A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan.

Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a jury Friday he made mistakes in his troubled bid to turn the French water company into a global media giant, but he never misled shareholders about the risks.

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A wireless digital 'plaster' that can monitor vital signs continuously and remotely is being tried out with patients and healthy volunteers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in a new clinical trial run by Imperial College London researchers.

Shipments of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) will peak at about 50 million units per year in 2012 and slightly decline thereafter, reports Berg Insight.

Hong Kong's telecoms regulator, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) has issued a consultation paper on the proposed auction of the frequency spectrum in the 850 MHz, 900 MHz and 2 GHz bands, and invited expression of interest for

Nokia has announced another round of job redundancies affecting 330 staff. The planned changes are expected to affect up to 230 employees at Nokia's Oulu site in Finland and approximately 100 employees at Nokia's Copenhagen site.

We here at Engadget Mobile tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol' Federal Communications Commission's site. Since we couldn't possibly (want

Dynamic Controls has just taken the wraps off of its new which should be of great interest to those who use a wheelchair on a daily basis. The application -- which connects with the wheelchair via Bluetooth and has a

Deutsche Telekom has made little secret this year of the fact that its American wireless unit is on thin ice; whether that's a result of poor coverage, a failure to keep pace technologically, weak spectrum allocation, or a combination thereof

s been showing off two new handsets of late. The S5150 Olivia is a clamshell affair with a mirrored body, an external LED, and we know that it will boast a 3 megapixel camera and a 2.2-inch QVGA display. The

Welcome to the ! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today's

We don't know if watching TV on a 3.5-inch display is your bag, as it were, but it looks like Qualcomm is moving onward and upward with its . Not too many details at the moment, just some pics that

Slowly but surely, the is coming into focus -- sort of. Hot on the heels of that , BGR has some specs for the mid-range Android set, which seem to indicate this one's not much more than an AT&T-oriented variant

We've seen it out and about, but at last we got a chance to actually play with Sony Ericsson's tribute to impractical style: the . As it turns out, using the device is just about as pointless as it seems.

The N900's US retail price of is a steep barrier to cross without the carrier subsidies negotiated in Europe. But what if we told you that Amazon has cut the price to $530 minus another $50 (after mail-in rebate) for

The was, and still is, a lovely little phone, QWERTYfied, pocketable, and rocking that little milky trackball that gave it its name. There's finally a true successor coming down the pipeline (the flippy not really counting) though it ditches the

It may no longer be the first to launch in North America (that distinct honor now ), but we can finally say with some confidence that Verizon's version of the Samsung isn't that far off. No, seriously: we've managed to

Man, the has a tough life. For starters, it launches that simply makes no sense when you consider that the could be had for the exact same price via third-party channels. Next, Palm's second-ever webOS device , making it worth

You know, that pallet of overpriced skin cream isn't going to stock itself. Maybe if you'd stop playing Bingo Bonanza you'd have done that already. Oh, you say you're scanning their RFIDs to add them to our system? Whatever, you're