Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections | CNET News.com: “An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year.”
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: “Symbian Limited has launched Symbian OS 9, the latest version of the world’s most popular operating system for smartphones.
It includes numerous improvements intended to bring about smaller, less expensive, and even more capable Symbian-powered smartphones.
Symbian Limited hopes to make its operating system the foremost smartphone platform for delivering music and other digital content.
For example, [...]
PalmSource Completes Acquisition of China MobileSoft - Press Release
PalmSource Completes Acquisition of China MobileSoft
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - February 3, 2005 � PalmSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSRC), provider of Palm OS�, a leading operating system powering next generation phones and mobile devices today announced the completion of its acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS). CMS is a leading Chinese [...]
Globetechnology: PDA shipments drop: “Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants declined for the third straight year, according to a new report.
Shipments of basic handheld PDAs lacking telephone capabilities shrank to 9.2 million units in 2004, down 13 per cent from 10.6 million units in 2003, the Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC said. It’s the first [...]