October 2007 Archives
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Pantech duo Review of Reviews
Pantech duo Rated 3.5 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe Pantech duo is the little sister of the Helio Ocean, it’s smaller but has many of the same features including two keypads: a portrait keypad for...
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YellowPages.com New Apps for iPhone and AT&T Handsets
Now you can let your fingers do the walking on your iPhone, iPod Touch and other AT&T handsets with the help of YellowPages.com. The site is introducing a new Web application for iPhone and iPod touch* users, as well as...
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Texas Instruments Tech to Power NextGen Samsung Smartphones
Texas Instruments’ OMAP platform and BlueLink Bluetooth technologies will be used in a variety Samsung mobile smartphones....
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Senior Service from AT&T
AT&T announced a new wireless calling plan for seniors, 65 and older. The new AT&T Senior Nation 200 plan includes 200 Anytime Minutes, 500 Night & Weekend Minutes and unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling to more for a $29.99 monthly access fee....
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Nouveau Pantech duo Smartphone from AT&T
The Pantech duo is now available from AT&T it features two keypads that slide out: a landscape QWERTY and a portrait phone numerical keypad. The UMTS/HSDPA-enabled Pantech is powered by the Windows Mobile 6 operating system. It sells for $199...
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Near-Zero Low Power Atheros Wi-Fi Chips for Mobile Ship Q1 2008
Atheros Communications, Inc. announced the Atheros ROCm™ single-chip AR6002 family which features breakthrough low-power for mobile Wi-Fi. The AR6002 draws near-zero standby power and has nominal impact on battery life even in active mode. This great great performance eliminates the...
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T-Mobile Shadow (HTC) Review of Reviews
T-Mobile Shadow Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsAlthough not all the reviews are in yet, the T-Mobile Shadow from HTC does have a shadow of a chance of becoming popular if people can...
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Free AT&T Wi-Fi in SoCal 2 Help with Wildfire Recovery
To help California residents affected by the wildfires, AT&T announced that AT&T Wi-Fi service will be offered free of charge at nearly 600 hot spot locations across Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Orange and Ventura counties....
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T-Mobile Launches Shadow for Halloween.
T-Mobile announced that it’s Shadow will be available in time for Halloween. The people-centric smartphone running Windows Mobile will come in sage and cooper. The Shadow features include: Email and texting from the MyFaves page. A spin navigation wheel. Wi-Fi...
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Sprint Secret Codes for Unlocking Phones Available Soon
As part of a class action lawsuit settlement, Sprint is agreeing to give their customers the unlocking code so that their handsets can be available for other CDMA networks....
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No More Cash 'n Carry iPhones
Various news sources reported that for the Holidays iPhone sales will be limited to two per customer and must be paid for by credit card or debit card to discourage unauthorized purchases for reselling and unlocking the phones.When we called...
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FCC Approves Alltel Aquisition
Alltel announced that the Federal Communications Commission has approved the company’s merger with TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners (GSCP). Alltel expects the merger to close before Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22. At close, Alltel shareholders will receive $71.50 per share...
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Better Profits for Verizon in 3Q 2007
Verizon in its 3Q2007 announcement stated that it has added 1.6 million customers wireless customers and a 14.4 percent increase in total wireless revenues even with its stiff competition from AT&T the exclusive seller of the iPhone. “Our third-quarter results...
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Wireless Retail Store Customer Satisfaction Down Surveys J.D. Power
A recent study of retail wireless stores by J.D. Power reported overall customer satisfaction with the wireless retail sales experience has steadily decreased since 2006, driven in large part by dissatisfaction with salespeople Verizon Wireless ranked highest in customer satisfaction...
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AT&T Reported 95-99% Coverage During SoCal Fires
AT&T reported that 99% of cell sites in L.A. Orange and San Bernardino Counties and 95% in San Diego Counties were working during the wild fires. There were only 25 cell sites affected which are currently in the process of...
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CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Ent. Day 3 Wrap
As far as news go, the presence of Microsoft at CTIA permeated the coverage of CTIA. In their assessment of the show, writers commented on the following: Sascha Segan at PC Magazine in his analysis of the show pointed out...
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Samsung Juke Review of Reviews
p>Samsung Juke SCH-U470 rated 3 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews. Although the Samsung Juke SCH-U470 (Verizon) has not been reviewed by many grammatically correct sources yet, it has been referred to as “sexy” for...
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Juke by Samsung Review of Reviews
Samsung Juke SCH-U470 rated 3 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews. Although the Samsung Juke SCH-U470 (Verizon) has not been reviewed by many grammatically correct sources yet, it has been referred to as “sexy” for...
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CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Ent. Day 2 Roundup
While Southern California was still burning, the news from Day 2 of CTIA included more announcements and SMS help for SoCal:The announcement by Dustin Moskovitz, founder of Facebook and Mike Lazaridis, founder of RIM, during a keynote address at CTIA...
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SoCal Fires Mainly Good News for Qualcomm
The massive fires in Southern California have made the name Qualcomm ubiquitous in news stories. The evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium were pleased with the food, amenities and services, shinning a positive light on the San Diego wireless technology innovator. There...
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Qualcomm Gobi Chip Dips into Many Carriers
Qualcomm announced a new computer chip that can provide wireless access over EV-DO(Sprint, Verizon) or HSPA (AT&T) technologies. Notebooks featuring the multi-mode Gobi solution can take advantage of the high-speed mobile Internet services offered by leading network operators in virtually...
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CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Ent. Day 1 Roundup
Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was a keynote speaker and announced a new server smartphone software from Microsoft there were lots of other news stories at CTIA. Tom Kraznit at CNET posted a blog entry about how a panel talked...
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Wireless Video 100x Faster than Wi-Fi from IBM & MediaTek
IBM and MediaTek announced that they will combine their expertise in millimeter wave (mmWave) radio technology ( the highest frequency portion of the radio spectrum where massive amounts of information can be sent quickly) and digital chipsets to create revolutionary...
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AT&T Revenue Up Due to Wireless
AT&T reported a net wireless subscriber addition of two million making its total base to 65.7 million. It also reported activating 1.1 million iPhones since its launch in late June. Its increase in profits is attributed to wireless and broadband...
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Record Data & Text Sent in US
According to a new survey from CTIA , there are over 243 million wireless users in the US and: Wireless data service revenues for the first half of 2007 rose to $10.5 billion. This represents a 63% increase over the...
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CTIA News On the Way
Tuesday, October 23, is the first day of CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2007 in San Francisco, expect lots of news, announcements, and new services. We will be consolidating information about the event, at the end of each day....
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ARPU Data Increase Greatest in NA
According to the September 2007 edition of World Cellular Data Metrics, there was a 43% increase in data ARPU in North America. Subscribers in North America generated the highest monthly ARPU from mobile data services worldwide, at US$8.90 in 2Q...
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Dashwire Dashing New Service, Syncing Mobile Phones from Web
Just in time for CTIA, a new product that automatically mirrors smartphone information on the Web, Dashwire was announced from a Seattle company, started by a former Microsoft employee, Ford Davidson. The service allows you to Send and receive text...
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Napster Music & Search for AT&T Mobile Customers
AT&T announced that wireless customers will soon be able to download more than 5 million full-track songs over the air from Napster, music subscription service. Starting November 15, AT&T wireless customers can search Napster and download songs for $1.99 each...
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Western Union Mobile Money Transfers by Q2 2008
The GSM Association (GSMA), the trade association of GSM mobile phone operators, and The Western Union Company announced an agreement to facilitate the development of cross-border mobile money transfer services. Western Union and the GSMA are developing a commercial and...
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Alltel Tells All, "Revenue & Subscribers Increase"
Alltel announced a great 3rd quarter, adding 205,000 subscribers and surpassing $2 billion in quarterly wireless service revenues for the first time.Highlights of their wireless gains include:Average revenue per wireless customer (ARPU) was $55.96, a 4 percent increase from last...
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Review Nokia N95 Review of Reviews
Nokia N95 Rated 4 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe reviews of the Nokia N95 smartphone run the gamut from initial excited "wow's" to descriptions of why "it sucks." The Nokia N95 is more than...
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New Smartphones from Verizon
Verizon has four smartphones ready for the the holidays. Here are their names and lists of features: Samsung SCH-i760 - Windows Mobile, stylus operation, QWERTY keyboard, separate phone dial pad, Bluetooth and 1.3 megapixel carmera. Priced at $349.99* after a...
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Internet Tax Ban Extended by House
The House voted this week to temporarily extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes until November 2011. The moratorium was created by the Internet Tax Freedom Act in 1998. It prevents state and local governments from taxing Internet access, including...
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MP3 Player-Like Jukes Ring with Music Starting Friday
Verizon and Samsung’s Juke will available starting Friday. The Juke is a clone of both MP3 player and mobile phone. It has an iPod-like thumb wheel to navigate through multiple music formats: mp3, .wma, .aac and .aac+ files. Other features...
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Review of Reviews of Palm Centro
In an effort to save time for our readers we are initiating a new service. We look at all the reviews of a phone or service and then report to you what the consensus of the reviews is. If you...
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Review of Reviews of Palm Centro ****
In an effort to save time for our readers we are initiating a new service. We look at all the reviews of a phone or service and then report to you what the consensus of the reviews is. If you...
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Microsoft Live Search 411 with Maps & Directions
After its acquisition of Tellme, Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Live Search free search service with mobile, Internet and phone access. The voice-navigated free information service, is accessed by dialing 800-CALL-411 on any phone. You then can find any business in...
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Another Touching Phone Story - Touch by HTC from Sprint
Sprint and HTC Corp. announced the availability of Touch by HTC™, a full touch screen wireless phone integrating Windows Mobile 6 with advanced entertainment features. The Touch by HTC brings together email and business applications with Sprint’s exclusive multimedia content...
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Agito Networks Introduces Fast FMC Routing to WANs
Agito Networks, Inc., announced its RoamAnywhere™ Mobility Router. Agito Networks’ patented RF and location-based technology provides fast, automatic routing between the enterprise Wi-Fi networks and any carrier cellular network. The company says it can reduce up to 60 percent of...
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LG Sells 21.9 Million Handsets.
LG reported its sales of handsets rose to a quarterly record of 21.9 million units on increases in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East in the third quarter. LG posted a net profit of $370 million. The company, however,...
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iPhone KO's Treo and T-Mobile
A new study by NPD shows that iPhone buyers were more like to have given up their Treos (by 10X) or T-Mobile Sidekicks (by 3X) for their iPhone while BlackBerry users were not attracted to the iPhone, probably due to...
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Nokia Touches Symbian Market with Touch Tech on S60
Nokia announced that their S60 smartphone will introduce new features including touch technology with tactile feedback. The phone also features Web video and Flash capabilities....
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AT&T Wireless 5 Cents A Minute Calling to Mexico
AT&T Inc. announced a new rate of 5 cents a minute for wireless customers in the United States who call landline numbers in Mexico with the AT&T World Connect Mexico $3.99 a month plan The 5 cents a minute rate...
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Nokia BL-5C Battery Recall
Nokia Battery Advisory: If you have a Nokia phone with a BL-5C battery it may over heat and cause damages.There have been approximately 100 incidents of over heating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported. Over...
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Motricity Acquires InfoSpace Mobile
Motricity, a leading provider of mobile content services and solutions, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the mobile services business unit of InfoSpace, Inc., a leading developer of mobile technologies and infrastructure services, for approximately $135...
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New Broadcom 3G Chip Compatible with 4 Networks 4 Cheaper Better Phones
Broadcom Corporation , announced a new single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) processor that integrates all of the key 3G (third generation) technologies on an extremely low power chip. The 3G “Phone on a Chip” supports four cellular networks, can transmit...
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Snazzy Special RAZR2 Ready For Holidays
Motorola announced that their signature RAZR2 that is bathed in gold and clothed in snake-like skin with new added features will be available in time for the holidays. The gold plated case, has a snake skin back and diamond cuts...
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iPhone Customers Sue Apple & AT&T
Two class action lawsuits in California federal and state courts, claiming that the software upgrade and locking of the iPhone to AT&T are monopolistic, were filed in San Jose on Friday. The complaints were filed by law firms Folkenflik &...
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Motorola Introduces New Phones
Motorola revealed some new phones. There are several new W handsets, many feature FM radios and CrystalTalk which were previously only found on higher end handsets....
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Verizon Localizes with Verve on Mobile Web
Verizon Wireless, and Verve Wireless, the leading provider of mobile publishing technologies to local media companies, today announced the availability of the new Verve Local channel on Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Web 2.0 service. With Verve Local, Verizon Wireless customers can...
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AT&T Mobile CEO Sigman Signals Retirement, de la Vega Named Successor
AT&T Inc. announced that Stan Sigman, president and chief executive officer, AT&T Mobility, will retire after 42 years with the company. Ralph de la Vega, group president-Regional Telecom & Entertainment, was named president and CEO, AT&T Mobility, replacing Sigman, effective...
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Sanyo Saying Sayonara to Mobile Phones, Selling to Kyocera
Sanyo is in the process of selling its mobile phone business unit to Kyocera. Kyocera has been granted priority negotiation rights. No price has been set yet, however, the Nikkei reported Kyocera offered ¥70 billion ($597 million)....
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Rumors About Rumor Phone True - QWERTY Phone for $79.99 (with rebate)
Sprint and LG Electronics announced the upcoming availability of a new, affordable wireless phone with a full QWERTY slide keyboard for easy text, email and instant messaging - Rumor by LG. Operating on the Sprint network, Rumor by LG provides...
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Telephony Mag Names First Innovation Award Winners
Penton Media’s Telephony magazine has named the winners of its first Telephony Innovation Awards. The awards recognize service providers who have developed unique or first-to-market offerings that utilize technology or address customer needs in a new way. The awards were...
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Samsung & Sun Micro jPhone to Outshine iPhone?
There has been an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald quoting a Koren newspaper saying that Samsung and Sun Microsystems are working together to make a Java phone that would be less expensive and have more features than the...
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Hood Leaves Jamba for More Entreprenurial Hoods
Lucy Hood, CEO of Jamba and President of Fox Mobile Entertainment, announced her resignation today. She says that she’s eager to pursue more entrepreneurial venturesJamba COO Lee Fenton will assume her Hood, who has been with News Corp. for more...
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Google Acquires Mobile Microblogging Service: Jaiku
Google is acquiring Finnish social mobile microblogging service, Jaiku. Tony Hsieh, Product Manager manager at Google said “We’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired Jaiku, a company that’s been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in...
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AT&T Says Aloha to New Spectrum for $2.5 Billion
AT&T Inc.announced its board of directors has approved an agreement to purchase spectrum licenses covering 196 million people in the 700 MHz frequency band from Aloha Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. The transaction enhances AT&T’s spectrum position by adding...
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Forgone Conclusion: Sprint CEO Foresee Resigns from Sprint
Sprint Nextel announced today that Gary Forsee is stepping down as the company’s chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. A committee of the Sprint Nextel Board of Directors has been formed and is conducting the search for...
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Wireless and Mobile News Nominated for 2007 Weblog Awards
Wireless and Mobile News has been Nominated for the 2007 Weblog Awards in Technology and Business. Nominations end October 15 and winners will be announced at blogworld November 8-9 in Las Vegas....
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Review: AT&T(Cingular) GoPhone Motorola C168i
Fry’s is selling the AT&T GoPhone Motorola C168i for $14.99 with $10.00 worth of airtime, a good phone at a very cheap price. This phone looks so good; pirates (I mean entrepreneurs) are unlocking them for replacement phones and selling...
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Alltel Lauches Wi-Fi from Boingo
Alltel Wireless, today launched Alltel Wi-Fi, powered by Boingo Wireless that provides customers with laptop access to thousands of hotspots throughout North and South America. Alltel also provides wireless broadband access via Alltel Wireless Internet service, allowing customers to access...
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CEATEC Phones Get Attention- Wellness Phone and Infobar 2
Articles from the CEATEC show in Japan have generated interested in two new phones the prototype Wellness phone and the newly released Info Bar 2.The Wellness phone, developed by NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi takes your pulse, checks your body fat,...
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Sprint & Vonage Settlement Reached
Sprint Nextel has settled its long running patent infringement dispute with VoIP provider Vonage. Sprint has agreed to license its VoIP portfolio or more than 100 patents to Vonage. The settlement payment to Sprint is estimated to be $80 million...
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Jitterbug Cellular Phones Selected as a Finalist for AeA High Tech Awards
The San Diego chapter of the American Electronics Association (AeA), has announced that the Jitterbug cell phone and service is a finalist in the Communications Product and Services category. Jitterbug phones are easy-to-use with a friendly, 24/7 operator service that...
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Clammed Gleam Phone from Verizon Has Living Wallpaper
Verizon Wireless and Samsung announced the availability of the Verizon Wireless Gleam by Samsung -- a shiny thin clamshell phone with a new living wallpaper user interface. The image of the wallpaper changes to reflect the time of day and...
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Merging Minds: Air2Web & Mindmatics
U.S. mobile marketing company Air2Web and European mobile marketing services provider Mindmatics AG announced their mergerAir2Web and MindMatics claim the merger will result in "the world's largest, independent, pure-play mobile marketing agency." Frost & Sullivan estimates the value of worldwide...
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E Series Phones from Nokia SIP with Avaya for FMC
Nokia and Avaya announced that the Nokia E-Series phones will have SIP(Session Information Protocol) capabilities allowing them to switch between, cellular calls, and (WLAN) calls, called "Dual Mode." This Fixed Mobile Convergence solution delivers greater convenience, enhanced functionality, and improved...
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37% of Nordic Business E-mail While Away from Office
A survey by Gallup for Nokia found that 37 percent of business users in the Nordic region use mobile e-mail when they are away from the office. More time for family and friends, and better customer service, were stated to...
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AT&T Tilt Connecting 3 E-mail Types, Data & GPS in Windows
The AT&T Tilt, their first Windows Mobile 6 smart device, features a slide-out QWERTY keypad design, a 3-megapixel camera, 3G data speeds, 3 e-mail connectivity types, Bluetooth, WiFi, touchscreen, GPS and complete global connectivity will be available on October 5.The...
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Realtime Traffic Maps Without Monthly Fees from Garmin for $99
Garmin announced the release of Garmin Mobile XT, a unique, all-in-one software solution that turns select smartphones with internal GPS into high-end Garmin navigators. This mobile phone software application seamlessly pairs the phone's built-in GPS with Garmin's software so that...
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Tweens Can Now Play with Shrek & Other Games on Firefly flyPhone
Tweens can now play popular Gameloft games on their simple flyPhones. Gameloft, publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones, and Firefly Mobile, the first pay as you go service provider and designer of phones for kids and tweens,...
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Verizon's New Voyager, Venus, Pearl and Juke Ringing in New Holiday Sales?
Verizon announced some new phones for the upcoming holiday season.They will be offering the Voyager (VX1000) made by LG Electronics which is sort of like an iPhone with some other features. It has a large touch screen and full Web...
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Yahoo! oneSearch on Telefonica Mobile Phones in U.K. Ireland and Latin America
Telefonica and Yahoo!, announced an agreement to make Yahoo! oneSearch, the main search service on Telefonica's mobile portals in 15 countries in Europe and Latin America, potentially reaching more than 100 million consumers worldwide.Yahoo! oneSearch is specifically designed for mobile...
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New Flash Lite 3 for Mobile
Adobe announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 3 software, which now supports Adobe Flash Player compatible video and enables the delivery of dynamic Web content on mobile devices. Flash Lite 3 allows mobile device manufacturers, operators and content providers...
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Verizon Bundles Landline and Wireless
Verizon is now offering a plan that allows unlimited calling between customers’ home phones and their Verizon wireless phones, 200 wireless minutes, unlimited landline calls and other features for a $59.99 a month.It appears that the plan is aimed at...
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Kelsey Group Study: Better I-Access, Maps and Local Search Wanted
According to "Mobile Market View," a new mobile consumer study conducted by The Kelsey Group with research partner ConStat, 44.7 percent of U.S. mobile phone users surveyed say a mobile phone with better Internet capability will be a key factor...
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Technorati to Include Wireless and Mobile News
Technorati Profile will be including Wireless and Mobile News, this entry was necessary for inclusion....
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Nokia Video Center Links to News/Video Sources
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Nokia is embedding links directly to video sources in its N95 multimedia phone, side stepping the carriers. Deals were struck with CNN, News Corp and Sony Pictures. Nokia will be embedding direct video links to...
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MIPC Study: Females Phone Photos & Print Most
According to a recent camera phone study completed in Japan by MIPC (The Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium) over 40% of respondents answered that they have printed out photos taken on their camera phones. Among working women and grandmothers print...
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Nokia Acquiring NAVTEQ - Mapping Out LBS Future Together
Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced that Nokia will acquire NAVTEQ, aChicago-based digitalmapping company that licenses content to global positioning systems and Web sites."With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services(LBS) offering and bringtomarket the most innovative, context aware...
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