Garmin, provider of satellite navigation gadgets, introduces the new nuvi 860, the first portable navigation device with full menu speech recognition and an impressive array of other features ranging from safety camera alerts and emergency location assistance to hands free calling and photo navigation with Google Panoramio.

Clive Taylor, Garmin’s Director of Product said, “Garmin’s nuvi 860 uses full menu speech control to make driving safer and easier. It’s now possible to keep both hands on the wheel and tell the nuvi 860 what to do and where to go. Simple shortcut phrases like ‘go home’ will automatically take you straight to the map screen and route you to your home in a matter of seconds.”
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If you are planning on purchasing a GTX 260 or 280 card, you may want to delay until next Monday. Price cuts are on the way, says TGDaily. AMD’s ATI Radeon 4800 GPU has turned out to be a much better chip than initially expected and AMD’s aggressive pricing puts enough pressure on Nvidia to prompt the company to react. AMD has received praise from the press for its ATI Radeon 4800 series, causing Nvidia partners to demand price adjustments. We were told that Nvidia finally stepped down from its pedestal and agreed to offer limited price protection for some products as well as price cuts.
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Mobile social networking represents an opportunity to drive mobile Internet usage to levels comparable with online Internet use. However, social network sites, marketers, mobile carriers and mobile content providers must overcome enormous challenges first. The Mobile Social Networks report analyzes the enormous opportunities and challenges presented by this new marketing channel.
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Intel and Samsung– two companies that supply a lot of chips to the computer industry– remain the top semiconductor suppliers, but chip-makers that supply to cell phone makers are moving up in the ranking. “A couple companies that showed some of the strongest growth last year and in the first quarter were Qualcomm and Broadcom in terms of percentage growth,” says Brian Matas, vice president of research for IC Insights in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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IDC says in a report titled “Document Management Solutions: What End Users Want”, that perspectives of document management are still a dream, altrough usage of such solutions increased in the last years.
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Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions, and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled “Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing.”  
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Apple has quietly reduced the price of the flash-memory version of the MacBook Air by $500.

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Japan’s Softbank today said it will close down its 2G network by the end of March 2010 in an effort to focus on 3G services, reports Dow Jones Newswires. Although the smallest of the country’s three major mobile operators with approximately 19 million subscribers according to Wireless Intelligence, Softbank is one of Japan’s fastest growing operators, with a total year-on-year connection growth rate of 16.25 percent.
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Vodafone has bought a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecom, Ghana’s fixed-line incumbent operator and third-placed mobile player, for US$900 million, the company said in a statement this morning. The deal values the operator at approximately US$1.3 billion.
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As Europe’s mobile firms hit the EU’s deadline yesterday to cut the cost of sending an SMS from abroad, mobile instant messaging company Palringo has urged people to kick the texting habit and move on to more flexible, more natural and cheaper ways to stay in touch while abroad. “There are simply smarter alternatives,” argues 23 year old Martin Rosinski, Palringo’s founder and chief technology officer.
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