Mobile Phones

Murata postpones battery sales
Japan Times, The | 6 minutes ago
Murata Manufacturing Co. will postpone its plan to start selling lithium-ion batteries by at least a year as it plots a strategy to compete in a market that includes Japanese rivals Panasonic Corp. and GS Yuasa Corp. "If we want to be competitive, we need time to consider what types of equipment the batteries should be used with," said Tsuneo Murata, president of the electronic parts maker, in an interview on Thursday at the company's Kyoto headquarters. "It may be a year or more befo...

8 Lessons From the Creativity and Technology Conference
Advertising Age | 10 minutes ago
From Fiat's Eco:Drive to Layar, How Marketers are Focusing on Useful Products Instead of Advertisements

Mobile wireless router from Zyxel competes with Mi-Fi
Computerworld | 11 minutes ago
New router fits variety of connected wireless devices coming to market

Cisco releases Web security app for iPhone
Yahoo! | 13 minutes ago
Cisco on Friday announced the release of a free iPhone application for anyone who wants to stay on top of the latest trojans, worms, or other threats marauding on the Internet.

Facebook Puts in Place Updated Privacy Policy - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 17 minutes ago
Earlier this week, Facebook users voted to adopt new privacy policies the social networking site proposed in late October.

Judge Makes BlueBeat Beatles Ban Really Official - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 17 minutes ago
A California district judge this week issued EMI a preliminary injunction against Web site BlueBeat, which posted and sold EMI content on its site, including the Beatles re-mastered collection.

Chrome OS Lands on BitTorrent Sites - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 17 minutes ago
Not surprisingly, developers have already snapped up the code to Google's open-source Chrome OS, known as Chromium, then compiled it and put it on the Web for users to download.

Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing
Times (London), The | 1 hour 7 minutes ago
Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing.

Corvallis Police searching for home invasion suspects
Oregonian (Portland), The | 1 hour 12 minutes ago
Police are seeking three suspects in a Corvallis home invasion robbery Thursday night, in which four adult roommates were bound with duct tape and robbed of cell phones and a small amount of cash.

Teens love to be miserable: Study
Canada.com | 1 hour 13 minutes ago
Parents who've ever wondered how a teen with an iPhone in one hand and the world in the other can be so miserable now have their answer: adolescents, sometimes, intentionally seek to feel unhappy.