May 2008 Archives
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Gartner Says Embedded 3G Okay for Travellers in 2009
Embedded wireless broadband (3G) capability for laptops has been difficult for enterprises to justify because of upfront purchase costs, monthly costs and asset protection, but new pricing plans and technology evolution will force changes in strategy, according to Gartner, Inc....
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Infineon New 3G Chips Available 2nd Half 2008
Infineon Technologies AG announced the availability of its new generation 3G platform family. This new platform family addresses all major 3G market segments and includes a high performance HSPA modem solution, a feature phone solution enriched with high multimedia capabilities...
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NetLogic and Sprint Join Road to 100G Allaince
The Road to 100G Alliance announced that the Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint), a leading supplier of comprehensive wireless and wire-line services, and NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of knowledge-based processors, have joined the alliance as contributing members. The...
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Higher Prices for Phone, Sony Highest Ranked for Satisfaction, Says JD Power
The average reported purchase price for wireless mobile phones is now $9 higher than reported in 2007, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study(SM)-Volume 1. The study finds that the average reported purchase...
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In-Fusio Gets Get Smart Mobile Game Rights
IN-FUSIO, a leading digital-content publisher,announced it has licensed mobile gaming rights for the upcoming motion picture Get Smart, from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. Based on the highly anticipated motion picture from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures, the Get...
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Skweezer Squeezes Out More Mobile Ads
Skweezer, Inc. announced a major upgrade to its Skweezer Ads service, which allows customers to serve ads to a wide variety of mobile, desktop, and other Web-enabled consoles through a single ad feed. This latest release of Skweezer Ads includes...
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Buzzwire Syndicates RooftopComedy to Mobile Screens
Buzzwire, Inc. announced that it has signed a syndication deal with RooftopComedy, the Internet Comedy Channel and foremost interactive media provider of stand-up and sketch comedy. The partnership will commence at the Aspen RooftopComedy Festival, May 30-31, which will bring...
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Qualcomm Launches Plaza Internet Service Widget Platform
Qualcomm In announced Plaza, a platform-agnostic wireless Internet service that provides a common framework for the development and support of widgets that will enable operators to provide their end users with quick and personalized access to the mobile Internet. After...
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Virgin Wild Card Phone-Owners Get Access to Lounge @ Festival, Free Music & Spin
What do Virgin Mobile USA customers and Sir Richard Branson have in common? Branson and the lucky 15,000 customers who buy a Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card phone by Kyocera Wireless will all have special access to the...
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comScore Acquires M:Metrics
comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the acquisition of M:Metrics, Inc., the recognized leader in mobile measurement. The acquisition makes comScore the immediate leader in measuring the emerging and strategically important mobile Internet market and...
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Dadango & net mobile AG Partner for US Market
net mobile AG, Germany’s leading provider of mobile entertainment services, and Dadango, a mobile content marketing, publishing and distribution company, signed an extensive franchise agreement for the innovative `net-m maxmedia’ distribution platform in the US market. Dadango, based in Sunnyvale,...
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Android Demo Wows Developers Some Questions Answered
After wowing the developer crowd with their Android prototype demonstration, the developers sat down for a Q&A session. The hardware was based on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, the smartphone used a Synaptics capacitive touchscreen and the UMTS cellular standard; the...
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900M Users for Mobile Banking & Payment Services in 2012, Says IMS Research
The latest figures from IMS Research show the combined forecasts for users of contactless mobile payments, mobile banking and over the air (OTA) transactions to reach 884 million in 2012. This is the cumulative number of users expected to adopt...
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Ad-Funded Moible US Entertainment to Reach $336.35 Million by 2013, Says MEF
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has published a report that takes an in-depth look into the impact of ad-funded mobile entertainment (AFME) on the mobile entertainment market in the U.S. The report forecasts that the U.S. AFME market will...
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Flash Embedded in New Brew
Qualcomm Incorporated and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the BREW Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them...
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Wireless Broadband & Voice >$427 Billion by 2016
CTIA-The Wireless Association released a new study that reveals the massive positive impact wireless broadband technology is having on the United States economy. The independent report, commissioned by CTIA and prepared by analyst Roger Entner as a follow-up to a...
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FusionOne Provides MightyBackup for Mobile Content
FusionOne, the leading provider of mobile phone backup and migration services, announced that it has created an ecosystem for the wireless industry based on its operator-branded Mobile Content Transfer Solution. Announced at Qualcomm’s BREW 2008 Conference in San Diego, FusionOne’s...
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Starent Networks WiMAX Passes Interoperability Tests
Starent Networks, Corp. a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services, today announced its successful participation in interoperability testing to further validate the company's involvement in the development and promotion of the WiMAX industry....
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MilliGens Love Mobile Social Networking, Says In-Stat
Mobile social networks are quite popular with the Millennial generation, just as social networking is, reports In-Stat . Blogging, photo and video sharing, location-based socialization services, games, SMS, and IM will eventually be combined to afford the mobile user the...
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WiMAX Wi-Fi Centrino 2 Ready July 14
Intel’s next-generation Centrino 2 will not be introduced until July 14, reports several sources. It will be Intel’s first Centrino processor Relevant Products/Services technology to offer integration both Wi-Fi and WiMAX possible in notebook designs. The ultimate success of WiMAX...
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Where's Brian Dolan? Now Publishing at Yankee Group
Yankee Group announced that wireless industry trade journalist Brian Dolan has joined the firm as Senior Analyst/Editor of the Events and Publishing Division. In this new role, Dolan will shape the programs of the firm's events, beginning with Mobile...
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Verizon's MOTO W755 Available.
Verizon and Motorola announced that the MOTO W755 is now available exclusively online at http://www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City.Available in purple and black, the MOTO W755 features a 1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital...
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Guitar Hero III Mobile Big Hero for Hands-On-Mobile - Over 1 Mill Sold
Hands-On Mobile, Inc., developer of connected games and applications, announced that Guitar Hero III Mobile was the number one selling mobile game on Verizon Wireless phones in the first quarter of 2008. Initially released exclusively by Verizon Wireless, Guitar Hero...
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Geotagging Available from JuiceCaster
JuiceCaster, the multi-award winning mobile social-networking service, unveiled location-based geotagging, developed initially for Qualcomm's BREW solution. With geotagging, JuiceCaster users can send pictures and videos that automatically include their location to various social-networking platforms, including MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. JuiceCaster...
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Mobigamz Launches on Verizon
Verizon Wireless, and Mobitween, a leading developer and publisher of Flash-based games for the mobile and online worlds, announced the availability of Mobigamz, a Flash Lite based mobile gaming portal that allows customers to download, play, rate, and post high...
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Exclusive Qwikies Flash Game Available on Verizon
Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames (www.addictinggames.com),an independent gaming site for teens with more than 3,000 games, and Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, announced that Qwikies are now exclusively available to Verizon Wireless...
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43 Billion Text Messages, Verifies VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc, a provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, announced that its Mobile Messaging Index for Q1 2008 indicates single-day and quarterly mobile messaging records have been broken. In addition, the numbers strongly suggest that the annual mobile...
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4Info & Yahoo Partner 4 Text Ads
4info is partnering with Yahoo publish text messages with ads. 4info will provide the technology for Yahoo's content content, such as news updates, horoscopes, sports scores and weather forecasts, via text messages that also contain a small ad. Consumers will...
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Cellular Modem Sales Up 300% from 2006, Says ABI
Boosted by 3G network deployments, cellular modems are providing wireless connectivity to laptops, UMPCs and even desktop computers. 2007 data contained in a new study from ABI Research reveals that cellular modem sales, including PC Cards, Express Cards, USB modems,...
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AT&T Pantech Breeze Easy Big-Key Simple Phone 4 Young & Old
AT&T and Pantech Wireless Inc. announced the Pantech Breeze( from AT&T. Available in all company-owned stores and online beginning May 27, the Pantech Breeze a simple easy-to-use phone. At its core, the Pantech Breeze is an uncomplicated mobile phone, specifically...
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By 2015 Most Revenue from Data, Says Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Global - Mobile Data - Overview & Analysis - 2007” to their offering. By 2015 it is expected that mobile revenue will mostly come from data. This depends however on business models...
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Mobile Giving Foundation Creates Mobile Giving Channel with Qualcomm
The Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) announced that Qualcomm Incorporated through its Wireless Reach(TM) initiative, has become the organization’s founding patron to fulfill the MGF’s mission to create a single “mobile giving channel” that allows more than 250 million wireless users...
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Hands-Free Law Enforcement Needed, Says PPIC
The law requiring California drivers to use hands-free devices while talking on their mobile phones is likely to save hundreds of lives a year, particularly when the weather is bad or roads are wet, according to a new study released...
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Driving Tips for Travelling from Verizon
Verizon Wireless reminds customers who choose to talk on a wireless phone while driving to do so responsibly and safely when travelling over the holidays: Drive Responsibly Drivers should use common sense and obey all vehicular laws if they choose...
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Google's Larry Page Goes to Washington for White Space Wi-Fi
"Wi-fi on steriods." That's one of the many potential uses for the wireless spectrum that is now lying unused between TV channels, Larry Page told the New America Foundation in DC this week. But why does Google care about...
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BART Negotiates for Wi-Fi Rail Service
WiFi Rail is negotiating with the Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART) authority's board to provide Wi-Fi access on BART trains.There will be two versions of the service, ad supported free access and paid subscriptions....
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Hop-On Super Cheap $10 GSM Mobile Phone Available
Hop-On, Inc.announced that its GSM cell phone, the Hop1800, is now available in the United States for $10 USD, and worldwide. One of the new breed of ultra convenient cell phones, the pre-paid HOP1800 works as a backup cell phone,...
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FCC Supports Regulating Wireless Cancellation Fees
The head of the FCC said he wants to regulate fees charged to cell phone users who cancel their wireless contracts early, reports the Associated Press.At a news conference, FCC chief Kevin Martin said he supports regulating the fees...
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Verizon Txt Msgs Hit Record High - Blocking Available
In the first quarter of 2008, Verizon Wireless delivered nearly 58 billion text messages from coast to coast. But for those looking to control text messaging, such as on their child's cell phone, Verizon Wireless offers numerous consumer-friendly options to...
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Global Awarenss of Bluetooth at All Time High, Says Milward Brown
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has more to celebrate this week than just the 10th anniversary of its launch. According to an annual survey conducted by research firm Millward Brown, global awareness of Bluetooth technology is at an all...
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Verizon Biz Customers Most Satisfied, Says J.D. Power
Verizon Wireless ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction for wireless data service, effectively meeting customer expectations and requirements of both large enterprise and small/midsize business segments, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction StudySM released...
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78 Million SMS Messsges for Amierican Idol Breaks Record, Says AT&T
AT& announced t that the company has shattered its text messaging record of 64.5 million by generating more than 78 million messages this season of “American Idol” — the most popular show on television. Since AT&T introduced text message voting...
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Videcon May Buy Motorola's Handset Business
Videocon, a big consumer electronics business in India is talking to Motorola in an attempt to buy the handset business. Motorola said earlier that it wants to separate its handset business with an estimated value of $3.8 Billion....
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Samsung Instinct Due From Sprint June 20
There have been several confirmed reports that Sprint will offer the Samsung Instinct on June 20. The phone, expected to cost between $200 and $300, available in limited markets to customers who sign up for the "Simply Everything" plans. Sprint...
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Usher to Gush Over Sony Walkman Music AT&T Phones in N.A.
Sony Ericsson announced that five-time Grammy Award-winning artist Usher will headline Sony Ericsson’s Walkman music phone campaigns in North America. The partnership covers the United States and Canada, in addition to more than twenty countries in Europe and will...
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Friendster Goes Mobile in US & Indonesia
Friendster announced Friendster’s new mobile site, accessible at m.friendster.com from any web-enabled mobile device. The new mobile site is the first in a suite of forthcoming mobile offerings referred to as Friendster Mobile.In the coming weeks, the site will be...
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Multi-Modal Search Partners Call Genie & Vlingo
Call Genie Inc, a provider of mobile local search and advertising solutions that connect 'ready to transact' consumers with local businesses, and Vlingo Corp., a leading provider of speech recognition solutions, announced they have partnered to deliver a comprehensive multi-modal...
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74% Want No Cellphone Talking on Planes, Says Harris & Yahoo
Nearly three out of four consumers agree that mobile phone usage on airplanes should be restricted to silent features only according to a new survey commissioned by Yahoo! Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive. The survey demonstrates that U.S....
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Craigslist Top Destination @1.65 Hr/Mo For Smartphone Users, Says M:Metrics
Social networking and Internet commerce are compelling smartphone users to spend an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes per month browsing the mobile Web in the United States and two and a half hours per month in Britain, reports...
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AOL & Virgin Mobile Use Platform-A to Display Ads
AOL and Virgin Mobile USA announced that Platform-A will serve as the exclusive display advertising and sales partner for Virgin Mobile USA’s WAP banner inventory. Under the terms of an agreement between the parties, the Platform-A sales force will manage...
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MilliGens Influence MobiTV Decisions, Says Motorola Study
Motorola announced the initial results of a new study on the influence and behaviors of the Millennial generation (young adults ages 16-27) regarding consumer technology decisions and rich media consumption habits. Motorola's study among 1,000 young adults found that...
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Dior Phone Adorable?
The Christian Dior phone designed by ModeLabs goes on sale today at the Montaigne Avenue shop. No technical specs yet but it is estimated that it will sell for $5,000.The mobile phone embellished with crystals feature:a touchscreen displaycameramini-phone extender, My...
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3G from AT&T Ready End of June
By the end of June, connecting to AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband service will be as speedy as logging onto the high speed Internet service that many consumers enjoy at home. AT&T announced that, in the next month, the company will...
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AT&T Gives Free Wi-Fi to LaptopConnect Subscribers
_uacct = "UA-361227-16" urchinTracker(); AT&T announced that qualifying LaptopConnect customers can now access more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots free of charge. Users can access Wi-Fi at nearly 7,000 participating Starbucks locations plus thousands more AT&T Wi-FiSM locations, including...
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Nokia 5310 XpressMusic from T-Moblie Comes with "Panic At The Disco"
T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced the availability of the much-anticipated Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone. Starting May 28, T-Mobile will offer the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic which offers a variety of features, including easy-to-use external music controls, stereo Bluetooth connectivity, wired stereo headsets,...
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Touch-Screen Shipments Will Double by 2012, Says iSuppli
Spurred by the popularity of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and its elegant user interface, global shipments of touch-screen display modules are expected to more than double from 2008 to 2012, according to iSuppli Corp. Given this strong expected growth, about 60...
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Review of Reviews Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 Verizon
Samsung Glyde (pronounced Glide) SCH-U940 Verizon Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe Samsung Glyde has a touch screen with haptical feeedback on the outside and a sturdy slide-out keyboard on the inside with...
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Konami Games For Nokia N-Gage
Nokia and KONAMI, a leading global developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, y announced that KONAMI mobile titles will be added to the N-Gage mobile games platform. The mobile version of the award-winning METAL GEAR SOLID® will be...
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RCA Petitions FCC to Investigate Big Carriers & Handsets Exclusive Deals
The Rural Cellular Association (RCA), a group of more than 80 small and rural wireless providers, filed a petition today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate and, as necessary, adopt rules to prohibit exclusivity arrangements between wireless carriers...
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Psychic Radio's Maria Shaw Does Mobile Astrology for YuuZoo
YuuZoo the fast growing new global mobile content, media and advertising firm has joined forces with Celebrity Astrologer Maria Shaw to provide top-notch astrologic advice and daily horoscopes to mobile device users around the world. For $9.95 a month. Called...
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LimeLight Networks Provides CDN for en2go
n2go International, Inc. announced that it has selected Limelight Networks, Inc. as the Company’s exclusive Content Delivery Network (“CDN”). en2go is developing next-generation applications, content and media assets targeting the billions of computer desktops, television, PDAs, iPhones, iPods, cameras, mobile...
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Cartoon Network Entertainment Available on Kajeet
Kajeet, the cell phone service made for kids, and Turner Broadcasting System’s Cartoon Network today announced a deal to bring mobile content from Cartoon Network to kajeet handsets. The deal brings some of the top names in kids’ entertainment to...
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Social Networking Tops, Says Opera Mobile
Opera has released a new report on mobile web usage, State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter, 2008 and social networking is a top dras. Almost 40% of traffic worldwide is to social networks. In some countries, such as the...
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Napster Launches DRM-free MP3 Online Superstore
Napster announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store at www.napster.com/store. Napster’s download store is more than 50% larger than any other MP3 store and boasts not only the largest major label MP3 catalog in the...
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Sprint Loses Patent Infringment Lawsuit in L.A.
Dovel & Luner LLP today announced that a Los Angeles jury has found Sprint Nextel liable for infringing two patents owned by California company Enovsys LLC. The jury returned its verdict late Friday, May 16, 2008, and awarded Enovsys past...
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Wi-Fi, Cell & HDTV Triple Play Chip Announced from ASOCS
ASOCS, the leading developer of wireless Multi-Communication processors and system solutions for handheld devices announced today the launch of the MP100, the world’s first wireless MultiComms processor capable of running up to three wireless air interfaces concurrently. Customers using ASOCS’...
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Row 44 to Test InFlight Wi-Fi for Southwest & Alaska Airlines this Summer
Row 44, provider of airborne broadband systems for commercial aviation, is scheduled to perform commercial trials with Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines in North America this summer. Airline customers will pay a fee to access the service....
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Traffic.com Ready for Memorial Day Driving with 866 #, Mobi & SMS
Traffic.com, provides drivers across the United States Memorial Day road trip planning tools to save time and avoid the frustration of summertime driving delays. Here are some ways to check on Memorial Day Traffic. Toll Free Number Save 1-866-MY-TRAFC (1-866-698-7232)...
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NAVTEQ Upgrades Traffic Patterns N.A. to v3.0
NAVTEQ anounced the availability of NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns North America v3.0, a significantly updated historic database which includes typical traffic speeds on nearly one million miles of primary and secondary roads across the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. NAVTEQ...
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Covad Rolls Out WiMAX Later This Year in Calif.
Covad Wireless, , has successfully completed a WiMAX lab test and field trial in the San Francisco Bay area. As a result, Covad will move forward with plans to roll out WiMAX service later this year with Santa Barbara-based Axxcelera...
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Boost Opens Retail Stores to Boost Sales & Interactions
Boost Mobile y announced that it has launched exclusive retail stores. In addition to offering the company’s complete product line-up, the new retail locations also offer products from Boost Mobile’s “Boosted” division, including distinctly styled, multi-device stereo headphones and lifestyle...
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Q1 Handset Revs $2.7 Billion - Down 7% From 2007, Says NPD
According to The NPD Group, , mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the U.S. reached nearly 31 million units in the first quarter of 2008, which is a 22 percent decline since the same period a year ago. NPD...
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Greystripe Ad-Supports Sega Mobile Games
Greystripe, the world's leading distributor of ad-supported mobile games and applications, announced another Tier-one game publisher deal to distribute free mobile games from world-renowned game publisher, Sega. Three classic game titles from the Sega collection will be delivered across mobile...
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Big Changes in Store for Telecoms, Says Gartner
In the next five years the telecom market will change so dramatically and rapidly that government intervention and market engineering will be inevitable in some countries, according to Gartner Inc. At the center of this is the global trend toward...
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iPhone vs. Samsung Instinct - Instinct Wins, iPhone Defeated?
Sprint is running funny videos comparing the Samsung Instinct to the iPhone with caption "Watch the Instinct defeat the iPhone.For GPS, the Instinct pinpoints the exact location while the iPhone estimates a "ginormous circle".There just ain't no live TV for...
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Mobile Film Trailers Available at Cannes Film Fest
CA ADACTUS and DBT GLOBAL announced that for the first time they will offer the ability to view movie trailers at the Cannes Film Festival 2008 through mobile phones. Distributors will be able to send, view and distribute information about...
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Alltel Goes LTE, Revenues Increase 11% & 1 Million Subs Added
Alltel has chosen the Long Term Evolution standard over WiMAX for its transition to 4G. To many pundits it was not a suprize because Alltel often follows Verizon’s lead. Alltel also showed an 11% increase in revenue and reported an...
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FlyTunes Adds Video Audio Podcasts
FlyTunes Inc announcedseveral major changes to its mobile content network, popularized on the iPhone and iPod Touch. FlyTunes is adding video and audio podcasts, a new user interface, and a customizable channel guide. As the first content network specifically focused...
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Dada DRM-Free MP3s Available Billed Through Phone Bill
Dada Entertainment (www.dada.net), the joint venture between Dada USA, Inc. and SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, announced the addition of DRM-free MP3s to its product suite. The new offering complements the full range of mobile products that Dada already makes available...
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Xohm in Baltimore/D.C. Passes Eval Tests
Sprint and Samsung Electronics Corporation Ltd. announced that a new broadband wireless network offering the speed and mobility of WiMAX has met Sprint’s rigorous commercial acceptance criteria including overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay. This key technical milestone has...
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Cricket Adds Unlimited Text to Mexico to Higher Value Unlimited Plans
Cricket Communications, announced updates to its flat-rate, unlimited service plan. T One new feature now included in the Company’s higher-value service plans, is unlimited text messaging to Mexico, a popular feature previously offered a la carte. Cricket continues its tradition...
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Virgin USAers Can "Fund My Phone" with Facebook Friends
Facebook has a brand new Sugar Mama, thanks to a unique new application that lets friends earn wireless airtime for other friends who are Virgin Mobile USA customers. The national provider of wireless communications services and plans without annual contracts...
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SendMe's Content Availabe through IAC Mobile Sites
SendMe Mobile, announced a partnership with participating IAC sites, where SendMe Mobile will deliver ringtones, wallpapers and games to visitors of the IAC mobile web pages that offer mobile utilities and premium content. Now anyone who discovers IAC mobile content,...
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Email-to-SMS Portal from Amika & Firehot 90% Cheaper
Amika Mobile, the pioneer in the delivery of key mobile content including emergency alerts to any mobile phone, and Firehot Solutions Inc., provider of IT System Management Solutions, announce that they have signed a partnership agreement to offer key Email-to-SMS...
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Berggi Adds Ads to Mobile Apps
Berggi, a leading mobile applications provider,announced Ads@Berggi, a groundbreaking advertising platform for mobile applications. Ads@Berggi solves the single biggest problem for mobile applications providers — monetizing their advertising-driven mobile traffic. The new platform also greatly expands the reach and effectiveness...
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Mobile Web 2.0 Worth $22.4 Billion in 2013, Says Juniper Research
The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 will be worth $22.4 Billion in 2013, up from $5.5 Billion currently, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Embracing social networking & User Generated Content (UGC), mobile search and mobile IM...
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Verizon, Infineon, Mozilla Join Limo Open Source Alliance
LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, announced the addition of Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Mozilla Corporation, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless as...
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IBM & RIM Alliance Offers Web 2.0 & Hosting for BlackBerry
IBM and RIM announced a strategic partnership to help mainstream workers move beyond basic communications (email, phone, etc.) to working with their peers wirelessly on the road as if they were in the office, including holding meetings, finding experts, analyzing...
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Opera Releases Mini 4.1 Mobile Browser
Opera Software announced the availability of Opera Mini 4.1, the newest version of their award-winning browser that works on nearly every mobile phone. Opera Mini is available from http://www.operamini.com.Opera Mini 4.1 introduces the following new features:Opera Mini 4.1 is up...
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Hyperconnected Culture Grows, 38% Take Phone Rather than Wallet, Says IDC
An exploding 'Culture of Connectivity' is forcing enterprises around the world to change the way they do business faster than ever before or risk the opportunities of Hyperconnectivity passing them by. A new global IDC study sponsored by Nortel found...
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iPass Gets into Aircell's Gogo Network
iPass, Inc, , announced a roaming partner agreement with Aircell, provider of airborne communications, that will allow iPass enterprise users or individual subscribers to connect over Aircell hotspots on commercial aircraft in flight. Using the iPassConnect mobility manager software...
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Gravely Ill Dad Reason for Southwest Cell Phone Call
Yesterday, the media mentioned the Southwest Airline passenger who unlawfully talked on his cell phone during a flight.Jones reportedly was on the phone to talk to a hospital about his father's care whose heart had stopped and a cardiac unit...
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EarthLink Terminates Philly Wi-Fi
EarthLink notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that EarthLink is terminating its Philadelphia Wi-Fi service and that EarthLink is providing its customers a thirty-day transition period through June 12, 2008. After months of negotiations with the City of Philadelphia and...
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Dilithium Launches Automated Video Adapter
Dilithium, announced the Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA), a high capacity and scalable solution that automates the real-time adaptation and delivery of video content over multiple networks to any device. Dilithium’s patented technologes perform real-time, on demand media conversion with minimal...
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Windows Live for BlackBerry Will Go Live this Summer
Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry smartphones. The integration of Windows Live services into the BlackBerry platform will allow customers who use Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger...
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Unlimited Cricket Happens & Stays in Vegas, Starting 2Day
Leap Wireless International,, the parent company of Cricket Communications, Inc, , will begin offering its Cricket services in Las Vegas, Nev. and surrounding communities, starting today. Cricket service will be available in the Las Vegas area at eight Cricket retail...
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Android Developer Challenge Winners Announced
The results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced by Google. We can only image what they do for now.AndroidScan - Jeffrey SharkeyBeetaun - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri ShipilovBioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas FernandezBreadCrumbz - Amos YoffeCallACab...
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Mobile Digital Commerce $1.9 Billion in 2012, Says Multimedia Intelligence
The market for mobile digital commerce services grew to $1.1 billion in 2007, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence (http://www.MultiMediaIntelligence.com). Digital commerce service providers processes the financial transactions that monetize premium content from music, video and gaming companies over...
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iPhone Users are Very Satisfied but 1/3 Carry a 2nd Phone, Says Rubicon
Rubicon Consulting conducted a detailed survey of 460 randomly-selected iPhone users in the US. Here are some of the key findings: iPhone users are very satisfied. E-mail is the #1 function. The iPhone increases mobile browsing... More than 75% of...
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Funambol & Lazsio Combine Web Apps
Funambol, a provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Laszlo Systems, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) software and developer of the OpenLaszlo open source development platform, announced that they are integrating the commercial versions of their...
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RIM and Thomson Reuters Launch $150M Partner Fund
RIM and Thomson Reuters ( announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms. The Fund is to be co-managed...
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iPhone Price Drops and Out Web Store Sells Out
Googling the word iPhone gives some interesting news today.First it was reported Apple lowered the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399 and dropped the 4GB iPhone model altogether.Then its online store ran out of iPhones, giving rise...
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3G, GPS, Wi-Fi BlackBerry Bold Introduced
Research In Motion introduced the admirable BlackBerry Bold smartphone. It is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities...
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1.06 Million Sprint Suscribers Less in Q1
Sprint's figures are in and wireless business showed 52.8 million total subscribers at the end of Q1, a loss of 1.06 million subscribers."As expected, our wireless business delivered weak financial results," Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said. "While the business...
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Mpowerplayer Plugs into Movaya's PlugNPlay Platform
Mpowerplayer, a provider of online mobile game trial and merchandising for the wireless industry, and Movaya, the complete web-based, e-commerce software platform for mobile-content transactions, announced a partnership to integrate Movaya’s PlugNPlay purchasing solution into Mpowerplayer’s desktop arcade. “Mpowerplayer’s user...
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Can You Pay Me Now? PayPal & Sprint Show You the Money!
Sprint with the help of mFoundry and PayPal have launched MyMoneyManager a downloadable application that gives Sprint users the ability to send money via PayPalThe PayPal blog states,"And the best part is that it's free and easy. Just go to...
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Moto Q 9C Now Available @ Verizon
Verizon Wireless announced the MOTO Q 9c will be available in the company's online store and in Verizon Wireless business sales channels on May 9. The MOTO Q 9c is a smartphone for business professionals and offers powerful capabilities, including...
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Meffy Winners Announced
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) unveiled the winners of this year's Meffys awards at a gala dinner in Cannes. The Meffys, sponsored by Nokia were hosted by popular TV presenter and Gadget Show guru Suzi Perry. The new categories of:...
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RealNetworks Spins Off Casual Games Biz
RealNetworksannounced that it intends to separate its global casual games business into an independent company and distribute shares of the newly created games company to its shareholders. RealNetworks’ casual games business is a leader in the casual games industry worldwide,...
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OrbLive Goes Live With TV on iPhone
Orb Networks (http://www.orb.com) announced the world’s first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. For the first time, iPhone users can enjoy the immediacy of live sporting events and fast-breaking news on their phone. “TV on...
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dotMobi Integrates Mowser Mobile Intelligence
dotMobi — the company behind the .mobi internet domain name for mobile phones and the dev.mobi developer forum — announced it has acquired the intellectual property assets of Mowser, a San Mateo, Calif.-based mobile browsing company. dotMobi plans to integrate...
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Cablevision Wi-Fis NYC Metro
Cablevision is expected more than $300 million to supply Wi-Fi technology to the New York metro area and on Long Island over the next two years. AT&T is already offering free Wi-Fi hotspot service to its subscribers. It could help...
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FTC to Police Mobile Marketing
During The Federal Trade Commission's Town Hall meeting on May 6-7, 2008, FTC commissioner Jonathan Leibowitz announced that the FTC intends to take enforcement action against deceptive or unfair content offers from cellphone content providers who should do a better...
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550 Million GPS Handsets by 2012, Says ABI
In the wake of personal navigation devices’ success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local search on GPS handsets. Community...
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ShoZu Adds Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster & Twitter
ShoZu Inc. announced that it has expanded its mobile social media service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these eight new integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their...
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Boost Boasts Dollar-a-Day Unlimited Chat, Text & Night
Boost Mobile announced a new daily pay as you go offer enabling customers to talk and text to more people for a dollar a day. Boost Mobile’s dollar a day Chat Plan offers unlimited nights and weekends and unlimited mobile-to-mobile...
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Telstra to Provide Text, Digital Prayer Walls, Social Networking & Webcasting 4 WYDO8
The Pope will send daily text messages to young people during World Youth Day and Telstra is providing the technology to send his message. Pope Benedict XVI will send text messages of hope and inspiration directly to pilgrims, reaching young...
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Verizon Upgrades VZ Navigator
Verrizon Wireless, announced today that VZ Navigator (Version 4) is now available on select consumer phones. First announced during CTIA WIRELESS 2008, the newest version of VZ Navigator allows customers in 75 cities from coast to coast to access information...
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Social Networking Goes Mobile- MySpace tops in US, Says Nielsen
A growing number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide are taking online social networking to the streets, research conducted by The Nielsen Company reveals. The U.S. has the most mobile social networkers totalling 4,079,000. The findings, released by Nielsen Mobile,...
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PlayPhone & Pitch Entertainment Join Forces
PlayPhone, Inc. (www.playphone.com), which operates a network of mobile content destinations in North America, announced that it has joined forces with Pitch Entertainment Group, the global mobile entertainment company. This strategic procurement fortifies PlayPhone’s existing business and leverages Pitch Entertainment’s...
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WiMAX DSL Substitute, Says Juniper Research
A new analysis of the global opportunity for WiMAX 802.16e forecasts that up to 12% of the global DSL installed base will be substituted by WiMAX by 2013. The Far East will lead with over one fifth of the 47m...
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Crushing & Flushing Now Availabe via T-Mobile
Crush or Flush is announced that it is live on T-Mobile's deck,.The T-Zones portal is featuring Crush or Flush in its WAP directory as a key site for social networking and chat.With a U.S. community of more than 1 million...
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ESPN, NYT, Chase SMS, Nike, & Zannel Win Mobile Webbys
The 12th Annual Webby Awards announced winners in seven categories honoring mobile Websites. Achieving critical and popular consensus, ESPN.com Wireless won both a Webby Award and a Webby People’s Voice Award in the mobile Sports category.* The New York Times...
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Consumers Should Be Safeguarded in WAP Commerce, Says Watchdog Groups
The Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) announced today that they intend to amend their 2006 complaint on interactive marketing techniques and threats to consumer privacy to include newly emerging mobile marketing practices. The...
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More Google Apps in Sprint
Sprint and Google announced a partnership aimed at more deeply integrating Google applications and services into Sprint customers’ mobile experience. As part of the deal, Google will become Sprint’s preferred mobile search provider and Sprint users will have easier access...
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New Clearwire Gets Sprint's WiMAX, Sprint Gets 52%
Clearwire Corporation (and Sprint Nextel Corporation y announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company. The new company, which will be named Clearwire, will be...
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Virgin Juniper & Nortel 40G Trial Successful
Virgin Media has teamed with Nortel and Juniper Networks to prepare to meet ongoing network demands from its customers for ever-increasing speed and bandwidth. The 40G North-South trial, on Virgin Media’s existing 10G network, shows how Virgin Media is ready...
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Frengo Social-Networks Social Networks with Flirt & LOL
Frengo, a provider of social mobile services, announced the availability of a suite of applications that run on top of and across Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Orkut and Bebo. Frengo focuses on social applications that are available anytime and anywhere -...
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3G 3D HTC Touch Diamond Unveiled
HTC unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond with 3g AND 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. TouchFLO 3D provides animated access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more. In addition, HTC is introducing a new...
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New Version of Snap Mobile SDK
SNAP Mobile, an end-to end solution for connected mobile gaming in Java technology, has announced its latest Software Development Kit (SDK 2.0) for Nokia devices. After several years of market deployment and continuous technology development based on developer feedback, the...
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Qwest Nixes Sprint to Offer Verizon Service & Billing
Qwest Communications and Verizon Wireless announced they have signed a 5-year agreement for Qwest to market and sell Verizon Wireless service beginning this summer. Under the agreement, Qwest customers will have access to the full line of Verizon Wireless handsets,...
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More Nokia Phones Coming to US
Nokia is going to go after a bigger portion of the US market by working with carriers. Reuters reports, "A Nokia spokesman said the company would introduce a number of new models in the United States this year -- including...
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Neurotic Media to Host Hastings Entertainment Downloads Store
Neurotic Media, will provide Hastings Entertainment a hosted downloads service. The upcoming Hastings Entertainment downloads store will feature pre-licensed multimedia catalogs from major and indie labels - including music MP3s and WMAs, online music video downloads, and ringtones and wallpapers...
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T-Mobile Goes 3G in NYC
T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced that the company has taken the first commercial step in the rollout of its third-generation (3G) wireless network by launching its UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City. T-Mobile plans to continue the rollout of its 3G...
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My Circle Reunion Sweepstakes from Alltel
As a part of the two-year anniversary of “My Circle,” Alltel Wireless, is giving one lucky “My Circle” customer the opportunity to connect with their ‘circle’ of family and friends during a luxury vacation in one of the country’s top...
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Celluar South and BancorpSouth Launch Mobile Banking
Cellular South and BancorpSouth, Inc. unveiled a mobile banking application that brings banking to wireless phones. The free wireless application is being offered in collaboration with mobile payments provider Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company, and allows Cellular South customers...
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Brightpoint to Distribute RIM Products
Brightpoint, Inc. and Research In Motion announced that they have entered into a global master distribution agreement. Under the terms of the agreement Brightpoint may distribute RIM products to various territories globally that may include North America, Latin America, Europe,...
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Fuel Cell Powered GPS Device from MTI
MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. unveiled a new embedded micro fuel cell prototype design for handheld global positioning system ("GPS") devices at the 10th Annual International Small Fuel Cells Conference in Atlanta. MTI Micro is showing a micro fuel cell powered...
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MetroPCS Now in Jacksonville, Florida
MetroPCS announced the launch of its wireless service in Jacksonville, Florida.Upon launch of service in Jacksonville, MetroPCS will have 35 locations in the Duvall County area. MetroPCS intends to have a total of 80 locations by the end of the...
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iTunes Offers iMovies Same Day as DVD
Apple announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles purchased from iTunes can...
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13% Reach Extension from Mobile Web, Says Nielsen
The Nielsen Company today reported that mobile Internet extends the audience reach of many leading Internet sites by an average of 13 percent over home PC traffic alone. For some categories, such as weather and entertainment, the extended reach can...
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T-Mobile & Nokia Combine Web and Social Network Services
T-Mobile and Nokia announced that they are collaborating to accelerate the availability of new Internet services and personal social communities on mobile devices. T-Mobile and Nokia will offer T-Mobile’s web’n’walk Internet services as well as all to Nokia’s Ovi Internet...
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Review of Reveiws LG Vu LG CU920 Updated
The LG Vu is due out any moment and we just looked at all the reviews and they weren’t as positive as the first looks were from CTIA. We’ve had to completely rewrite “Review of Reviews of the LG Vu”...
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Samsung Charging Stations Now at LaGuardia & Orlando Airports
Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile )announced charging stations in terminals at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and Orlando International Airport (MCO). TThe Samsung Mobile Charging Stations offer travelers the convenience of free re-charging of their mobile phones, laptops and other personal electronics....
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DoubleClick Clicks-In Mobile Ad Networks
DoubleClick, digital marketing technology and services, announced that DoubleClick Mobile, the company’s advertising delivery system for mobile devices, is integrating with mobile ad etworks including AdMob, Google’s AdSense for mobile content, and Millennial Media’s premium MBrand network as well as...
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UK Regulators Deal with Mobile Premium Complaints
PhonepayPlus, a regulating watchdog agency in the UK announced it will review of the U.K.'s mobile premium services due to consumer complaints. That included:In the first three months of this year, PhonepayPlus received more than 4,500 complaints related to mobile....
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Dollar Value Menu RingTones from BK & Virgin
Virgin Mobile USA has teamed up with Burger King Corp. and Warner Music Group to bring music-loving customers more of the tones they want - at a price that will make mouths water. For a limited time, Virgin Mobile USA...
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Adobe Opens Up Flash and Nixes Licensing Fees
Adobe Systems announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders, including ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless. The project...
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AT&T Mobile TV Begins Sunday May 4
AT&T and MediaFLO announced today the May 4 availability of the AT&T Mobile TV with FLO service. This new mobile television service will provide around-the-clock access to some of today’s most popular television programs, live and in color on the...
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