August 2008 Archives
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Mobile PAC-Man Fever Tourney @ Penny Arcade Expo
Namco Networks, the leading publisher and developer of mobile games and entertainment for mass-market casual gamers, today announced the PAC-MAN Fever Mobile Tournament at this year's Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). The tournament will be held at Namco Networks' booth...
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Andriod Market Open to Deliver Open Content
Android developers will be able to distribute content through Android Market—an open content distribution system that will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices. It will be powered by Google’s...
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Mobizoft Video Adaptation Data Included in Device Atlas
dotMobi, the company behind .mobi -- the only ICANN-approved Internet address designed specifically for helping consumers find mobile content -- announced the inclusion of Mobizoft video content adaptation data into the award-winning DeviceAtlas, the definitive source of mobile handset...
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Huawei Ranks in Top 3 for WiMAX
2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei") won 17 new commercial WiMAX 16e commercial contracts in the first half of 2008, more than the total number of contracts signed for the whole of 2007. To date Huawei has secured 29 WiMAX...
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Global Mobile TV Subs 2 Grow @ CAGR >60% 2007-2010
RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, "Global Mobile TV Forecast to 2010" to its report gallery. The convergence of television and mobile phones has resulted in an ultimate wireless application known as Mobile TV - a...
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College Football Fans Text Vote for All-America Player of Week
AT&T announced that for the fifth consecutive year college football fans will have the chance to vote via text messaging for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week, the only national college football honor that is determined solely by fans....
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Real-Time Financial Market Data on Sprint from Blue Systems
Global financial information software provider, Blue Systems, announced that it has entered an agreement with Sprint, to offer its real-time financial market data application, blue mobile, to Sprint's customers. blue mobile provides professional and retail investors with a way to...
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Microsoft System Device Manager 2008 Available to AT&T Biz Customers
AT&T announced that the Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (MDM) is now available to AT&T business customers who use smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.1. AT&T also announced today the availability of the MDM Early Adopter QuickStart Program that...
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Verizon Samsung Glyde & Juke Vacation with Jonas Bros Contest
Verizon Wireless announced it will sends 40 lucky fans on vacation with the Jonas Brothers. Customers who purchase the Samsung Glyde or Verizon Wireless Juke by Samsung, register online and download V CAST Music with Rhapsody on their PCs will...
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GolFlyOver Gives Aerial View of Golfing on iPhones
GolfFlyOver puts aerial views of over 12,000 golf courses along with pinpoint yardage information on the iPhone. GolfFlyOver ombines the iPhone's built-in location-based services with satellite aerial imagery from Google Maps to locate nearby courses, provide yardages to the...
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Petfinder Mobile Makes Pet-Finding on Cell Phones Easy, Woof!
Petfinder Mobile, Petfinder.com's new high-tech initiative enables people to search for adoptable animals from their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPhones and other wireless devices. Petfinder.com is the largest online database of adoptable pets with more than 290,000 listed from over...
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Xohm LBS Apps from uLocate, Yelp, Eventful, NAVTEQ, AccuWeather & Google
Sprint's XOHM WiMAX mobile broadband customers can have information customized for their locations and personalized to their needs with new Sprint ecosystem agreements for location based services.Unique location and personalization capabilities will customize information for the user at home,...
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>Third of Over-Thirties Fed-Up with Mobile UI's, Says Bowen
More than a third of mainstream consumers over the age of 30 experience deep frustration associated with their cell phone's interface according to a study revealed today by Bowen Research, a firm that researches and evaluates consumer attitudes and behavior...
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Cricket Offers $5 @Month Unlimited Video Service
Cricket Communications, announced a flat-rate unlimited mobile video service that allows users to view one-to-four-minute-long video clips directly from select handsets. Videos available include music videos, artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips from FUEL TV such as soccer and...
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World's Mobile Content Tools to Top $8 Billion in '08, Says Insight Research
Music and electronic game publishers, television broadcasters, video production companies, content aggregators, and telecommunications carriers worldwide are expected to spend more than $8 billion on the tools needed to create, edit, manage, and load various forms of content onto mobile...
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iPhoners Can Drive Audi A4 on iPhones with Free App
Audi of America today announced the release "Audi A4 Challenge," a driving game that utilizes the iPhone's accelerometer (motion sensor) to steer a digital version of Audi's entirely new 2009 A4 through a series of progressively challenging courses. They...
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Rock the Vote Mobile Gives TXT , Alerts, Reg Info and Concert Dates
Rock the Vote and Trilibis Mobile launch Rock the Vote Mobile -- a mobile site designed to make voter registration more accessible and fun, and improve young voter turnout for the 2008 U.S. general elections. RTV Mobile is fully...
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Review Palm Treo Pro Review of Reviews
Palm Treo Pro Rated 4 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews Palm has been losing market share recently reviewers are testing the new Palm Treo Pro for strengths and weaknesses. Palm Treo Pro's strengths are it's...
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Mobile VoIP on Wi-Fi Cheaper than Carriers, Will Keep Growing, Says ON World
VoIP services over Wi-Fi enabled cellphones available from Gorilla Mobile Jajah and iCall. Some of these services claim you can save up to 98% on international calls. By 2011 the number of mobile VoIP users around the world could increase...
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Runtime and Capacity Top Elements 4 Batteries, Says Nexergy Survey
An engineering and marketing survey conducted by Nexergy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of battery packs and chargers, identifies runtime and battery capacity as the most important factors in selecting battery chemistry and technology in portable products. The survey also indicated...
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JuiceCaster Now Feeds Photo & Video Juice 2 Friends on BlackBerry Curves
Social media photo and video sharing app JuiceCaster, is now available for Blackberry Curve devices via a free beta application for users in the United States..In the coming weeks, the free beta will be opened up for Blackberry Pearl users,...
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Olympic Roaming Data Surged, Says Aicent
Wireless data roaming turned in a gold medal performance according to data released today from Aicent, Inc. ( www.aicent.com). With mobile phones from international GSM and CDMA networks accessing the Internet, sending pictures, videos and e-mails, it was the data...
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hi5 Globilizes and Mobilzes Networking, Photos in 26 Languages
hi5 Networks, announced the availability of hi5 Mobile. The global social networking site is now available on mobile phones in 26 different languages. With hi5 Mobile, users can easily send and receive messages, update status, view friends’ profiles, share photos,...
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Photoshop.com Offers Easy Uploads from Mobiles
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 software with new Photoshop.com membership. What’s interesting for mobile phone users is that Photoshop.com members also will be able to upload photos directly from a mobile phone. The...
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Telecoms Should Take Advantage of Multiple Delivery Channels, says Gartner
Telecom carriers around the world are turning their attention to advertising as a potential source of revenue, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner forecasts that the worldwide mobile advertising market alone will be worth over $12 billion by 2011 but advised...
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Verisign Verifies There's a Whole Lot of TXTing Going On
VeriSign announced another record-breaking quarter for mobile messaging, based on the latest quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by VeriSign’s Messaging and Mobile Media division. Through June 30, 2008, VeriSign’s combined mobile messaging networks delivered 95.4 billion Inter-carrier Short...
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Dual Keyboard HTC S740 Smartphone Introduced
HTC introduced the HTC S740 with dual keyboards, fast HSPA speeds, Windows Mobile, Fm Radio, GPS and Bluetooth. The HTC S740 features the fastest mobile broadband capabilities with a maximum download speed of 7.2 Mbps, up to 18 times faster...
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AT&T Connect Web/Video Conferencing Called Leader by Gartner
Gartner, Inc. has positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2008 "Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing." Gartner positioned AT&T Connect in the Leaders Quadrant in its annual review of Web conferencing and collaboration services for enterprise businesses. AT&T Connect...
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Ole! Nokia N85 has OLED Screen & Lotsa' Multimedia
The Nokia N85 is a dual slider phone with a 2.6” OLED screen, N-Gage gaming, music with in-built FM transmitter, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and geotagging capabilities, three month integrated license for turn-by-turn voice navigation and high-speed...
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PC-Like N79 Packs Multimedia, with Xpress-on Espresso
Nokia also unveiled the Nokia N79, the latest addition to the Nokia Nseries range that combines customizable design with a fully-loaded multimedia computer. It offers a full range of multimedia experiences including integrated navigation, music with FM transmitter, high-speed connectivity,...
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Let the Nokia N96 Entertain You
Nokia announced that the Nokia N96, unveiled earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be made available for high-speed 3G HSDPA networks widely used in the Americas during the fourth quarter of 2008. Combining a large...
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Obama's VP TXT Most VIP MSG EVR, Says Nielsen
Nielsen Mobile estimates that 2.9 million US mobile subscribers received a text message from the Obama campaign over the course of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The VP message was sent in the late hours of Friday night and is, by...
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Lil Wayne & Cash Money Goes Mobile with Ringtone Fan Club
Cash Money/Universal Motown Records (UMRG) has teamed up with mobile technology provider m-Wise to offer fans a g mobile fan club experience. The m-Wise mobile fan club mobile subscription service, offers fans exclusive online and mobile content like ringtones, graphics,...
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Funnies on Your iPhone with Digital Comix from iVerse Media
Starting later this year, millions of iPhone/iPod Touch owners will be able to download digital comics from established industry professionals and studios, as well as new and rising comic book stars through iVerse Media. iVerse Media has developed an iPhone...
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Vringo Video Ringtone Sharing Downloadable @ Nokia Download!
Vringo video ringtone sharing developer has partnered with Nokia to make Vringo’s video ringtone application and media content available to Nokia device owners through the Nokia Download! Web store. Through Nokia Download!, users can get the Vringo application, then choose...
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AT&T Offers 100 & 200 MB Data Plans @$119.99 & $199.99 a Mo.
AT&T has expanded international data offerings to help keep iPhone customers connected around the world. AT&T offers two new iPhones data planswhich offer 100 megabytes (MB) or 200 MB a month, can potentially save customers hundreds of dollars compared to...
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Verizon Gives Democratics Greening Tips
This week's Democratic Party Convention promises to be the "greenest" political gathering in history. A Verizon Wireless news release says that Verizon is doing its part to help the environment in Denver and nationwide, starting with phone recycling. According to...
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Wireless and Mobile News News
If you had any trouble accessing Wireless and Mobile News today, we apologize. We have been upgrading our software to Movable Type 4.21 and there were a few glitches.We are close to having all the problems fixed so that thing...
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Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Says, Networks Are the Problem
Wired.com surveyed iPhone users all over the world. The results suggest that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets. They found "in general the data overall shows that 3G is performing...
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Verizon Putting on the Blitz - Text eMail Music QWERTY Phone
Verizon Wireless Blitz is designed for the heaviest of texters, the Blitz comes complete with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and easy access to a dedicated My Messaging key, making it a good choice for a back-to-school phone. The Blitz is...
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Google Mobilizes for Election
Google is ramping up is mobile election and set up a new one stop shop for mobile electoral needs at m.google.com/elections Mobile Search - Link to search results for Obama and McCain, to avoid typing in their names on the...
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Helio Acquisition Final & Good for Biz, Says Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile USA announced that it has completed its acquisition of Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink,) The company believes that the acquisition complements Virgin Mobile USA's strengths. Dan Schulman, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Mobile USA,...
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PoliticsBlue Blogcasts at DNC from Zannel
Grassroots bloggers will be broadcasting video, pictures and text updates straight from the floor of the Democratic National Convention using their mobile phones and Zannel (www.zannel.com), the instant media network that is used by millions of people for lifecasting, micro-blogging,...
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MindLeaders Offers Video Courses for BlackBerry Deployed by chalkboard
MindLeaders and Chalk Media Corp. are offering a collection of 90 video-rich courses that can be securely pushed out to Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry devices and tracked through Chalk's mobile content deployment system, Mobile chalkboard. The courses are presented...
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"Show You the Money" Players Get "Free" Ringtone 4 Sending 99 Cent TXT MSG
Prizemo "Show You the Money" Players Get "Free" Ringtone for Sending 99 Cent Text Message Prizemo developer of interactive entertainment announced that it is launching a new game show, 'Show You the Money,' that allows players to win cash...
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US to Surpass UK for Mobile Web Soon, Says Bango
Mobile web data release by Bango today confirms that mobile web usage not only is gaining traction in the United States but soon will surpass the United Kingdom, where consumers have accessed the Internet from phones for years. According...
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Quickie QuickBooks Tranactions Available Via iPhone & BlackBerry Now
Intuit is now offering iPhone and BlackBerry integration with QuickBooks Online, the web-based small business accounting software, allowing business to manage their money anywhere, anytime - with or without a computer. These early version web-based mobile applications are part...
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iFund Supports New iPhone iPod Apps
KPCB's iFund is a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the new iPhone and iPod touch platform. The iFund is agnostic to size and stage of investment and will invest in companies building applications,...
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Intel's Rattner Demos New Tech Including Wireless Power
Justin Rattner, during his keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, predicted big changes are ahead in social interactions, robotics and improvements in computer's ability to sense the real world. He said Intel's research labs are already looking...
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Buzzwire Offers Mobile DNC Coveraged Hosted by Obama Girl
Buzzwire, Inc. is bringing the Democratic National Convention to mobile phones across America. Beginning on August 25, Buzzwire will provide special DNC coverage within its new "DNC 2008" channel, featuring reports from Barely Political's Obama Girl, convention news updates from...
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Metro PCS Sells ZTE C79 Music Phone
Metro PCS is now offering the ZTE C79 that features MP3 music player1.2 mega pixel cameraMemory card slot Stereo Bluetooth connectivitySpeakerphoneStereo Bluetooth CapableMP3 Music Player It sells for $169 without a contract....
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AT&T ConnecTech Sends Techs to Your Home or Supports on Phone
AT&T announced the launch of AT&T ConnecTech -- a 50-state, all-encompassing home services care program for almost everything: installation and support of home theatres, computers, flat panel TVs, and home networking. AT&T ConnecTech provides in-home and over-the-phone support services...
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Magic Tricks on Mobile Phones from Trixcell Avaialble on Jamba
Jamba/Jamster announced a global partnership with Trixcell, the first company to introduce the concept of mobile magic. Jamba will offer Trixcell's magic applications as part of its mobile entertainment catalog.Trixcell's portfolio of applications allows consumers to wow audiences with...
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Haiku News 2Day2, Google Partners with Verzion for Search
Verizon's productsWill be apped with Google Search, Says Wall Street Journal....
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Visa & Chase TXT Deals 2 Crd Holders in Phx & @ Diamonback Games
Visa and Chase announced a pilot that texts merchant offers directly to mobile devices of Chase credit and debit cardholders in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The offers - from merchant discounts to specials - are tailored to match the...
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Sign Language on Cellphones, Thanks to U of Washington
A group at the University of Washington has developed software that deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers had phones working together this spring, and recently received a National Science Foundation grant...
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Haiku News 2Day, California Senate Passes No-Texting While Driving Bill
California billTo ban texting while drivingPassed Senate, House next....
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iPhoners Can AirMe Photos to Facebook Live
AirMe, a free, mobile photo sharing application that premiered last month alongside the opening of Apple's App Store, now enables all iPhone users to automagically and instantly send their photos live to Facebook. All photos are auto-tagged with location, time,...
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BlackBerry Bold Boldly Goes to Rogers in Canada
Rogers Wireless today introduced the new BlackBerry Boldsmartphone to customers in Canada. Designed for business professionals. the BlackBerry Bold smartphone operates on Rogers’ high-speed 3G network and features a newly designed, precision QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi and multimedia...
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Nokia Mobs Mobile Web Browsing, Says AdMob
AdMob released July Mobile Metrics Report. The report includes mobile browser share. Nokia and Openwave are the top browsers worldwide with 34% and 29% share, respectively. Globally Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Palm, and Safari (Apple) all had less than 5% market...
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Newspaper Readers Decline - Online and Smartphone Readership UP, Says Pew
According to Pew Research Center for People and the Press, news audiences blend online and traditional sources. The good news for Wireless and Mobile News is that online news reading is increasing. The diversity of news audience segments identified reflects...
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50% "Would only use FREE Wi-Fi," Says In-Stat
The number of hotspots providing public wireless LAN access continues to grow globally and more people are using them, reports In-Stat . But access revenues do not appear to be keeping up with the growth in use, the high-tech...
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Palm's Treo Pro WinMo Smartphone with Int'l Flare
Palm, Inc. introduced the Treo Pro, smartphone for businesses and says that it willsimplify IT infrastructures and lower costs. It has a streamlined design and Palmshortcuts layered on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. It also offers email, Wi-Fi and GPS...
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New TM506 Phone from T-Mobile & Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson and T-Mobile USA, will launch the TM506 in early September. The TM506, Sony Ericsson's first handset supporting T-Mobile's AWS spectrum (1700/2100), is a compact and stylish clamshell phone.. It has an outer display that allows users to...
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Haiku News 2Day Apple Sued for Slow Access
Apple iPhone suitSays ain't "twice as fast asAds said it would be....
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Over 50 Million HSPA 3G Users in the World, Says GMSA
GSMA estimates the number of worldwide subscribers using Mobile Broadband (HSPA) networks has topped the 50 million mark from 11 million one year ago. Global uptake of HSPA technology among consumers and businesses is accelerating, indicating continued traffic growth...
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Annoying Recorded Telemarketing Calls Banned by FTC Soon!
According to Telecommunications Industry News the Federal Trade Commission will put into effect rules, that put an end to those nasty, annoying, aggravating, prerecorded sales calls.Starting September 1, 2009 telemarketers can make recorded calls only to people who have agreed...
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Samsung Omnia Review of Reviews Updated
Today we added more sources to the ""Samsung Omnia Review of Reviews." The Samsung Omnia was launched on the same day as the iPhone 3G. When more reviews appear, we will update the "Review of Reviews"...
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FreeRange Communications Delivers Mobile Publishing Platform
FreeRange Communications announced the commercial availability of FreeRange Mobile Publishing Platform online publishers to seamlessly extend their content to mobile consumers. In conjunction with the release, FreeRange Communications also announced new customers The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Fierce...
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Users Want Free Mobile TV to Watch Olympics in Transport & Emerging Countries, Says Telegent Systems
Telegent Systems, released the results of a global survey conducted to assess consumer interest in watching the 2008 Beijing Games on mobile handsets around the world. Conducted in nine countries, including China, Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, the United...
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Aircells' GoGo Internet Goes Live on American NY/SF NY/LA and NY/FL Flights
Starting today, travelers on American's Boeing 767-200 aircraft can access complete coast-to-coast coverage on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami. American Airlines and Aircell have joined together...
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Black & Veatch Launches Help for Greening Wireless
Black & Veatch, global engineering, consulting and construction company, announced it has launched services designed to address sustainability challenges faced by wireless communications service providers. These services address the increasingly important need for the wireless industry to proactively assess...
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103 Million FMCs by 2013, Says ABI
The fixed-mobile convergence market (FMC) is on the brink of very interesting times, according to analysts at ABI Research. UMA-based Wi-Fi dual-mode solutions have seen some significant penetration in both Europe and North America thanks to successful market introductions...
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Mo' MoCo From Nokia In 1 Service
Nokia's Services & Software unit announced plans to refine parts of its global research and development activities. While Nokia continues to grow its investments in consumer Internet services, the unit plans to integrate some of its content delivery services...
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Fewer Phones @ Higher Prices & More Features Sold in Q2, Says NPD
According to The NPD Group, , mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the U.S. totaled 28 million units in the second quarter (Q2) of 2008, which is a 13 percent decline since the same period a year ago. NPD...
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New Video Phone LG Invision from AT&T
AT&T and LG announced the availability of the LG Invision, a new phone made for video watchers. The LG Invision, the third device to offer AT&T Mobile TV1, is the smallest Mobile TV-capable phone in the U.S., at just a...
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Nuance New Strategy for Mobile Care includes Acquisition of SNAPin
Nuance Communications, Inc.announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held SNAPin, a provider of mobile device and server self-service technology. With the strengths and resources of Nuance and SNAPin, the combined organization can deliver innovative, highly scalable mobile customer care...
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Fierce Mobile Content's Top Mobile App Award Winners Announced
FierceMobileContent's third annual Top Mobile Applications Awards winners have been announced. They reflect the changes sweeping across the industry they honor,a new wave of practical, prosumer-oriented mobile services and tools that simplify and improve the day-to-day lives of a consumer...
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iPhone Software Upgraded to 2.02
Apple has updated the iPhone software to Version 2.0.2 for bug fixes a version can be downloaded directly from Apple's servers or through iTunes....
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Samsung Omnia (i900) Review of Reviews
Samsung Omnia Reviews Show Beauty, Brains, Top-End FeaturesThere has been a lot buzz about the Samsung Omnia. When we originally wrote this Review of Reviews it was for the unlocked international version To read the Review of Reviews of the...
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Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte - Luxury Phone Made from Carbon, Titanium and Steel
Nokia ntroduced the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte, a premium luxury phone make with exclusive carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel. Carbon fibre is an ultra light and strong material that is makde into a woven pattern which was nspired...
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13 Million Mobile Data Card Users with 43% @Home, Says Nielsen
Though often thought to be the power tool of the business road warrior, wireless data card are fast becoming a popular means of home Internet access. Nielsen Mobile, a service of The Nielsen Company, in its first report on mobile...
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ClairMail Provides 2-Way Triple Play Mobile Banking for Alerus Financial
ClairMail, Inc., announced that Alerus Financial, a Midwestern-based financial services company offering banking and wealth management services, selected ClairMail to power its new mobile banking offering - Alerus Mobile Access. Alerus Mobile Access will enable Alerus Financial bank customers...
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Free Video Channel Obama, McCain, Chill and Animation Ringtones from Vringo
Vringo is offering Vringo Channels, a new video ringtone channel service with free specially themed Obama- and McCain-video ringtone channels, Mobile users can personalize their phones by subscribing to a feed of video ringtones updated on either a daily...
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Google Tests YouTube Mobile Display Ads
Google started running a test of display ads on select pages of the YouTube mobile site in the U.S. and Japan. This is their first step in testing mobile advertising for YouTube -- it will give y a new way...
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Visa and NA Banks to Test Visa SMS email Transaction Alerts
Visa and eight North American Banks: (PNC Bank, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo, Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, and Vancity) have agreed to initiate a pilot program with up to a total of...
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Future Mobile Awards Winners Announced
The winners of The Future Mobile Awards from Juniper Research been announced. are given to companies that have made a significant contribution to their sector and are poised to make considerable market impact in the future. Future Mobile Web 2.0...
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Free Access to Mobile WSJ on Blackberry
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network launched WSJ.com Mobile Reader — with immediate access to business, finance and technology news and analysis from WSJ.com as well as MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com. The customizable application is available for free on most...
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Haiku News 2Day, Google Hiring Android Developers - T-Mobile 1st Android Phone
Google is hiringAndroid designers now.T-Mobile needs them....
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Lonely Planet Guides Map Out Traveling Guides, Downloadable from Nokia Maps
The planet is less lonely now, Nokia and Lonely Planet have teamed up to distribute Lonely Planet content via Nokia Maps. Travellers can purchase and download the city guides that cover over 100 of the most world's most popular tourist...
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$4.7 Billion Big Bucks for Ringback Tones by 2012, Says Multimedia Intelligence
Ringback tones are on track to become the most attractive mobile content category by 2012, according to new market research from MultiMedia Intelligence. With worldwide revenue nearly tripling to $4.7 Billion, ringback tones will fall just short of mobile gaming...
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AARP Unlocks Senior Cell Phone Deals - Discount from Consumer Cellular
AARP Services and Consumer Cellular are offering a major senior discount with low monthly rates without termination fees, long term contracts and mandatory binding arbitration. The features of the new plans include: Free basic Nokia phone or you can...
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Sprint is Ready for Fay, Gives Tips for Wireless Users
Sprint said it is preparing for the potential impact of Tropical Storm Fay threatening to make landfall in the Florida Keys Monday evening and then again through southwest and central Florida Tuesday. Sprint has staged backup generators and personnel in...
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Free NFL Mobile Live for Sprint Data Subscribers
Sprint and the National Football League are offering NFL Mobile Live, the only wireless source for complete, live access to NFL action. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers. For the first time in wireless, Sprint...
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MOTORAZR VE20 GPS Music and 3G Phone from Sprint
Sprint is also now offering MOTORAZR VE20 that runs on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. MOTORAZR VE20 offers one-touch access to its music player, text inbox and menu controls from its external display.MOTORAZR VE20 provides easy access to Sprint-exclusive content,...
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Rainbow Light Effects on Sanyo Katana Eclipse from Sprint
Available starting todya, Katana Eclipse by SANYO is Sprint's first multimedia phone to combine unique lighting effects with the advanced speeds and features of the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. The fun illumination capability allows the user to assign lighting effects...
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Haiku News 2Day, IPhone 3G Online Purchase Ban Lifted for Premier Enterprise Customers
Businesses can buy3G iPhones online now,With Premier Program....
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EV-DO Rev A Subs to Excedd 54 Million by 2013, Says ABI Research
Although the overall dynamics of CDMA markets are overshadowed by the hype around UMTS/HSPA and the migration to LTE, CDMA operators continue to upgrade their networks to provide capacity for higher numbers of bandwidth-intensive data services, as well as escalating...
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Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Cartoon Newtwork and Adult Swim in ICCo mim Trial
Satelite service provider, ICO Global Communications a has reached an agreement with MTV Network to add Nickelodeon and Comedy Central for use in ICO's alpha trials of its mobile interactive media service, known as ICO mim. ICO mim is...
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Syncronica, Mobile Syncer, Buys Emailer Axis Mobile
Synchronica , mobile synchronization solutions, today announced that it is acquiring consumer mobile email specialist AxisMobile The AxisMobile acquisition aims to make Synchronica the leading player in mass market mobile email and synchronization middleware for mobile operators and service providers....
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Jamba (Jamster) Now Operates in Opera Mini Bookmark
Jamba (aka Jamster) is partnering with Opera Software and adding the Jamba bookmark on Opera Mini's customized browser homepage. The service offers a wide range of mobile products such as music, games, video, graphics, applications and much more. As...
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Verizon Offers Usage Controls and Upgrades Chaperone Services
Verizon Wireless now offers Usage Controls, an online service providing customers the ability to better mand control how they use their wireless phone, as well as how their children or others on a "family share" or multiple-line account use their...
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New Blog Directory Blogs.com Launches - New Hope for Bloggers?
On Monday, a new directory of blog content, blogs.com, launches from blogging software company Six Apart under the leadership of Chris Alden. Their announcement states, "Blogs.com connects casual and devoted readers with the best blogs on mainstream and niche topics....
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Free Int'l Text Msgs from onesimcard.com All Over World
onesimcard.com, an online provider of International mobile phone service, announced they are now offering FREE SMS (short message service) to their onesimcard.com customers. It’s free to send an SMS to any onesimcard phone, from the onesimcard.com online portal and it...
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Sprint Network Ready for Democrats in Denver @ Hotels and COW
Anticipating an increased demand for wireless service during the Democratic National Convention Sprint Nextel Corporation enhanced its network in the following area in Denver Pepsi Center Colorado Convention Center INVESCO Field at Mile High Denver International Airport Downtown Denver business/hotel...
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TNT! $20 Flip Phone 4 Virgins
Virgin Mobile will offers the twenty-buck the TNT! by Kyocera Wireless, a Talk N' Text (get it?) flip phone available at major retailers nationwide including Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack, which will be available at www.virginmobileusa.com beginning...
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Free Condom Ringtone from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A free condom acappella ringtone with many manly harmonic parts in lovely funky classical style is featured in a new ad campaign as part of a two year project using mass media to make condoms more generally acceptable. It is...
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Smartphones, GPS & Touchscreen Increase in EMEA, Says Canalys
An report from Canalys shows: EMEA smart phone shipments reached 12.6 million in Q2 2008, up 28% on the figure one year ago Growth slowed from Q1 2008, when it was 44%, to the lowest figure seen for 18 months...
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Ralph Lauren Goes Mobile with AR Codes
Ralph Lauren is making luxury shopping more mobile with the launch of http://m.ralphlauren.com/ and use of QR bar codes. This new mobile website makes it easier for mobile access because their website is almost all executed in Flash, a...
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Barack Obama Mobile Web Part of Viral Share the Hope Campaign
iLoop Mobile announced today the launch of a mobile Internet presence for the Barack Obama presidential campaign with M.BarackObama.com (http://m.barackobama.com). The mobile Internet site will enable supporters, the media, and the general voting public to receive the latest news, campaign...
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Mobile Storm/Hurricane Info Avaialble from CBS
CBS Mobile News Hurricane Center, a mobile severe weather resource allows users to view late-breaking and targeted thunderstorm and hurricane updates. Mobile users will be able to access detailed statistics such as hurricane positions, projected storm paths and the...
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Haiku News 2Day: T-Mobile Android Dream Touchscreen Phone Soon
New York Times reports First Android HTC DreamT-Mobile in fall....
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No More Twittering in UK
Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over their UK number, due to the high cost from UK mobile operators. Twitter has worked cost-effective deals in Canada, India, and the United States, so that it can provide full incoming and...
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Next-Gen Mobile Banking and Payment Changes Game for Banks and Payments Companies, Says Tower Group
New Tower Group research finds that the accelerating investments being made in mobile payment platforms will be a disruptive industry force. As a consequence, TowerGroup believes the emerging revolution occurring for sending and receiving remittances may well undercut existing fee...
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Free Gov't Supported Wireless Phones for Low-Income Households in TN
TracFone Wireless, the Tennessee Department of Safety, local nonprofits and elected-officials will launch SafeLink Wireless to aid 812,807 low-income households in Tennessee. The SafeLink Wireless service will provide Tennessee's eligible low-income households a free cell phone, unlimited mobile access...
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6% NBC Olympic Digital Viewers
According to Advertising Age, NBC coverage of the Olympic games shows television was the favorite form of watching with 94 percent of the audience, online viewing reached 5.7 percent, mobile TV accounted for 0.03 percent and only about 36,000 viewers...
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Hands-On Mobile Invests in Connect 2 Media
Connect 2 Media, the recently created cross-platform games publisher has announced an investment from Hands-On Mobile, Inc ("Hands-On".) In return for a minority stake in the enlarged entity, Hands-On is injecting the bulk of its EMEA assets into Connect...
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$1 Million FunMobile Mobile Content Settlement Reached
The office Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced that his office obtained a $1 million settlement with a Hong Kong-based company that creates and distributes content for cell phones. Building on earlier agreements with advertising networks and a major...
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Refunds for Unauthorized Mobile Content Available for Mobile Messenger
A settlement has been reached with Mobile Messenger in class action litigation involving claims that unauthorized charges for "mobile content" were placed on the cell phone bills of consumers throughout the country. The settlement, which was preliminarily approved by...
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Yahoo's Fire Eagle Open Source API Sparks Location Based Apps
Yahoo! has opened up Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net), an open platform that helps users take their location to the web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared. Fire Eagle gives users...
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Customers Hold Times for Wireless Phone Customers Reach an All-Time High, Says J.D. Power
Wireless phone customers who call their provider when experiencing a problem are waiting on hold longer than in the past to speak with a service representative, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study—Volume 2....
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Samsung Bioplastic Corn-Based E200 Eco Shown During Olympic Rendezvous
Samsung showcased a new environment-friendly mobile hand set ma de from bioplastic, 'Samsung E200 Eco,' at the OR@S (Olympic Rendezvous @ Samsung) in Beijing. The case is made from plant-materials extracted from corn. The candy bar phone comes in...
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CellySpace & AFP Lauch MMS News Service
Agence France-Presse (AFP), a global news agency, and Skycore LLC, a mobile technology firm specializing in Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), announced the immediate availability of AFP-licensed content for publishers to deliver MMS-formatted news to their audience's mobile phones using Skycore's...
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Bluepulse Social Networking Contest Offers $250 Apple Gift Card to Winner
Bluepulse, the award-winning free mobile social messenger, today announced a contest where users have the opportunity to win a $250 Apple gift card. This referral program is timed to celebrate the new Bluepulse iPhone App, which was unveiled three weeks...
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Seniors Should Get Prepaid Cell Phones 4 Emergencies, Says Seniors Coalition
While almost half ofAmericans (48 percent) already have used their cell phones in emergency situations, millions of U.S. senior citizens — who might benefit the most from the technology — are not yet taking advantage of the “cell phone security...
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Text Messaging Gets the Vote Out
An article in the New York Times recalls an important study from the Student PIRGs' New Voters Project and Working Assets, in cooperation with researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University, released a study demonstrating the effectiveness of...
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T-Mobile Offers Nokia XpressMusic 5610 5310
The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic and Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, in a new black finish with silver accents, are available exclusively in the U.S. from T-Mobile USA. The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic comes with an included wired stereo headset, a USB cable...
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Nokia Honors 8 Mobile Apps
Nokia recognized exceptional mobile application developers in its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program. The developers recognized today for the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series are: Plusmo - Plusmo is a leading provider of standards-based mobile widgets that deliver...
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News Haiku 2Day, BestBuy 1st 3rd Party Retailer 4 iPhone 3G
BestBuy sells iPhone, Starting September seventh.Same price, new locales....
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CBS Sports Mobile New APP, Free Fantasy Alerts & Mobile Web Upgrade
CBS Sports Mobile has launched a new application, is offering a free fantasy alerts service and will improve their mobile webstie. The CBS Sports Mobile Ultimate Sports Application provides live scores, stats, headlines, streaming videos, and complete control of...
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India Leads Over UK & US for Mobile Ads - TXT Tops, Says Limbo & GfK
Mobile social community Limbo and GfK Technology, have released the latest joint Mobile Advertising Report (MAR). The second quarter report shows that a high percentage of mobile phone users in the US, UK and India indicate they are receiving...
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Sensgard ZEM Hearing Protection Review - Pleasantly Quieting
We live in word due to all types of technology that has become too loud for some people. Bose revolutionized flying when it introduced that Quiet Comfort headsets that electronically made signals which canceled out certain sounds like the rumble...
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Teen In-Depth Study Presented at CTIA Wireless & I.T. 9/12
The teenage market continues to play a leading role in shaping the direction and future of the wireless industry, and CTIA - The Wireless Association is working in conjunction with Harris Interactive to learn more about this vital consumer segment....
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Bluetooth Device Shipments Will Increase 26%, Says In-Stat
Bluetooth seems to have reached a maturation period with growth rates that, while strong, do not match the growth of the recent past, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). The Bluetooth chip market should benefit as new standards, such as Low-energy and High-speed...
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Boingo Wi-Fi Now in Dulles and Ronald Reagan Airports
Boingo Wireless announced the launch of Boingo service at both Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Ronald Reagan Airport (DCA) in the Washington, DC area. Boingo members can now use their Boingo login and passwords on the Boingo landing page...
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Mobile Message Spending > $88 Billion by 2012, Says Strategy Analytics
Total spending on mobile messaging services by consumers will rise 15% from $65 billion in 2007 to over $88 billion by 2012, according to a new Strategy Analytics report, "Global Mobile Messaging Forecast 2007 - 2012." Although SMS will continue...
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Handango Distributes EA Mobile Titles
Handango, provider of smartphone content, announced a deal to distribute top casual game favorites from the mobile division of Electronic Arts Inc.The EA mobile titles including Madden NFL 08, The Sims2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS,...
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Internet Speed Matters, Says Speed Matters
Speed Matters released its second annual state-by-state Internet speed report, and the results show the U.S. still has a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world. The report found the average U.S. Internet...
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Dreamy HTC (G1) Phone Rumors: Birthday 9/17/2008
The latest rumor from TMO News is it that T-Mobile customers will be able to pre-order the Andriod-based code named G1 aka HTC Dream on September 17th for a lot less for $150. "The HTC Dream (G1) will have...
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Findlaw Finds 48% of Divers 18-24 Sent TXT
Nearly half of the drivers between ages 18 and 24 say they have sent a text message, instant message or e-mail while driving, according to a new survey by FindLaw.com The survey found that 48 percent of drivers between the...
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Visual Voice Mail for LG Voyager from Verizon
Visual Voice Mail, a new application that lets customers manage their voice mail on their phones is now on the Voyager by LG from Verizon. Visual Voice Mail provides display screen with one-touch access to listen to voice mail...
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LG Decoy Verizon Review of Reviews
LG Decoy Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews The concept behind the LG Decoy is very handy, kind of like when they put special compartments in purses for cell phones - the LG...
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Olympians Can Translate with Google Translate for iPhone
Google Translate for iPhone has been optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand,...
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iPhone 3G "Issues" Persist
According to CNET there continues to be network "issues" reported by iPhone 3G users."Users say the iPhone 3G will switch between 3G networks and EDGE networks even when the device is sitting still. They'll lose reception in the middle of...
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B 1st 2 Know Obama's BFF (Running Mate) By TXT
When Barack Obama chooses his running mate, his campaign will let texters know first According to his website, "You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment."Supporters can...
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Sidekicky Messenger QWERTY Phone @ Metro PCS $50 Unlimited Web/email/txt
Samsung and Metro PCS debut the “Sidekicky” Samsung Messager (SCH-r450) a horizontal slider QWERTY keyboard phone making with built-in 1.3 megapixel camera, SMS, MMS, email and IM messaging capabilities, advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth MP3 player and external micro SD slot....
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GIPS Voice Engine Zips Development of iPhone VoIP
Global IP Solutions announced today that GIPS is enabling voice over IP (VoIP) for Apple Inc.'s iPhone. Using GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile, iPhone application developers can quickly integrate quality, real-time VoIP applications, which should make it easier for consumers to enjoy...
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60 Million Apps Zapped from iPhone App Store in First Month
According the Wall Street journal iPhone App store generated more than 60 Million downloaded in the first month. Steve Jobs said that there was an average of $1 million a day at the site for a total of $30...
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Moto & LG Tops - BlackBerry Blows Past 10 % in US, Says Strategy Analytics
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, mobile phone shipments in the United States defied the economic gloom and grew 5 percent annually, to reach 42 million units during Q2 2008. Motorola had a strong quarter and maintained its...
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Thumbplay Powers MTV Mobile Ringtones, Apps, Games Etc
Thumbplay will power personalized content for MTV Mobile, including ringtones, applications, games, wallpapers and more. Fans can buy MTV-branded content a la carte or via subscription-based credits and have it delivered directly to the more than 2,000 mobile devices...
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Quattro to Serve Mobile Ads on Metacafe Videos
Metacafe, video entertainment, has teamed up with Quattro Wireless mobile ad network, to make its large catalog of short-form videos available on mobile phone. Metacafe will join Quattro's mobile ad network as a flagship, video-based publisher in Quattro's Entertainment Channel....
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US Data Market Grew 40% in Q2, Says Chetan Sharma
According to Chetan Sharma Consulting, the US wireless data market grew 40% in Q208 compared to Q207 to reach $8.2B in data revenues. The total for 2008 stands at $15.7B for the first six months, 38% higher than the total...
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ABC News Mobile Page Views up 77% Over Last Year
ABCNEWS.com continued to garner double-digit traffic growth in July 2008 in unique visitors, page views and video views versus the same time last year. ABC News' mobile site, m.abcnews.com, increased page views 77% versus the same time last year,...
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bnetTV Upgrades Mobile Media Suite to 3.01
bnetTV.com, Inc. announced that version 3.0.1 of its Mobile Media Suite has been launched. This version has two new major features; the first is a new widget that will allow the user to access the mobile phone's camera directly...
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MMA Wants Commenters for Mobile Ad Guidelines
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) would like industry feedback regarding the Mobile Advertising Guidelines. The MMA's global guidelines are designed to encourage the uptake of mobile advertising by brands worldwide whilst enhancing and protecting the customer's experience by creating a...
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I Am Rich, I Really Am - I Paid $999.99 for an iPhone App - Pulled from iPhone App Store
Eight iPhone owners have joined the idle rich, buying a "worthless" program that cost $999, according to the LA Times. All the program does is show a red icon red icon with the words "I Am Rich." After activation...
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Verizon "Think Pink" BlackBerry Curve/Pearl for Back to School Fashionistas
College students can make a statement and be more productive in the classroom when they head back to campus this fall with the BlackBerry Curve 8330 or the BlackBerry Pearl8130 smartphones in Pink. Both handsets capture all of the features...
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BlackBerry Bold Launched in Germany & Other Parts of World
There have been announcements from RIM unveiling the details of the new BlackBerry Bold for Germany, Austria, Australia, Chile and Hong Kong. Although there's official announcement yet about the United States here's what they said about the BlackBerry Bold...
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NBC Olympic Coverage Goes Mobile
The NBC Olympics Mobile website for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China August 8-24 was built by Starcut. The NBC Olympics Mobile website will enable Olympic fans to get real-time access to NBCOlympics.com content. The NBC...
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Win Your Own Olympic Medals, BlackJack II or $1000,000 from Samsung
Samsung Mobile a mobile phone partner of the U.S. Olympic Team and is giving people a their own chances to when medals with the Medal Mania contest, an online hunt for hidden gold medals with a chance to win a...
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ReCellular to Recycle More Mobile Phones with Help of Investor Growth
ReCellular, cell-phone recycling firm, announced today that Investor Growth Capital is investing $15 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing. The investment adds a growing clean-tech company to IGC's portfolio, and will enable ReCellular to handsets. ReCellular's revenues...
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"Mirror Phone in My Hand Who's the Fairest in the Land?" Ask the T700 Phone
Sony announced the new slim Sony Ericsson T700 with 3.2 megapixel camera built-in stereo speakers and color-matched headsets. The T700 is just 10mm thin and has a self-portrait mirror on a 2” TFT display, with 512 memory card, and Bluetooth....
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iTunes Still Top Music Retailer, Says NPD Group
According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, the five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) ranked as...
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Best Buy Mobile Expansion Increases Multimedia Phone Buys 10X
Best Buy has completed the nationwide rollout of Best Buy Mobile coverting 965 U.S. stores to Best Buy Mobile with a large choice of mobile phones, plans and accessories. Customers have responded positively to the new mobile phone experience, as...
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3x More Mobile Subs than Land-Liners, Says Infonetics Research
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports there were 3 times more mobile subscribers than access line subscribers worldwide in 2007 (3.3 billion vs. 1.1 billion), and expects continued strong growth in mobile subscribers, mainly driven by basic voice service...
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Prepaid Phone Traffickers Stopped by T-Mobile & Court Injunctions
T-Mobile USA has obtained two final judgments and permanent injunctions as part of the company's ongoing efforts to combat the unauthorized bulk purchase and resale of T-Mobile prepaid mobile phones. One judgment was entered against defendant Rafiq Wazir Ali, individually...
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T-Mobile Growth Slow, US Cellular Data Up, Metro PCS Flat-Rate Gains
Q2 profits are stats were released for many of the cellular carriers. T-Mobile USA subscriber growth was slow in Q2 this year. It added only 668,000 net new customers in the second quarter, making its total subscribers 31.5 million....
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Moto & Cisco Invest in Amobee for Mobile Ad & Rev Streams
Mobile advertising solutions provider Amobee Media Systems, announced that Motorola, Inc. and Cisco Systems have made strategic investments in the company. These market leaders join the company’s existing investors who also participated in this round - Telefonica, Vodafone (Accel Partners,...
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Quattro Wireless Tackles New England Patriots Mobile Web
Quattro Wireless' mobile ad network, is partnering with the New England Patriots to create www.patriots.mobi . Launching for the 2008 season, the site will have in-depth Patriots content, breaking news, podcasts, instant in-game tracker plus NFL mobile, also powered by...
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High Interest in Olympic Games on UK & US Mobile Phones, Says Nielsen
Nielsen Mobile estimates that 44.7% of mobile video users and 22.6% of mobile internet users in the US are likely to follow the Olympics on their cell phone this summer, compared to 31.3% and 17.2% of mobile video and...
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Openmoko Publishes Neo Schematics for Open Development
Openmoko will publish the schematics for the Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner mobile phones. Openmoko broke with traditional mobile phone manufacturers by shipping its Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner mobile phones with a free and open source (FOSS) operating system...
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Sprint Reports Losses
Even with increased interest in the Sprint Instinct Sprint Nextel reported quarter of losses on Wednesday. Sprint reported it lost a total of 901,000 customers. This is better than the 1.1 million it lost in the first quarter. Sprint reported a...
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TheFind App for iPhone Helps Find the Best Deal
TheFind, shopping search engine introduced TheFind: Where to Shop, for iPhone TheFind: Where to Shop bridges the gap between online research and offline purchases, enabling shoppers to compare products and pricing - while out and about — and ensuring that...
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Mobile Video Should Be Free, says Parks Associates
While nearly one-third of U.S. households have a video-capable mobile phone, operators are struggling to find an audience for their mobile video services, according to Mobile TV: Analysis & Forecast (Second Edition). This new report by market research firm...
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Funambol Push Email and Mobie Sync Upgraded to v7
Funambol's push email and mobile sync Funambol v7 has been released with an open source version for BlackBerry push email and PIM sync, an iPhone plug-in for contacts sync, and enhanced Java ME push email client for hundreds of millions...
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T-Moblie 3G Network Expanded in Vegas
T-Mobile has expanded its 3G service in Las Vegas. T-Mobile's 3G network in Las Vegas supports voice and data services. The company offers multiple phones that are able to operate on the UMTS network. These phones are designed to...
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Sprint Sponsors "Silence Cells & No Texting" During Movies
Sprint and National CineMedia, cinema advertising, have entered into an exclusive, multi-year agreement to promote courtesy in movie theatres through a series of public service announcements reminding moviegoers to silence their cell phones and refrain from texting during feature...
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go2 Local Traffic Powered by NAVTEQ
go2 Media now offers go2 Traffic with real-time traffic information and alerts for mobile phones. go2 Traffic will help drivers and travelers make informed decisions about the best time to leave and the fastest route to take anywhere in the...
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Konami Frogger Available for iPhone & iPod Touch
Konami Digital Entertainment”s Frogger for the iPhone and iPod Touch is available on the Apple App Store. Frogger has been re-designed to take full advantage of the platform’s capabilities, including the innovative Multi-Touch Interface and accelerometer. Konami Mobile’s Frogger for...
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Ringback Playlist with Genre Selection form LiveWire & Virgin Mobile
LiveWire and Virgin Mobile USA launched Ringback Playlist, enabling customers to access pre-selected content channels instead of choosing individual tracks for their ringback tone. Ringback Playlist allows customers to personalize their cell phones by choosing their favorite music genre...
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Mobile National Anthem Ringtones and Flags Wallpapers 4 Olympic Pride
National anthem ringtones and flag wallpapers can be downloaded worldwide for all those getting into the spirit of the Olympic Games, from voeveo.com. "It's an easy way to feel part of the Olympics and you don't have to fly...
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iPhone 3G Grows While Blackberry Still Has Lead & Potential, Says ChangeWave
Two weeks before the new iPhone 3G iPhone was released, a ChangeWave consumer survey showed it was likely to have a tsunami-like impact on the smartphone market. A new survey, however shows RIM fighting back. BlackBerry users are eagerly awaiting...
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Luxury Designer Phones > $43 Billion in 2013, Says ABI Research
Dior recently introduced its own line of in-house designed mobile phones. Other prestige brands are also adding cellular handsets to their product lines. As personal items used frequently in public, mobile handsets can take on a powerful symbolism, representing the...
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"Call to Action" Ads to Reach $419 Million by 2012, Syas MultiMedia Intelligence
The combination of mobile TV and the inherently cellular back channel are creating a new category of advertising known as "Call to Action" advertising, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence. Call to Action advertising was virtually non-existent in...
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Customized Video Device Delivery for Ads from RipCode & Millennial Media
RipCode, Inc., mobile video infrastructure solutions, and Millennial Media, Inc., mobile advertising, have partnered to provide advertisers and mobile content publishers an integrated service featuring Millennial Media's ad targeting and distribution system with RipCode's on-demand video transcoding and delivery...
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MSN Mobile to Use DotMobi's Device Atlas
Microsoft's MSN Mobile group will use dotMobi's DeviceAtlas mobile device database to help develop and deliver mobile-aware content to its customers. DeviceAtlas contains attribute information for more than 5,500 devices around the world, including leading-edge mobile devices like the...
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Sony Buys Out Beretelsmann AG to Become Sony Music Entertainment SMEI
Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann AG today announced that Sony has agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. The music company, to be called Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SMEI), will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation...
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Mo' ROKR Phones from Moto in Candy Bar, Clamshell, and Slider
Motorola expands its ROKR portfolio with the introduction of three new music-optimized devices MOTOROKR EM30, a candybar phone using Motorola's ModeShift technology, ROKR EM28, a clamshell device with sonic features and touch-sensitive keys, and ROKR EM25, a slider with...
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1.28 Billion Mobile Phones Sold in 2008, Says Gartner
Worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008, an 11 per cent increase from last year, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2007, worldwide mobile phone sales reached 1.15 billion units. Worldwide mobile phone sales in...
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Delta Airlines Goes Wi-Fi with Gogo and Aircell
Delta Air Lines will have broadband Wi-Fi access onboard. Delta is joining with Aircell, to install the company’s Mobile Broadband Network on the carrier’s domestic fleet. The system, Gogo, will enable Delta customers traveling with Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as...
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$2 Free Music from Arnie Street and MogoTXT
MogoTXT has launched a new promotion with Amie Street, a DRM-free music download site, to offer free music to MogoTXT members. New MogoTXT members will receive $2 of free music they can instantly download to their computers and then load...
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2.1 Billion Pay-By-Mobile Subscribers by 2013, Says Juniper Research
A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 2.1billion mobile subscribers will "pay by mobile" for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper Research defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks),...
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Verizon's Gobi Global Offers CDMA & GSM World Notebook Access Soon
Verizon Wireless customers will soon benefit from the Gobi module from Qualcomm, the first global mobile wireless broadband Internet embedded solution that leading notebook manufacturers will introduce this month. This embedded Internet solution works with Verizon Wireless' GlobalAccess and...
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Privus Mobile Caller ID with Benefits for Smartphones
Privus Mobile is a new smartphone application that tells users who is calling by displaying the incoming caller's name and number on the screen, a Caller ID for your mobile phone. )Privus Mobile identifies, by name, up to 95%...
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MobiTV Reaches over 4 Million Subscribers
MobiTV has surpassed four million subscribers. Since launching its first mobile television service in November 2003, MobiTV has successfully sparked a new market for wireless entertainment services, deploying its Emmy Award-winning television offerings on more than 15 carrier networks,...
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Movial's LiMo Browser D-Bus Bridge Available in 90 Days
Movial has unveiled it is open source Browser D-Bus Bridge, that enables web developers and designers, operators and device manufacturers to easily create extremely capable User Interfaces (UI) that transform web widgets into seamless user driven mobile. Browser D-Bus...
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Free Olympic Text Alerts from CNN
Clickatell is providing Text Alerts for CNN Olympic coverage. Available now, fans can register from their mobile phones by logging onto the CNN mobile site at http://cnnmobile.com/beijing08 and clicking on "alerts" to begin the registration process. Alternatively, fans can...
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Free Zeemotes in the Netherlands with Walkman W760i
Zeemote, maker of wireless controllers for mobile devices and Sony Ericsson, today announced a partnership to bring near-console game play to the W760i. In a world first, Sony Ericsson is to launch the Zeemote JS1 Controller featuring Bluetoothtechnology with an...
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More LiMo Phones and Members
LiMo Foundation announced seven new devices from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications offer consumers around the globe a host of applications and services that enhance the mobile experience. The commercially shipping LiMo handsets being announced today are: MOTOZINE ZN5...
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Jha Named Co-CEO of Moto
Sanjay Jha has been named Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola. Jha left Qualcomm where he most recently ran the company's CDMA division. Motorola stock rose, because analysts think it is good move....
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AOL & Thired Screen Lauch Patform-A Mobile Ad-Serving Platform
AOL lauched its mobile third-party ad-serving solution through Third Screen Media, Platform-A's mobile ad-serving platform and network. Along with the ability to access multiple networks, the solution features an innovative new method for publishers to manage, partition and allocate...
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007's Phone Titanium Cyber-shot C902 Used in Movie Available in November
James Bond uses the Sony Cyber-shot C902 Titanium silver edition in , QUANTUM OF SOLACE, that will be available for a limited period with a host of 007 content including games, wallpaper and interviews pre-loaded on the phone a...
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Nokia Reduces Prices
Nokia cut prices for many of its handsets in July. Nokia reduced prices up to 10 per cent for selected music and media phones with smaller cuts on other phones.Nokia already has the greatest market share and it looks...
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Cablevision Wi-Fi for Tri-State Area
Several sources note that Cablevision will launch an extensive Wi-Fi network this fall in the NY NJ CN Tri-State area. The $300 million network will be available to Cablevision broadband Internet subscribers for free, heating up the broadband/free Wi-Fi competition for...
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Crushable Music Stars from Samsung @ Summer Krush Concerts
Samsung Mobile launched the second annual Samsung AT&T Summer Krush with a free Mariah Carey concert, last night in Los Angeles. Samsung AT&T Summer Krush will present six more one-night only private music events. Lasting through mid-September, Samsung AT&T...
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Embedded 4G Key for Built-in Market, Says Unstrung Insider
A major push to include embedded 4G technologies in a wide range of mobile and consumer devices will create a built-in market for anticipated 4G services such as mobile WiMax and LTE, but it also will force some fundamental...
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LBS Social Networking Revenue $3.3 Billion by 2013, Says ABI Research
The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify...
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Bigger MMS Horoscopes with Slides from Bigar & Cellspace
King Features Syndicateand Skycore LLC, have launched astrologer Jacqueline Bigar’s daily horoscopes on subscribers’ mobile phones using Skycore’s Cellyspace.com MMS platform. Subscribers to Ms. Bigar’s feed will receive a daily slideshow including their horoscope plus the “Born Today” and “Happy...
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Digg Adds Full Featured Mobile Site
Digg has launched an enhanced mobile version (m.digg.com )- designed for phones that support the full web browsing experience, such as a Treo, Blackberry or that new iPhone you just waited in line all morning to get. This version...
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NBC News 2 GO MediaFLO to Cover Democratic National Convention
The networks of NBC News NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, MSNBC.com and NBC Mobile will present more than 200 total hours of live coverage of the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 25-28, and the Republican National Convention, Sept. 1-4. "NBC Nightly...
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Nielsen & Mediamark Launch Mobile-MRI
Nielsen Mobile, a service of The Nielsen Company, and Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI) today announced that the two research firms will jointly launch Mobile-MRI, an integrated database of consumers' mobile and offline media usage that will allow mobile media...
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