Modu gets $38.5 million order from Southeast Asian phone company, signs up Telefonica

Modu gets $38.5 million order from Southeast Asian phone company, signs up Telefonica

Modular electronics, where you put a couple of things together to make a combo product, have always been a bit like Frankenstein monsters. But Israeli phone designer Modu has managed to convince a big customer that its snap-together phone design is pretty cool.

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Tech scores in stimulus bill, Sirius XM prepares bankruptcy filing, Modu stages modular phone launch

Tech scores in stimulus bill, Sirius XM prepares bankruptcy filing, Modu stages modular phone launch

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Tech industry scores funding in stimulus package – Infrastructure spending includes $7 billion for expanding high-speed internet access, some $20 billion for building a so-called smart grid power network and $20 billion for digitizing health records. The New York Times has more.

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Roundup: Search-within-search causes angst, secretive Modu raises $100M, Sun tries optical photonics & more

Roundup: Search-within-search causes angst, secretive Modu raises $100M, Sun tries optical photonics & more

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Google’s search-within-search bugs some publishers — Apparently some folks such as the Washington Post aren’t looking too kindly on a feature Google added earlier this month, which lets people search within publications like the Post directly from Google. The feature lets you search… Continue Reading