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Sharp said it plans to start making this year advanced 3D displays for cellphones and other mobile devices that don’t require special viewing glasses, betting that demand for 3D images will grow beyond movie theatres and living rooms to portable machines. Stirring demand for small-sized displays is important for Japanese LCD panel suppliers after they […]

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is doubling the size of its fund for iPhone application developers, as it eyes new opportunities with the forthcoming launch of Apple’s iPad. Kleiner Perkins said its so-called iFund investment pool now totals $200 million. The firm said the new money was not carved out […]

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) on Wednesday said quarterly profit and revenue rose but the results lagged expectations and the shares tumbled even as profit margin for its BlackBerry smartphones topped forecasts. Profit rose to $710.1 million, or $1.27 a share, in the three months ending Feb. 27, from $628.4 million, or $1.10 a share, […]

Technology distributor Avnet said it agreed to buy Bell Microproducts for $252 million in cash to expand its storage business and its presence in the Latin American market. Avnet (NYSE: AVT), which had cash and cash equivalents of $894.9 million at the end of its second quarter, will pay Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ: BELM) $7 per […]

Using Wi-Fi to access the Internet on mobile handsets is rapidly emerging as an alternative to phone networks as customers look for ways to save money and carriers grapple with the issue of network congestion. A Wi-Fi connection offers better indoor reception, faster download speeds and quality streaming compared with a normal phone network. And […]

At CTIA Las Vegas this week, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse talked a great deal about how his company sees the transition to next-generation 4G wireless playing out — and about how he plans to make money from it. For consumers and businesses, that entails a move to new models like paying for gigabytes of […]

Like all the major IT vendors, Dell is looking to booming demand in all things cloud computing to power its growth in hardware and, more recently, in the lucrative services space. This week, Dell unveiled new ways for enterprises to embrace the cloud quickly and leveraging both sides of its business. These include the Dell […]

An unemployed Frenchman has been arrested for targeting the Twitter accounts of U.S. President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears, French police said on Wednesday. Captain Adeline Champagnat, a senior member of the police cyber crimes unit, said the 25-year-old man gained access to passwords of Twitter administrators and used them to try to break […]

Red Hat this week is taking the wraps off of new updates to three of its JBoss offerings, focusing on enhancing its tools for developers, SOA, and Web servers. The move is all about upping the productivity of JBoss users, Red Hat says. JBoss Developer Studio 3.0 (JBDS), for instance, is now better suited for […]

Big news out of EclipseCon this week: Two open source runtime projects are getting a boost thanks to new ties with the EclipseRT project at the Eclipse Foundation. Gemini, the first project, is geared toward enterprise-friendly features like logging, while Virgo is centered on providing in-demand capabilities for modular, Web-based server applications. While there’s some […]

Nextel has offered phones with walkie-talkie-like functions for some time but never on an Android-based phone. That’s changing with the rollout of Motorola’s i1 phone at the CTIA show in Las Vegas, where Motorola is showing off the smartphone, complete with ruggedized features. So how will the i1 compare to other Android phones? EnterpriseMobilePlanet will […]

Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow. While it is true that clever devices like the iPhone or Android phones will boost demand for advanced wireless services such […]