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Google Launching Android 2

Google’s launching Android 2.0 (”Eclair”) today, an upgraded version of the previous Android 1.6 OS, released just weeks ago. Tomorrow Verizon will unveil its new Android phones, including the Motorola Droid (Sholes) and the HTC Desire, says Engadget.

What’s the difference between T-Mobile’s CLIQ and Verizon’s Droid?

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Motorola Announces Industry Leading High-Density Decoupled Upstream Module for its Integrated CMTS Solution

Motorola’s RX48 Upstream Module helps cable operators economically deliver upstream bandwidth to meet growing subscriber demand

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DataViz Releases Documents To Go Premium Edition 2.0 for BlackBerry Smartphones

DataViz today announced the availability of Documents To Go® Premium Edition version 2.0 for BlackBerry smartphones. Included in this latest version is an easy to use desktop application with support for bi-directional file synchronization, updates to the PDF To Go, support for password-protected Microsoft Office 2007 files, and a new file browser for accessing and managing documents.

Version 2.0 now includes a desktop application that provides Windows customers with the ability to easily transfer files from their computer to their BlackBerry smartphone via USB cable. With this application, users can select individual files or entire folders to synchronize and all updates made on either the computer or the smartphone will be automatically transferred to the other location.

A new application called ‘Documents To Go Files’ is also included with this Premium Edition upgrade. This file browser for BlackBerry smartphones provides customers with one centralized location where they can conveniently access and manage (delete, rename, copy and paste) all of their Microsoft Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Adobe PDF, and image files without having to navigate between programs.

Documents To Go Premium Edition retails for $69.99 and is available to all BlackBerry smartphone users running Device Software 4.5 or higher, including those that received Documents To Go Standard Edition pre-installed on devices such as the BlackBerry Tour 9630, Curve 8900, Storm 9500/9530 , Bold 9000 as well as the upcoming Bold 9700 and Storm2 9550. Current Documents To Go Premium Edition customers can upgrade to version 2.0 for $29.99.

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Navigation Maps for Google are heading in the right direction.

If you listen carefully enough I’m sure you’ll be able to hear the portable navigation industry cursing already.

Google is about to announce a new Android application called Google Maps Navigation, and when combined with a GPS equipped mobile phone running Android 2.0 it will be able to provide turn by turn directions provided by Google Maps.

It will also have a very slick interface, that mixes features such as voice recognition and Google Street View. And what’s more Google Maps Navigation as with most other things that emerge from Google will be free. Source - news.cnet.com

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Roku: Three Streaming Boxes

The $99 Roku Player, a tiny WiFi box that hooks to your television and streams videos from Netflix as well as Amazon Video On Demand, just got two new siblings, the Roku SD ($79.99) and the Roku HD-XR ($129.99), says C/Net.

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Cable Operator Lights Up Service Delivery with All-Fiber Optical Network Solution from Motorola

MetroCast chooses Motorola’s RF over Glass solution to ready network for expanded video content and advanced high-speed broadband services

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Verizon Wireless Releasing Blackberry Storm 9530 Updates

Said to be go live on 25th or 26th, Verizon Wireless is releasing Blackberry Storm 9530 software updates through its website (www.verizonwireless.com/storm) and also your blackberry desktop manager. The software updates is fixing tons of bugs and will also include enhancements to existing application. Check out the change log below.

BlackBerry Storm – MR3 (5.0) Software Release

• Software Version: 5.0.0 Release 508(OS 4.2.0.128 / Applications 5.0.0.328)
• Significant improvements in rotation detection and screen painting have been introduced in this software.
• Device displayed a white bar at the bottom of the screen after a rotation event.
• When setting a custom SMS tone for a single contact, this tone may playback unexpectedly for SMS’ received from other contacts.
• When swiping down the virtual keyboard in an MMS message the send and save draft icons did not appear as expected.
• When viewing an SMS there was no simple way to call the current user. Now the user can select the number from the Callback Number field or from the message body and call that number from the pop up menu.
• The delete prior function has the unwanted side-effect of triggering the compose email screen.
• The user cannot configure their profile settings to increase the number of alerts when being notified of an event such as incoming SMS or email.
• Previous software versions did not allow the user to increase the count of notifications (i.e. Beep 5 times when when I get an email and beep 3 times when I get an sms). In this software, this is now allowed with counts from 1-10.
• When trying to set a home screen background of a certain resolution (more specifically a resolution matching either the width or the height of the native resolution of the LCD) it may have appeared as a black screen.
• When trying to edit/create a folder, the virtual keyboard did not render to allow the user to enter the names of said folders.
• Intermittently, when streaming a video while doing a handover to 2G on a 3G network the video would stop playing.
• If you paused a video recording and then resumed, the icon state may not have reflected the current recording state.
• After recoding a video of a certain size (7M) the saved video may be corrupted and unplayable.
• During manual network selection, the radio buttons associated with the networks did not render as expected.
• When moving out of coverage your device display for no coverage may have been inconsistent.
• During voice calls, your device may have reset on a rare occasion.
• After viewing and accepting the End User Licensing Agreement of the App World application the application doesn’t startup (fixes introduced in the latest version of App World).
• On some rare occasions, the device may reset on its own during a voice call or while idle.
• During an MTP side load of 16GB of music, the device would leak memory and stop the transfer at ~75%.
• During device full boot-up, the progress bar skips from 0% complete to ~66% complete instead of showing a gradual progression (Note: from 66% to 100% it does show a gradual progression).

[via engadgetmobile]

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Barbie themed iHome iPod dock, the pink budget device

Surprisingly there have been no new fancy models added to the iHome collection.

Instead they have just added a few finishing touches to their old players. One market which they are attempting to capture is the younger market, and especially those younger ladies. You know the ones into Pink, the ones into Barbie or the ones into both.

Thankfully for parents during the run up to Christmas they range in size and of course the prices vary as well, which hopefully will cheer up any parent’s budget. The small Barbie iHome portable stereo speaker system will cost you $19.99, there is also a water resistant stereo sport case priced at $39.99. To find out more visit coolest-gadgets.com

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Symbian Execs: Android Tracking

Om Malik interviewed Lee Williams, executive director at Symbian. He talked about SEE09, their developer conference in London next week and shared his unfiltered views of Google’s Android.

He stated the obvious, but often overlooked truth, that Google’s revenues comes from targeted advertising and Android is being used to track …
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Motorola Third-Quarter 2009 Earnings Results to Be Issued on October 29

Presentation by Executives Following Earnings Release to Be Webcast

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