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HKC has announced two new Pocket PCs, the W1000 and G1000. Both pocket PCs sport dual sim with an added hotkey for accessing stock market information. Business individuals who are always on the go would certainly find any one of these pocket PC’s useful for their needs.

Both W1000 and G1000 feature 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen with 6.5M color, 256MB ROM and 64MB RAM, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 for Pocket PC, support for SMS, MMS and EMS, and data storage can be supplemented by microSD cards.

The W1000 runs on 200MHz Qualcomm 6025 CPU while the G1000 runs on 200MHz Dragonfly CPU. One difference between the two pocket PC is that the W1000 works on GPRS, EDGE and CDMA, while the G1000 works only with GPRS and EDGE. 

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Sprint-Nextel’s stock dropped more than 9% after the company announced a $29.45 billion 4th quarter loss.The loss is being blamed on a huge write down related to the company’s merger with Nextel. The company also announced the suspension of dividend payouts and the borrowing of $2.5 billion from a revolving credit facility. Sprint-Nextel CEO Dan Hesse said the loan would allow them to focus on fixing the business and avoid the financial risk of outstanding loans.

Read [New York Times]

It looks like another web 2.0 product has emerged from the darkness, they seem to be coming out of nowhere with various different ideas and solutions for getting attention of the buzz world. You’ve all heard of fantasy football and probably more recently fantasy politics. Now there is fantasy blog share trading from BlogShares, you get fake money to trade shares of various blogs across the network. It has the entire atmosphere of a self contained little community about trading shares of blogs.

So far there doesn’t look to be a whole lot to it except the bare bones idea of holding shares of blogs and getting bloggers to register various blogs in order for them to have a large directory of blogs as well as a medium to have the top 100 blogs (and more) based on share price.

It is a pretty ingenious way to get people to register their favorite blogs though, it seems like it is mostly about marketing on the back end and on the front end gives bloggers a place to talk and live there bloginess (I coined the term blogginess, remember that) ideals.

Although it appears they are working towards reasons to have shares of a blog that make a little more sense there is a bit of a hierarchy to the web site that gives the bloggers that visit a reason to compete between themselves and not just web sites competing for the number one spot.

The web site has karma points that you get from suggesting web sites, categorizing web sites and other wise feeding them with marketing data. They have yet to have a way to spend your chips and karma points that really make any sense. But if you are a competitive person it gives you a place to be just that in the blogging community.

The new Pocket Express smartphone edition offers free access to news, sports, and weather. For a small fee you can get movie showtimes, 411 directory search, street level maps and turn-by-turn driving directions. Here’s What, Why, How, and most importantly How Much:

What? - PocketExpress is one the fastest growing infotainment services for mobile devices.

Why? - Sports, news, weather, stocks, movie listings, 411 information, maps to name just a few – all get pushed to the mobile device. No browsing, no calling, no hassle, no brainer!

How do I buy? Handmark (supplier of Pocket Express), has invented a fun and hassle free way to give and receive Pocket Express.  They have turned the mobile device into a Holiday stocking!  You can buy Pocket Express for friends, family, loved ones, business colleagues by simply going to PocketExpress.com – entering the mobile device information and hey, presto! Come Christmas Day or Chanukah or Kwanzaa (or any day of choosing) Pocket Express gets delivered straight to the mobile device with a cute SMS message of your choice.

How Much? An annual subscription to award-winning Handmark Pocket Express is just $69.99.

Check it out [Pocket Express]

AOL purchased Weblogs Inc. a while back, and is expanding their blogs to include stock blogs that will be focused on eight of the top companies in the USA.  The eight companies include Time Warner (AOL’s parent company), Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Wal-Mart and General Electric.

According to AOL’s press release on April 27, 2006:

Each featured company will have its own dedicated blog and a team of professional bloggers, including financial professionals, analysts, current and former journalists and dedicated investing enthusiasts. The bloggers will be monitoring company and industry news and sharing their views, insights and analysis. Each blog will also offer its readers an opportunity to provide their own reactions and viewpoints in an interactive community environment.

AOL’s current financial network has eleven million unique visitors per month.  This will add even more traffic to AOL and Weblog, and expand their reach further.

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Read [News.com]