January 2008 Archives
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Sprint Contines to Support iDEN Push to Talk
Sprint announced that it will continue to support Nextel Direct Connect, the world’s largest and fastest push-to-talk service and the only such service with international capabilities. “Nextel Direct Connect provides a differentiated experience for our customers,” said Dan Hesse, president...
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SMS Class Action Suit Filed Against T-Mobile
There has been a class action law suite filed against T-Mobile for charging customers for text messages who did not want text messages. The suit filed in Seattle, Washington, claims that T-Mobile charges for text messages regardless of whether customers...
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New Nuvifone from Garmin with Touch, GPS, Web & Maps
Garmin International announced its entrance into the mobile phone market with the nuvifone, an all-in-one, touchscreen device that combines a premium phone, mobile web-browser, and cutting-edge personal navigator. “The nuvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and...
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Mio and Qualcomm Partner for Connected Personal Nav with GPS
Mio Technology Corporation, maker of mobile GPS devices, and Qualcomm announced a collaboration to develop connected personal navigation devices (PNDs). These new connected PNDs will leverage Qualcomm’s technology with the QST1100 chipset to deliver industry-leading GPS performance and cellular connectivity...
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Verizon Tells Wireless Data Miners, "Stop It!"
Nearly four years ago, Verizon Wireless said that a wireless directory would be a “dumb idea.” Now, as another company leaks its plans to sell the cell phone numbers of private citizens, Verizon Wireless today called on that company to...
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Google Testing 2D Bar Codes on Print Ads for Cell Phones
Google is testing 2D bar codes for cell phone cameras on print ads. The plans is to make advertising more useful for readers and more measurable for advertisers. 2D barcodes allow readers to “click” on interesting print ads with their...
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AT&T & Yahoo! Alliance for Search and Ads Announced
AT&T Yahoo! announced a new multi-year strategic alliance for portals, search and advertising revenue. The new phase of the alliance includes the following features: A new look and feel for the att.net portal, “powered by Yahoo!,” beginning in the second...
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1.6 Million Ad-Supported Games Downloaded in 1st Month
Greystripe, the leading distributor of ad-supported mobile games and applications, announced early results from its partnership with Opera, the world’s leading mobile web browsing software company to bring free mobile content faster and easier to consumers browsing on their mobile...
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Most Popular Handsets from FierceWireless
FierceWireless lists the most popular devices for fourth-quarter 2007. Their compilation, was culled from a number of sources including carrier and handset maker 4Q earnings, online retailer best seller lists and anecdotal evidence: Apples' iPhone - over 2 million have...
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Guinness World Record: Most Expensive Cell Phone Le Million @ $1.2 Million
Guinness World Records certified the sale of the Most Expensive Cell Phone in the world - 'Le Million' Piece Unique which was bought by a Russian businessman for his wife for 1 million Euros ($1.2 million) in September 2006.Created by...
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Skyfire Lights Up New Mobile PC-Like Browser
At the DEMO 08 conference, Skyfire unveiled a new mobile browser that makes browsing on a smartphone just like browsing on a PC. Smartphone users can experience the “real web” to access and interact with any website built with any...
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Leaders Change at Helio, ARPU @ $85
Helio announced that Wonhee Sull, formerly Helio’s President and COO, has been elevated to CEO and founding CEO Sky Dayton has been named non-executive Chairman of Helio’s Board of Directors. Helio also announced usage statistics for its nearly 200,000 subscribers,...
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T-Mobile Mobilizes for Profit
T-Mobile USA increased mobile phone subscribers by nearly a million in the fourth quarter. T-Mobile USA announced it added 951,000 subscribers in October to December, giving it 28.7 million by the end of 2007 which is up 14.6 percent from...
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1st Cell Phone Reads to Blind & Dyslexic by Kurzwell and NFB
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies Inc., unveiled a product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or...
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Nokia Buys Trolltech
Nokia announced that it will buy mobile-app developer Trolltech, ASA in Trolltech makes the cross platform software program Qtopia used in mobile handsets Qt is also used in af desktop software, including Skype, Google Earth, and Adobe Photoshop Album....
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AT&T Changes Data Plans
AT&T changed it data plans a week ago, cutting out their PDA Global, Smartphone Connect, and BlackBerry/PDA personal Max plan. New plans added include $5 and $15 messaging bundles and two Media Net Unlimited plans. The AT&T Mobility Media Max...
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Verizon Wireless Up but Landlines Down
Verizon Wireless profits and subscribers were up in fourth quarter 2007 while landlines decreased. Verizon had a 10.6 percent drop in consumer lines due to stiff competition. Verizon lost 875,000 phone lines in the quarter, including 476,000 primary home-phone lines,...
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Samsung BlackJack II SGH-i617 (AT&T) Review of Reviews
Samsung BlackJack II SGH-i67 rated 4 out of 5 by Review of Reviews from Wireless and Mobile NewsThe BlackJack II received good reviews all around and has more power and features than the previous model including: 3G, GPS, a larger...
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American Airlines Mobilizes Its Website
American Airlines has introduced a mobile version of AA.com that allows customers to access many of the helpful features of AA.com via a Web-enabled cell phone or other Web-enabled device at http://www.aa.com/mobile or mobile users will be detected and redirected...
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1.2 Billion Mobile Phones Sold in 2007 Says Strategy Analytics
Bonny Joy, Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global cellphone shipments rose to 1.12 billion units in 2007, up 12 percent from 1.00 billion in 2006. We expect the economic environment to be tougher this year and forecast slower growth of...
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Palm Closes Stores, Settles Suit with Rebates
Palm Inc., the company who first brought the smartphone to the public is closing its 35 retails stores including stand alone stores and stores in airports.Palm also announced what to meet the terms of a class-action lawsuit, it will give...
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Winning NFC Apps Encourage Exercise, Track Vehicles & RX
Innovision Research & Technology, developer of the Near Field Communication (NFC) standard number one tag type, Topaz has announced the winners of its NFC Innovation Awards, the first UK-based competition to find the most innovative applications of NFC tags for...
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YouTube Mobile Enhanced & Handset Compatibility Expanded
YouTube announced that the latest enhancements to YouTube for Mobile will give users access to the largest repository of mobile video content available, expanding compatibility to over 100 million devices worldwide, and will give them more tools to personalize their...
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Nokia Takes 40% of Mobile Phone Market
Nokia had a very good year also reporting: 34% increase in revenue. 27% jump in handset shipments during the fourth quarter of 2007. 40% market share selling 135.5 million handsets. 44% increase in its fourth-quarter profit. Operating profit for the...
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AT&T Subscribers and Income Soar
AT&T had a very good year end: It added nearly 2.7 million wireless subscribers ending 2007 with 70.1 million subscribers. ARPU was up 2 percent to $50.28. 16.3 percent increase in total wireless revenues Data revenues increased 57.5 percent over...
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Alltel to Offer LG Scoop, BlackBerry Pearl and Samsung Muse
Alltel Wireless, nnounced that three new handsets - the LG Scoop, red BlackBerry Pearl 8130, and the Samsung Muse - plan to be available in Alltel retail stores and online at www.alltel.com/style during the first quarter of 2008....
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IBM Lotus Connections Bloom on RIM BlackBerry
Research In Motion is previewing BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections — a new software application that runs natively on BlackBerry smartphones to provide mobile users with access to Lotus Connections social software for business. The BlackBerry client application leverages...
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Verizon Open Development Conference in NYC 3/19-3/20 2008
Verizon Wireless announced that their Open Development Conference will be held in New York City on March 19-20, 2008. News of the conference, which will focus largely on development for new devices to run on the Verizon Wireless network, comes...
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Free Wi-Fi Access for AT&T DSL Customers
AT&T announced that AT&T broadband subscribers will soon have free unlimited access to the company’s nationwide Wi-Fi network. The offer delivers an annual saving of $60 for AT&T broadband customers, and an annual saving of nearly $240 compared with AT&T...
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NextPhase WiMAX Gets Nationwide 3.65 Spectrum License from FCC
NextPhase Wireless , a nationwide developer of WiMAX-ready networks and provider of advanced wireless broadband solutions, announced that they have received confirmation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that their application for a nationwide license to provide WiMAX wireless services...
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Rollable Screen Readius Mobile Phone Book Ready Mid-2008
Soon, you can read your phone just like you read a book, with a roll-out display that opens up to a wide 5" diagonal screen. Polymer Vision, the inventor of rollable displays announced the Readius mobile phone and reader known...
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Samsung SCH-i760 (Verizon) Review of Reviews
Samsung SCH-i760 Rated 4 out of 5 by Review of Reviews from Wireless and Mobile NewsThe Samsung SCH-i760 is a Windows slider phone with a touchscreen, dial keypad and full QWERTY keyboard. It supports many media formats, Microsoft Office, Wi-Fi,...
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HTC Touch Coming to Verizon on Horizon
Verizon is expected to start selling the HTC Touch as the Verizon XV6900 Touch with sneak peaks appearing in the blogosphere. The Verizon version comes in white and has the same touch capabilities of previous versions such as Windows Mobile...
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Zumobi and Microsoft Partner for Zumobi Widgets on Windows Phones
Zumobi announced a partnership deal with Microsoft. Under terms of the business agreement, Microsoft will distribute the award-winning Zooming User Interface and mobile widget platform with Windows Mobile. This distribution agreement builds on the content partnerships Zumobi announced in December....
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Verizon Buys SureWest Assets in Sacramento
Verizon Wireless and SureWest Communications announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Verizon Wireless to purchase SureWest Communications’ wireless assets in northern California, operating as SureWest Wireless, for $69.0 million. The purchase includes SureWest Wireless’ spectrum licenses, and network...
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AT&T Offers Biz Plan for iPhone
AT&T is now offering iPhone plans for business customers.The plans starting at $45 a month for unlimited data 200 text messages, $25 more a month than consumer plans.. It has been rumored that in the near future the iPhone will...
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CSR & Samsung Cut Price for GPS Modules
CSR announced that it has halved the cost of embedded GPS solutions through a collaboration with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Company (Samsung). The resulting products, based on CSR’s GPS software and Samsung’s module hardware, bring best in class location-based services to mobile...
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FON Wants Castro Residents to Share for Free Wi-Fi
FON, the world’s largest Wi-Fi community, is calling on all residents of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood to join the FON community and bring comprehensive WiFi access to the Castro. Any qualifying resident or business owner of the Castro is eligible...
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Sanyo Sells Mobile Phone Biz to Kyocera
SANYO announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Kyocera to transfer its mobile phone business to Kyocera for $467 Billion. The deal is expected to close April 1, 2008....
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AT&T Wireless Customers Get Free Access to New York Times Mobile
AT&T and The New York Times have partnered to allow wireless customers to access full-content of the newspaper’s site at no extra charge. AT&T wireless data customers will be able to read the latest news and entertainment articles at...
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Nokia N95 8GB Now DLNA Certified.
Nokia announced that the Nokia N95 8GB had the distinction of being the first ever mobile phone to receive Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification. The DLNA is a body advocating the interoperability of wired and wireless consumer devices. For...
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SalesNOW CRM Available on BlackBerry from Alltel
Alltel announced that it is the first U.S-based carrier to offer small business customers SalesNOW, a contact, activity and deal management software designed for the BlackBerry and the Web. With the SalesNOW , professionals can track and manage their contacts,...
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Consumer Action Website Seeks Faster Video from HTC
HTCClassAction.org a newly launched consumer website claims that newer HTC smartphones are slower than previous models due to poor drawing drivers. They urge owners to contact HTC and complain. Although the site has gotten no official response from HTC, HTC...
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Sprint Cuts 4K Jobs and 8% of Stores
Sprint announced initial plans to streamline its business with reductions across the company including approximately 4,000 internal positions and reduced use of outsourced services. The company also expects to eliminate more than 4,000 third-party distribution points and to close approximately...
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Review AT&T Tilt Review of Reviews
AT&T Tilt Rated 4 out of 5 by Review of Reviews from Wireless and Mobile NewsThe AT&T Tilt is a Windows mobile phone that has received excellent reviews for its full features including an innovative tilting screen, QWERTY keyboard, fast...
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Gizmodo Blogger Banned from CES for Bad Behavior
There have been several reports about the Gizmodo blogger who thought it was funny when he shot TV-B-Gone remotes at walls of TVs during CES at press conferences and in the exhibit hall shutting off the TV screens.Gizmodo blogger, Richard...
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Text & Mobile Ordering from Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut announced it will offer “Total Mobile Access,” which allows customers to order pizza from their mobile phones via text messaging or mobile Web. Pizza Hut is the first and only restaurant chain to offer both ordering options on...
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New Apple Movie Rentals and Fox iTune Copies
Steve Jobs at Mac World announced that APples had reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony, MGM, Lionsgate and New Line to make movies available to rent through Apple. An added feature for 20th Fox...
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46.1 Million Mobile Searchers - SMS Very Popular in Q3 2007, Says Nielsen
46.1 million mobile data users in the U.S. used mobile search functions in the third quarter of 2007 according to a report released by The Nielsen Company examining the mobile search behavior of wireless subscribers. According to the report,...
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Haptical GPS Mysto from Helio Tells You Where You Are and Where to Go
Helio released the Mysto, an ultra-thin slider phone with a mirror-like screen, sapphire blue body and electrostatic haptic-feedback keys. Mysto also debuts two new Helio GPS search services, WHERE and Tellme and nationwide 3G access. Mysto features: 2 megapixel camera...
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Now You Can Obopay on Your BlackBerry
Mobile payments provider, Obopay announced that Obopay will be available for BlackBerry smartphones. The new Obopay application for BlackBerry users provides fast, customizable access to Obopay's full suite of mobile payment services. With Obopay, users can send and receive money,...
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Flash Lite Flashing on More Mobile Screens, Says Strategy
Flash Lite penetration in cellphones grew from 11.2 percent in 2006 to 19.0 percent in 2007 and is expected to grow to 61.9 percent by 2012, says Strategy Analytics. While the base of Flash Lite-enabled cellphones continues to strengthen...
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Wireless Shoppers Don't Want More, Aren't Aware of Services and Open Access
Compete, Inc. released an in-depth study analyzing consumers’ demand for market openness around wireless devices and consumer electronics. The study examines consumers’ current awareness of open access developments and predicts how upcoming industry shifts will affect their shopping and buying...
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Clearwire Now Goggling Apps
Wireless broadband provider, Clearwire Corporation announced it is teaming with Google to deliver the Google Apps communication suite to Clearwire customers. Clearwire will begin migrating its current customers to Gmail and Google Calendar in the first half of this year....
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Steve Jobs Intros Thin MacBook Air and New iPhone Apps
During the keynote address at Mac World Steve Jobs introduced the super thin MacBook Air, so thing it fits in a envelope. The skinny notebook computer is able to be so thin because it shares and loads files wirelessly and...
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NFC Named 1 of 5 Top Technologies for 2008 by BBC @ CES
The NFC Forum (www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced that “Click,” the BBC’s flagship technology program, has chosen NFC as one of its five top technologies for 2008. BBC...
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Safari Named Best Mobile Browser by Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics released its latest report in which the iPhone Safari browser rated the highest. Safari received 5-star ratings for five out of the seven attributes rated by participants, including Ease of Accessing the browser, Ease of Entering a Website...
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Photobucket Goes Mobile
Photobucket announced the launch of Photobucket Mobile, giving its millions of users access to Photobucket features on Web-enabled mobile devices. Users can access Photobucket Mobile by visiting http://m.photobucket.com on their mobile device. Through Photobucket Mobile, users can: Browse existing personal...
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FCC Approved Bidders List (in Alphabetical Order)
The FCC released a list of approved bidders for the auction January 24 of the 700 Mhz wireless spectrum. This spectrum is valuable because signals can travel long distances and penetrate thick walls. Depending on the size of the area...
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Google iMproves iGoogle for iPhones
For Macworld, Google announced new improvements to the integrated Google experience on iPhone. Google streamlined the interface even further, making the applications faster and improving their usability. Some of the improvements announced Include: Improved UI: The applications look and feel...
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Alltel Increases Free Calling Circles 5 & 10
Alltel announced a major expansion to “My Circle,” with the introduction of “My Circle 5” and “My Circle 20” - two new options now offered in addition to the original “My Circle 10” that allows free calling to circle of...
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a la Mobile Proves Android Open Source Works on Smartphone
a la Mobile, Inc., a Linux systems platform and open source technology company for mobile devices, announced the support of Google Android with the industry’s first demonstration of applications based on the open source Android application framework, running on HTC’s...
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Moto ROKR E8 Review of Reviews
The Moto ROKR E8 received a lot of praise at CES 2008 for its morphing keyboard that changes for phone dialing and music playing. CNET gave it their people’s choice award.Early previews of the phone called it cool and liked...
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CES 2008 Cell, Smart and Mobile Phone Round-Up
The buzz after CES about mobile phones, proves, "What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas." The Consumer Electronics Show 2008 estimates that 130,000 attendees viewed the latest technology along with over 4,000 journalists. Motorola, Nokia, LG, Samsung, Sony...
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Armani, Van & Olufsen and Beyonce Phones @ CES
Samsung Electronics showcased its line of high-fashion mobile phones at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. All of the phones were previously announced elsewhere. Samsung, and Giorgio Armani, one of the world’s leading fashion and lifestyle companies, have come together...
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SoonR Covergent Platform for Syncing PCs & Mobile Funded by Cisco
SoonR announced that it has closed a strategic $9.5 million Series B investment led by Cisco, intended to help the company expand its mobile platform and advance its new partner-driven distribution strategy SoonR’s platform brings the computer desktop and mobile...
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Motive to Provide Diagnostics and Device Management to Airvana Femtocells
Motive, Inc. leading provider of management software for broadband and mobile data services, announced that it has signed an agreement to supply its Motive Home Device Manager(HDM) solution to Airvana, a leading provider of network infrastructure products used by wireless...
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BlueAnt Shows First Voice Controlled Bluetooth Headset
BlueAnt Wireless announced the world’s first voice controlled Bluetooth headset, the BlueAnt V1, that talks to you to make sure that you are making the correct command. Its features include: Voice control, using the BlueGenie Voice InterfaceDual microphones for pure...
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Sprint Partners with Many for WiMAX Xohm
Sprint announced Xohm mobile Internet business agreements involving web portal services and WiMAX network access devices. The company also named an advertising agency of record to help launch the Xohm brand in the United States. A soft launch of Xohm...
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Verizon Increases Text Msg Rate to 15 Cents!
Verizon informed customers that the rate for sending and receiving a text message to North American phones from 10 cents to 15 cents on March 1. There has been a lot of conjecture for this hike, many saying that the...
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Alltel and AAA Offer Search and Navigation Service
Alltel Wireless Launches AAA Mobile(R) Navigation and Search Tool Powered by Networks In Motion, GPS Application Offers AAA TourBook(R) Guide Travel Information, Navigation, Roadside Assistance on Mobile Phone Alltel Wireless, and AAA, announced AAA Mobile is now available for download...
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New 8GB Nokia 8GB Shown at CES
Nokia showed the Nokia N95 8GB for networks using 850/1900 MHz HSDPA (high speed data packet access) in the Americas at CES. The new Nokia 95 8GB features a 2.8 inch QVGA screen with support for up to 16 million...
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419 Mil Near Field Communications Chips Will Ship in 2012, Says ABI
More than 419 million NFC chipsets will ship in 2012, according to a new research study from ABI Research. “NFC chipset shipments and revenue will continue to grow steadily over the next five years, as the market adapts to this...
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Brightstar to Sells Ericsson's Fixed Wireless Terminal in N.A.
Ericsson announced it has appointed Brightstar, a global leader in customized distribution and supply chain solutions, to sell, customize and distribute its Fixed Wireless Terminal (FWT) solutions in North America. The FWT product allows homes, small businesses and other companies...
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Alltel Offers HTC Touch and 10 Number Circle of Free Calls
Alltel Wireless announced that the HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone, is now available at shopalltel.com and Alltel retail stores. The HTC Touch phone is available for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. This discounted price is available...
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LG Viewty Great Handwriting Recognition and 5 Mgpx Camera
The photogenic grandaughter of LG Prada named the LG Viewty, will be coming to a carrier in the near future and it's looking pretty good as well as deserving recognition for handwriting recogntion better than a Palm. I was able...
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iRiver GSM Phone in US Soon
Several news sources including PCMag reported that that iRiver is planning to release a GSM touchscreen phone with a 3 inch 480 x 272 touchscreen, 4GB of flash storage, Linux-based software, Rhapsody and other media support, and 2 megapixel camera...
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Location-Based Devices Now Notify Impacts & Accidents
Location Based Technologies, has announced that the company’s PocketFinder and PocketFinder Pets devices will include additional technology that measures impact and force. When a device experiences force beyond a predetermined limit, a “High Impact Alert” along with the current location...
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W&M News First Day @ CES 2008
If traffic is any indication of a successful and exciting trade show, then the traffic on the freeway into Las Vegas this afternoon at 4:00 pm for CES proves something spetacular is going on. It was bumper to bumper starting...
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ASUS GPS Travel Phone with Travel Log and SOS @ CES
ASUS, announced plans to launch its award-winning GPS smart phone in the United States early this year. The P527 was awarded the CES Innovation Design and Engineering award for 2008. The global GPS phone has Travelog and Location Courier features....
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Global Sony Walkman GPS Phone W760 @ CES
Sony Ericsson announced the W760, the first truly global Walkman phone with tri-band HSDPA and Quad-band EDGE, enabling broadband speed downloads of the latest music and content wherever in the world it is used. Offering music on your mobile and...
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Sony Releases Walkman phone W350 at CES
Sony Ericsson announced the launch of the W350, a Walkman phone at CES. The flip phone allows you to control your music at your fingertips. W350 Walkman phone features:Walkman(R) on Top to navigate music from simple keys on the phone’s...
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Sony Shows Speedy Transfer at CES with TransferJet 560Mbps
Sony introduced “TransferJet”, a newClose Proximity Wireless Transfer Technology enabling the high speed transfer of large data files (photos, HD images, etc.) between electronic devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, digitalvideo cameras, computers and TVs. Using this technology, data...
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Google Search, Maps and Mail on Samsung Phones @ CES
Samsung,, and Google Inc. announced a global cooperation to enable mobile phone users worldwide with quick and easy access to Google products and services - directly from their Samsung mobile phones. Beginning in early 2007, selected Samsung phones will be...
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Samsung Debuts New Handsets @ CES
Samsung Electronics debuted several new global handsets at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show.The Samsung SGH-i450 is aa dual slider phone with touch wheel music navigation. When the i450 slides up, the mobile phone supportsmartphone features with Symbian S60 OS....
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Motorola ROKR E8 Touchscreen Keyboard Morphs 4 Functionality
Motorola revealed a new concept in keyboarding at CES with its new ROKR E8 along with a nav wheel the touch screen metamorphoses into different keyboards for different functions, such as a phone dial pad, music player and with touchy-feely...
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Heads-Up for Gesture Controlled Sony Z555
Sony announced the Z555 flip phone with gesture control, which allows you to control phone with gestures.Other features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, outside display, music player, FM radio and stereo Bluetooth. The phone has diamond design on it and...
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Yahoo Mobile Competes with Widgets
In a series of announcements, Yahoo! outlined its strategy to try to gain marketshare away from Google. “Yahoo!’s ultimate goal is to bring the best possible Internet experience to the billions of mobile consumers around the globe,” said Marco Boerries,...
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MOTO Z10 Mini Film Studio Phone Launched @ CES
Motorola introduced the MOTO Z10 at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. The new MOTO Z10 is a complete, pocket-sized, mobile film studio. This kick slider makes it easy to capture high-quality video, edit clips, create transitions between scenes and...
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New Moto Music Phones @ CES W230 W270
Motorola, introduced of two new W series GSM handsets at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show . The new W230 and W270 handsets offer easy-to-use music capabilities, expandable memory with optional microSD card, clear audio in noisy environments, FM radio...
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Zoom Zooms in on iPhone Market with Transciever & Bluetooth Headphone
Zoom Technologies, Inc. announced it has begun shipping new additions to Zoom's iHiFi(TM) line of Bluetooth audio products. These new products include a Bluetooth transceiver that plugs into the dock connector of an iPod or iPhone, a Bluetooth wireless...
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65-69% Drop/Loose Cell Calls Due 2 Poor Signals in Home or Car
Wi-Ex, the leading provider of consumer cell phone signal boosters, announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show the results of its zBoost Car Survey which reveled that 65 percent of consumers who use their cell phone in their car have...
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Itsy Bitsy Projector for Mobile Available from 3M
3M has a new super small mini projector that could be built into cell phones, or other small devices.About the size of a wireless earpiece and less than half an inch thick, the 3M mobile projects VGA resolution images at...
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Contactless Wireless Power for Gadgets Available from Powercast at CES
A multitude of new devices powered without wires or even batteries will be possible with technologies that Powercast Corp. is showcasing at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Powercast has developed wireless, contactless solutions that send power to devices...
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Mini iPhone Clone Comes to U.S. Neonode N2 in Q2
Neonode will launch their latest mobile phone Neonode N2 in the United States in the second quarter of 2008. The phone uses patented neno user interface and zForce optical touch screen technology, offering users an intuitive and easy way to...
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Free Wi-Fi in SF from Meraki Needs Rooftop Volunteers, Has Funding
Meraki has announced its plans to blanket the entire city of San Francisco with volunteer free Wi-Fi coverage through solar-powered distributors on rooftops, attics, balconies (with free repeaters) by the end of 2008.The company also announced today Series B funding...
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Human Guided Text Search Available from ChaCha
ChaCha announced a new service that allows users to text questions of any kind to 242242 (ChaCha on a phone keypad) and to receive text answers on their cell phone. The answers are sent by a live person, called a...
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Wachovia Mobile Banking App Goes Live on Verizon
Verizon Wireless, and Wachovia Corporation announced Verizon Wireless customers who bank with Wachovia now have direct access to Wachovia Banking and BillPay services. Mobile banking services are available on compatible mobile devices through a downloadable application provided by Firethorn Holdings....
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Sprint, BART, Western Union and Jack Test NFC in SF
Sprint, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Jack in the Box, First Data, and Western Union SpeedPay have partnered to allow Sprint phone users to pay instead of tickets or cards using Near Field Communications (NFC.) The trial is being ...
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Phone Scoop LG Rumor Rumor False
There were rumors circulating in the Blogosphere in places such as Phone Scoop that the LG Rumor had a bug and it was pulled off the market. Yesterday Phone Scoop retracted their story:"Sprint says that low inventory levels of the...
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University of Utah Study Proves Drivers on Cell Phones Slow Traffic
Motorists who talk on cell phones drive slower on the freeway, pass sluggish vehicles less often and take longer to complete their trips, according to a University of Utah study that suggests drivers on cell phones congest traffic. “At the...
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Mt. Bachelor Resort's Mobile Snow Alerts and Coupons
Mt. Bachelor, a ski resort in Oregon and RocketBux, a mobile software company, announced t that RocketBux is providing mobile phone barcode coupons to the resort’s customers. This is the first application of optimized standard barcodes on phones ever used...
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Wristwsatch TWP-800 Available from Turtle Wireless 1/13
At CES, Turtle Wireless will introduce the TWP-800--a tri-band GSM phone designed to be worn like a wristwatch. This electronic device comes with a stereo Bluetooth headset, MP3/MP4 capabilities, touch screen, WAP/GPRS compatibility, and more. The TWP-800 will be...
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Over Holidays Mobile Searchers Looked for Big Retailers.
Data gathered by Mobile411 provider V-ENABLE shows that holiday shopping directory assistance searches for retail businesses tend to be mostly for big-named retailers. Top Retail Searches for V-Enable:1. Wal-Mart 2. Target 3. Game Stop 4. Best Buy 5. Walgreens 6....
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Broadcom Wins Patent Settlement
A federal judge has barred Qualcomm from selling three multimedia EV-DO chips that infringe on Broadcom patents. A "sunset provision," allows Qualcomm to continue selling older versions of the same products through January 2009, as long as Qualcomm pays Broadcom...
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