The embattled phone manufacturer has made another round of lay-offs in its latest attempt to curb the company’s hemorrhaging finances. Motorola is cutting 4,000 jobs in an efforts to shave $600 million in operating costs for 2008 – following on previous measures to save $400 million by letting go of 3,500 employees. Motorola Chief Financial…
Archives for May 2007
Japanese Mobile Phones to warn of incoming Earthquakes!
Japan, that little island nation dotting the Pacific “Rim of Fire” and constantly rocked by shaking earth, has mobilized “a system to notify customers of an imminent earthquake.” Japanese wireless operators DoCoMo and KDDI are joining forces to develop this type of early-warning system, as is Softbank, to give the Japanese population a few precious…
AT&T and RIM releases the Curve
AT&T will be the first wireless carrier in North America to offer the BlackBerry Curve in wireless retail and business channels beginning today, as the carrier along with RIM announced the introduction of the “smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry handset.” As we’ve already wrote several times about the Curve, I’ll just quote Kent Mathy,…
Augmentra announces new version of ViewRanger, GPS navigation for outdoor enthusiast
GPS-enabled software developer Augmentra announced the latest version of ViewRanger off-road mapping, navigation and information software for Symbian S60 based smartphones, that also supports Nokia N95‘s built-in GPS receiver. Unlike “regular” navigation apps out there, ViewRanger is specifically designed for the off-road users — such as hill-walkers, mountain bikers, geo-cachers, birdwatchers, or rural tourists —…
iPhone to support 3rd party apps!
You’ve read this correctly — iPhone WILL support 3rd party apps. But don’t expect the full openness as Symbian, Windows Mobile or Palm OS have — all apps will rather pass through some Apple’s approval process. In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Steve Jobs said: “This is an important tradeoff between security and openness. We…
Nokia 6300 vs LG candybar Shine
When you look either at Nokia 6300 or LG Shine folder, you realize that both of them are uber-stylish devices and are competing to reach the same audience. And by audience I mean people who are not that much into features, but are looking for a decent, reliable yet good-lookin’ device. As always, at the…
Google working with Adobe on their new offline API “Gears”
Is that a Silverlight I see in the horizon? Nope, I just hit google.com at 03:00 and my retinas pupils shrunk to the size of a single atom.
Domino concept phone
Here’s something for potential fashion-aware phone buyers on a budget – Domino concept phone. The idea of the Stockholm-based Syntes Studio was to make a simple and easy to use device that would sport only the basic phone functions, plus a camera. The way I see it, the wrong thing about it is that in…
ELSPA unites mobile games publishers in Britain
Big four mobile game publishers – namely EA Mobile, Glu Mobile, Gameloft and I-play – have come together to usher a new era of cooperation in the mobile games sector. Or that’s at least the mobile games sector in Britain. The idea behind the ELSPA “mobile project” is to do the similar thing games publishers…
RIM working on a better, more user-friendly keyboard?
Ever since Apple introduced the iPhone, we are noticing the increasing trend of companies trying to improve their UIs and the overall devices’ usability. Don’t get me wrong – that’s a good thing, but one should know when enough is just enough…