April 2008 Archives
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NMS Announces Partner Network
NMS Communications today unveiled the NMS Partner Network, a new partner program aimed at enhancing new product innovation, broadening efficient support services to customers and growing the company's global sales channel. The network establishes a community of technology and channel...
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Fierce Wireless Names Fierce 15
FierceWireless has named it’s top 15 of the most innovative and smart emerging companies in the wireless industry, FierceWireless’ annual Fierce 15 list. Bluepulse - a free mobile social messenger. Carrier IQ - the only company embedding diagnostic software in...
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Hands-On Creates Iron Man Mobile
Hands-On Mobile and Marvel Entertainment, announced the availability of the mobile game and personalization content around the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Marvel’s legendary Super Hero, Iron Man. The game and content is currently available on select carriers around the world,...
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AdMob Launches AdMob Analytics for Mobile Web
AdMob announced the introduction of AdMob Mobile Analytics. AdMob Mobile Analytics delivers a solution for understanding user behavior and makes it easy to measure the usage of mobile websites and advertising campaigns. AdMob Mobile Analytics, which runs independent of the...
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Project Capuchin Encapsulates Flash Lite in Java for Sony Phones
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced plans to release a new technology that, for the first time, bridges the Abobe®Flash Lite and Java ME development platforms. The new technology and tools, referred to as Project Capuchin, make it possible to combine...
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LG EnV (2) Available form Verizon April 30
Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, today announced the enV2 by LG will be available on April 30 at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across the nation. The new phone, revealed at CTIA WIRELESS 2008,...
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AP Mobile News Network Deployed Via Transpera
The Associated Press announced that wireless customers with video-capable phones will be able to view video on the soon-to-be launched Mobile News Network. To deliver this capability, The Associated Press has selected Transpera, a leading provider of mobile video services,...
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Anonymous Texting Tips to Law Enforcement with TipSoft
For the first time, mobile phone users across the United States and Canada now have the ability to provide anonymous crime fighting tips through the power of SMS text messaging. mBlox,, and Anderson Software, LLC, have joined together to provide...
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26 Million Mobile-Only Phone Homes in 2012 , Reports SNL Kagan.
Approximately 12 million households currently opt for a wireless-only phone connection, with that number expected to increase to about 26 million in 2012 (equal to about 22% of market share) reports SNL Kagan."The maturing of the younger, more tech-savvy demographic...
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Live Mobile Simulcast of Madonna on Verizon & Vodafone April 30
Verizon Wireless and Vodafone announced they are teaming up to deliver the first ever live global mobile simulcast, with performances from Madonna’s exclusive up-close and personal show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City where she will debut songs...
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Local Search to Reach 1.3 Mobile Users in 2013, Says Juniper Research
Nearly 1.3 billion mobile users - 30% of the subscriber base - are expected to utilize local mobile search services by 2013, according to a new report from industry analysts, Juniper Research. The report argues that the best equipped regions...
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iPhone vs BlackBerry - Loves & Hates from ChangeWave Research
BlackBerry’s and iPhones are the major contenders in the smartphone market and ChangeWave Research is trying to figure out why they are liked and disliked. ChangeWave looked at the features users love and hate about their iPhones and BlackBerrys as...
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Mobile Content Reaches $18.5 Billion, Says Multimedia Intelligence
The market for premium mobile content platforms grew almost 20% in 2007, resulting in a $3.4 billion share of the $18.5 billion of revenue generated by the mobile premium content market, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence (http://www.MultiMediaIntelligence.com). As...
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Verizon & Alltel Rank Highest in Customer Satisfaction, Says JD Power
Wireless customers who subscribe to plans that offer additional services such as in-network calling and unlimited text and picture messaging are typically more satisfied and exhibit greater loyalty than subscribers without unlimited plans, according to the J.D. Power and Associates...
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Coverage Price & Family Play Big Roles in Wireless Decisions
comScore, Inc. in the results of a study evaluating the behaviors and attitudes of wireless phone subscribers. found that price is important. The study - conducted from February 29 to March 5, 2008 - found that price has become an...
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iPhone's Touch to Be Immersed in Haptics, Says Palluxo
According to Palluxo.com:"Apple Inc is in talks with Immersion Corporation to licence Haptic Technology for its iPhone. Immersion Corporation on Thursday announced that they have appointed former Apple executive Clent Richardson to the position of President and CEO." A source (Apple...
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RRFC Touch from Wacom Low- Power Lighter Touch with No Scratches
Wacom announced a major innovation in capacitive touchscreen technology, called Reversing Ramped Field Capacitive (RRFC) touch, that will be publicly unveiled at the International Society for Information Display Exhibition, booth #1129, May 20 to 22, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.Wacom’s...
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New Minimalist Phones from Nokia with 3G, Tap Control or Video Out
Nokia unveiled a trio of minimalist lmobile devices: the Nokia 6600 fold, the Nokia 6600 slide and the Nokia 3600. The devices are expected to start shipping during the third quarter of 2008. "There is a strong consumer demand for...
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Mobile Golden Compass Ads Increase Awareness, Says Greystripe
Greystripe, ad-supported mobile games and applications distributor, announced the results of a mobile advertising campaign with New Line Cinema for the film, “The Golden Compass”.The users exposed to “The Golden Compass” ads on the Greystripe network exhibited the following: Significant...
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$412 Million in On-Deck SociNet Revenues by 2012, Says Frost and Sullivan
The concept of mobile social networking is catching on in the U.S., as all tier-I and tier-II operators now offer social networking applications. Support from mobile operators expects to directly impact application discoverability, provide marketing support, and drive growth in...
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New Affordable HSDPA Phones from Sony Z780 & G502
Sony Ericsson introduced two new HSDPA phones into its line-up; each clearly designed to take its range of web-enabled phones in a different direction. The Z780 expands the company’s range of devices for markets outside of Europe and the compact...
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Skype Releases Beta Mobile for Java Phones
Following recent moves to extend Skype conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step as it continues to merge its internet communications software with mobile phones. The company released a beta...
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AT&T & Starbucks Wi-Fi Free for AT&T Customers Starting May 1
AT&T and Starbucks today announced the beginning of the rollout of AT&T Wi-Fi service at company-operated Starbucks stores, kicking off a nationwide effort that will continue through 2008. At the 2008 AT&T Inc. Annual Meeting of Stockholders in San Antonio,...
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Review of Reviews LG enV2 enV(2) Updated
As we promised, early in April we have updated the Review of the Reviews for the LG enV2 enV(2) VX9100 from Verizon. The enV (2) will be released April 30,2008....
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AT&T Mobility to Sell Femtocells
According to RCR Wireless News, a report from research and banking firm ThinkPanmure revealed that AT&T Mobility plans to sell up to 7 million femtocells from ip.access Ltd., a femtocell vendor in Cambridge, England.ThinkPanmure, notes that AT&T signed a contract...
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3G iPhone to Launch June 9?
According to several reports the new 3G iPhone (HSDPA) is expected to be launched June 9 during Steve Job’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The iPhones should then arrive in stores a few months later....
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289 Million Mobile Devices in 1Q 2008, Says ABI Research
“Operators and distributors continued to top up their inventories in 1Q 2008 after a particularly strong 4Q 2007,” says ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders. “Year on year, 1Q 2008 was up 13.7%, but 2Q 2008 is likely to be...
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Infineon HSDPA XMM 6080 for Samsung Handsets
Infineon Technologies AG announced that Samsung Electronics, Inc., Seoul, Korea, has chosen Infineon’s HSDPA Platform XMM 6080 for their new family of HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) mobile handsets. Samsung is introducing a comprehensive family using the Infineon XMM 6080 platform. The platform...
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3 Billion Mobile Coupons to Phone Users by 2011, Says Juniper Research
New figures from analyst firm Juniper Research estimate that almost 3 billion mobile coupons will be issued to Mobile Users by 2011, with just under $7 billion of discounts redeemed. The new Juniper study finds that mobile coupons are becoming...
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T-Mobile May Offer 1st Android Mobile Phone
According to Dow Jones Newswire:At the Wireless Innovations 2008 conference in Redwood City, Calif., Joe Sims, vice president and general manager of T-Mobile's broadband and new business division, said he had already seen prototypes of the company's Android-based phone, which...
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Mobile Marketing Association Global Mobile Ad Guidelines Announced
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), (www.mmaglobal.com), which represents more than 600 companies across the mobile marketing ecosystem, today announced the release of its global Mobile Advertising Guidelines. The first set of global guidelines issued by the association, are designed to...
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Apple Sells 1.7 Million iPhones in Q2 2008
In its quarterly report, Apple admitted that quarterly iPhonesales were 1,703,000 higher than first quarter shipments of 1.1 million units. Reports say that Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer says the company is still committed to reaching 10 million iPhone sold during...
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NextWave Selling Big Spectrum Footprint
NextWave Wireless Inc. announced that it is offering for sale its extensive spectrum holdings in the United States. NextWave's U.S. spectrum footprint covers over 251 million people, or pops, in the United States and includes major markets such as New...
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Nokia Teams with Spike Lee for Social Mobile Film
Nokia announced an multimedia film production with Academy Award nominated director, Spike Lee. Nokia Productions will create the world’s first social film built entirely by everyday people using their mobile devices to generate and submit original content which will then...
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Mobile NBA Playoffs Info Available at NBA.go2.com
go2 Media (www.go2.com) announced the debut of its mobile website dedicated to providing basketball fans up-to-date information on the NBA Playoffs (NBA.go2.com). The mobile website offers users game and telecast schedules, up-to-the-minute scores of the entire 2008 NBA playoffs and...
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MME Revenue in US $3.1 Billion, Says Analysys
Revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) services in the US will more than double during the next five years, according to the latest research from Analysys, the global advisers on telecoms, IT and digital media (www.analysys.com). US MME services...
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Men's Health Readers Can Now Snaptell Advertisers
Men's Health has partnered with SnapTell, the leading provider of image recognition-based mobile marketing solutions, to create the first fully interactive advertising magazine in America. Men's Health's July/August summer issue, hitting newsstands June 24, will feature enabled or "live" ads...
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Tribeca Film Festival - Verizon Exclusive
Verizon Wireless, and Verizon announced that the companies will offer exclusive video from the Tribeca Film Festival on Verizon Wireless' V CAST Video service and on Verizon's FiOS TV video-on-demand (VOD) service. Customers will be able to view trailers,...
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Tellme Local Search with GPS & Live Serach for BlackBerry
Tellme, a Microsoft subsidiary, announced the addition of local 'on-the-go' information to its voice portal for mobile phones. Now instead of typing in a request or scrolling through menus to find information, people can simply hold down the 'talk' button,...
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Non Wi-Fi GPS BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Available from AT&T
AT&T and Research In Motion today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone, which includes built-in global positioning system (GPS) support for location-based applications and services. Combined with navigation and mapping applications such as AT&T Navigator, the handset...
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Apple buys PA Semi for Super Chips?
Apple is buying the microprocessor company PA Semi for a approximately $278 million reports Forbes. PA Semi is known for low-power, sophisticated chipsets which could enhance iPhones and iPods....
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Anniversary Gift from Alltel Another Circle Number
In celebration the second anniversary of “My Circle,” Alltel Wireless is unveiling a special bonus number to customers, making the most cost-effective unlimited calling plan in the wireless industry even better. Beginning today, all customers celebrating their two-year anniversary with...
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AT&T Wireless Revenue Increased to $11.8 Billion in 1st Q
AT&T announced that it delivered strong wireless growth in the first quarter, reflecting the company's high-quality network, innovative services, attractive handset selection, extensive sales reach and continued improvements in operations. First-quarter 2008 results included: Accelerated Wireless Revenue Growth -Total wireless...
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Make SmartPhones WalkingHotSPot with TapRoot Software
TapRoot Systems Inc., a developer of software for the smartphone market, today announced that it is providing free trial versions of its WalkingHotSpot solution to Wi-Fi enabled smartphone users. In response to massive world-wide inquiries surrounding the recent announcement of...
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SONY BMG Joins Nokia Comes with Music.
Nokia today announced that SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT has officially joined Nokia Comes With Music. People who buy a Nokia Comes With Music device will have a year of access to the SONY BMG rich catalog of music. Consumers will...
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Nokia Introduces Xpress Music 5320 5220
Nokia today introduced two new music-enabled devices as additions to its XpressMusic range. The new Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic offer a range of affordable music and entertainment experiences with the most fresh, stylish designs on the market....
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Push-to-FreeMobile 411 Available on Sprint
V-ENABLE, local mobile search and directory assistance services announced the availability of a full-featured downloadable version of FreeMobile411 to Sprint customers. The announcement comes hot on the heels of the launch of the FreeMobile411 mobile internet site earlier this month....
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Samsung Chairman Resigns After Indictment
Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee resigned after indictment for tax evasion and breach of fiduciary trust. He publicly apologized on TV. It is suspected that Lee hid about $4.5 billion worth of Samsung stock in accounts with borrowed names. He is...
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IBM Mobile Research for More Mobile Reach
At the 10th anniversary commemoration of IBM’s India Research Lab, the company today unveiled a new initiative to bring even more features and functions to mobile devices as they continue to rival the PC as the primary tool for Web-based...
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APC Buys MVNO Movida.
Movida, the United State’s largest Latino-focused MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), was purchased by Cozac, LLC a subsidiary of APC Wireless. The acquisition of Movida and Liberty Wireless (acquired January 2008) enhances APC Wireless’s commitment to growing its MVNO strategy....
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Motorola Invests in VirtualLogix for Multiple Mobile OS on Phones
Motorola, Inc. through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, announced today it made an equity investment in VirtualLogix, a maker of virtualization software for communications devices and infrastructure equipment. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. VirtualLogix is...
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Wireless Internet On Town & Country and Caravan in Late '08
Chrysler will be equipping the ChryslerTown & Country and the Dodge Caravan minivan with Wi-Fi and 4G in the 4th Quarter of 2008 and early 2009. This service will allow for Internet connections, email and music downloads....
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Top Mobile Brands from BrandZ
“Mobile Service Providers” has emerged as the fastest growing industry category in terms of brand value growth, according to the 2008 BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands ranking released by global market research and consulting firm Millward Brown. Led by...
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fring Sneak Peaks 1st VoIP App For iPhone
fring became the world’s first mobile VoIP application to be made publicly available for the iconic apple iPhone, enabling users to talk, chat and interact with other fring users (“fringsters”) and all of their online communities, using their iPhone’s Wi-Fi...
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MedioFLO TV Goes Live In San Diego Via Verizon
Cell phone users in San Diego can now access live television programming on the go with MediaFLO USA’s FLO TV service, which launched in San Diego today with Verizon Wireless as V CAST Mobile TV. A subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated,...
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AT&T Gives $100 Million to Help Stop HS Dropping Out
Doing its part to help address the issue of nearly one-third of U.S. high school students dropping out, AT&T announced the launch of AT&T Aspire, a $100 million philanthropic program, which includes job shadowing for 100,000 students nationwide, to help...
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AT&T Completes Acquisition of Edge Wireless
AT&T announced that the company has completed, through a subsidiary, the acquisition of Edge Wireless. Edge is a provider of wireless communications services in Oregon, northern California, Idaho and Wyoming. AT&T says that addition of Edge’s wireless network will allow...
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Sprint Supports Pope's NY Visit with P-T-P -- Pope, Where U At ?
Sprint, has been selected to provide critical communications support for Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visit to New York City. Sprint’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) is providing - upon request of the Archdiocese of New York (ADNY) - 600 Sprint phones,...
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Mobile Media Spending to Reach $102 Billion by 2012, Says Strategy Analytics
Total spending on mobile media services by consumers and advertisers, including web access, video and music products, will more than double from almost $47 billion in 2007 to over $102 billion by 2012 according to a new Strategy Analytics report,...
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Text & Shout for Tweens on Radio Disney Mobile Web
Radio Disney,, launches a new Radio Disney Mobile website and texting program developed in conjunction with mDisney, a part of the Walt Disney Internet Group. The new Radio Disney Mobile Web site allows users of web-enabled mobile phones to receive...
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Search from Camera Phones By Taking Pics Available in Japan this Spring
Evolution Robotics Inc., in partnership with Bandai Networks Co. Ltd, Japan’s leading mobile content provider, announced that KDDI Corporation is including the “ER Search” visual search engine on its new Spring 2008 “au™” line of camera phones, and has made...
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Young Men Repond to Mobile, Says M: Metrics
M:Metrics revealed the demographics and size of the audiences for mobile media. The measurement firm reports that young males are a rich target for mobile advertisers, as among mobile phone users 36 percent of 18 to 34-year-old men accessed mobile...
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AT&T Starbucks Wi-Fi and Surface Surface in San Antonio.
San Antonio is the place for AT&T Wi-Fi at Starbucks and use of the super touchscreen table Surface in AT&T stores that works as a sales tool. There have been several reports that the first AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot at Starbucks...
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100 Million LBS In Europe by 2012, Syas Berg Insight
According to a new report from the telecom research firm Berg Insight, more than 100 million mobile subscribers in Europe will use location-based services by 2012. Mapping, navigation and search are believed to become the top applications, followed by social...
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Watch for EPOQ Watch Phone Soon
Epoq Multimedia has brought new meaning the word handset a wristwatch mobile phone that runs Windows Mobile 5.0. The Epoq EGP-WP98B includes a 1.8-inch OLED (organic light emitting diode) screen, quad-band GSM telephony, Bluetooth, WiFi, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and...
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816 Million Mobile Banking Customers by 2011, Says Juniper
A new report by Juniper Research into the mobile financial services sector has found that the number of consumers accessing banking services and products via their mobile phones will reach 816 million by 2011, a tenfold increase on the number...
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Alltel Launches PhotoCopter Automatic Photo Transfer to PC & Web
Alltel Wireless has teamed with Ontela to bring their customers PhotoCopter, a service that saves every camera phone picture customers snap to their home computers and favorite web photo albums. The PhotoCopter service is exclusively available to Alltel customers with...
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40,000 Attended CTIA Wireless 2008
CTIA WIRELESS 2008 played host to a global contingent of more than 40,000 attendees from 125 countries at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 1 - 3, says the CTIA Wireless Association. More than 1,200 exhibitors showcased the latest in...
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Pill Phone Service Available on Verizon
Verizon Wireless, the builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, and VOCEL, publisher of premium branded mobile phone applications, today announced the availability of The Pill Phone, a new Get It Now application that provides Verizon Wireless...
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TouchScreen XV6900 Available from Verizon
Verizon Wireless, the owner and operator of the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, announced that the XV6900 is available from the company's online store beginning today. It will be in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in...
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CTIA Asks Congress for Hiatus of Wireless Taxes
CTIA, The Wireless Association and its member companies are urging Congress to pass legislation requiring a five-year hiatus on new discriminatory state and local wireless taxes. To achieve this goal, Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) introduced the...
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Crush or Flush Adds Advertising Golden Ticket
IceBreaker Inc., announced a new interactive mobile advertising feature called Golden Ticket which is now an integral part of the Crush or Flush community. Crush or Flush is a social network where members meet people, chat and flirt by browsing...
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T-Mobile Juices Up with JuiceCaster
JuiceCaster, a mobile social-networking service, is set to launch on T-Mobile USA. The wireless carrier will make JuiceCaster version 6.0 available on 12 of its top handsets. T-Mobile joins Alltel, US Cellular and Cricket Wireless as the US operators who...
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AOL Acquires Sphere Source
AOL today announced that it has acquired Sphere Source, Inc., a leading provider of contextual-search tools which offers related content to publishers. Sphere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company’s Programming division, which...
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Nokia 6212 NFC Mobile Payment Phone Launched
Nokia announced the availability of the Nokia 6212 classic featuring integrated Near Field Communication (NFC). The 3G handset allows consumers to conveniently share content, access services and information as well as conduct payments and ticketing with one tap of the...
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More Carriers Push Push-To-Talk Via 3G
Wireless carriers are planing to push, push-to-talk services that turn a phone into a walk-talkie. Verizon will be launching a faster push-to-talk service this summer on its 3G network, notes the Wall Street Journal. Metro PCS launches P-T-P last week....
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Telisma 30 Mile WiMAX System Tested and Working
Telsima Corporation, a global leader in WiMAX systems, announced today that is has successfully demonstrated a 50km (30mile) high capacity broadband connection using its Sub-GHz WiMAX system in a 3 MHz channel under near line of sight conditions in the...
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Ad Supported AP Mobile News and Lower Rates for Newspapers
The development of a new product to deliver news to Apple’s iPhone and other smart phones was announced on Monday by Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley at the AP’s annual meeting. The Mobile News Network, which brings together...
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Total Annual Mobile Adspending to Exceed $1 Billion this Year, Says Juniper
Mobile streamed and broadcast TV services will become the most lucrative delivery channels for mobile advertising by 2010, according to a new report by Juniper Research. The report says that total annual adspend on the mobile will exceed $1 billion...
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Microsoft Absorbs Danger Mobile Software Developer
Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced today. Danger’s expertise in building great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and...
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Hispanics and Other Ethnic Markets Will Spend $60 Billion on Telecommunications, Says Insight Research Corp.
In 2008, US ethnic communities will spend $59.8 billion on telecommunications services, accounting for over one-third of all residential telecom expenditures, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. The largest minority group, Hispanics, representing 14.8...
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Fixed Broadband to Grow with Great Demand, Says Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of "2008 Global Broadband Market - Demand for Faster Networks" to their offering. The primary driver behind users upgrading to broadband is simple - users want fast Internet connections. And as the...
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E-Ten 3G Java Glofish 750 810 Smartphones Available in 3 Weeks
E-TEN Information Systems has announced the Glofiish M810 and M750, the first in a new series of Pocket PC Phones that put the focus on portable entertainment, dynamic social networking, and go-anywhere communications ideal for the web 2.0 generation. E-TEN’s...
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AT&T Goes Underground for Subway Calls/Data on Blue Line in Philly
AT&T announced it has deployed an exclusive, wireless system that provides network coverage along the entire Market-Frankford subway line including the underground section between 40th and 2nd Streets. Operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the Market-Frankford line is...
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MobiTV Trials Interactive Apps Using A-VSB Open Standard
MobiTV revealed that it will be participating in and providing interactive capabilities for the consumer trials also announced today by the A-VSB Initiative. The consumer trials are planned for later in 2008 in one or more U.S. markets and will...
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Ultra Low Power Bluetooth (ULP) Demoed Uses Less Power
CSR gave the first public demonstration of its Ultra Low Power (ULP) Bluetooth silicon.CSR gave the successful demonstration at the Continua Health Alliance medical conference in Luxembourg. The demonstrations showed that CSR’s ULP Bluetooth silicon consumes 10 times less power...
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New VZ Navigator Includes Traffic, Gas & Ent. in 75 Cities
Verizon Wireless, and Networks In Motion (NIM), the award-winning wireless navigation and hyper-local search company, announced that the newest version of VZ Navigator will be available sometime in April. With the new VZ Navigator (Version 4), customers in 75 cities...
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Verizon Launches Unlimited Web & Email Smartphone Plan $29.99 mo
Verizon Wireless E-mail and Web for Smartphone, available today, offers customers a host of features including an unlimited data allowance for e-mail and Internet browsing. The plan supports up to 10 personal e-mail accounts, including those from popular Internet service...
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Vendors Support LTE
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have today announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to...
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Verizon Supplies & Tracks FBI's Int'l BlackBerry 8830 World Phones
Verizon Wireless announced the deployment of 19,500 internationally enabled BlackBerry 8830 World Edition Smartphones to more than 56 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices worldwide. The devices are part of the agency’s Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Mobility Program and provide...
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HipCricket Launches 1st Hispanic Mobile Marketing Network
HipCricket, a pioneering mobile marketing company, launched the first-ever comprehensive Hispanic mobile marketing network. The network is composed of a family of Hispanic media properties that can be leveraged by brand marketers to deliver highly targeted and interactive mobile marketing...
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1.5 Billion Mobile Browsers by 2013, Says ABI
While a large number of phones today still use browsers with very limited web browsing capabilities, many smartphones are incorporating browsers that support the latest capabilities such as AJAX and RSS, as well as websites optimized for viewing on a...
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Tesco Study Shows Female Mobile Picks & Clicks
Tesco Mobile has published a detailed media pack for agencies and brands based on a trial, which was managed by mobile services company, InfoMedia Services. They have confirmed Tesco Mobile’s WAP portal to be a responsive advertising medium for major...
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Samsung to Embed CNN News In Handsets
Samsung Electronics and CNN International announced their contract to offer Samsung mobile phone users an easier access to CNN multimedia news service. Samsung host this new Java service, which was demonstrated in February at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. The...
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WirelessCareer.com Opens to Serve Wireless Industry
WirelessCareer.com announced the launch of a new and unique career network, exclusively servicing professionals in the wireless industry. According to research by CTIA, it is estimated that 3.6 million jobs depend, directly and indirectly, on the U.S. wireless industry. That...
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One Economy Broadens Broadband to Lower-Income Americans
One Economy Corporation, a global nonprofit, announced the launch of the Bring IT Home America campaign at an event demonstrating the broad range of support for a national strategy to increase digital inclusion. This two-year campaign is a member-supported effort...
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100 Million Panasonic Handsets Sold in Japan
Panasonic announced that cumulative domestic shipments of mobile phone handsets have topped 100 million units.Making it the first Japanese company to have shipped more than 100 million units of mobile phone handsets, including car phones, to domestic telecommunications services operators.The...
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Hop-On Has High Hopes and Hopefully Big Orders for $20 GSM Phone
Hop-on, Inc.announced today that its low end GSM cell phone with no LCD screen was a big success during CTIA meetings in Las Vegas, resulting in an initial test purchase order of 10,000 phones. The phone sells for $20. The...
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Free Mobile Ice Coffee Coupons @ McDonald's from Cellfire
Cellfire today announced a McDonald’s promotion in Utah that offers consumers free iced coffee, when they use Cellfire mobile coupons at participating McDonald’s locations. The McDonald’s free iced coffee promotion runs until through April 27, as part of the launch...
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Beta Version of Opera Browser Available for Android
Opera Labs has developed an Opera Mini version that will run on Google’s Android open mobile development platform available for download now. Although there is no hardware currently running Android, you can try it out on the Adnroid SDK....
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Mobile Tech Dosen't Meet Demographic Needs, Says Gartner
Sixty-eight percent of the world's population is women and children who could benefit much from mobile technology, but the majority of mobile devices are designed by men, for men, according to Gartner, Inc. The user profile to which most mobile...
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FCC Approves Mobile Cell Phone Emergency Alerts
The Federal Communications Commission passed guidelines for mobile alerts during emergencies and disasters, named the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) . Wireless carriers that choose to participate in the CMAS will transmit text-based alerts to their subscribers. Consumers can expect...
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Review of Reviews
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 a Mobile Windows Winner, by Review of Reviews from Wireless and Mobile NewsThe Sony Xperia X1 has been called "the most hyped" handset to come out of Mobile World Congress by FiereceMobileIT, and a "solid contender...
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Accelerometers Accelerating & Innovating, Says ABI
MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) accelerometers have hit the limelight in the past year, although most consumers are probably quite unaware that they make the Nintendo Wii’s motion-sensing remote control and the Apple iPhone’s self-orienting display possible. But according to ABI...
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1/2 of World's Population on GSM, Says 3G Americas
Americas, a wireless industry group announced the technology milestone of 3 billion GSM and UMTS/HSPA subscriptions worldwide, based upon research and projections by Informa Telecoms and Media. Today, 88% of the world’s 3.5 billion mobile wireless subscriptions are to the...
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36% Send 25-100 Txt Msgs a Month, Says Wirefly - Majority to Friends & Family
Wirefly released the results of its recently completed behavioral survey on consumer text messaging. Compiled through a survey of thousands of U.S.-based cell phone users (survey details below), the Wirefly.com research confirmed the rapid growth in text messaging usage, with...
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Tripit Mobile Delivers Free Mobile Travel Help
TripIt (www.tripit.com), announced the launch of TripIt Mobile, allowing travelers to access TripIt from popular mobile devices, including Apple iPhone, Palm Treo and RIM Blackberry. TripIt helps travelers better organize their online travel plans—no matter where they’ve booked—by just forwarding...
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Nokia N-Gage Worldwide Mobile Game Contest Launched
Nokia launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, designed to encourage development of innovative game concepts to help propel mobile gaming with handheld devices into a new and exciting future. Sponsored by Nokia Publishing, the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge invites...
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SoundBite Delivers Txt 2 Sprint 4 Free
SoundBite Communications, Inc. announced that it has received approval from Sprint to deliver Free-to-End-User (FTEU) text messages on the Nationwide Sprint Network. Organizations view FTEU text messaging as a service differentiator which allows them to deliver text messages without the...
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Digital Music Sales 40% of Market by 2012, Says In-Stat
Digital sales of music represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from 6% in 2006, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). By 2012, digital music sales will represent an impressive 40% of all music purchased worldwide, the high-tech market...
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Nokia "Tube" Touchscreen Phone Due 2nd 1/2 2008
There have been reports that Nokia reps have been discussing a new touchscreen Nokia phone, code named “Tube.”It is expected to launch in the second half of 2008 and include support for Java, and ability to upload photos using the...
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Alltel to Offer Text-to-Landline Service.
Messaging International Plc,signed an agreement with Alltel Wireless, to provide itsText-to-Landline service. This application will allow Alltel Wireless subscribers to send text messages from a wireless phone to any landline phone and receive responses back to the wireless phone. With...
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1GB of Free Storage from Cortado
Cortado and Box.net have today announced the launch of "Cortado Connect for Box.net," a new solution with optimized access to Internet storage services for BlackBerry smartphone users with a BlackBerry Internet Service account. The software offers users the ability to...
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Sanyo Pro Series QChat Phones for Nextel Direct Connect
The new “PRO Series” line by SANYO expands Sprint’s portfolio of Nextel Direct Connect devices, adding new designs, advanced technology, and improved productivity features to the lineup. The PRO Series will offer instant call set-up times of less than one...
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OtterBox Now Protects BlackBerry Devices
Last minute business meetings, fast-paced work environments and frequent travel can be harsh on your delicate BlackBerry and if you haven't experienced it, you can certainly imagine the terror of a broken device-- inaccessibility, lost contacts, missed calls and no...
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Verizon Hiring Even in Stressful Economy On-Site Health Club & Lunch Benifits
Verizon is hiring according to a recent news release: "We're proud to offer unique benefits beyond the basics of health, dental and vision insurance, and know our programs are contributing to our growth," says Verizon Wireless director of Human Resources,...
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Apple Increases Browser Share, Says StatCounter
Apple has increased its share of the Internet browser market in the US by 64% between December and March according to StatCounter, which provides organizations and individuals with a free website visitor statistics tool.(1) Globally iPhone/iTouch has more than doubled...
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Wireless Skills Most Important Next 5 Years, Says Comp TIA
Technology workers looking to keep their skills out front of employers’ future needs would be wise to focus on wireless technologies, research commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) indicates. A survey of more than 3,500 information technology (IT)...
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Nokia N-Gage Game Community Opens
Nokia launched the Nokia N-Gage mobile games service with more games, additional compatible devices, and an expanded online offering. Millions of Nokia device owners can now find, try and buy high-quality made-for-mobile games directly from their mobile device. Players can...
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Android Installed and Working on Nokia N810
Google Android has been successfully installed on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. The Wiki page at elinux.org shows how to install it and get it to work. We tried to view the page and the server is either overloaded or...
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Remote Login/Data with LogMeIn for Symbian S60 smartphones
LogMeIn, Inc., announced the general availability of its LogMeIn Rescue+Mobile for smartphones running the Symbian S60 platform - giving carriers, corporate IT departments and IT service organizations the ability to remotely access and troubleshoot a Symbian S60, 3rd generation smartphones....
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Mobile Data Market Growing, Says Chetan Sharma
Chetan Sharma Consulting conducted its semiannual study on the global mobile data industry. They studied wireless data trends in over 40 major countries - from developed and mature markets such as Japan, Korea, UK, and Italy to hyper growth markets...
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NTT Com Sniff Tests Smell Cell Phone Play Service
NTT Communications announced today that it will conduct a pilot test of its new Mobile Fragrance Communication (Kaori Tsushin Mobile) service, a mobile version of an existing service for enjoying downloaded audiovisual content together with specific fragrances that are emitted...
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Yahoo Not Ready For Microsoft Takeover
Yahoo's Board of Directors sent a letter to Steve Ballmer informing Microsoft that although it not against a takeover, Yahoo it worth more than the price offered due improvements and that they want a deal that provides "certainty to our...
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Gobi Chip In Notebooks to Ship Soon
Qualcomm's Gobi chip which allows for access to HSPA and EV-DO networks will be incorporated into Dell, Lenvo and HP notebook computers, later this year. HSPA is more popular in Europe and EV-DO more popular in the Americas. This solution...
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Motorola & Icahn Agree to Nominations, No Proxies & No Litigation
Motorola, Inc. and Carl Icahn today announced that they have reached an agreement under which William R. Hambrecht, and Keith Meister, a managing director of the Icahn investment funds and principal executive officer of Icahn Enterprises, will be nominated for...
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LG Vu LG-CU920 AT&T Review of Reviews
LG Vu Rated 4 out 5 - Review of Reviews by Wireless and Mobile News (Revised 05/01/2008) The LG Vu is the US Version of the LG Prada phone with the added capabilities of 3G/HSPA and Media Flo TV. The...
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Review of Reviews Sprint Samsung Instinct SPH-M800
Sprint Samsung Instinct Rated 4 out of 5 by Review of Reviews from Wireless and Mobile New (Updated June 17, 2008)The Samsung is Sprint's first EV-DO Rev. A 3G phone and because of its iPhone-likeness, many reviewers compared it to...
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enV2 enV(2) VX9100 Verizon Review of Reviews
Samsung enV2 VX9100 from Sprint Rated 4 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News (Revised 05/01/2008)The eV2 by LG is now available. The first impressions of the phone are favorable for the large bright interior screen, texting/email capabilities, QWERTY...
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Velocity Mobile Launches New Smartphones in Q2 and Q3 2008
Velocity Mobile is launching new smartphones with an emphasis on ease-of-use, sleek and attractive design, and high-end features, Velocity Mobile aims to combinine Western design philosophy and Eastern manufacturing efficiencies to bring no-compromise experiences and value to consumers.Featuring Microsoft Windows...
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Mobile Viruses Malware on the Rise, Says Panda
A report from Panda Labs notes that mobile phone viruses have been a looming threat for years, with Q1 threats from the SymbOS/Beselo and WinCE/InfoJack.A, and the appearance of the first iPhone Trojan. They say that the release of Apple's...
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Slingshot Com Launches Prepaid Wireless Broadband 6/1/08
Slingshot Communications Inc. today announced the availability of the first prepaid wireless broadband access product in the United States. With this service, companies and individuals who want to access the Internet through a wireless connection no longer need to be...
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Apple iTunes Top Music Retailer
Apple announced that the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US, based on the latest data from the NPD Group. With over 50 million customers, iTunes has sold over four billion songs...
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Google Never Planned to Win But Opened Up Spectrum
According to the Google Public Policy Blog. "Google didn't win licenses in the auction. Nonetheless, partly as a result of our bidding, consumers soon should have new freedom to get the most out of their mobile phones and other wireless...
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Qualcomm Spectrum for MediFlo TV
Qualcomm announced that it has acquired eight licenses in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s 700 MHz spectrum auction at a total cost of $558.1 million. Qualcomm purchased licenses in the E block covering the Boston, Los Angeles, New York City,...
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AT&T Spectrum Good for Reliabliity & 4G - AT&T 3G Ready End of 2008
AT&T completed successful bids for prime B Block spectrum in the FCC auction AT&T’s spectrum holdings position the company to further enhance the quality and reliability of existing wireless broadband and voice services that consumers are demanding, and set the...
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C-Block Spectrum for LTE by 2010, Says Verizon
Verizon Wireless said today that the spectrum it gained in the FCC’s recent 700 MHz auction is a critical piece of its overall broadband strategy to take advantage of the enormous opportunity for growth in data services in the future....
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Mobile Location Based Services to Reach $13.3 Billion in 2013, Says ABI
After years of hype, mobile Location Based Services (LBS) are finally gaining traction among wireless subscribers. This growth is driven on the supply side by WCDMA and GSM handsets increasingly joining the many CDMA-based devices that incorporate GPS capabilities;...
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Navteq LBS Award Winners Announced
The Navteq LBS Awards were announced at CTIA. The winning entries were: Grand Prize Winner: Spotjots from N23 lst: Mediated Spaces Wildlab 2nd: heywhatsthat 3rd America's Emergency Network...
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3G @ AT&T Soon
It was heard at CTIA Wireless that soon all AT&T smartphones will be 3G. No official announcenment has been made yet. But Ralph de la Vega was quoted by Rueters, "You're going to see our integrated devices be 3G in...
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Andy Choice Award Winners Announced
Andrew Seybold, Inc. announced the winners of its Andrew Seybold Choice Awards at CTIA Wireless 2008. Choice Award winners were announced at the 18th Annual Andrew Seybold Wireless Dinner at the Venetian Hotel.. The evening's awards centered around the theme...
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Samsung Instinct Best and Other Winners Announced at CTIA Wireless
CTIA WIRELESS 2008 announced the winners of the third annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. The E-Tech awards honor the best products and innovations in a number of categories representing the wireless ecosystem, including mobile consumer electronics, consumer mobile applications, enterprise...
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Samsung Brings Mobile Life to 2nd Life, Life Diary & Softboard
Samsung Electronics today showed several innovative wireless solutions at CTIA Wireless 2008. The applications include 3D Second Life mixed blogging, LifeDiary, and Softboard. The latest in a series of tools designed to enrich the Second Life Grid, the platform behind...
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Yahoo Unveils oneSearch 2.0 Vocalized, Multimodoal & Open Search
Today, Yahoo! Inc. unveiled Yahoo! oneSearch 2.0. Key enhancements will allow users to initiate searches faster using text or voice. Yahoo! also plans to provide greater relevance through richer, more detailed search results by opening up Yahoo! oneSearch to...
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CTIA Day 1 Round-Up April 1
The CTIA Wireless convention on Tuesday, April 1- showed the diversity and new directions of the business. They are moving forward and upward with new devices and services to bring the Internet to the masses at faster speeds with ease of use. Nokia...
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Sprint Still into WiMAX Announces Instinct, Nokia and More Deals
WSprint announced further progress with the development of its Mobile WiMAX network ecosystem, citing application program, wireless device and services developments which collectively will enhance the XOHM customer mobile Internet experience. "Sprint has taken a leadership role in the...
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New Handsets & Devices from Motorola
Today at CTIA in Las Vegas, Motorola, Inc.expanded its mobiledevice portfolio in the US with the introduction of handsets and accessories that deliver must-have features and the style consumers' desire. MOTO Z9 and MOTO V950 , available exclusively through...
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Windows Mobile Updated
Microsoft Corp.announced. At CTIA Wireless 2008, the company unveiled the newest version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which adds desktop-grade Web browsing to Windows Mobile phones. In addition, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1, an update for its Windows Mobile software that...
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Sprint's Samsung Instinct Has GPS 3G TV & HTML WEB
Sprint and Samsung Mobile today announced the upcoming availability of a new wireless device, Samsung Instinct, which offers full touch-screen functionality with fast speeds available on the nation's largest mobile broadband network. Samsung Instinct, exclusively available from Sprint, has...
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Nokia Demos in Upwardly Mobile WiMAX Boardroom in the Sky
Driving into Vegas on the Way to CTIA Wireless, amongst the cranes constructing mega massive hotel casinos, hanging from one crane was a bunch of blue-suited early adopters strapped on a flying mobile office. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is...
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HTC Touch Dual Coming to US, HTC Phones Will Upgrade to Win 6.1
Today at CTIA, HTC announced that the popular HTC Touch Dual will debut in the United States this quarter. The HTC Touch Dual combines an intuitive touch screen integrated with HTC's TouchFLO technology and slide-out keypad. In addition, the HTC...
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Kyocera's 3 New CDMA Handsets
Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced three new CDMA handsets at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas. Headlined by the Kyocera Neo E1100, the lineup features elegant designs packed with features.. Along with the Neo E1100, KWC introduced the Kyocera...
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BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Available from T-Mobile
T-Mobile and RIM announced the availability of the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, a handset with the power of built-in Wi-Fi support. The newest Pearl provides consumers with a stylish way to stay connected by adding Wi-Fi connectivity for both voice and...
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Samsung Debuts Soul, miCoach, Touch F480, Music F400 & Wi-Fi G810
Samsung Electronics is showcasing several of its newhandsets at CTIA Wireless 2008. These handsets are making their U.S. debut at the show and exemplify cutting-edge technology and design innovation. The Samsung Soul is the completion of the Samsung’s renowned Ultra...
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Diabetes Monitoring for Nokia S60 Devices from Sinovo & Red Five
Sinovo, makers of SiDiary, the most popular diabetes monitoring software, and Red Five Labs, providers of Net60, the .NET framework for Symbian mobile phones, announce the upcoming availability of SiDiary for the Nokia S60 3rd edition platform. SiDiary was written...
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Qualcomm Mirasol Displays for Iventec Smart Devices
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated announced that Inventec Corporation has chosen Qualcomm’s MEMS-based mirasol displays for upcoming portable devices. Inventec will incorporate mirasol displays into high-end smart handheld devices for the worldwide markets, including...
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