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.
Today, Lynk Communications is announcing it will spend $38.5 million to buy Modu phones that it will use in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries. The announcement at the Mobile World Congress… Continue Reading
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.
Sirius XM prepares bankruptcy filing – Regulators approved the merger of the two satellite radio companies to avoid this from happening. But the combined company is planning a bankruptcy filing anyway. Echostar… Continue Reading
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 for a publication on Google, for instance the Post or other sites like Wikipedia, The New York Times, and Wal-Mart, and then gives you a secondary search bar to search… Continue Reading