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Motorola remains the top U.S. seller of mobile phones, beating LG Electronics, Samsung, RIM and Nokia, but Motorola mobile phone sales for the second quarter declined almost 11 percent decline in the U.S. from a year ago. LG Electronics, Samsung, RIM and Nokia are closing fats on Motrorla;s sales lead. RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry, cracked double figures in U.S. market share for the first time. Motorola's slim lead in mobile phone sales can be attributed to a strong distribution network and deep carrier-relationships with both GSM and CDMA markets. - The good news for Motorola: the iconic technology company is still the top seller of cell phones in the United States. The bad news: Motorola's lead is slipping fast.In the second quarter, Motorola captured almost 26 percent of the U.S. market, maintaining its longtime perch at the top of U.S. han...

Global IP Solutions revealed on Tuesday that it is bringing its GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile technology to Apple's iphone, enabling application developers to create real-time voice over IP applications for the combination iPod and smartphone. The news means that developers will be able to add voice communication features that don't rely on cell carrier networks to their applications, but they will be limited to Wi-Fi connections since companies like AT&T aren't interested in potentially losing talk time...

Oracle delivers the first new release of the WebLogic application server since the company acquired BEA Systems. New features in the combined Oracle/BEA technology, known as Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3, include support for Web 2.0 appli-cations and more. - Oracle has delivered a new release of the WebLogic application server the company acquired when it bought BEA Systems in January.The new release features enhancements for Web 2.0 development, enhanced support for the Spring Framework and other improvements, as well as being the first release to un...

As microsoft announces the release to manufacturing (RTM) of service pack releases of its Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 technology, developers weigh in saying the new enhancements make for faster, better development. The new service packs feature the .NET Framework Client Profile, ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework. - Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Aug. 11 and developers have weighed in saying the new offering enhances developers capabilities for building and delivering applications.Although Microsoft is deliver...

Featured links from the CNET Blog NetworkAMD to Nvidia: Two chips are better than one--AMD's new dual-chip graphics technology matches Nvidia at high end.NBC's Olympics. Separating the half-baked from the half-faked--NBC has been dealing with numerous criticisms on its coverage. However, the technological fakery is less powerful than the scheduling manipulation.(Re)writing the Web with ShiftSpace--Is it useful to be able to annotate web pages with ShiftSpace? Not really.First Look: Stitcher's iphone app beta--Stitcher has released a beta version of its iPhone app, which allows users to customize a radio station with various informative streams.

Based on 48-slide scanning system using SureScan high resolution technology, DNA Microarray Scanner offers resolutions of 10, 5, 3, and 2 microns, and can scan 244,000 feature microarray at maximum resolution in 20 min. Scanner can read mix of 1 x 3 in. glass slide microarrays for gene expression, aCGH, ChIP-on-chip, and miRNA applications. It is delivered as integrated platform, complete with PC, barcode reader, and image analysis software with QC reporting features.This story is related to the following:Automatic IDComputer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Image Scanners | Barcode Scanners

Models ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 32-pin tinyAVR® MCUs have 4 and 8 Kb of Flash memory, respectively. Using picoPower(TM) technology, they consume less than 240 µA at 1.8 V and 1 MHz, and less than 100 nA in power-down mode. Operating from 1.8-5.5 V, devices feature zero power brown-out detection circuitry, power reduction register, digital input disable registers, 10-bit ADC, SPI, I2C interface, internal temperature sensor, up to 12 MIPS throughput at 12 MHz, and on-chip debug system.This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Microcontrollers (MCU's)

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company's plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms. I sat down with Crosby, who joined Citrix from XenSource, where he had been chief technology officer.

dstates sends news coming out of the letters the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent to a number of broadband and Internet companies about their policies and practices on user tracking. The committee has now made public 25 responses to its queries, and many companies, including Google, acknowledge using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers. The Committee is considering legislation to require explicitly informing the consumer of the type of information being gathered and any intent to use it for a different purpose, and a right to say 'no' to the collection or use. The submitter notes that, while Google denies using deep packet inspection, if the traffic is a Google search or email to or from a Gmail account, Google does not need DPI to see the contents of the message. 'The revelations came in response to a bipartisan inquiry of how more Internet companies have gathered data on customers. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) said 'Increasingly, there are no

coondoggie writes 'Bigger, better, faster, more are the driving themes behind the advanced network monitoring technology BBN Technologies is building for the military. The high-tech firm got a $.4.4 million contract today from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel, scalable attack detection algorithms; a flexible and expandable architecture for implementing and deploying the algorithms; and an execution environment for traffic inspection and algorithm execution.The network monitoring systems is being developed under DARPA's Scalable Network Monitoring program which seeks to bolt down network security in the face of cyber attacks that have grown more subtle and sophisticated.' of this story at Slashdot.