Debt ratings agency, Fitch says that its 2009 Rating Outlook for the semiconductor industry is negative due to a meaningfully weaker macroeconomic environment, resulting in lower revenues for all semiconductor markets and, in particular, PCs and mobile handsets, which represent nearly 60% of global semiconductor consumption.

SoftMaker Office is an absolute favorite of mine so I wanted to give you a quick reminder that SoftMaker’s Black Friday/Saturday/Sunday sale ends today. For the rest of this Sunday, you can still purchase all SoftMaker products with a 20% discount. Find out more:    Technorati Tags: SoftMaker,Office 2008,Pocket PC phone,software

Found under: Nokia, Maemo, Linux, Android, Google, Open Source, Nokia doesnt seem too worrisome when it comes to Google and their Android platform in fact they are planning to tackle Android head on with Maemo Linux. Remember the Nokia Internet Tablets Those Ultra Mobile PCs that are small compact with a 4 inch screen of pure lust and beauty and at the heart of it all is the Linux OS Maemo. The Ta...

Let's not forget about Windows Mobile and Pocket PCs

Only the other day, I mentioned that the European Union's interventions in areas of technology should be restricted to consumer and competition issues, as it patently doesn't understand the subtleties of computing and communications. The Register has a great example of European inadequacies and worrying authoritarianism. State authorities installing trojans on peoples' PCs to enable...

Lenovo is a company popular mostly for its laptops and PCs, but many of you are probably not aware that it also manufactures mobile phones. It's true that success in this field has been quite limited, but things are now seemingly starting to move in the right direction. This comes after Lenovo, which operates on the...

OFFLOAD This year has been all about mobile broadband revenue and traffic growth. Dongles, iPhones, embedded PCs, Android, consumer BlackBerries, Nokia E/N series. But there is a mismatch. While operator data revenues might have risen 50% or 100%, 3G traffic has gone up by 500% or 1000%. Until now this has, largely, been absorbing existing 3G/HSDPA capacity that has been lying dormant up since ori...

Nokia's latest applications bridge handsets with PCs thanks to two new services for mapping and messaging, available now on select Nokia handsets; users in the UAE can now also access Nokia Music Store. Read the full story here.

Blockbuster Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to offer new mobile services that will let customers watch more movies on more devices. This service will user new software platform from Microsoft called “Live Mesh”, which uses Internet connections to share data among different devices. Folks with multiple PCs can already use Live Mesh to do some basic things,

Rating: Free text service uses advertising platform to raise awareness among South Africa’s youth market MXit is a mobile social networker based around ad-funded free texts from PCs and mobile phones. This christmas its 10 million strong consumer base (mostly 16 - 25 year old South Africans) will be blitzed with an AIDS awareness campaign organised ...