O2 is a well known company that offers a wide range of telecom gadgets, mobile broadband, computer and notebook peripherals. As O2 was been founded in the United Kingdom, its household is its primary targeted market and O2 is mostly known there, so those who find O2 new for themselves and others, let's get in touch with their new product. Today is the day when guys from O2 announced O2 Xda Zest - a new PDA made in cooperation with Asus.
In Other News
MSI Computer today announced the latest addition to its gaming notebook series, the GX630-028US. Specs are pretty decent albeit nothing to write home about, but the truly impressive attribute of this newest notebook is that it costs only $799.99.
If mobile Internet devices don't work out, Intel is also making inroads in the personal health market. The chipmaker today launched a patient monitoring device and online interface to connect doctors and their patients remotely. This is an industry Intel has targeted for years, but because of a host of reasons, a market where the company has never gained much traction.
Eee PC maker Asus will release an Android-based smartphone during the first six months of 2009, but unfortunately that's only for the Taiwanese market. Asus reports that it will probably take a while to leak to the other side of the pond.
Mig33, which offers services like instant messaging and cheap calls on mobile phones, is launching a new version today that makes its services more customizable, international and social network-like. It's also releasing numbers showing impressive growth. The Burlingame, Calif. Company is less well known, at least in the United States, than social networking sites like Facebook.
Germany-based business networking service Xing today announced its CEO Lars Hinrichs will step down and be replaced by Ebay Germany head Stefan Gross-Selbeck effective January 15, 2009. Hinrichs founded the company in 2003 and led it to an IPO three years later at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange where the market cap is currently hovering at around $182 million. He will join Xing's supervisory board as a consultant.
