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1. Africa: Worldwide Mobile Phones Reach Four Billion 2008 (AllAfrica.com)
   Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:04:49 GMT International Telecommunication Union (ITU)Secretary-General Hamadoun TourÈ announced in New York at the weekend that worldwide mobile cellular subscribers are likely to reach the four billion mark before the end of this year. This represents about one mobile phone to two persons.



2. Webcast shows "adaptive" apps for Windows Mobile (WindowsForDevices)
   Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:08:03 GMT — Sep. 26, 2008 — Microsoft is offering the latest in a series of webcasts devoted to Windows Mobile 6.1 software development. The webcast, "24 hours of Windows Mobile application development: creating adaptive applications for Windows Mobile devices," is viewable on demand now, the company says.



3. Windows Mobile chat tomorrow (WindowsForDevices)
   Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:23:06 GMT — Sep. 29, 2008 — Microsoft has scheduled another of its "live chats" devoted to Windows CE and Windows Mobile.



4. Rogers Swipes Nokia E71 Smartphone from Fido (MobileMag)
   Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:23:10 GMT I was actually getting pretty excited about this. While the Windows Mobile thing hasn't been the biggest success for the dog, I was glad that Fido was moving toward the smartphone market. I don't think I could ever go back to "dumb" phones again.



5. Microsoft pulls plug on mobile browsing experiment (WindowsForDevices)
   Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:38:05 GMT — Sep. 26, 2008 — In its effort to provide better web browsing on Windows Mobile devices, Microsoft might have lost a battle, but has won the war. That's what the company seems to be saying as it pulls the plug on Deepfish, a experimental web browser from Microsoft Live Labs. ...



6. 'We need slaves to build monuments' (Guardian Unlimited)
   Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:24:39 GMT It is already home to the world's glitziest buildings, man-made islands and mega-malls - now Dubai plans to build the tallest tower. But behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation.



7. AMD splits into design, chipmaking firms (MacNN)
   Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:08:08 GMT AMD this morning took a radical step to improve its fortunes by launching into its promised split into two separate companies. The plan will see AMD break off its semiconductor manufacturing business into a separate company, for now known as the The Foundry Company, and will result in the new company both assuming about $1.2 billion of AMD's debt and the Abu Dhabi-based firm Advanced Technology ...



8. iPhone 3G now 17% of US smartphone market (MacNN)
   Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:38:08 GMT The iPhone 3G's launch propelled Apple to the top of the US smartphone market in the summer and near the peak of the smartphone ranks in the US, according to NPD Group data. The phone outsold the BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl and Palm Centro in the June through August window and used the spike generated by the launch to give all iPhones about 17 percent of the US smartphone business from ...



9. EPIC SBC targets graphics-intensive apps (WindowsForDevices)
   Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:38:01 GMT — Sep. 29, 2008 — Axiomtek is shipping an EPIC format single-board computer (SBC) for digital signage, digital video recorder (DVR), point-of-sale (POS), and gaming applications.



10. x86 SBCs run Windows XP Embedded (WindowsForDevices)
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:53:17 GMT — Sep. 29, 2008 — Sanyan is shipping an Intel-based ATX motherboard and an AMD-based single-board computer (SBC), both of which run Windows XP Embedded. The T601 ATX board has a Core 2 Duo clocked to 1.6GHz, and the T502 SBC offers an AMD Geode LX clocked to 500MHz, says Sanyan. ...