Smartphone data recovery can be costly

Hope that you never have this experience: You get in a fight with your spouse or partner, they fling your smartphone 26 stories down a high-rise building's garbage chute and you pray that the data on that phone survives, even if the device itself does not.

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Not your mother's Garmin or Nokia

Cisco recently announced plans to buy Pure Digital, maker of the popular Flip video camera. Nokia may make a netbook. Garmin is teaming up with Asus to create a cell phone.

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Palm announces 'Pre,' new OS

Palm Thursday unveiled the "Pre" smartphone, more similar to an iPhone than a Treo in looks, and a new operating system called Palm webOS, with hopes that both will keep the venerable but struggling company in the smartphone race.

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Graduation gifts for job hunting

You’ve just graduated from college. B-bye finals and all-nighters. Time for the real world. And that means using some tech tools that can help you in your search for a job.

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Smartphones heeding the call of consumers

At a time when sales of cell phones are slowing in the United States, there's one kind of mobile device that appears to be defying the trend: smartphones.

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Can iPhone siphon BlackBerry users?

For right now, the “i” in iPhone stands for “incremental” when it comes to change.

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A quarter of a million people picked up Droid phones last week, according to one industry tracking firm. That's good news for Verizon Wireless, good news for Motorola, and good news for Droid aficionados the world over.

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Yet another phone maker is adopting the Android mobile OS. This time it's Sony Ericsson, which says its upcoming Xperia X10 smartphone will be the flagship of a new family of handsets. However, the Xperia won't ship until sometime next year, and it'll be running Android 1.6.

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A beta of Google Maps Navigation will arrive next week when the Motorola Droid smartphone debuts on Verizon's network. The service will be added to all other Android devices, as well, when they are formally updated to version 2.0.

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It's an unlikely medical device: a sleek smartphone more suited to a nightclub than a rural health clinic.

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AT&T announced today that they are teaming up with Terrestar to release a smartphone with satellite capabilities. Previously, satellite phones were limited to just voice calls, or the occasional tethering (that didn't work very well).

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It isn't really our area of expertise, but we've gotten word that Microsoft will unleash two new Smartphones, probably at CES in January 2010.

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Well, it seem Nokia have something even more exciting to announce at the upcoming Nokia World, so they've decided to fire early with the N900 tablet/smartphone announcement. N900 is a continuation of Nokia Nseries tablets.

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It's not possible today, but the emergence of more powerful, media-centric cellphones is accelerating humanity toward this vision of "augmented reality," where data from the network overlays your view of the real world.

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Porting my phone number to Google Voice was a three day process, which I was pre-warned about. The mobile carriers in the U.S. have made the porting process between them fairly easy, and it occurs over a couple of hours.

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In my mind, the most recent AT&T failure is completely inexcusable. Its visual voicemail system — which is the only way to be notified of voicemails on the iPhone — has been down for many users for days, if not weeks. And AT&T apparently didn't bother to tell anyone.

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No, it's not enough that you can hack your iPhone to operate on the T-Mobile network, or launch third-party applications, or play games.

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We know for some time now that Sony Ericsson (SE) is working on a Google Android based mobile phone, but the company has been keeping mum on details. However, pictures leaked by a Danish site appear to reveal Sony Ericsson's upcoming Android phone, and it looks like a good one.

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Are Some Palm Pre Screens Defective? Multiple Reports Indicate an Emerging Problem

Palm USA's recently released touchscreen Palm Pre represents the companies best last hope for a resurgence, due to strong competition from both Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's Blackberry line of smart phones.

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Slightly more than half of teens surveyed for a Common Sense Media poll admitted to using the Internet to cheat and more than a third of students with mobile telephones said they had used them to cheat.

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Palm Inc named Jon Rubinstein its CEO on Wednesday, hoping the former Apple executive will usher in a new era for a company seeking to revive its fortunes with a fresh smartphone launched last weekend.

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I Won't Be Getting The iPhone 3G S

I just upgraded to the new OS with it's new search feature, forward/deleting individual text messages, landscape format in the mail and SMS apps is also a big boost. I will probably post later this week or early next week on my initial impressions but so far, it is good.

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A look at the key moments behind the unveiling -- and re-unveiling -- of the popular device.

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Some high caliber tech critics give their opinions on the PRE...

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The Pre has generated a lot of excitement among gadget hounds, and Palm is relying on the phone to turn its fortunes around.

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But why did iPhone sales fall 10 percent? Rumors of a new and improved iPhone have been circulating for months, and it's likely that potential buyers are sitting on the fence to see what Apple rolls out this summer.

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The story begins last week when Apple rejected an update to the official Nine Inch Nails iPhone application on the grounds of "objectionable content" (read: too many F-bombs).

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In the face of competition from the likes of Apple, Symbian hopes to run its mobile operating systems on netbooks, e-readers, GPS, and other mobile devices.

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After signaling its intent to follow Apple's wildly successful iPhone into the smartphone business, Dell's first attempts to produce a phone have been rejected by the carries for being too dull and lacking enough differentiation to stand out in a competitive environment, accordin …

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It might be called a Google mistrial. The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, upending deliberations and infuriating judges.

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ust because the Internet has broken down geographic barriers, don't assume that Google doesn't care about geography The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts.

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