Motorola unveils touch screen phone (Reuters)
Reuters - Motorola Inc , the world's third-biggest phone maker, unveiled a touch-sensitive phone to be sold by Verizon Wireless, as both companies look to compete with Apple Inc's iPhone. Full text
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Obama makes play for videogamers (AFP)AFP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made a play for online videogamers, placing campaign advertisements in a series of popular titles from videogame giant Electronic Arts. Full text |
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Fans anxiously await revamped, cheaper Apple laptop computers (AFP)
AFP - Apple is expected to unveil new notebook computers, perhaps even one priced for those with tight budgets, at a "town hall" gathering at its northern California headquarters on Tuesday. Full text
Microsoft plans unified communications update (CNET)
CNET - Aiming to make further inroads into business telephony, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is working on an update to its unified communications software. Full text
Reports: Beckham staff arrested over alleged theft (AP)
AP - British newspapers are reporting that two people who worked for David Beckham and his wife were arrested after some of the couple's possessions were spotted on an Internet auction site. Full text
3 UK to sell Nokia's N95 music phone: source (Reuters)
Reuters - Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia's N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday. Full text
Vaunted Michelin guide adds mobile Internet to its review menu (AFP)
AFP - Michelin guides, lauded as roadmaps to the world's finest cuisine, will be delivered to iPhones and other "smart" mobile devices as the century-old publication embraces the Internet age. Full text
Sony Says PS3 Price Will Remain Firm for Holidays (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The Tokyo Game Show is, to put it mildly, a noisy event as game manufacturers crank up the volume on their latest racing or military combat products. But the loudest sound may have come from Kazuo Hirai, president and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, who told the Financial Times that Sony has no plans to cut prices on its gaming consoles for the holiday season. Full text
UK university holds artificial intelligence test (AP)
AP - Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading. Full text
NComputing gets large low-cost PC deal in India (AP)
AP - A Silicon Valley company is claiming a major victory in its efforts to sell computers to schools that might otherwise be enticed by low-cost laptops such as the green-and-white XO from One Laptop Per Child or Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC. Full text
Is the era of easy credit over for the long haul? (AP)
AP - An inflatable gorilla beckoned from the roof of Don Brown Chevrolet in St. Louis, servers doled out free bowls of pasta and a salesman urged potential customers to "come on up under the canopy and put your hands on" a new set of wheels. Full text