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This year is shaping up to be a year of technology battles-Microsoft vs. Google, iPhone vs. Android-but just last month, we saw the end to a momentous tech showdown. On Feb. 19, the high-definition disc format war was finally over. And when the dust settled, Toshiba’s HD DVD technology lay beaten on the ground-left for dead by its former friends..

Giant screens you touch will have to be pivoted at an angle because vertical or horizontal use will be awkward. Mice will vanish because you’ll touch on-screen objects directly. The screen will provide an incentive to get rid of the keyboard. The end result will look and work like a giant iPhone or iPod Touch.

There are some great things happening on the mobile 3D front this week, and we’re about to see handhelds get a whole lot more capable in the gaming department. An iPhone with a 3D interface is still a ways off, though.

Here’s what Steve Jobs just said about iPhone during Macworld keynote …

N-Trig DuoSense is the unique technology that accepts finger multi-touch and pressure-sensitive pen input. It’s not in the Latitude XT, but it may make its way to an oversized iPhone. From the interview: “N-Trig is in discussions with other leading brands, but we are not in a position to discuss who.” Sounds like Apple NDA at work.

Bug Labs hopes to bring the goodness of open source to hardware with a modular device that users can customize to their own specifications. At the core of Bug Labs business model is a hardware appliance called the “Bug.” About the size of an iPhone, the Bugbase device is a fully featured Linux PC with ports that allow up to four modules.

Pictured here is Microsoft’s great new patent application on a portable touchscreen device’s user interface. Look familiar?

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In 2008, Intel turns the 45nm corner with a pair of ultramobile platforms that will take the x86 ISA where it has never gone before: into pockets and purses. Here’s a look at what’s next for the ISA that just won’t die.

The miniOne looked just like Apple’s iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. But it was more. It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn’t. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers.

. In celebration of the of the 25th anniversary of the first 99 Cents Only Store opening in Westchester, nine people bought Apple iPhones for 99 cents on Thursday…………….

Sprint, and now Telus, would have you believe the Samsung m620 (AKA the UpStage) is all you need for mobile music; forget that Apple device you might have heard about. We’ve got initial impressions that show Samsung is on the right track with Telus’ help, but that the phone may still have a long way to go.

I created a Smartphone Product Matrix to see how the iPhone stacked up against the competition.

This is a miniature projector small enough for any mobile phone. Imagine what the iPhone could do with this thing?

It’s the iPhone, but the review is not even close to what you expect it to be… I guarantee this…

The impending release of iPhone has put touch screens into the spotlight, but the demand for this technology was already growing rapidly even before Apple joined the party, according to iSuppli Corp.

The market for tiny mechanical motion sensors — like the ones in Nintendo’s Wii — is taking off. Low-end sensors have dropped in price, opening the market for consumer applications like videogames and cellphones.

“…with Apple’s iPhone set to debut this summer on AT&T’s wireless network, I’ll bet consumers will be looking for less-expensive iPhone alternatives that work on rival networks. So far, the BlackBerry Curve looks like the best fallback option in the field.”

Who gives a damn about the iPhone? Helio’s new Ocean smartphone rocks 3G, dual-slide with full QWERTY and number pad, GPS, integrated IM/SMS/MMS/email app, full HTML browser and MySpace integration… and more. All for $295.

The smallest and most compact flash drive yet has been announced by samsung. It’s 8 GB and double the speed of normal flash drive. It’s size can allow it to be implemented in a phone or a handheld (such as the PSP v2 whenever sony announces it) along with a 3D graphics chip, allowing for new mobile apps and games. Maybe the iPhone will use it?