November 2007 Archives
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XV6800 Windows Mobile Messaging Phone & Modem 4 Sale Now
Verizon Wireless, announced the XV6800 is available online and through Verizon Wireless business sales. The XV6800 will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Dec. 5. The Verizon Wireless XV6800 delivers messaging capabilities, including Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which...
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Chocolate Phone in Blue Ice Available Dec. 7
Verizon Wireless, and LG Electronics announced today the newest flavor of Chocolate by LG - Blue Ice. The Chocolate in Blue Ice includes the same features chocoholics have come to love, such as vibration feedback on the touch-sensitive keypad,...
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Google to Bid on Wireless Spectrum
Google announced today that it will apply to participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band. They say the spectrum will free up airwaves for more efficient wireless Internet service for...
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BlackBerry Curve Review of Reviews
BlackBerry Curve (8300 8310 8320) Rated 4 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsAds for the BlackBerry Curve say that it has beauty and brains There are three curvaceous BlackBerry models; the 8300 (the first), 8310 (GPS...
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My Location Google Mapped by Cell Tower
Google Maps for mobile new feature has a new “My Location” feature that can find the approximate location of the mobile user without GPS by cell towers, saving users typing and time. This information then can be combined with local...
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Verizon will Broadband in LTE for 4G
Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - the technology developed within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization. The selection of LTE provides Verizon and...
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AT&T CEO Says 3G iPhone Available Next Year
In a presentation at the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that a 3G Apple iPhone will be available next year, reports Barron’s blogger Eric Savetz....
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Jingle Tones, Feliz Navidad Answer Tones & Holiday Game Free from AT&T
AT&T announced a number of holiday offerings including free downloads of holiday ringtones, answer tones, a new mobile game and Tone E-Cards. The holiday ringtones and Answer Tones are available from AT&T free of charge and include:Ringtones: Jingle Bells, The...
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MBTA Tests Transit Text Alerts for Commuters
According to an article in the Boston Globe Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuters are testing a system in which commuters are notified by text messages or email when their train subway, train, bus or commuter boat routes they use during...
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500K Mobile Bankers at Bank of America
Bank of America announced it has reached a record 500,000 active mobile customers, after launching the service six months ago. According to a recent TowerGroup report, the number of Bank of America mobile customers is more than all other U.S....
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Mobi-Learning from Cyber University in Japan & Softbank
According the AP News reports, Cyber University in Fukuoka Japan, will be offering a mobile phone class on the mysteries of the pyramids. Cyber University usually conducts class online with a lecturer and PowerPoint presentation the mobi class will...
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New Mobile Phone Sales High in December, Says M:Metrics
Mobile phones are popular holiday gifts, with more consumers acquiring a new mobile in December than any other month, reported M:Metrics.Popular devices such as the iPhone and Nokia N95 are expected to sell well. According to M:Metrics, Sony Ericsson's k810i...
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Samsung Makes Mini RFID Reader Chip
Samsung announced today the development of its new single-chip radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for mobile devices. Embedded RFID reader chips can provide consumers with product or service information retrieved from RFID tags incorporated in items such as movie posters,...
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Verizon Opens Up Network in 2008
Verizon Wireless announced that it will allow customers use their own devices on the Verizon network by the end of 2008. In early 2008, the company will publish the technical standards the development community will need. Any device that...
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300 Million Multimedia Phones in '08 Says MultiMedia Intelligence
MultiMedia Intelligence reports the worldwide unit shipments of multimedia feature rich mobile phones will exceed 300 million units in 2008, outnumbering shipments of TV sets. Multimedia phones have at least 1 megapixal image capture, MP3 audio, video Playback, Java, USB,...
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Mobile Phone Sales Increase All Over World, Says Gartner
In a new study from Gartner, worldwide sales of mobile phones to users in the third quarter of 2007 reached 289 million units, a 15% increase from the same period last year. The top five vendors increased their market shares...
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Cricket Wireless to Go Next Gen Broadband with Starent Net
Cricket Communications, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc., has selected Starent’s ST16 multimedia core platform solution to provide multimedia services to subscribers. Cricket is a wireless cell phone service provider, offering customers and local businesses flat-rate,...
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Cell Phones to Monitor Skin Patches for Medical Records & Warnings
Two companies have joined forces to create a way to monitor patients via RFID skin patches and mobile phones. Smart, wireless, RFID skin patches for identification and diagnostic applications are now being manufactured by Frank Sammeroff Ltd., who has formed...
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Silvery LG Shine Twinkles 4 Holidays at AT&T
AT&T and LG Electronics launched the new Shine by LG, in time to be in stores Nov. 23, “Black Friday.” The Shine by LG is a sliding pone that features a silver exterior and comes with video, music and camera...
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Holiday Gift Buying Guide 2007 Cell Phones & Smart Phones Review of Reviews
Every holiday season, publications review what wireless devices and phones you should buy for gifts for Christmas, Hanuka and Kwanzaa. As part of our Review of Reviews service, we are summarizing the gift guides here:The most popular choices for all...
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EV-DO Kyocera ExpressCard Available @ Verizon & Circuit City
Verizon Wireless and Kyocera Wireless Corp., announced the immediate availability of the KPC680 ExpressCard with EV-DO Rev. A technology. The new KPC680 will allow Verizon Wireless customers to have faster access to e-mail, corporate data, the Internet and more. Powered...
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FlipShot 3 Megapixel Camera with Flipping Display
The Samsung FlipShot is now available online from Verizon with a 3 megapixel camera and rotating display for or $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. The FlipShot enables photo enthusiasts to capture picture-perfect moments while carrying a device that...
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BlackBerry Pearl Available from Alltel
Alltel Wireless announced that it plans to have the BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 smartphone from Research In Motion available in time for the holidays. Alltel Wireless will be offering the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in-rebate at Alltel...
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Alltel Axcess Service Helps Parents Watch Over Kids
Alltel Wireless, announced the launch of Axcess Family Finder, a service that enables parents to determine the location of their child’s Axcess Family Finder-capable (GPS enabled) phone from the Web or their mobile phone. Axcess Family Finder features easy-to-use interactive...
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AT&T Acquiing PPC Advert Tech Ingenio
AT&T Inc. announced that an AT&T subsidiary has agreed to acquire privately held Ingenio, a leading provider of Pay Per Call technology. The transaction is expected to close in early January 2008. AT&T plans to integrate Ingenio’s Pay Per Call...
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T-Mobile Sales Flying High this TG with Free Flight Giveaway
As the carriers gear up to get you to buy more phones this holiday season. For “buy-phones” Friday, T-Mobile is offering a free round trip flight to myFaves customers. Beginning Fri., Nov. 23, and running through Sun., Nov. 25, T-Mobile...
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AT&T Napster Phone--SLM Samsung Available Nov. 23
AT&T and Samsung announced the availability of the music/multimedia SLM™ by Samsung.The SLM by Samsung will be in stores beginning Nov. 23 and is their first music phone to feature Napster Mobile™. Napster Mobile enables AT&T's wireless customers to search...
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T-Mobile Kicks Out Sidekick Slide
T-Mobile has stopped selling the Sidekick Slide, due to information confirmed by Motorola that some phones may power off when the slide door on the front side of the phone is opened or closed.Current Sidekick Slide owners are offered a...
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LG Venus VX8800 (Verizon) Coffee House Review
LG Venus VX8800 (Verizon) Coffee House Review by Wireless and Mobile News The LG Venus is a dual screen phone with a lower haptical touchscreen and sliding numerical keypad with a touch of style. You can navigate features by touching...
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LG Venus VX8800 (Verizon) Review of Reviews
LG Venus rated 4 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe LG Venus is a a dual screen phone with a lower touch screen with multimedia capabilities available from Verizon. Reviewers found the call quality, battery life,...
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Sony Rates While EMail Raises Monthly Rates Says JD Power
The average reported monthly spending for wireless services is $14 higher among customers who use a variety of features and services on their cell phone, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation StudySM—Volume 2....
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Sprint Holiday Phones Due Nov 23
The Sprint BlackBerry Pearl 8130, Motorola Q9c, and Motorola i335 will all be available starting November 23, however you can only buy the Moto Q9c online for now.The exciting thing about Sprint is that the do have the EV-DO network...
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Verizon and Vodafone Ally for Global Business Services
Vodafone and Verizon announced a global accounts partnership. The new program allows both companies to meet the needs of global business customers, while providing a consistent approach to products and pricing. In addition, business customers served by a global account...
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Verizon Awarded $120 Million from Vonage Dispute
A federal court rejected an appeal from Vonage in the patent dispute with Verizon, making the original decision hold Vonage has to pay $120 million to Verizon.The $120 million total settlement consists of $117.5 million to Verizon and $2.5 million...
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Calls Made from TSMC 45 nm Chip by Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated announced that it has made the first phone call on a 3G chip manufactured with 45 nanometer (nm) process technology. The next generation of CMOS semiconductor manufacturing, 45 nm technology enables chips that feature higher speeds, lower power...
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Mobile Internet Stats from ThirdScreenMedia
During the MMA Forum, ThirdScreenMedia did apresentation with some very interesting research about Mobile Internet usage. We will be divulging some of the research when we have space: As far as the Mobile Internet Accesss Location 42% of access is...
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New Review Verizon LG Voyager Coffee House Test Review
This is a Coffee House Test Review where we take the phone to our very hip local coffee house, show it to the finest caffienated technophiles, answer their questions and report their comments.LG Voyager from Verizon rated 4.5 out of...
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MMA Awarded Global Mobile Marketers & Reseachers
Los Angeles, California--- WMN was invited to attend the Mobile Marketing Association's Forum in downtown Los Angeles on November 14 (yesterday.) We will be reporting on some the very interesting research and information about mobile marketing being done by its...
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Not All MVNOs Will Die Profits Are Still Possible Says New Report
The negative reports about the MVNO market fail to acknowledge that the global MVNO subscriber base grew by 24% in 2006, to reach 84m users notes. According to Research and Markets MVNO models can be made to work, and there...
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Redfly Smartphone Software Also a CES Innovation Winner
Another winner of the CES Innovation Award is the REDFLY Smartphone Interface System that wirelessly extends the smartphone to larger display, full keyboard,mouse and USB ports. Any applications on the smartphone are shown instantly on the new display without modification...
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Over 250 Million Wireless Subscribers
CTIA - The Wireless Association announced that the total estimated wireless subscribership in America officially passed the 250 million mark, reaching an all-time national high. Growth in subscribership has more than quadrupled over the past ten years from just over...
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The CEA Wireless Winners Are:
CEA Innovations Awards winners were announced and the winners in the wireless realm are:For wireless handsets from fuseproject, the Drop Phone SKY IM-U200.For wireless handset accessories the Samsung Ubicell, a CDMA base station to enable cell phone users to...
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Nokia 8800 Arte & 8800 Sapphire Arte 3G Phones Cost 1K-1.15K Euros
Nokia announced two high-end luxury 3G phones, the 8800 Arte (1,000 euros/ $1,462) and the 8800 Sapphire Arte (1,150 euros/$1676.59.) Available in 1Q 2008 and 4Q 2007 respectively. The video demonstration of phones is titled, “The Art of Seduction.” Along...
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Nationwide Mobile Banking Launched by AT&T
AT&T Inc. announced the launch of a mobile banking platform that will enable consumers to view account balances and history, transfer funds and pay bills from their AT&T mobile handsets for Wachovia and SunTrust customers. The mobile banking application will...
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AT&T Selling at Costco
AT&T wireless services will be available through nearly 370 Costco locations nationwide. The services will reach more than 35 million Costco cardholders. AT&T and Wireless Advocates are now offering AT&T’s wireless services at display counters in each Costco store location....
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$10 Mil Available from Google for Adroid Challenge
On the same day as the release of Android SDK, Google announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. The Challenge is...
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Alltel Launches Parental Internet Control Service
To assist parents in controlling their child’s mobile Internet usage, Alltel Wireless, teamed with Bytemobile to provide Alltel Parental Controls, a content filtering application available free of charge beginning in February 2008....
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LG Voyager LG VX10000(Verizon) Review of Reviews
LG Voyager Rated 4.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile NewsThe LG Voyager has been called the ‘perhaps iPhone killer,” and takes the best features of other LG phones for a huge “wow” factor. It has the touchscreen operations...
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Free Wi-Fi 2Buy iMusic at 350 iStarbucks in Bay Area
350 Bay Area Starbucks stores were some the first in the country to let customers instantly buy and download songs being played in the store. The service debuted last month in Seattle and New York.People who own an Apple iPhone,...
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Cradle Plus Improves Signals for Cell Phones
Wilson Electronics introduced the new “Cradle Plus,” a cell phone car cradle with a built-in antenna. When combined with a Wilson amplifier and an outside antenna, the new Cradle Plus accommodates any hands-free device, and offers improved cellular signal...
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First Mutli-Mode Phone with High Speed Data Transfer
Samsung, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies announced the world’s first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multi-mode mobile phone.Powered by a software-defined modem capable of achieving data transfer rates of 2.8Mbps, the Samsung SGH-T578H enables about 20 times faster transfers than GPRS, allowing consumers...
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SK Telecom to Fund Helio
EarthLink, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement under which SK Telecom may invest up to $270 million in equity contributions to Helio ( the joint venture for wireless voice and data services that the two companies formed...
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Qualcomm Up and Down
Qualcomm Inc. reported that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings nearly doubled because of the demand for chips that power high-end cell phones,. Unfortunately, Qualcomm cut its annual forecast because a patent dispute with Nokia Oyj may reduce technology licensing sales. Revenues...
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Sprint Also Eases Contract Terms
To improve customer service, Sprint Nextel has rolled out a number of programs that include pro-rated early-termination fees and the ability to switch rate plans without having to renew contracts. Sprint will give welcome calls to new customers and courtesy...
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T-Mobile Reports Lots of Customers, ARPU and Profits
At the end of the quarter, T-Mobile reported it had almost 28 million customers, adding 857,000 net new customers during the quarter. T-Mobile USA also reported ARPU of $53 in the quarter, up from $52 in the third quarter of...
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T-Mobile Eases Contract Terms
T-Mobile USA, Inc.announced it will create new and more flexible policy for customers entering into contracts.Under the new guidelines, early termination fees (ETFs) will decline during the course of a customer’s contract with T-Mobile. The new policy details will...
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New Walkman Music Lover Phones Q1 2008
Sony Ericsson announced the two latest additions to its Walkman® phone portfolio. The W890 and W380 Walkman® phones are slick new offerings packed with features for music lovers. With its slim, design,2GB music storage capacity, and 3.2 megapixel camera, the...
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Touchscreen W960 Walkman Phone in Stores For Xmas
Sony Ericsson announced the W960 Walkman® phone will start to ship in November. The W960, a combination of slim UMTS and Wi-Fi™ enabled phone with high performance media player, will be available in selected markets across the globe in time...
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Sony Ericsson's Quicky Web K660 Phone
Sony Ericsson announced the launch of the K660, an HSDPA (‘mobile broadband’) enabled phone with features designed to make Web browsing on the move, simple and convenient. The K660 features Landscape browsing, Google maps, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and special...
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U.S. Cellular Increases Subscribers and Revenue
U.S. Cellular posted a strong third quarter as subscriber adds increased nearly 6 percent giving the carrier a subscriber base of 6.7 million. Service revenues were up 16.1 percent to $954.5 million from $821.8 million during the quarter last year....
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AT&T Can't Charge for Calls Made From Stolen or Lost Phones
The California Attorney General entered into a settlement with AT&T Mobility (formerly Cingular) that will prohibit the cell phone company from charging customers for any calls made after their phones are lost or stolen. The agreement requires the company to...
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Windows Live Mobile Recognizes Your Voice
Windows Live Mobile is now voice recognition enabled, allowing users to speak locations or questions rather than type in characters.Other new feature include searching for local gas prices, hours of operations and GPS functions....
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Motorola Testing Femtocells
Motorola is testing 3G femtocells in Europe. Femtocells are indoor devices that allow cellular calls to be routed via a broadband connection to handsets indoors. Femtocells are expected to improve indoor reception and make In-home calling costs cheaper for 3G...
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HTC Touch (Sprint) Review of Reviews
HTC Touch (Sprint) rated 4 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsBefore you get in touch with the HTC Touch Windows smartphone, please be aware that there are two models available in the US, the first...
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LG Rumor (Sprint) Review of Reviews
LG Rumor (Sprint) Rated 4 out 5 Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews.The rumor about the LG Rumor that is true is that for users who are about texting, it’s a great phone and deal. The slide-out QWERTY keyboard...
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Alltel Phones Tell Wrong Time
Some Alltel subscribers had a rude awakening when they looked at the clocks on their cell phone that instead of being set one hour back, were set one hour forward due to a “glitch” in the switches that handle calls...
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Google's Open Handset Alliance Opens Up Phone Marketplace
Google announced the formation of The Open Handset Alliance that opens up the development of handsets with an open source mobile phone platform called, “Android” to allow for innovation.The alliance is made up of 34 companies who have worked together...
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iPhone Named Best Invention of the Year by Time Magazine
Time Magazine has named the iPhone The Best Invention of the Year. Lev Grossman writes that even with all it's limitations such as difficultly typing, slowness, no Instant Messaging and price, "Apple's iPhone is still the best thing invented this...
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Moto Q Global (AT&T) Review of Reviews
Moto Q Global Rated 4 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile NewsAfter the announced availability of the Moto Q global AT&T Windows smartphone, geared towards international travelers, we searched for in depth reviews to review and found some consensus...
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Global Moto Q Available Nov. 2
AT&T and Motorola announced that the MOTO Q™ 9h global will be available exclusively to AT&T customers in the U.S. beginning tomorrow. The 3G-powered MOTO Q global is the first MOTO Q smart device sold in the U.S. with worldwide...
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Garmin Bids to Buy Tele Atlas
After the Nokia bought Navteq, Garmin and TomTom want Tele Atlas. Garmin is making a $3.32 billion bid for digital map maker Tele Atlas NV to outbid the $2.89 billion offer from rival TomTom. MarketWatch reported, “The battle for Tele...
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Sprints 3Q Profits Down Due to Wireless Flight
Sprint Nextel, announced that its profits were down due to lower contributions from its wireless business. The company reported a net decline of 60,000 total wireless subscribers in the third quarter. “Our third quarter results reflect mixed performance as we...
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