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Fans gather for launch of "iPhone killer" Palm PreNEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Small crowds gathered at Sprint stores on Saturday for the official launch of Palm Inc's Pre, the much-hyped smartph ...Read More »Amazon's Kindle e-books now on Apple iPhone, iPodSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc iPhone and iPod Touch users can now read books on their devices using software from Amazon.com Inc's Kindle electronic read ...Read More »Reflecting On Retailing In A Recession: 2008 In ReviewNEW YORK — This month the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared the Unites States has been dealing with a recession since December 2007. The news couldn't have come as a surprise for anyone connected to the consumer electronics industry after a tumultuous year in which they watched a housing slump, a credit crunch and a banking cri..... ...Read More »Navteq/Nokia Offer Advanced Traffic UpdatesNew York — GPS map maker Navteq is working with Nokia in a traffic program that converts Nokia cellphone users into roving traffic monitors, or “probes.” Under the pilot program in San Francisco, more than 10,000 handset owners will allow their GPS data to be tracked. The data is then aggregated to create a real-time traffic report. The data is filtered to keep it an..... ...Read More »TeleNav Enters PND Market, Targets Business TravelerSUNNYVALE, CALIF. — TeleNav, the behind-the-scenes provider of navigation services to cellphones, launched its first portable GPS device, throwing its hat in the ring of Internet-connected personal navigation devices (PNDs) just as Dash Navigation is exiting that segment (see story at right). TeleNav's PND, called the Shotgun, is available for $299 at TeleNav.com and ..... ...Read More »Retail Sales Slumped In OctoberNEW YORK — Retailers, buffeted by the roiling financial markets and sagging consumer sentiment, reported weak sales in October, with little help from CE. Among national discount chains, Wal-Mart said net sales at its flagship discount stores rose 5.3 percent to $18.4 billion in October, while same-store sales increased 2.2 percent. Eduardo Castro-Wright, the chain's U..... ...Read More »TeleNav Enters PND Market With Internet UnitSunnyvale, Calif. — TeleNav, the behind-the scenes provider of navigation service to cellphones, is launching its first portable GPS device, which also is one of the first units with an Internet connection. TeleNav’s personal navigation device (PND), called the Shotgun, will sell for $299 at www.telenav.com and may be offered to retailers in the future. TeleNav ent..... ...Read More »Dash Exits PND HardwareSunnyvale, Calif. — Dash Navigation, which launched the first two-way, Internet-connected portable GPS device, is exiting the GPS hardware market and will license its technology to automotive, smartphone and other companies instead, it said. The company also today let go of 50 employees, or 65 percent of the company work force, according to Rob Currie, who replaces Paul Lego as ..... ...Read More » |
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