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JLA Ventures: RIM, RBC, and Thomson

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RIM is rocking with its announcement to make a $150 million fund that will invest in companies creating software for BlackBerrys and other mobile devices. The Royal Bank of Canada and Thomson Reuters are co-investors. The BlackBerry Partners Fund will be managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners. This move from RIM smells similar to Apple's March declaration that it would set up a $100 million " iFund " for the development of iPhone and iPod Touch applications. Well, this new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further expresses the company's wish to make tools for work with fun and frolic. The Bold, or 9000, has twice the screen resolution of the current Curve model, making for a very sharp display. It matches the resolution, but not the size, of the screen on Apple's iPhone, which has emerged as a potent competitor in the "smart phone" category. It also has much more internal memory, a glossy metallic look, an...

iPhone's Global Reach

The paucity of iPhones for sale in some markets comes as Apple is hustling to meet its goal of selling 10 million of the hybrid iPod-cell phone-Internet surfing gadgets by the end of 2008. So far, Apple has sold 5.4 million iPhones, according to the latest data as of the end of March. Apple, is rapidly linking its network with the world wide wireless carriers to expand its presence across the Globe. In the Asia-Pacific region, SingTel will sell the gadget in Singapore, Bharti Airtel in India, Globe Telecom in the Philippines and Optus in Australia, SingTel has about 2.3 million mobile subscribers in Singapore and around 7 million in Australia. According to data as of Dec. 31, 2007. Bharti currently has about 64 million subscribers, while Globe reported a 21.3 million mobile subscriber base for the quarter ended March 31. Last week, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America, America Movil SAB, also announced plans to deliver the iPhone to its region. America Movil has 159.2 million...

iPhone Touch screen GPS Games

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Today, when cell phones are the best personal assistant every one carries all the time, we want this assistant to be capable of doing most of the every day tasks. What we are looking into is a hand held device easy to maneuver on the run with the capabilities of storing contacts, document viewer, emails, text messages, notes, music, mp3, board games, camera, video streaming, business card scanner, ability to write with a free hand on the screen, converting and saving it in the required format in the phone or a PC itself. To name a few models from Nokia, LG and Samsung that has most of the features that we look for in a cell phone. Despite of the best of cell phones in the market, we still come across some frustrations at various features that could have been made better? Is someone thinking about it? Something out of the box. Of course, not out of the cell phone box, but a new generation cell phone that could fill up the missing part from one cell phone to another. On the other hand it...