The Nokia E90 Communicator is the latest in a long line of communicator devices, and it is the replacement for the Nokia 9500 which was announced three years ago. One of the weaknesses of the 9500 and the 9300 and 9300i devices derived from it was a lack of 3G support, and the E90 now adds that. The Nokia E90 Communicator is based on the S60 platform which is currently amongst the leading smartphone platforms in ...

AFP - Apple's all-in-one cell phone, music player and digital organizer set the tech world buzzing anew Thursday after the iPod maker agreed to joint custody of the "iPhone" trademark with Cisco Systems.

AP - The two movie disc formats that are competing to replace the DVD have had a rocky start, with clunky first-generation players and an audience that's been reluctant to buy them for fear of betting on the losing side.

AP - Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have agreed to ...

InfoWorld - The new team of leaders at Dell is weighing a request to give customers the option to purchase PCs with the Linux OS, instead of the default Windows, after thousands of users voted for that idea on a company blog.

Reuters - Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs said on Thursday that talks with Nokia (NOK1V.HE) on renewing a technology license may be helped by AT&T Inc.'s ...

Filed under: Multimedia, Misc Benefon is rolling out a trio of new GPS-enabled mobiles for its 2007 product portfolio. As always, the trade names it assigns are just so cute: The TWIG Talisman, Totem and Monolith. That almost sounds like a fourth Lord of the Rings flick. Anyway, this triumvirate of WM6 Smartphones geared towards the navigation junkie should delight many looking for a newer WM6 device with out-of-the-box GPS integration ...

Filed under: Multimedia, Palm, Windows MobileDepending on the model and the manufacturer, getting A2DP enabled on your Windows Mobile 5 device has been tricky at best, nigh impossible at worst -- despite the fact that the platform itself fully supports it. Thankfully, dedicated hacker communities have rallied around most of the devices out there, and the Treo 700w and 700wx are the latest devices to have their iron curtains ...

PC Magazine - Sure, Microsoft can happily pound its chest and announce far and wide that they've outsold PlayStation 3 yet again (as they did this morning), but the most important factoid that came out of January's sales numbers is that Nintendo pounced them both.

Filed under: MiscIt's painfully obvious just how tight cellular providers have control over how their networks are used, which features are enabled, and what handsets are locked, but Skype is hoping to chip away a bit more at the mighty provider stranglehold by suggesting that wireless networks be made to carry Skype calls. In a recent petition to the FCC, Skype is purportedly "asking regulators to force cellphone carriers to loosen their ...