AP - The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 20:21:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
NewsFactor - Apple's 3G iPhone will be available immediately after CEO Steve Jobs announces it at the WorldWide Developers Conference on June 9, a confidential source has told the popular Web site Gizmodo. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 20:35:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
PC World - A 31 percent jump in laptop PC sales helped drive Hewlett-Packard's strong quarterly results on Tuesday, although there were... -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 21:40:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
AP - Napster Inc. begins selling MP3s Tuesday, a move the online music service hopes will lure iPod users and turn around Napster's sliding fortunes. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 00:03:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
AP - The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned.
AFP - French researchers said on Wednesday they had invented a hydrogen fuel cell as a backup power source for mobile phones, thus easing dependence on an electricity supply to charge the gadget.
Reuters - A U.S. appeals court sided with
Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) on Wednesday,
upholding a lower court's finding that a Golden Bridge
Technology cell phone patent was invalid. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 16:02:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
Reuters - Sybase Inc plans to soon start
selling software that lets businesses securely distribute
e-mail to the iPhone, which could help the popular device gain
use among business clients.
NewsFactor - Staying fit by playing a video game. That dream of humankind, possibly second only to losing weight by eating, is the object of Nintendo's U.S. launch Monday of the Wii Fit exercise game. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 16:07:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Nintendo video game encourages physical fitness by letting users ride a virtual snowboard, do yoga, twirl virtual hula hoops, and do other exercises. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 18:11:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smart phones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 19:59:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
NewsFactor - Apple is in talks with major music labels to beef up its ringtones and offer over-the-air music downloads on its upcoming 3G iPhone, according to The New York Times. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 20:39:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News
NewsFactor - How to lose that spare tire around your middle? A miracle pill won't do it, and neither will eating to exhaustion. But Nintendo may have the answer with the Wii Fit video game that it introduced to the U.S. on Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 21:49:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Technology News