This design, combined with flexible, thin-film batteries, could lead to a flat device that is far less obtrusive than a lumpy generator.

ECONOMIST: Case history

Such is the importance of the iPod to Apple that on June 3rd the firm's shares fell by 4.5% after analysts suggested that sales of the device may be flat in the current quarter.

ECONOMIST: Taking care of its core | The

The screen on the device extended to the edge of the device so that if the device was put flat on a table with the cover on it, the edge would still display an incoming text or email.

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But it is attacking with a radical business model: inexpensive flat-rate wireless data for any device (it plans to add voice service soon).

ECONOMIST: Face value

To secure exclusive rights to the iPhone, it acceded to Apple's demand that the device come with a simple, flat-rate plan.

ECONOMIST: Saturated mobile networks

The word from the jailbreak community is that a tethered jailbreak (the sort that you have to do again if you reboot, such as when your device crashes of the battery goes flat) for these devices is in the pipeline, and that an untethered jailbreak (one that will happily survive a reboot) is also in the works, although this may take longer.

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MicroChips' titanium-encased device is about the size of a pager and has a novel flat antenna on one side that can transmit and receive radio signals from several feet outside the body.

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It's a lot to remember, and some of the pieces (the cradle, kickstand) don't lie flat, so they'll take up more space in your bag than a device with a regular ol' keyboard dock.

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Or bring along your BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator so he can try to prove our contention, that deploying a mobile device management solution such as Sybase Afaria can match or top BES for security, is flat-out wrong .

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