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THE WRAP: A wireless chip JV and an iPhone patchThursday, August 21, 2008 @ 6:49PMThis week Ericsson and STMicroelectronics combined their wireless chip operations and City Telecom walked away from the Singapore NGN. The new $3.6 billion mobile chip JV will carry out research and design cellular tech and has four of the big five handset-makers as customers.

Cloud Computing: Is Midori Sour or Sweet?Thursday, August 21, 2008 @ 6:14PMA future Microsoft operating system may be entirely Web-based. Here are the pros and cons of Midori and the "cloud computing" concept.

iPhone App Store and Web apps a hit with usersThursday, August 21, 2008 @ 6:13PMApple continues to earn praise for its novel and expanding App Store, Computerworld reports.

MSI Wind MS-6496 portsThursday, August 21, 2008 @ 12:54PMThe Wind MS-6946 is likely to attract hobbyists building home media servers, since it offers a plethora of 3.5mm jacks for audio I/O. These include not only front-panel connectors for a microphone and stereo headphones, plus also rear-panel connectors that include a duplicate mic input, line input, and eight channels of audio output.

Cell phones beat landlines in IowaThursday, August 21, 2008 @ 10:15AMWill cell phones eventually replace landline telephones? In Le Mars, store managers from Verizon Wireless/Wireless World and Frontier Communications, are on opposite sides of the debate.