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  • T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup

    T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup

    Posted on October 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they've likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft's servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven't been locally backed up are gone. Apparently if you don't turn off your Sidekick and make sure its battery doesn't run out you can salvage what's currently stored on the device, otherwise you're out of luck: Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as "extremely low". T-Mobile Sidekick users have been suffering from a major outage all week, and that issue apparently hasn't been resolved either.

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  • SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made

    SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments

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    What exactly does the equivalent of roughly $830 buy you in Pantech's home market these days? Well, it'll apparently get you signed up for the priciest device South Korea's third-largest handset manufacturer has ever made, the Dupont from subsidiary SKY. As far as we can tell, this thing is more show than go, thanks largely to a weakling 3-inch WQVGA display and 3 megapixel camera -- but then again, it's hard to argue with designer tie-ins and questionably tasteful gold accents, isn't it? Look for this one on local carrier SKT, and for once, we're totally fine with the fact that Pantech is concentrating on low-end messaging devices over on AT&T.

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  • T-Mo T-oBuy O-Range I-n U-K

    T-Mo T-oBuy O-Range I-n U-K

    Posted on September 8, 2009 | No Comments
    robot-love Rumor has it that T-Mobile UK and Orange UK will merge, creating a 28.4 million customer uber-carrier. The next largest carrier will be Telefonica's O2, the former heavyweight. The deal will be signed by November and the merged company will share networks and CRM services in the UK. This does not directly effect T-Mobile's German parent company except in that it will lose its subsidiary in the UK.

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  • ASUS doesn’t see a clear market for smartbooks

    ASUS doesn’t see a clear market for smartbooks

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    smartbookDespite being one of the first companies to bring the idea of small, cheap, no-frills computers to market, ASUS doesn't think the whole smartbook idea is going to take off. As such, we'll see no smartbooks from ASUS anytime soon.

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  • The Solar-UFO is a UFO-shaped vessel that serves as a water purifier

    The Solar-UFO is a UFO-shaped vessel that serves as a water purifier

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    A Japanese company called NTT Facilities, a subsidiary of telecommunications behemoth NTT, obviously has enough time for something cool like this: The so-called Solar-UFO [JP], a UFO-shaped vessel that serves as a water purifier and is powered by solar energy.

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  • Old rivals Sony and Sharp inked LCD joint venture deal

    Old rivals Sony and Sharp inked LCD joint venture deal

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The consolidation process in the Japanese home electronics business goes on and on. Today former rivals Sharp and Sony said [JP] they reached a final agreement to launch an LCD panel joint venture in Osaka, after having failed to ink the deal last month. In March already, Sharp said it wants Sony as a partner for its plans to boost the production of LCD TVs.

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  • Very cool RC toy: “Mission Carrier SWAT truck” with helicopter (video)

    Very cool RC toy: “Mission Carrier SWAT truck” with helicopter (video)

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Just yesterday we featured Bandai's cool remote-controlled heli-robot Sky Armor, and now the same company (its subsidiary CCP, to be exact) announced the Mission Carrier SWAT [JP], a combination of a truck and helicopter. And this toy is even better than Sky Armor. The cool thing about the SWAT truck is the sound and the elevating deck: Push a button on the remote to make the panels in the back of the truck open and reveal the mini helicopter inside of it. The helicopter can then be controlled just like every other RC helicopter (for 5 minutes after a 30 minute charge). Needless to say, you can also let the truck itself drive around.

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  • NTT Docomo Buys 35 Percent Of PacketVideo For $45.5 Million

    NTT Docomo Buys 35 Percent Of PacketVideo For $45.5 Million

    Posted on July 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Mobile video is taking off in Japan, where mobile operator NTT DoCoMo just invested $45.5 million in PacketVideo, which s a long-time supplier of mobile video software. The all-cash investment gives NTT Docomo a 35 percent stake in PacketVideo, which is s subsidiary of NextWave Wireless (a holding company that owns rights to wireless spectrum in the U.S. which it plans to use for a Wimax network). NextWave acquired PacketVideo in 2005 and the company is now its main source of cash. The investment indicates how important PacketVideo's technology is to NTT Docomo, and raises the possibility of an outright purchase down the line. Other customers of PacketVideo include Verizon Wireless, Orange (in France), and T-Mobile. They might not feel so warm and fuzzy about PacketVideo now being so closely aligned with another carrier, even if it is in Japan.

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