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When it comes to the iPhone, large entertainment companies are sitting on the sidelines. NBC Universal ( NYSE: GE ) can't justify investing in one platform, but instead is putting equal time and investment across the board at this point, Salil Dalvi, NBCU's GM of wireless, told mocoNews. He's not yet convinced there's a huge advantage of building on-device applications for the iPhone's updated operating system. "We didn't feel that we had to be there on day one … One of the real surprises from my perspective is it just really changes how we approach the market," Dalvi said. "We're taking a look at it. We haven't ruled it in or ruled it out at this point … Do we get 80 percent of what the benefit is just by offering a highly-optimized experience on a web site?" For games, there's a clear benefit, but for large entertainment companies that consider video their bread and butter the economic model around iPhone applications is still unknown. For the time being, NBCU's more immediate focus is on building up its ad-supported efforts for the mobile web, regardless of which device or platform brings users there. Video consumption is growing for NBCU on all smartphone platforms, something that was recently still considered a niche target market for the company. "Smartphone usage in general is representing a larger share of our traffic than I expected," Dalvi said. Despite the shorter reach and scale of the more capable devices, he said NBCU has also made tweaks to its mobile web sites to make use of certain features on devices than run operating systems from BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and the iPhone. Our mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go here to download .

I mentioned a while back how depressing Starbucks stores have become since the coffee giant has announced they were closing 600 stores soon. The employees I have been interfacing with have not been as chipper as in the past, no doubt with worry playing a factor since Starbucks had not...

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Main characters: 1,super-hot combination:TV +dual sim dual standby dual bluetooth 2,3 times optical zoom,flashlight, 3,1000 messages storage and NES game simulator. Operating Frequency: GSM Network Frequency: 900/1800MHz SIZE(L×W×H): 115*55*20mm Weight/package: 140G Color: black with silver edge Talk time: 280-400m Style: Bar Standby time: 280-380h Key words:dual sim dual standby dual bluetooth dual TF card,NES,dual camera,2.0MP,TV PHONE,online stock Features Mail to administartor totally messages Additional features Language: Chinese (Simplified)/English/some other languages according to the quantity LCD Size: 3.0 inch, 16000 thousand color; PX: 240×320px Ringtone: 64 chord; Ringtone format: mp3, midi Music: play mp3 at background; support equalizer Video: 3GP,MP4,support to play in full screen, speed/pause FM radio: FM stereo, can play outside directly without earphone Camera: 8.0 megapixel; dual camera，The max output of photo is 1600*1200，video is 320*240,auto focus,3 times optical zoom, support to shoot with sound, the time depends on storage Rom: 36MB/512MB dual-TF memory card lot extended,suppor, Document management Data Transfer: directly read with data wire/U disc/ Bluetooth (file transmission, voice, stereo) Standby Photo: jpg, gif Game Platform: NES emulator with over 2000 games Main features Telephone directories: 500 groups ,different ringtone for groups,incoming call with big head sticker SMS & MMS: 1000 messages, MMS Schedule power on/off: support auto start/close, can set user-defined photo of start/close Alarm clock: 5 groups,support alsrm clock,,MP3 as ringtone,can set from Monday to Sunday at random Games: 2 common games ,NES game simulator,support to download more than 2000 JAVA games from Tiantang More information: MP3/MP4/Handsfree/SMS group sending/Voice recorder/WAP/Handwritten input/Handwritten + keyboard input/Radio/Bluetooth/GPRS download/MMS/Memory extended/E-book/Coming call firewall/dual sim dual standby dual bluetooth/online stock/incoming call inquiring/IP dialing/calendar/alarm clock/calculator/remit converter/stopwatch/world time/memo/schedule/TV phone/dual TF card extension/dual camera/2.0MP/flashlights/auto focus/1000 message s

The folks over at Just Another Mobile Phone blog have somehow managed to get the first screenshot of the long awaited 5th edition of the Symbian S60 platform that is also know as S60 touch UI but the revelation is not as exciting as it is supposed to be, unfortunately! It's kind of hard to say something cleaver about upcoming touch UI that hasn't been said before and make an interesting story based on the single screenshot which is by the way obviously taken out of the S60 5th edition SDK emulator not from the real device! The UI core basically remains the same and it looks like the classic S60 FP2 UI with slightly redesigned interface to make it optimized for both finger or stylus optimized input. In a matter of fact, judging by the leaked screenshot the main chan.. .. . Read more: Nokia S60 Touch UI Screenshot (VGA) Leaked- full story

The Armani GC629 signed with the name of famous NBA star Chamberlain bring us a GSM/CDMA both online dual standby dual bluetooth phone at last.Golden face,leather cae,a key to lock,incoming call show and touch shaking are all outstanding features. Operating Frequency: GSM,CDMA1X Network Frequency: 900/1800MHz SIZE(L×W×H): 89*55*16MM Weight/package: 100G Color: golden Talk time: 200-450m Style: Bar Standby time: 220-450h Key words:dual net dual standby dual bluetooth,NBA, incoming call show，Earl W629 Features Mail to administartor totally messages Additional features Language: Chinese (Simplified)/English/some other languages according to the quantity LCD Size: 2.7 inch, 260 thousand color; PX: 240×320px Ringtone: 72 chord; Ringtone format: mp3, midi, wav, amr Music: play mp3 at background，speed and pause, support equalizer,lyric show,3D shocking effect Video: 3GP,MP4,support to play in full screen, speed/pause Camera: 3.0 megapixel; 3.0MP，support to shoot with sound,the time depends on the storage Rom: 194K/256MB support to extend TF card to 2G maxim, Document management Data Transfer: directly read with data wire/U disc/ Bluetooth (file transmission, voice, stereo) Standby Photo: jpg, gif Main features Telephone directories: 500 groups ,different ringtone for groups,incoming call with big head sticker SMS & MMS: 150 messages, MMS Schedule power on/off: support auto start/close, can set MP4 as the photo of start/close Alarm clock: 5 groups,support alsrm clock,can set from Monday to Sunday at random Games: 2 common games More information: MP3/MP4/Handsfree/SMS group sending/Voice recorder/WAP/Handwritten input/Bluetooth/GPRS download/MMS/Memory extended/Coming call firewall/incoming call show/calculator/unit converter/memo/health management/dual net/recorder。。。。