Sony is slashing 8,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its global electronics work force, aiming to cut costs by $1.1 billion a year as a global downturn batters profits. Sony said Tuesday it will cut the jobs from its electronics operations, which employ about 160,000 workers, by the end of March, 2010. It did not [...]

Fantastic news for all the footbal fans out there. AT&T today announced the availability of the Greatest Moment in AT&T Cotton Bowl History contest, which allows fans to vote for the best play in Cotton Bowl history. You can can vote online at http://www.attcottonbowl.com/vote, and/or if you have att wireless then you can also vote by [...]

According the Pali Research analyst Walter Piecyk (he based some of his opinions on recent discussions with Sprint’s chief financial officer, Bob Brust), the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier, Sprint Nextel Corp. will announce “significant” job cuts next month in a move to reduce “its bloated cost structure.” To add on to that Sprint Nextel could [...]

AT&T is looking to reduce the number of phone operating systems supported by its own-brand phones to just one or two platforms. Speaking at the Symbian Partner Conference, Roger Smith, director of next-generation services at AT&T, warned that Java based handsets had been problematic, mainly due to in-house management issues - and hinted that  Symbian [...]

I will make this a quick news for all of our readers. According to information from CNET, which quotes the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the specifications of the standard Bluetooth 2.2 will be ready in the middle of next year. It is designed to work with existing wireless technologies will be much faster than [...]

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Google has launched a version of the HTC Dream specifically for developers that wish to field test applications on actual hardware without relying on the SDK emulator or access to T-Mobile service. The Android Dev Phone is notable for featuring completely unlocked GSM/UMTS hardware and an unlocked bootloader with Android 1.0 for development access to [...]

Yesterday Apple published a list of most popular applications on the iPhone. The ranking is based on the number of withdrawals of applications and is divided into two parts - for free and paid programs. Among paid applications dominate games and are popular among open applications with different social networks.
Top 10 paid uses:

Koi Pond (The [...]

Users of HowardForums are confirming that the latest update to BlackBerry OS 4.5 (version ending in .77) on Verizon for the Curve and Pearl enables the internal GPS transceiver to work with BlackBerry Maps. Their test results show that the average a lock time of up to a minute for the first lock, with 30 seconds [...]

Amazon.com one again has shown its creativity and now with iphone apps. Amazon has launched an interesting application for iPhone and iPod touch whch not only offers the standered product finding service but also includes an experimental feature called “Amazon Remembers” that lets users take pics of products they might later want to buy. Even [...]