The Vodaphone group has launched the Palm Treo 500v in Europe, offering what amounts to a revamped version of the company’s Treo 550v smartphone, only with a revised user interface and a price tag a mere fraction of its predecessor. Prices will vary by region, but in Germany the Treo 500v will start at around €30; in comparison, pricing for the Treo 550v sold for over €500 when it was launched in Europe.
Vodaphone has a three-month exclusive on the Treo 500v, after which the handset will be available to other retailers and operators in Europe and Asia;, however, there are no plans to launch the Treo 500v in the North American market. Palm is planni

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Vodaphone Launches Palm Treo 500v in Europe

There’s new evidence Microsoft’s hardware group has been working hard, since the company has just taken the wraps off three new notebook mice—all wireless and one with 1 GB of built-in flash memory—and two new LifCams designed to enable video sharing capabilities.

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Microsoft Unveils Notebook Mice, LifeCams

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It was just a couple days ago that Apple announced it had sold more than 1 million iPhones, and iPhoneSimFree went on sale as the only software-only unlocking solution for unhitching the iPhone from AT&T’s mobile network so the device could (with some limitations) be used on any GSM mobile network. Now, there may not be any reason to pay money to unlock the iPhone: a free, open source iPhone unlocking solution dubbed iUnlock has appearred on the Internet from the so-called iPhone Dev team, and the developers are busily wrapping a graphic interface around it for the benef

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iPhone Unlocking Goes Open Source

Posted by Sadeesh Duraisamy, Software Engineer, and Alok Goel, Business Product Manager

With the start of the Twenty20 world championship, cricket fever is upon legions of enthusiasts. To make it easier for you to indulge your interest in a game John Fowles characterized as “chess made flesh,” we’ve simplified your search for cricket scores. Just type [cricket] in a Google search box and you’ll see a brief score of all the current cricket matches. A single click will also give you access to a detailed cricket score card.

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Get your cricket scores here

Posted by Kirsten Olsen, Project Manager, Google.org

Today, Google.org has issued a request for proposals to the tune of $10 million in order to advance sustainable transportation solutions. We’re inviting entrepreneurs and companies to show us their best ideas on how they can contribute to this important cause. We need catalytic investments to support technologies, products and services that are critical to accelerating plug-in vehicle commercialization.

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A new Google.org RFP

A new British study has failed to eliminate the possibility of a link between mobile phone usage and an increased long-term risk of cancer.

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Cell Phone Cancer Link Still Possible

You might well remember the corporate telecom monolith of old that was AT&T. Look at the company’s new ad campaign that begins this week and you might well wonder at the erasure of that history. AT&T has a sleek new image.
 
Today, according to the hype, "AT&T is now a mobility-centric company capable of meeting the needs of today’s mobile lifestyles."
 
A lot of this has to do with the iPhone, of course, since AT&T is the exclusive US network for the Apple handset. And with one million iPhones sold in just 74 days, the demand is there.

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AT&T Pushes Its New Image

If buying a new desktop is anything like buying a new car, then Lenovo hopes you’ll look at their new desktop a bit like a Toyota Yaris. It’s humble, yes, but also affordable, energy efficient, and small enough to fit anywhere.
The  main focus with the ThinkCentre A61e seems to be its green image. Lenovo went above and beyond the EPA’s Energy Star 4.0 certification criteria with an 85 percent efficient power supply, and claims the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor uses

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Lenovo Launches Solar-Powered Desktop

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