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Microsoft Planning More Interactive TV Shows On Xbox Live

Following Success Of 1 vs. 100, Microsoft Exploring More Interactive IPTV Shows
Filed by on Thursday, 18. February 2010

Xbox 360 users are constantly inundated with advertisements for various IPTV content that Microsoft is pushing on their Xbox Live platform. One of them, a IPTV-video game hybrid of the real life TV program “1 vs. 100″, has become increasingly popular on the Xbox Live platform, and Microsoft wants to [...]

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Verizon Wireless, KDDI & China Telecom Officially Join the GSMA at MWC 2010

CDMA Carriers Verizon, KDDI & China Telecom Prepping For LTE
Filed by on Thursday, 18. February 2010

Don’t look now folks but it looks like CDMA is going to be history soon. You shouldn’t panic and go for a GSM device just yet as CDMA carriers aren’t going anywhere. They are simply moving on to greener pastures. In this case we’re talking about LTE, the 4G standard [...]

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Google: 60,000 Android Devices Shipped Daily

Google CEO Says Android Phones Are Hot Sellers, Selling Roughly 21.9 Million A Year
Filed by on Thursday, 18. February 2010

Android has been a pretty popular mobile OS for Google, and it’s been a hit with customers, developers and cell manufacturers, too. However, it’s hard to imagine that it’s this popular. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, giving a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, mentioned that Google and their [...]

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Foxconn Guards Assault Reporter in Public?

Working for Apple Must Be Really Stressful; Reporter & Foxconn Secrets Are Safe for Now
Filed by on Thursday, 18. February 2010

This technology world we’re reporting on so often here on TFTS is not just fun and games. Sure we get to see marvelous products that make us want to buy them for no apparent reason. But behind them is a world in which security and secrecy go hand in hand [...]

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HTC Desire Pricing Details Unveiled: Pre-Order it For €419 at Amazon Germany

HTC to Sell Desire (Bravo) for €419 Without a Contract in Amazon Stores
Filed by on Wednesday, 17. February 2010

We have seen some impressive stuff at MWC 2010: the Samsung S8500 Wave running bada OS, the surprising and unexpected Puma Phone, the Windows Phone 7 Series, although there’s no announced WinMo 7 handset yet and the HTC Desire, formerly known as the Bravo.

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BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming to MTS in Canada

MTS Curve 8530 Comes Up on RIM's Website, Availability Rumored
Filed by on Wednesday, 17. February 2010

It looks like Canadian carriers are doing their best to make their customers happy and are looking at options to bring the best from BlackBerry’s new smartphone lineup. Following Rogers who’re rumored to bring the Storm2 for their users, the chaps from MTS Mobility are going to officially announce the [...]

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MacBook Pro & iMac Dummy SKUs Show Up in Best Buy Canada Inventory System

Apple to Launch New MacBook Pros & iMacs Soon?
Filed by on Wednesday, 17. February 2010

Just yesterday we showed you a leaked screenshot in which one could clearly see some Apple Dummy SKU placed in Best Buy’s inventory. We’re all expecting Apple to finally announce its refreshed MacBook Pro line but while there’s no official word from Cupertino officials we got a glimpse of a [...]

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Rogers BlackBerry Storm2 Availability Rumored in Ad

BB Storm2 Might Come to Rogers in Canada, Or Could be Just a Mix-up
Filed by on Wednesday, 17. February 2010

Although there’s nothing official, Rogers users should be happy to know that one of the most interesting BlackBerry smartphones ever, the Storm2, could become available with the Canadian carrier. The whole thing started when the Canadian Business magazine published an ad with the new BlackBerry Storm2 and printed in the [...]

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Nokia to Build Snapdragon Smartphone by The End of The Year

Nokia Snapdragon Mobile to Run Symbian, Why Oh Why?
Filed by on Wednesday, 17. February 2010

I’m not sure if it’s just me or the fact that the 2010 MWC in Barcelona concentrated on Android handsets, but Nokia has been rather quiet in the last few weeks. Well not anymore (sort of) as we just caught wind that Nokia is actually considering to build a smartphone [...]

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Steve Jobs Is the “Personality of the Year” at MWC 2010

Steve Jobs’ Smartphone Doesn’t Win “Best Mobile Handset or Devices”; HTC Hero Beats the iPhone]
Filed by on Wednesday, 17. February 2010

Although Apple’s famous CEO did not attend the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this week, it looks like he managed to win an important award which only goes to show how important his work in the mobile business really is. After all Apple started to make phones only in [...]

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