The Samsung Gravity 3′s full QWERTY keyboard and messaging features are enough to satisfy most heavy communicators, with other advanced features icing the cake. At $50 with a two-year service agreement, the Gravity is a good midlevel option for those who aren’t ready to jump into the smartphone arena.
AP – As the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, Intel Corp. can’t afford to ignore its huge blind spot in mobile phones.
AP – For a decade, West Africa’s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
AP – Intel Corp. is buying the wireless communications unit of Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG for $1.4 billion in cash, the second deal in as many weeks that allows the chip-maker to expand beyond the struggling personal computer market.
Ben Patterson – Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while yoursquo;re on holiday doesnrsquo;t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, itrsquo;s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more [...]
Ben Patterson – Feel the need to check in on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, yoursquo;re still in the minority mdash; and yoursquo;re also probably a guy below 40 mdash; according to the [...]
AFP – Apple on Monday promised that US orders for its iPad tablet computers would ship within 24 hours, in a sign that supply of the hot-selling devices was catching up to demand.
AP – 3M Co., the conglomerate whose products range from Post-Its to respirators, computer arms and films for LCD TV screens, is trying to expand into the security market by buying Cogent Inc. for about $943 million.
AP – Intel Corp. is re-entering the market for mobile-phone chips with the proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of the wireless-chip division of Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG. Below are the rankings of the top makers of processors and other communications chips for mobile phones, as ranked by Gartner Inc. based on worldwide figures in 2009.
Reuters – U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp unveiled a deal on Monday to buy German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG’s wireless unit for $1.4 billion, as it claws its way into the booming smartphone market and cuts its reliance on personal computers.