Archive for February, 2009

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Motorola Offloads Good Technology Inc

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | Rajiv

Motorola shelled out $500 million 2 years back to purchase Good Technology Inc., a mobile email provider, in order to compete against RIM’s BlackBerry and other email-oriented devices.
Unfortunately for the company, it looks like Motorola has given up on it as the company has been offloaded to Visto Corp., a company which provides messaging service.
Visto [...]

Verizon Wireless Launches CDM8975

Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | Rajiv

The CDM8975 phone has been launched by Verizon Wireless, but the Push to Talk phone is available only via business channels at the moment. The phone will cost $99 with a 2-year contract agreement after $50 rebate which is offered “in the form of a debit card”.
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MotoRazr Gold Mobile Phone

Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | Rajiv

Motorola has decided to announce a new Razr phone, covered in gold. We’re looking for Moto to launch hot new phones and maybe it’s time the company decided to quit launching new Razr handsets.

This one will not [...]

Nokia Borrows 636 Million

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 | Rajiv

Despite the bad economy, Nokia has still managed to borrow 500 million Euros ($636 million) from the European Investment Bank. This will be stretched over 5 years and will be tailored towards research and development projects between now and 2011.
While the money will be used for Nokia’s own internal work, but the research that is [...]

Motorola ZN300 Spotted

Friday, February 20th, 2009 | Rajiv

Motorola ZN300 Spotted,,,,

Pantech Matrix Pro Announced

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Rajiv

The Pantech Matrix Pro you see here looks pretty much like the Helio Ocean, and this dual-sliding smartphone will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 (why not version 6.5? Hopefully there’ll be an upgrade in the future) alongside support for Outlook/Office. [...]

Sony sells 500 Million PSP units across the Globe

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Rajiv

The very popular PlayStation Portable has escalated Sony’s position to Cloud Number 9 by attaining a selling mark of 500 million units, worldwide. Sony has announced that the first handheld platform from the PlayStation family has reached the 500 million mark worldwide, in terms of sales.
Started with the PSP-1000, there were basic features in the [...]

Vodafone 835 3G Phone

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Rajiv

Vodafone’s next phone announcement might come across as rather boring, as the Vodafone 835 is but another candybar handset that goes about its business without much fanfare [...]

Plustek to showcase an array of Scanners and Servers at CeBIT 2009

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Rajiv

Plustek has announced its plans to present the latest innovative products, ranging from document scanners, mobile scanners, book scanners, film scanners, photo scanners, network video recorder (NVR) and the multi-function server, at CeBIT 2009, which is slated to be held from March 3 to March 8, 2009.
In the book scanner category, Plustek is set to [...]

RAmos iMovie 2 Announced

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | Rajiv

RAmos has announced a successor to the venerable iMovie T8 portable media player. Known as iMovie 2, it shares many similarities with its predecessor although you would sit up and take notice of the polished aluminum exterior that is somewhat reminiscent of the iPhone. [...]