April 18, 2003 articles

Samsung Profits Down 41%

Apr 18 2003 - 11:37 PM ET | Samsung
Samsung's quarterly profits were down 41% according [free registration required] to the New York Times. Since they're a Korean company and are traded in Korea's exchange only, the verbiage is a little different but it looks like they still made...

Mobile Pinpointing In NYC

Apr 18 2003 - 06:40 PM ET | In The News
Wired notes that after 12 years and a cool $200 million, New York City still doesn't have a system in place to pinpoint locations of 911 calls made with mobile phones. It's not clear why the city has to raise...

TV Interaction Via Mobile Phones

Apr 18 2003 - 03:56 PM ET | SMS, Unique
C|NET is running an article about the state of "interactive TV" by way of cellular phones. It sounds like a good idea, but it's hard to imagine a cell phone being more useful for interactive TV than the PC. Most...

Samsung Intros Memory Cards

Apr 18 2003 - 02:47 PM ET | In The News, Samsung
Samsung has announced mass production of multimedia cards (MMCs) to be used in mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, and other handheld products. The cards are 128MB which sounds like a good amount of storage for a mobile phone. What's...

O'Grady Reviews P800

Apr 18 2003 - 02:22 PM ET | Bluetooth, Camera, Review, Smartphone
Mobile mogul Jason O'Grady has posted a very detailed review of his latest gadget--the Sony Ericsson P800 (seen at right). It's unique looks make it easily recognizable to most people, but it's amazing feature set makes it stick in the...

Classic Sega Games on Palm

Apr 18 2003 - 02:12 PM ET | Palm
If you're the owner of a Palm Tungsten T, you can now download the classic Sega games. There are only a few things wrong with this: 1) Only works on the Tungsten T 2) They are charging $19.95 a game...