GULLIVER

Difficult situation in the market of flash memory is observed as SanDisk (major memory producer) is in rather dangerous situation – the day before was confirmed information that Samsung has proposed for Taiwan’s company only $5.8 billion SanDisk has rejected … Continue reading →

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Nokia and Samsung – the most “Green companies”

Posted on September 17, 2008 by GULLIVER

We keep following news from Greepeace expters what concerns mobile industry and now Greenpeace presented «Green Guide of electronics industry», which reflects realities about how companies relate to the issue of cleaner production. This rating is based on data for … Continue reading →

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Better sound for Bluetooth headsets

Posted on September 16, 2008 by GULLIVER

SRS Labs in cooperation with CSR report of new technology developed to significantly improve sound quality for conversation with the Bluetooth-headset. Software PureSpeech, using technology, Clear Voice Capture (CVC) developed by CSR for the new line of DSP-processor BlueCore, allows … Continue reading →

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Best Buy acquires Napster for $121m

Posted on September 16, 2008 by GULLIVER

For those of you wandering if Napster still exists Best Buy has the perfect answer. Best Buy acquired Napster for $121 million. Best Buy is going to pay $67 in cash while the rest will be paid by Q4 of … Continue reading →

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VoIP Wooden PAPPA*PHONE

Posted on September 14, 2008 by GULLIVER

The world’s first wooden VoIP phone is the PAPPA*PHONE, made by Furni in Montreal for Hulger. It is made from American walnut and brass, the PAPPA works with Skype and all other VoIP with Mac and PC via USB. Source … Continue reading →

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Embedded SD – up to 32 Gb built-in memory

Posted on September 12, 2008 by GULLIVER

SD Card Association (SDA) announced new standard for SD cards – Embedded SD. It is aimed to enhance the existing standard SD in the field of built-in memory, potentially, it would double the total amount of memory for portable devices. … Continue reading →

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Top 5 smartphones of US Internet Traffic

Posted on September 11, 2008 by GULLIVER

According to the ReadWriteWeb, Communicator Palm Centro is in the top five mobile devices in the U.S., through which runs the largest amount of Internet traffic. At the end of August, Palm Centro is in second place. Only managed to … Continue reading →

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GreenPeace loves Apple

Posted on September 11, 2008 by GULLIVER

Greenpeace in its last report praised the work done by Apple to remove toxic substances from the new generation iPod players. Representatives of the organization are convinced that the latest update of player is much “greener” than previous versions. Moreover, … Continue reading →

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$5 billion profit from touch screen devices in 2009

Posted on September 11, 2008 by GULLIVER

ABI Research suggested significant sales growth in the segment of touch screen devices in the next year: total profit from sales of these devices (mobile phones, players, MID, UMPC, etc.) will be $5 billion. According to a study in 2007, … Continue reading →

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