| MySpace Mobile Invades Canada via Rogers Wireless
Canadians might not be able to get their hands on some Helio action, but they are no longer left out in the cold when it comes to MySpace Mobile. Rogers Wireless has agreed an exclusive partnership with MySpace, bringing the social networking craze to Rogers Wireless cell phones. Available on "select mobile phones", MySpace Mobile gives Canadian networkers the ability to fiddle with their MySpace profiles while on the road, as well as do many of the MySpace things that they do on their computers, like posting comments and blog entries, searching for friends, responding to mail, and viewing bulletins. This deal is the first mobile partnership in Canada for MySpace. MySpace has been localized for Canadian users via the French and English-language sites. I'm personally more a fan of Facebook than MySpace, but to each their own.
Nokia says 46 million batteries may overheat
Nokia Corp. is offering to replace 46 million batteries made by another company for use in its mobile phones because of a risk of overheating, Nokia said on Tuesday. The faulty batteries were manufactured by Japan's Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. and sold in a wide range of Nokia phones, from its low-end 1100 family of products to its pricier N91 and E60 devices. .
Epson debuts new inkjet printers
Epson has added four new printers to its inkjet line-up. The $160 CX9400Fax All-In-One includes an auto document feeder for multi-page faxes and can print a 4"x6" photo in 26 seconds and claims a 32 page per minute text printing speed. Meanwhile, the $90 Stylus C120 offers a black-and-white speed of 25 pages per minute in normal mode, and 10 pages per minute in color mode. It can also print 37 black and white pages per minute in draft mode, and 20 pages per minute in color draft mode. The C120 also includes a "quiet mode," which delivers slower print speeds, but reduced volume operation. The new CX7400 is priced at $70 and includes memory card slots. It delivers up to 28 pages per minute. The CX8400, priced at $100 includes a 2.5" LCD and has a slightly higher speed (30 pages per minute) than the CX7400.
High school football preview: Hilton Head Island High School
The turnaround was sharp; the differences were drastic. The doubt, though, still lingers. "We still have probably about 50 percent of the folks think last year was a fluke," coach Tim Singleton said last week with evident thoughts of proving them wrong -- just like the previous year. The Hilton Head Island High School football team ended seasons of futility in dramatic fashion last fall, going 9-3 and advancing to the second round of the Class 3-A playoffs after winning only one game during its final two years in Class 4-A. Where previous Seahawk squads toiled in the misery of weekly poundings from larger, stronger teams, last season's bunch strung together win after win and brewed success not seen at Community Stadium this decade. But are the feel-good days here to stay? With returning starters cementing some roles and other areas gaping with holes, that's a hard question to answer.
Nokia recalls 46 million phone batteries
Nokia is offering to replace the batteries of 46 million phones following complaints of overheating. The problem concerns Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries manufactured by Matsushita, which are found in 300 million phones. These include popular handsets, such as the N71, N72 and 6230i. Nokia has said in a statement on its website that it had 100 complaints about the batch of batteries manufactured between December 2005 and November 2006.
However, Mark Squires a representative for Nokia, told Computeractive that the complaints from UK users had reached only "single figures." "The damage caused by these batteries is minimal, in the worst cases the overheating caused by the faulty batteries will cause the battery to expand, disfigure and dislodge, however it would not cause any phone damage," he said.
The Line Between Laptops and PDAs Gets Fuzzier
Fujitsu is announcing two new devices today -- an ultramobile PC with a 5.6-inch display, and an ultralight tablet/laptop PC with a 12.1-inch WXGA screen. They are nifty devices that underscore the movement in not just one market, but two, because they come just days after IDC reported that the PDA market has dropped 42% since last year. The handwriting has been on the wall for a while. Dell dropped development of its Axim line of Pocket PC devices in April. When I looked at the Palm Web site yesterday I noted with sadness that the LifeDrive has disappeared. (Was I the only person anywhere who bought one?) What's happened is obvious. PDAs are being squeezed into extinction by smartphones from one side, and UMPCs from the other. The smartphones do most of what a PDA does (if arguably not very well), and the UMPCs do something a PDA arguably can't -- they can browse the Web.
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