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Sony’s New Touchscreen Readers Unlikely to Shake Up Market

Sony has updated its e-reader family of devices: the Reader Pocket, Reader Touch and Reader Daily. The new Readers offer touchscreen functionality based on infrared sensors that read taps made by a finger or a stylus. They are smaller and lighter, and have redesigned user interfaces ...

Intel to Bolster Mobile Ambitions With $1.4B Infineon Buy

Intel is acquiring Infineon's wireless business for US$1.4 billion -- the second major transaction for the company in as many weeks, coming on the heels of its surprising announcement that it would purchase McAfee for $7.7 billion ...

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Anything Desktop Salesforce Can Do, Mobile Salesforce Can Do Better?

Salesforce.com is a top provider of CRM software in large part because its application is intuitive and easy to use and deploy. It is interesting, therefore, that many Salesforce.com users are opting for Salesforce.com Mobile because it is even easier and more intuitive to use than the desktop version, according to the company ...

3Par Excellence: Why HP and Dell May Fight to the Finish

HP is proving relentless in its bidding war with Dell over data storage company 3Par. Within hours after Dell matched HP's offer of US$1.8 billion, or $24.30 per share, HP countered with $2 billion, or $30 per share ...

Dell Cuts In on HP at the 3Par-ty

It has been a roller-coaster week for 3Par, a company whose shares were trading at US$9.65 when Dell first tried to acquire it in mid-August, with no sign that the ride will be ending any time soon. ...

Google Adds Another Brick to Its Communications Monolith

Google has rolled out a new service that allows Gmail account holders to make voice calls to any traditional phone number from their Gmail account. It will require the installation of a voice and video plug-in, but users won't need to have a special phone number assigned to them. ...

Dell’s Aero May Crash and Burn

Another day, another new smartphone coming to market. In this case, it is Dell's Aero, a device retailing for US$99 with a two-year contract with AT&T. Features include a 5 MP camera, a 3.5-inch display, and Flash Lite support for streaming audio and video content. ...

Virgin Mobile Gets Scrappy With Unlimited, Contract-Free Data Plan

Virgin Mobile is making an aggressive move in the mobile broadband arena, going head-to-head with the likes of AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Beginning Wednesday, the carrier is offering a US$40 unlimited mobile broadband plan without a contract. Similar offerings from competitors are priced at $60 per month and usually call for a two-year contract. ...

NAB Wants Cellphones to Turn On the Radio

New generations of cellphones may be offering a feature that is a throwback to the analog age: FM radio. If they do, it will be because a controversial proposal gaining traction in Washington includes this functionality as part of the horse-trading. ...

Video Game Junkie Tells It to the Judge

A lawsuit that is moving forward in the state of Hawaii adds another dimension to the ongoing debate over Internet addiction -- while prompting more than a few cynical guffaws from tort reform advocates ...

Rudderless HP Attempts Sharp Turn With 3Par Bid

HP has made an eyebrow-raising counterbid for a data storage company that Dell is trying to acquire. Last week, Dell made a play for 3Par, offering US$1.15 billion. HP has topped that offer with its own bid of $1.6 billion -- a 33 percent premium on Dell's $18 per share bid, and a huge premium for 3Par, whose shares were trading at $9.65 before Dell made its first offer...

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SAP Mobile CRM Users Can Have Their Security and Their iPhones Too

Sybase has only recently formally entered the SAP corporate family. However, the two companies have collaborated on software integration projects for years: hence, the introduction of Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM, a native iPhone app ...

Google Begins Buttressing Its Net Neutrality Argument

After a few days of absorbing the criticism of its joint proposal with Verizon, Google -- a company that was once counted as a stalwart in the push for Net neutrality -- is defending itself ...

Dell’s Streak May Stall at the Starting Gate

Dell's latest product, the Streak, will make its U.S. debut on Friday, with consumers able to place pre-orders for the device starting Thursday. ...

Google, Verizon Plan Could Create Internet Divide

On Monday Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg proposed a far-reaching plan designed to address all the concerns the varying stakeholders have with Net neutrality. Twenty-four hours later, it is clear that at least some of those stakeholders -- particularly advocates for Net neutrality, a group Google once seemed to lead -- are dismayed by the proposal.

SAP Will Fight Oracle’s ‘Billions and Billions’ Damages Claim

Oracle's 3-year-old lawsuit filed against the now defunct third-party software service provider TomorrowNow alleging "massive theft" appears to be heading for resolution with owner SAP admitting liability ...

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Zoho CRM for BlackBerry: Bread and Butter

Zoho is poised, possibly this week, to take its BlackBerry CRM app out of private beta and make it generally available. It will be followed in the coming weeks by an iPhone app, which is in development now, Raju Vegesna, evangelist for Zoho, told CRM Buyer. ...

Workplace Gibes Propel Google Ageism Case Forward

A former employee's age-discrimination lawsuit against Google can proceed now that the California Supreme Court has cleared the way for "stray remarks" made by his colleagues to be included as evidence. ...

Google, Verizon Deny Net Neutrality Backroom Deal

Conflicting reports are circulating about whether Google and Verizon -- once bitter enemies on the subject of Net neutrality -- have come to an agreement on how network operators should manage Web traffic ...

FTC Deal Pulls Intel Mostly Out of the Antitrust Swamp

The Federal Trade Commission and Intel are settling charges of anticompetitive behavior the government agency has levied against the chipmaker. Intel, which hasn't admitted to any wrongdoing, has agreed to make several concessions to settle the charges, which the FTC brought forward in a lawsuit last December. ...

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