Samsung and Sony Ericsson have just launched a completely new smartphones.
Samsung has stepped up its smartphone war against newer competitors like Apple by unveiling a completely new mobile phone platform, while Sony Ericsson is betting on Google’s Android to pull it into the future.

The companies launched a range of slick new smartphone models on the eve of the world’s biggest annual gathering for the mobile phone industry, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

With so many different mobile platforms now vying for attention and handsets looking increasingly similar, analysts believe the victor will be the one that woos the most developers and boasts the most apps.
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This is a good news. If you got diabetes, you know what I am talking about: diabetes is the most common and yet almost incurable desease. Once you got diabetes, you’ll keep it for the rest of your life. As mentioned, this finding is a step forward, not the final result. But it’s really a good step forward. I wish I could see in my lifetime that the diabetes can be cured totally.
Scientists in Cambridge have shown that an “artificial pancreas” can be used to regulate blood sugar in children with Type 1 diabetes.

A trial found that combining a “real time” sensor measuring glucose levels with a pump that delivers insulin can boost overnight blood sugar control.

The Lancet study showed the device significantly cut the risk of blood sugar levels dropping dangerously low.

Experts said the results were an important “step forward”.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic, life threatening condition, in which the pancreas does not produce insulin – the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels.

Another good news from Kindle’s Amazon especially for developers.
Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Thursday announced that it will release a software development kit to allow third-party developers to create applications for its Kindle e-book reader device.

The Kindle Development Kit will be offered in limited beta beginning next month.

The company said that developer Handmark is building a Zagat guide application for the Kindle, while Sonic Boom is building word games and puzzles; Electronic Arts is also developing games for the Kindle.

BillShrink.com compares the new Nexus One to the iPhone

PCWORLD has a Q & A about Google Nexus one:

How fast is Google’s Nexus One?

In a nutshell: pretty darn fast. The Nexus One runs on a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The Motorola Droid, for comparison, has a 550-MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor; the iPhone 3GS runs on a 600-MHz chip. The Nexus One also has twice the RAM of the Droid or the iPhone, with 512 MB on-board. More

A mobile phone named or produced by Google? No kidding. Having succeeded being the king of internet, Google might be tempted to go outside its terroritory: a non-internet world. This is the rumor among technos:
The apparent plan of Google Inc. (GOOG) to produce a mobile phone under its own brand has unsettled the wireless industry, but the Web giant won’t find it easy to replicate the same success it’s achieved on the Internet.

Last weekend, the company issued Google-branded phones to some employees, fueling reports it will sell its own handset directly to consumers by early next year. Yet Google has been cryptic about its wireless strategy and its motives remain shrouded.

Until now, Google has focused on developing Android, its own mobile software platform for wireless phones, and licensing it for free to handset makers such as Motorola Inc. (MOT), Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNHY, 005930.SE) and HTC Corp. (2498.TW). Just as recently as last month, a senior executive insisted Google had no plans to compete with its handset partners by making its own phone.

Many industry analysts think Google should stick to that pledge. By producing its own phone and selling it directly, Google could alienate handset partners and actually harm its main goal of getting the company’s software onto more mobile devices.

This is good. Competition triggers the best out of you. It will certainly arrive in Indonesia in the near future. via AP
Microsoft Corp. is releasing an updated version of its mapping service with street-level views and new “apps” that tack on tweets, traffic and other location-specific data.

The new version of Bing Maps, released Wednesday in a “beta” test mode, offers slicker technology so users can zoom in more smoothly from the high-up graphical map to the close-up views showing actual streets from a pedestrian or driver’s viewpoint.

With this version of Bing Maps, Microsoft matches Google Inc. in sending cars with cameras down streets to capture images of every block. Microsoft is offering that in 56 U.S. cities for now, while Google has hit all 50 states and expanded the feature overseas.

Microsoft also used lasers to scan the buildings and constructed a three-dimensional map of those cities.

Google Inc., stepping up its push to sell more advertising on cellphones, said Monday it will purchase mobile advertising start-up AdMob Inc. for $750 million in stock.

The purchase—one of Google’s largest deals—underscores how the search giant is trying to get more creative to extend its dominance in Internet advertising to mobile phones. Via WSJ