In honor of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, this series of slideshows looks at how the Internet, the PC, the cell phone, the Mac, Windows and the router evolved over the years.
Just another Internet time drain, or better than e-mail and phone calls combined?
 PC World |
Kindle's New Challenger Brings E-Books to iPhones
PC World – 10 Feb 2009 Shortcovers — occasionally touted by its makers as "the Kindle Killer" — is set to launch in the coming days as an app for the iPhone, the BlackBerry, and the Android operating system. 'Kindle killer' Shortcovers covers a lot CNET News Shortcovers Turning iPhone into eBook Macworld Canada BetaNews – Globe and Mail – TechNewsWorld – New York Daily News all 23 news articles |
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Updated Oregon Trail Planned for Mobile Phones
Wired News – 22 hours ago By Earnest Cavalli February 11, 2009 | 1:47:00 PMCategories: iPhone, Portable Gaming Feeling like your iPhone is lacking that nostalgic gaming spark? Updated version of Oregon Trail coming to the iPhone Ars Technica The Games We Played – Oregon Trail OhGizmo! Escapist Magazine – iPhonesTalk – Zergwatch all 6 news articles |
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Communications sector set to usher in fourth wireless age
Business in Vancouver – 11 Feb 2009 With the next generation of wireless communication technologies ready for deployment, wireless developers and carriers are placing their bets on which technologies will prevail in the fourth wireless age. Samsung to revolutionze cellphones with programmable CDMA/GSM … IntoMobile Samsung to use software-switched radio chips in future cell phones Mobile Burn engadget – VentureBeat all 5 news articles |
 iPhonesTalk |
Updated Oregon Trail Planned for Mobile Phones
Wired News – 18 hours ago By Earnest Cavalli February 11, 2009 | 1:47:00 PMCategories: iPhone, Portable Gaming Feeling like your iPhone is lacking that nostalgic gaming spark? Updated version of Oregon Trail coming to the iPhone Ars Technica The Games We Played – Oregon Trail OhGizmo! Escapist Magazine – iPhonesTalk – Zergwatch all 6 news articles |
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Shortcovers 'Kindle killer' e-reader under way for smartphones
BetaNews – 9 hours ago by Jacqueline Emigh While hardware makers have failed to produce an "iPhone killer," a major book seller is now readying a software application for iPhone, BlackBerry and other smartphones, that will be marketed as a "Kindle killer. 'Kindle killer' Shortcovers covers a lot CNET News Kindle's New Challenger Brings E-Books to iPhones PC World Globe and Mail – TechNewsWorld – New York Daily News – Gay Socialites all 21 news articles |
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Communications sector set to usher in fourth wireless age
Business in Vancouver – 20 hours ago With the next generation of wireless communication technologies ready for deployment, wireless developers and carriers are placing their bets on which technologies will prevail in the fourth wireless age. Samsung to revolutionze cellphones with programmable CDMA/GSM … IntoMobile Samsung licenses Sandbridge's reconfigurable baseband tech engadget Mobile Burn – VentureBeat all 5 news articles |
Despite licensing the proprietary ActiveSync Exchange Server protocol from Microsoft for use with the iPhone, Apple is building its own Push Notification Server for messaging services in both the iPhone and Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server using open, interoperable standards.
Windows Secrets writes “After two straight years of taking dead aim at Macbooks and Windows-powered machines, hackers at this year’s CanSecWest conference will have shiny new targets: Web browsers and mobile phones. According to CanSecWest organisers, there will be two separate Pwn2Own competitions this year — one pitting hackers against IE8, Firefox 3 and Safari and another targeting Google Android, Apple iPhone, Nokia Symbian and Windows Mobile.”
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