News from ZDNet | | | Nokia and Microsoft announce Windows Phone partnership Ahead of the press event today, Nokia and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance to build a new ecosystem - around Windows Phone. Read more | | What Nokia's Windows move means for Open Source Many of Nokia's open-source partners aren't happy with its new buddy-buddy friendship with Microsoft, but they plan on making the best of it. Read more | | Nokia jumps from one burning platform to another with Windows Phone 7 Nokia makes its last strategic mistake and moves to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. Read more | | What will the Nokia deal mean for Microsoft's other phone-maker partners? What does a multi-partner ecosystem look like when not all participants are deemed equal? We're about to find out in the Windows Phone world. Read more | | Intel to begin shipping updated Sandy Point chipsets Feb 14th On Monday (February 14th) Intel will begin shipping updated B3 stepping Cougar Point chipsets to fix the Sandy Bridge flaw announced a few weeks ago. Read more | | Google's two-factor authentication: nice idea, but unwieldy Google's new two-factor authentication scheme is a huge improvement in terms of account security in the public Cloud. But I can't use it for regular day to day use. Read more | | ViewSonic debuts V350 smartphone, ViewPad 10 Pro tablet Mobile World Congress is barely getting started in Barcelona today, but ViewSonic is already unveiling its new V350 smartphone and a ViewPad 10 Pro tablet. Read more | | BlackBerry PlayBook will reportedly support Google Android apps Well, this is a bit of a surprise. RIM is reportedly working to ensure that the BlackBerry PlayBook can support some apps from the Google Android platform. Read more | | First legal shots fired at Google's VP8 codec Google wants to make its VP8 video codec a patent-free standard. The competition just threw down the first big challenge to that strategy. MPEG-LA, lhe group that manages the licensing of patents... Read more | | Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 rumored to be 10-inch, misses the mark The Galaxy Tab 2 is expected to be an updated version of the Tab running Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, on a bigger slate form with a 10-inch screen. I'm afraid a 10-inch Galaxy Tab is a mistake, as... Read more | | Rumor: Samsung will unveil Galaxy Tab 2 with Honeycomb at MWC Samsung's first stab at a tablet, the Galaxy Tab, might have had its ups and downs over the last few months, but we could be seeing the successor sooner than we expected.According to Pocket-lint... Read more | | LG VL600 LTE modem finally gets some Mac love Verizon released a Mac driver for the screaming-fast LG VL600 LTE modem. This means that Mac users now have two 4G modems to choose from, both are faster than my Comcast connection. Read more | | Two great iPhone 4 upgrades: iWrap and ThinSkin I'm pretty rough on my pocket-sized devices and have to protect them from day one. The first two things that I added to my Verizon iPhone 4 were an iWrap and a ThinSkin. Read more | | The Future Of... Credit Cards [video] They're a modern-day must. Anyone who's ever forgotten their credit card at home or worse, lost it, knows exactly how crucial that piece of plastic truly is. With rampant fraud and ID theft... Read more |
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