Where in the world is Santa Claus? That’s a question millions of children ask on Christmas Eve.
On the big night, the answer will be only a toll-free call away. Verizon Business again is teaming with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to provide a special free hotline for children …

Sprint Nextel Corporation and Virgin Mobile USA, Inc., today announced that they have completed their previously announced merger transaction. The acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA strengthens Sprint’s position in the growing prepaid segment by bringing together the iconic Virgin Mobile brand with Sprint’s successful Boost Mobile business.
Earlier today, Virgin Mobile USA stockholders approved the transaction with Sprint. With this approval, all closing conditions for the …

Discover today announced the launch of a Discover App for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. The app will allow cardmembers to manage their accounts directly from their iPhone or iPod Touch.

Once the app is opened, Discover.com registered users can login by entering their user ID and password. The login page also provides users with the ability to contact customer service, learn more about Discover or connect with Discover …

Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate. Wind River is a leading software vendor in embedded devices, and will become part of Intel’s strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional …

Nokia has completed its acquisition of bit-side GmbH, a privately owned Berlin-based professional services and software company with 39 employees. The deal was initially announced on January 27, 2009.

By acquiring bit-side Nokia will strengthen and accelerate its mobile development for Nokia Maps.

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Motorola, Inc. fourth-quarter results are scheduled to be issued at approximately 6:00 a.m. Central Time (USA) on Tuesday, 3 February. Motorola will host its quarterly conference call with financial analysts following the earnings release at 7:00 a.m. Central Time (USA) on 3 February. The conference call will be webcast live with audio and slides at www.motorola.com/investor.

A replay of the conference call will be available over the Internet at …

Nokia and bit-side GmbH today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of bit-side. Bit-side is a privately owned Berlin-based professional services and software company with 39 employees. By acquiring bit-side Nokia will strengthen and accelerate its mobile development for Nokia Maps.

“Acquiring bit-side enables Nokia to offer consumers the world-leading mobile location applications, such as Maps, along with routing and navigation at an accelerated …

Notice is given to the shareholders of Nokia Corporation (the “Company”) to the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at Helsinki Fair Centre, Amfi Hall, Messuaukio 1, Helsinki, Finland. The reception of persons who have registered for the Meeting will commence at 2:00 p.m.
A. Matters on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting, the following matters …

D-Link, a worldwide leading network solutions provider for consumers and business, today unveiled a new Internet-based surveillance product line — the network video recorders (NVR) — designed with advanced features and compact size to meet the camera monitoring needs of consumers, small office/home office (SOHO) users and small-to-medium businesses.

Debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show, which runs through Sunday here, the DNS-722-4 and DNS-726-4 are based on D-Link’s proven 2-bay network attached …

Combined Resources Produce a Complete AVC-Connected DTV Platform and a Turnkey CARD Reference Platform to be Showcased at 2009 International CES DTV Technology Synergies Enable Accelerated Expansion of Leading DTV Solutions for Next Generation TV Platforms

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its integration of AMD’s digital television (DTV) business has enabled it to rapidly extend its product lines and turnkey …

Samsung today announces a raft of major deals in the hotel industry, marking the end of a highly successful 12 month launch period in which it has seized 20 per cent market share.

Samsung has partnered with Europe’s top hotel systems integrators, Acentic, Locatel and Quadriga, to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for entertainment and revenue generation via hotel TVs. Prestigious European hotel groups which have already installed Samsung include, De Vere, …

AT&T and Firethorn Holdings announced the availability of their market-leading mobile banking application for iPhone.

Mobile Banking on AT&T lets users securely and efficiently manage their finances, including checking balances and transaction history, transferring funds, receiving offers, viewing and paying bills, and tracking rewards points.

The service is now available for all Firethorn financial institution partners, including America First Credit Union, Arvest Bank, BancorpSouth, Carolina First, FirstBank, Mercantile Bank, SunTrust, Synovus, USAA …

The S1V30080 melody/voice chip features a 5-channel melody synthesizer function capable of simultaneous playback of five-octave melodies on five channels. The chip is also equipped with built-in voice ROM (approx. 30 sec. for 8 kHz sampling and 15 sec. for 16 kHz sampling) capable of two-channel playback. The melody synthesizer function and the function for reading data from the built-in ROM are completely independent, making it possible to mix both …

Steve Jobs is a really nice person, charismatic, open, creative and 2 thousands adjetives, but I really really like to see him behaves like Steve Ballmer, yes, please believe me and I’m not talking about the Monkey Dance moment, I would like to see Jobs fights Microsoft the Microsoft way, I would like Jobs to cuts the oxygen to rivals and more.

With the amount of cash piling around Apple could …

Every quarter when Apple reports its earning numbers and when we all think that the stock price will be upgraded based on its recent quarter sales, analysts consensus and estimations drag down the price based on Apple guidance for the next quarter.

Apple always gives lower guidance for the next quarter and this is the opportunity Wall St analysts are always looking to put Apple stock price to its lower, but …

AT&T managed to leak its plans for the winter season and it looks like no Bold is coming soon. RIM’s phone should finally hit the U.S. market later this year but we don’t have any official dates yet. Besides the BlackBerry which looks like it will never arrive, we have the following phones:

Pantech Matrix: $80 after MIR
Samsung Propel:$80 after MIR
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The debut version of FileMaker’s Bento () offered users an interesting product, but reviewers and users complained about the program’s limitations. FileMaker listened to that feedback, as the newly released consumer-oriented database application boasts a number of significant improvements, including better data import and export, enhancements to the spreadsheet-like table view, on-the-fly customization of forms, and the ability to share libraries. In short, Bento 2 is a much more mature product. …

OpenOffice.org released their OpenOffice 3.0 in native form for the Macintosh for the first time, now it is faster and takes advantages of Apple’s technology. The new Office Suite 3.0 runs on intel macs while non-intel mac runs the 2.41 version still available.

OpenOffice is a free upgrade and can be downloaded from www.openoffice.org, it is a 168 mb file and offers everything for your business and personal use, from …

There is a new business application at the AppStore that is transforming the way with exchange our business information with clients, it is Nameo, Nameo is a virtual business card exchanger for the iPhone. It will allow you to exchange your business card in one click with any iPhone user who also installed Nameo.

Nameo will eliminates the need for hanging around with dozen of business cards, it can capture or …

IBC Bank has added the iPhone to the list of mobile devices that can provide access to its IBC Mobile Platform. The iPhone is now at the same level of reliability on mobile banking as the Blackberry or others previous certified devices.

The IBC Bank application needed to reach the banking services can be downloaded from the AppStore free of charge, it provides realtime access to their savings, loan accounts …