March 2009 Archives
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Telematic Car Control myCar App from UIEvolution Demoed at CTIA
Would you like to control your car from your mobile phone?UIEvolution has a working platform that enables car owners to remotely communicate with ttelematics-enabled vehicles from their mobile phone. Services may include tire pressure checks, local guides, gas prices, door...
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Samsung S30 Instinct Mini Coming to CTIA and Sprint
Samsung revealed the Instinct Mini aka the Samsung S30 in a Korean news release and will show it at CTIA. The Samsung S30 is expected to launch on Sprint in April. The Samsung S30 has a 3.2 inch touchscreen display,...
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Mobihand Beta Releases On-Device App Store for BlackBerry
Mobihand is offering a beta release of their own on-device app store client for BlackBerry smartphones as well as offering OnlyBlackBerry.com The beta-release version of the MobiHand App Store includes over 5000 free and paid applications from hundreds of leading...
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Alltel Offers MOTO VE465
Alltel Wireless is now offering the MOTO VE465. This clam-shell handset, has lighting modes, 1.3 megapixel camera, video recording, Bluetooth, and exterior control keys. Two lighting modes - “call” and “media” - turn the phone and music keys blue and...
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Windows Mobile Partners Include App Developers and Fashion Designer Isaac Mizrahi
Microsoft has a lot to show at CTIA. The company has partnered with developers for Windows Mobile apps, EA Mobile, MySpace and designer Isaac Mizrahi who will demonstrate ways people can customize their Windows phone to fit their personal style....
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Nokia 3110c Tops Bango List of Mobile Devices
According to statistics released by Bango, the iPhone didn't make the top 20. The Bango Top 20 handset list has the Nokia 3110c on top, followed by the Samsung M800 in 2nd and the Nokia 6300 in 3rd. The iPhone...
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MySpace on Windows Mobile Phones via Silverlight
MySpace will support Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Silverlight. The new MySpace mobile application, available this summer, will run on Windows phones and use Silverlight, Microsoft's free browser plug-in.The companies are in close collaboration to offer a MySpace for Windows...
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Social Networking and Craigslist Top Mobile Destinations, Says Openwave
Themes from Openwave's Mobile Analytics include upticks in social networking site usage, an analysis of mobile advertising click-through rates (CTR) that showed clear advantages of targeted promotions; and the growing trend in accessing mobile classifieds via the mobile device. Social...
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Motorola Evoke QA4 Evokes Touchscreen with DialPad
Motorola introduced the Motorola Evoke QA4, a social media-centered phone with a 2.8" full touchscreen 2-megapixel camera, a slide-out dial pad and a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard. Built-in memory is 256 MB, but it can use an 8 GB MicroSD card....
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Wireless an Mobile News Offically Tweets on Twitter
Wireless and Mobile News has joined the New York Times, Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher by officially launching a Wireless and Mobile News presence on Twitter.Previously our editor, Lynn Walford Tweeted once in a while to her fifty-plus...
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Top 4 Carriers Agree to Mobile Marketing MMA Guidelines
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced that the four largest U.S. wireless service providers - Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile USA - have agreed to incorporate their mobile marketing guidelines within the MMA's best practices. In addition to the...
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Heart Monitoring Via Bluetooth on AT&T
Vital cardiac information, is now more accessible thanks to a wireless heart monitoring solution from Mednet Healthcare Technologies, powered by AT&T's wireless technologies. Mednet, a leading provider of cardiac monitoring products and surveillance services, is helping doctors and patients remotely...
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LG Neon, Quick Messaging $29 Touchscreen Phone from AT&T
AT&Tclaims teens and text-happy adults will enjoy the LG Neon, a low-cost touchscreen device available in the coming weeks. The green and white quick messaging phone features a full keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera, and access to Instant Messaging, Mobile Email,...
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LG Xenon Vibration Touchscreen and QWERTY Multitasking Phone from AT&T
The LG Xenon is a quick messaging phone with a full keypad for text messaging beneath. The LG Xenon has a large 2.8-inch display with vibration feedback, a home screen menu and a visual contacts interface. The news release...
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Samsung Impression Impresses with Impressive AMOLED
The Samsung Impression, AT&T claims to be the nation's first commercially available AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen for one of the brightest and clearest displays in the U.S.The Samsung Impression, has a keyboard underneath and is still slim. It's...
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Samsung Propel Pro Slider Smartphone with Joy Stick from AT&T
For texting and email AT&T announced the Samsung Propel Pro, a full-QWERTY silver and chrome compact slider smartphone with a joy stick. Windows Mobile 6.1 allows users to run full enterprise applications on the same platform they use to text...
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AT&T Officially Launches Nokia E71x Smartphone with Video, GPS & Mail for Exchange
Probably the most promising of the AT&T smarphones announced today is the thinnest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, which go on sale in the coming weeks from AT&T for $99.99 and features a black steel finish and award-winning...
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AT&T Shows Six Texting Email Smart and Feature Phones
AT&T is showing a new lineup of phones and smartphones for the Spring for texting and email. In coming weeks, smartphones include Nokia E71x and the Samsung Propel Pro. Also coming are the Samsung Impression and Samsung Magnet, and LG...
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Palm Pre Twitterer Spied & Reported Release Date and Price Tweeted
Jim Van at Logicomm Inc, probably thought he was Tweeting his friends and Tweeted a lot about his beta testing of the Palm Pre divulging a April 30 release date and $299 price tag.Here are his reported Twitter comments.Got Pre...
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Cellular South Weathered Storm
Cellular South's wireless communications network sustained minimal damage as a result of the severe storms and at least one tornado that swept through central Mississippi late Wednesday and early Thursday.Most of the Mississippi-based company's 500 cell sites in central Mississippi...
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Verizon to Sell Mini Netbook HP Mini 100
Brenda Rainey, Verizon spokeswoman said Saturday that Verizon will be selling 3G-enabled netbooks by the end of the second quarter, or by June. She did did not disclose the make or model. Boy Genius Reports revealed that it is the...
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BlackBerry Storm Decorative Protector of the Day: Unique Skins
Okay, you have the new BlackBerry Storm and well it looks like almost every other smartphone, black and you may think blah. Now you can outfit your BlackBerry Storm with an amazing technicolor dream coat, that is also scratch...
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Free BlackBerry Storm Download of the Day: Flight Path
You may never get to fly a real plane, but you can pretend with "Flight Path" for the BlackBerry Storm. In the game you try to fly through rings. It uses the accelerometer, so as you move your BlackBerry Storm,...
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WeFollow Follows Twitter A Lot Like Digg, You Digg?
Digg founder Kevin Rose founded a website that offers a people-powered directory for Twitter. It organizes the Twitterverse by popularity. WeFollow sorts Twitter users by category, as defined by the people themselves. Users choose online affiliations with three tags (sy,...
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SlideShare Goes Mobile
SlideShare is offering a Beta version of their website for sharing slides on the go. It uses Opera Mini as the browser of choice. With the new SlideShare mobile site you can: View presentations- latest, featured & popular. Download presentation...
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Google Tops Opera Mini State of the Mobile Web in U.S.
Opera Mini's "State of the the Mobile Web" gives insight into mobile Internet use. The latest report focused on Russia.Opera Mini increased its total consumer user-base to more than 20.5 million. This represents more than 160% growth since February 2008....
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NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Finalists for CTIA Las Vegas, 2009
NAVTEQ, announcdes the semifinalists of the Americas edition of the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. Fourteen contestants have been selected to move on to Final Judging in Americas and the winners will be announced during an awards ceremony on April 2,...
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Maria Sharapova Lights Up Her Life with Sony T707 Light/Gesture Phone
Tennis star and style icon Maria Sharapova, is promoting the Sony T707. Just like a tennis player is very interactive so is the T707. If uses gesture technology to snooze and ignore calls. The T707 truly interacts with the user...
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T-Mobile HTC Magic G2 Passes FCC
The HTC Magic aka G2 has passed the FCC. It clearly shows the T-Mobile logo and is touchscreen only. It supports the T-Mobiles 1700 MHZ AWS band. The HTC Magic, T-Mobile G2 also has a trackball. Normal 0 false false...
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Apple Also Selling Unsubsidized iPhones for $599 & $699
Customers in Apple stores are now permitted to buy unlimited quantities of iPhones without an AT&T contract, confirmed Fortune.Customers can buy iPhones without a contract at the full non-subsidized price of $599 for a 8G iPhone and $699 for a...
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Deal of the Day: Free BlackBerry Bold Refurb Package from AT&T
We heard that there was a great BlackBerry Bold Deal from AT&T but it was kind of hard to find. This truly is the best cheapest deal of the day for a super smartphone (BlackBerry Bold) with great reviews, and...
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Palm Pre Compete Numbers Show It Competes with iPhone
According to Compete the Palm Pre is drawing buzz numbers that make it stiff competition for the iPhone. The numbers look similar to the buzz surrounding previous iPhone launches.With a weak economy no solid release date, little advertising, and a...
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Shortcuts.com Goes Mobile
Shortcuts.com, a free, paperless electronic coupon service that links coupons directly to grocery store savings cards and it is now offering Shortcuts.com Mobile. Shortcuts.com users can now go to www.shortcuts.com on their cell phones or smartphones to select coupons and...
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RIM to Launch App Store First Day of CTIA Wireless April 1?
Business Week predicts that Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion will show off the new BlackBerry app store, BlackBerry App World on the first day of CTIA Wireless. Prior predictions suggested the store would open in March. Lazaridis is...
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BlackBerry Media Sync Updated
RIM has updated the BlackBerry Media Sync so that it syncs with Windows Media Player. BlackBerry Media Sync 2 will sync play lists and album art. They have also added improved media detection and new languages. Media Sync also supports...
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ABI Says Handset Sales to Flatten Not Fall
ABI Research's current forecasts for 2010 are cautiously optimistic and suggest we may see shipment numbers stabilize and maintain an essentially flat growth rate rather than falling further. "ABI Research estimates that worldwide handset shipments will fall by at least...
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61% Still Anchored to Stationary Media, Says Pew Internet
Some 39% of Americans have positive and improving attitudes about their mobile communication devices, which in turn draws them further into engagement with digital resources - on both wireless and wireline platform, reports a new report by Pew Internet. Mobile...
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Alltel Adds 5 More Numbers to My Circle
Alltel Wireless launched "My Circle," in 2006 that allowed customers to make and receive calls to and from any number on any network. Starting tomorrow, Alltel customers on "My Circle 10" and "My Circle 20" calling plans will automatically receive...
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Free BlackBerry (No Storm) Download of the Day: Google Mobile Voice Search
Google Mobile will now deliver voice search form most BlackBerry smartphones. You can a try it by visiting http://m.google.com on your Blackberry. To search by voice, hold down the Talk button on your BlackBerry and then speak your search term...
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RIM May Show Mobile TV for BlackBerry at CTIA
New TeeVee reports that RIM is expected to announce full-episode mobile TV for BlackBerry smartphones, next week at CTIA. They claim Rim will offer a monthly subscriptions service with unlimited content form broadcast and cable networks. The service will use...
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100 Million Apps Store Compatible Mobile Phones by 2013, Says In-Stat
Recent research from In-Stat forecasts more than 100 million apps store compatible mobile phones from multiple manufacturers will be shipping within five years.App stores give marketers and advertisers have a new way to reach mobile audiences the mobile app store. ...
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Sprint Reveals 4G WiMAX Plans
Sprint has announced their 4G WiMAX plans which mirror Clearwire. They will launch in major cities this year and more markets in 2010. New devices such as tri-mode modems are planned. Sprint owns 51% of Clearwire and acts as a...
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Free iPhone and BlackBerry (Storm) App of the Day: SitOrSquat Toilet-Finder
Before you have to download, we suggest you download the SitOrSquat app for your iPhone or BlackBerry. We've named it the BlackBerry, BlackBerryStorm and the iPhone Free App of the Day because, we all need to find restrooms on-the-go. SitOrSquat...
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T-Mobile Offers Laptop USB Stick for Wi-Fi or 3G with 8GB of Storage
T-Mobile has started selling the T-Mobile webConnect USB Laptop Stick that connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi or T-Mobile's 3G wireless broadband service. The new T-Mobile webConnect USB Laptop Stick, manufactured by Huawei Technologies accesses T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network...
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Nokia Invests In Obopay, Mobile Payment Battle Continues
Nokia has invested $70 Million in Obopay by buying of and estimated $70 million worth of preferred stock. Nokia's eppo Paavolo, will be seated on Obopay's board of directors. Obopay, allows users send money via text message and charges a...
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Fictionwise Officially Releases BlackBerry Version of eReader
Fictionwise, Inc., the eBook retailer which was recently acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. today announced the official beta test release of eReader for BlackBerry which Wireless and Mobile News named the Free BlackBerry Storm App of the Day on...
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Deal of Day: Better than AT&T LG Vu Buy One Get One Free Offer?
Some of you may have seen the new commercial for the LG Vu that says "Buy one get one free." That may not be the best deal on the LG Vu. The way it works is that you have to...
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BlackBerry Storm Free App of the Day: Storm Piano
Twinkle, twinkle, little Storm, I can play a song just like I do on the piano, with a free app called Storm Piano. It only shows a few keys, but you should be able to get it to play "Twinkle...
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Consumers Very Pleased with Mobile Music and Would Accept Ads, Says MEF
More than three-fourths of US consumers surveyed are pleased with their experience downloading and listening to songs on their mobile phone, and almost a third are willing to accept advertising on their mobile phones in exchange for free music downloads,...
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Scrabble Connected for iPhone Connects to Facebook
EA Mobile announced SCRABBLE on Apple's App Store now supports Facebook Connect. The new edition of SCRABBLE connects the Facebook SCRABBLE application to a SCRABBLE game on iPhone and iPod touch - or vice versa - allowing fans in the...
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iPhone Leads U.S. Smartphones, Says AdMob
AdMob, in its February 2009 Mobile Metrics Report, says smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of requests in February 2009. They believe that the launch of...
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Twitter Feats of Korean Taco Truck - Kogi 2Go Trck
How can Twitter help business? Simple, Tweet your Korean Taco truck location. Kogi Korean BBQ-to-Go posts the location of its Korean Taco truck on its blog and on Twitter than taco lovers line up for the spicy multicultural food-stuff.For example...
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Review of Reviews BlackBerry Tour (Niagara) 9630 Review
Wireless and Mobile News' "Review of Reviews of the the BlackBerry Niagara 9630."The BlackBerry Tour (Niagara) 9630 has many features that reviewers love such as the speaker phone, excellent talk time, keyboard, and the over all feel of the smartphone.The...
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3G Zeebo Gaming Console Coming to Brazil
The wireless game console based on a Qualcomm chipset will debut in Brazil next month. The console has secure 3G wireless game delivery and addresses the special requirements of these regions where current generation videogame consoles are expensive for the...
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Acer to Offer Android Smartphone A1 in September
According to the publication the Business Mirror, Acer will offer an Android phone in September of this year according to source who did not want to be identified. Previously, it was rumored that Acer was workign on two Android smartphones.The...
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No Opera Carrier Announcements at CTIA for Now
No Opera singing by major U.S. carriers this time at CTIA notes the latest notice from Opera:"Opera is aware of statements in the media that Opera will announce one or more agreements with US operators in early April. Opera would...
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Hispanics Have High Mobile and Broadband Usage, Says Scarborough
Scarborough Research has studied Hispanic mobile phone and Internet usage. Hispanics are highly connected by mobile phone and by broadband more than other typical adults.Hispanics are avid cellular phone users. They are more likely than the typical adult to have...
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SMS MediaFriends Works on TVs, PCs and Phones
Integra5, the leader in delivering next-generation communication experiences across TVs, PCs, mobile and DECT phones, and Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. announced a partnership to allow mobile operators to extend their reach with the delivery of social,...
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Intriguing Nokia Intrigue 7205 with External Display from Verizon
Verizon is now selling the Nokia 7205 Intrigue that has has a hidden-until-lit external display, internal color keypad and support for multimedia and music features, 2 megapixel camera, photo uploading, music player, microSD optional, and Bluetooth.The phone doesn't have to...
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Journalists Can Now Attend Al Gore's Keynote at CTIA Wireless
After a lot of press and questions wondering why the press was banned from Al Gore's keynote address at CTIA. CTIA issued the following statement, "Due to a high degree of interest, Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and 45th...
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Top Mobile Phone Use Phone Calls Followed by Text and Email, Says Accenture
Accenture research showed some increased uptake in consumer adoption of mobile multimedia services. For instance: Watching video on a mobile device rose from 12 to 14 percent. Adopting web-enabled phones rose from 8 to 23 percent. Approximately one-third indicated web...
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Apple Sold 17 Million iPhones
Apple has confirmed that it has sold a total of 17 million iPhones (both the original iPhone and iPhone 3G) since the launch of the smartphone, according to Apple's vice president of iPod and iPhone product marketing, Greg Joswiak.During the...
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CanSecWest PWn2Own Couldn't Hack Mobile Phones
Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative sponsored the Pwn2Own hacking contest for the 3rd time at the CanSecWest Security Conference. The results for mobile were ziltch, zip, zero. Hackers were unable crack into mobile devices and didn't win $10,000 and the...
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Vote Earth Info on Web and Via BlackBerry
RIM has created a BlackBerry specific website for Earth Hour, a time when all people on the earth can show their support for the earth. The BlackBerry mobile website offers information about the project.The VOTE EARTH website says"On March...
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BlackBerry Storm Free Artsy Theme of the Day: Art Gallery V.1
For fine art lovers, here is free BlackBerry Storm theme that makes Mona Lisa Smile.Designed by Sados Demetrios, Art Gallery v1 has a home screen with the Mona Lisa painting with two burning candles on either side that act as...
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Dockers Pockets BlackBerry Pandora Marketing with Discount Code
Pandora radio service is now available for BlackBerry smartphone users. After users enter their favorite artist or songs, it creates a radio stream of similar style songs. Dockers saw the opportunity as a perfect partnership to engage BlackBerry smartphone users...
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Crazy App of the Day: Foursquare, Friend-Finder, City Guide, Twitter with Benefits?
Foursquare is mobile friend finder, meet n' great game by the creator of DodgeBall, Dennis Crowley. DodgeBall was sold in 2005 to Google. Foursquare works as an iPhone app, via text or the mobile web. It's kind of like, Twitter...
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Opera Coming to US Carriers at CTIA
Forbes reports that Opera plans to announce some big operator deals at CTIA Wireless. Opera claims it is the most popular mobile web browsers has over 20 million users. Reviewers continually confirm that it is faster than many proprietary browsers. An...
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BlackBerry Internet Service Updated to BIS 2.6 with Gmail IMAP
Now that RIM has upgraded its server service to Black Berry Internet Service (BIS 2.6) non-corporate BlackBerry users have some new features to make their BlackBerry lives easier. You can now use IMAP for Gmail sync, password characters are display...
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Verizon Tops JD Power Quality Study, Users Get 98 SMS @Mo
The gap in call quality performance between the highest- and lowest-ranked carriers is smaller compared with previous years, reports the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study. Verizon ranked highest andFor a ninth consecutive reporting period, Verizon...
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Press Banned from VP Al Gore's Keynote at CTIA
CTIA has banned the press from covering Al Gore's speech at 9:30 a.m. on April 3 a CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas.The ban is at Gore's request. It appears Gore usually bans press from his talks. The press ban seems impossible...
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Beta Trial Open for New Editon of DeviceAtlas for Microsoft ASP.NET
dotMobi announced it is now accepting applicants into beta trials for a new edition of DeviceAtlas mobile device database designed for developers building sites with Microsoft ASP.NET.With DeviceAtlas for Microsoft ASP.NET, developers using ASP.NET 2.0 and above will be able...
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Music and Video Digital Media Grows
According to Strategy Analytics Digital Media Strategies (DMS) research, the top 27 digital media companies in the world increased earnings by more than 20 percent, to $74 billion in 2008 up from $61.5 billion in 2007. Among the top five...
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BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Viewed, Wowed, Touched On as Best-Ever
Some boys have all the luck. Boy Genius Report got a hold of a BlackBerry Niagara and had nothing but good things to report.Boy Genius called the BlackBerry Niagara's keyboard the best BlackBerry keyboard, ever. It also has the BEST...
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YouTube Mobile Optimized for WinMO and Symbian App
YouTube has been available for many mobile phones for over a year, now, YouTube is offering a new version of the mobile YouTube application for more operating systems.The Mobile YouTube is optimized for most Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60...
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Consumers Looking to Cut Cell Phone Costs, Says NMRC
Millions of Americans may hang-up on their expensive cell phone plans and or cut back on extras such as web, texting and email a news survey for New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) reports . Two out of five Americans with...
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Samsung Goes Android in Q3
Samsung will most likely beat other top handset manufactures to the Android bandwagon and get an Android phone to market by the third quarter of 2009 reports Digitimes.They say insider sources leaked information from Samsung that the company's first Android...
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Samsung Mobile App Store Beta Open for Business
If you head over the Samsung Movie store that was officially launched today, a few clicks over and you can get over to Samsung Mobile Applications Beta.This is a full blown web app store. They are selling Symbian and Windows...
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Samsung Mobile Launches Movie Store
Samsung Mobile launched Samsung Movies, a movie store for Samsung customers. The new store by Acetrax will allow customers to download and watch their movies and TV on compatible Samsung phones, laptops or PCs. Downloads will be available to own...
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New Photobucket Software from T-Mobile Sends Photos to PCs, Email and/or Photobucket
T-Mobile and Photobucket are offering a service that enables users to send photos directly from mobile handsets to several destinations: a Photobucket album, a PC hard drive, or any an email address. They are offering a 21-day free trial and...
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AT&T to Sell Un-Subsidized iPhones for $599 &699
It looks like AT&T will offer the iPhone 3G at a higher price to non-committal iPhone users who don't want to sign up for a two year contract o even activate the phone on the AT&T network.According to a presentation...
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AT&T March Madness Continues with Free Coverage of NCAA Games
AT&T announced that all 63 games of the NCAA Division Men's Basketball Championship will be available on AT&T Mobile TV. The coverage is the result of AT&T's agreement with CBS and FLO TV , which powers AT&T Mobile TV. Beginning...
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BlackBerry Storm, G1, iPhone and Instinct Top Revenue Drivers for Carriers, Says comScore
comScore, has been keeping score on wireless handsets, plans and e-commerce, with their e-commerce dashboard. Flagship phones generated revenue while discounts, free phones and other offers fueled volume sales, noted the report. Substantial numbers of phones sold on carriers websites...
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Acer WinMo Smartphones Coming Soon
The Acer Windows smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress are on their way to be being sold soon.. The DX900 will be available by the end of this month, according to Vincent Chen, manager of product marketing at Acer's Smart...
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30% of Wireless Subs Will be 3G in 2013, Says In-Stat
At the end of 2008, only 11% of worldwide wireless subscriptions were 3G. By the end of 2013, the percentage of 3G and 4G subscriptions will reach 30%, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). This trend is reflected in fourth quarter 2008 wireless...
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Economy Not Slowing Growing Mobile Broadband, Says Infonetics
Market research firm Infonetics Research released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Mobile Broadband Cards, Routers, Services, and Subscribers report. The report found that worldwide, the number of mobile broadband subscribers (including W- CDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000/EV-DO) jumped 125% in...
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GoGo Inflight Goes Smartphones for Wi-Fi in-Flight
Aircell haslaunched a new pricing option for Gogo Inflight Internet service for smartphones. Passengers can now connect using their handheld devices for $7.95 on any Gogo-equipped flight of any length. Available on American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Virgin America...
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Palm Pre Webinar Video Demos Best Palm Pre Features
Sprint has released video from the Palm Pre invitation-only webinar. This video belows does an excellent job of showing all the features of the Palm Pre.The overall product design of the Palm Pre is based on a polished river stone....
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AT&T Offers Free Music Phone: Moto EM330
AT&T is now offering the MOTO EM330 with touch-sensitive external screen, MP3 player, high-quality audio performance and as their website says, "all at a price that can't be beat." The phone is free with a rebate and two-year contract. However, ...
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Value of Mobile Coupons to Increase >30%, Says Juniper Research
Juniper Research predicts that the redemption value of mobile coupons will increase by over 30% by 2010.Juniper Research found that the twin effects of shoppers needing to make economies in their spending and merchants ever keen to make sales will...
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Texing ot the Green Pub-Finder: Text greenbeer to 67463
There's always something mobile and green for Saint Patrick's Day. Now you can text message to find green beer.There is a service to help you find green beer in in four major cities - San Francisco, , Boston, Los Angeles...
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Emerging Markets Want Smartphones Too, Says Strategy Analytics
Defying the conventional wisdom that consumers in emerging markets simply want "no-frills" devices and services, Strategy Analytics has identified sizable numbers of users who want advanced products - and are willing to pay for them. A new report from the...
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Apple Reveals iPhone OS 3.0 with Cut and Paste, MMS & Added Features
Today, Apple premiered their iPhone OS 3.0. After showing the new features, Apple gave members of the iPhone Developer Program access to the iPhone OS 3.0 software beta and an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,000 completely new...
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HTC Will Ship at Least 3 Android Phones in 2009
According to HTC president Peter Chou, HTC will ship "at least three" Google Android-based smartphones, this year. He made the statement at the Merill Lynch Technology conference.At Mobile World Congress in February, HTC announced the HTC Magic, aka, G2 for...
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March Madness NCAA Brackets on V Cast from Verizon
Verizon Wireless said today that information on first round games of the NCAA championships, featuring insight and analysis from some of the nation's top college coaches, will be available on V CAST Video.Available just hours after the teams and seedings...
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Instant Mobilizer Launches Mobile Websites Instantly
In order to answer the growing need for fast mobile-friendly websites dotMobi launched their free Instant Mobilizer in February. This service makes the transition to the mobile web easier for small and medium-sized businesses as well as increased sales of...
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Scientists Say Cell Wireless Phones Harmful, Call for Safety Standards
The journal Pathophysiology has published articles about public health concerns and scientific evidence for risks from cell phones and other wireless or mobile devices.Research professor and Editor Martin Blank, PhD (Associate Professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) says...
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Mozes Connect Live Edition Demoed at SXSW
Mozes, announced its Mozes Connect Live Edition audience engagement platform is being used to help some of the biggest brand names and agencies in the world make a mobile impression at SXSW 2009. Mozes will be powering campaigns that include...
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Skyworks Intros FEMs with Power-Control for Quadband
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. introduced a suite of front-end modules (FEM) with breakthrough power control performance for quad band cellular handsets. The unique power control scheme is based on a coupler detector which greatly enhances the total radiated power (TRP) performance....
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Entertainment Geek Fest in Austin Causes AT&T iPhoneOutage
The South By Southwest music/film/interactive festival in Austin was attended by so many iPhone users, AT&T had problems keeping the network working.According to Daniel Terdiman at CNET, "it was nearly impossible to call anyone inside the Austin Convention Center because...
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80 Million North American Mobile Banking Users by 2014, Says Berg Insight
By 2014, Berg Insight forecasts that mobile banking will attract 110 million users in Europe and 80 million users in North America. In Europe and North America, the technology will mainly serve as an extension of existing online banks as...
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Ericsson Gets Outsourcing Contract from Sprint
A Swedish newspaper, Affarsvarlden has reported that Ericsson has an outsourcing contract with Sprint. Ericsson has won a service contract from Sprint worth several billion dollars.. The contract is for the operation of Sprint’s mobile phone networks and will last...
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Symbian Foundation Sets Agressive Development Schedule
The Symbian open source platform is on course for development this year. They expect a new update of the platform every six months. The first release of the new software, called Symbian^2, will be "functionally complete" by the middle of...
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Wireless and Mobile News Week in Review: March 9-15
Mad Mad Week of Deals and March Madness NCAAThe week of March 9-15 started off with more March Madness specials, not only are they giving phones away, one online seller, Let's Talk is giving back $250 with a new T-Mobile...
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Free WinMo BlackBerry and iPhone Hail-a-Cab App: RideCharge
Taxi Magic by RideCharge gives smartphone users the ability to book taxis and sedans on their iPhone, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphone."The reponse has been incredible, The downloads have been in the tens of thousands in the first couple of...
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BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Pics Showing UP
The BlackBerry Niagara 9630, referred to as the CDMA version of the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and Curve 8900, has sneakshots appearing of it on the web.The BlackBerry Niagara 9630 looks like there's some kind of rubbery textured coating on the...
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Palm Treo Pro with Wi-Fi and Stereo Bluetooth Goes on Sale @ Sprint 2Day
Sprint is now offering the Treo Pro. It has a a large touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard for fast speeds of Sprint’s EV-DO Rev. A Mobile Broadband Network. Formerly the Palm Treo Pro was available unlocked and Reviewers...
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Cell Phones and Smartphones that Go On Sale Today, March 15
Here are the cell phones and smartphones that go on sale today:The Moto Q 9c from with a special package for blind and visually impared is now offered today, from Verizon. TALKS for Verizon Wireless supports audio feedback for writing...
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BlackBerry (Storm) Free App of the Day: eReader Pro
For people who want to reader books on the their BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry Storms, the free eReader Pro with the ability to buy new books and read some free titles.eReader Pro for BlackBerry allows users who have bought books...
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X-tc from Virgin Gr8 4 Txting
Virgin Mobile announced the X-tc from Kyocera Wireless. The phone has a slide-out QWERTY keypad for text fiends and fans. The X-tc offers IM and email support. The device sells for $99.99 without an annual contract and will be in...
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Consumer Cellular Adds Data and Web
Consumer Cellular announced that it now offers data services plans for new and existing customers. With its new wireless web feature, Consumer Cellular customers, many of whom are limited cell phone users, will be able to send picture messages, check...
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Score with Qck Txts for Mrch Madness from Chacha
ChaCha is now offering ways access live sports scores for March Madness. ChaCha is introducing ThmbSavrs abbreviations that enable fans to send shortcut texts to ChaCha (242242) and receive live sports scores, news and updates quickly. Unlike other mobile search...
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Global Gaming to Reach $40 Billion by 2012, Says CSMG
CSMG, the strategy division of TMNG Global (Nasdaq:TMNG) released a report on the global video games market and its impact on mobile and fixed service providers, entitled: Playing Games: A Revolution In Interactive Entertainment. Fueled by increased network access, faster...
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HTC to Reveal QWERTY Smartphone at CTIA
DigiTimes reports that HTC is likely to premier its new QWERTY smartphone, the HTC Maple, at CTIA Wireless 2in Las Vegas according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.HTC appears to be talking to US service operators for j...
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BlackBerry Storm Free Download of the Day: Chris Cornell's Stop Me
Chris Cornell and Timbaland will collaborate on the next song the BlackBerry Storm smartphone free remixes.The song, "Stop Me," will debut in Chicago with a performance by Cornell, former frontman for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and will be available for download...
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Verizon Offers TALKS on Moto Q 9C for Blind and Visually Impaired
Verizon Wireless is now offering new assistive technology that converts displayed text into speech for users who are blind or visually impaired. It will available on the MOTO Q 9c smartphone beginning March 15. TALKS for Verizon Wireless supports audio...
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March Madness Deal Correction- Make $250 When U Buy a Samsung Renew
When we first heard this deal it seems really good, when we ran it the Samsung Renew with a contract, got back $150 bucks. Now we took a look at the link and it you MAKE $250 on the deal...
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BlackBerry Storm Controls Race Car? Web Surfers Punked by Viral Video
Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver supposedly in a YouTube video remotely controls a real F1 race car with a BlackBerry Storm. BlackBerry Storm users, Simon and Steve first created a way to control a toy car via the...
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Palm Pre Webcast Preview Reveals Plans and Some Features
The Palm Pre webcast, today, didn't reveal much more about the features Palm Pre. They did answer some questions and detail plans available from Sprint. The Palm Pre is still on target for the first half of this year and...
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Cricket Shows World's Largest Working Cell Phone in Chicago
Cricket and Samsung Telecommunications America, (Samsung Mobile) are displaying the world's largest working cell phone today in Pioneer Court in downtown Chicago. The largest working cell phone in the world is a working replica of a Samsung Messenger phone.The biggest wireless...
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LG Rumor2 Comes to Sprint and Everything Messaging for $49.99 Mo.
Sprint will offer the LG Rumor2 with a full sliding QWERTY keyboard for enhanced messaging, email and social networking as well as stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a lQVGA display, on March 15.The LG Rumor2 has MP3 player...
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Mobile Games Sales Are Up, iPhone and Android Popular, Says Multimedia Research Consultancy
Results from the Multimedia Research Consultancy's (TMRC) first online survey of mobile games industry experts The iPhone is a winner of support. The participating organizations report current mobile games sales up on a year ago (43 per cent say sales...
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Google Image Search Easier for Android Phones and iPhone
Google Mobile has launched a special search results page for Android, iPhone, and iPod touch in the US, the UK, and Japan.With the new Image Search results, users can scan up to 20 images on a single results page and...
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USA Tops for Mobile Web Browsing and Payments, Says Bango
The USA now has top slot for mobile web browsing with 29% of the worldwide traffic, according to data released today by Bango. The growth in traffic is being matched by the growth in users paying for content on the...
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Google Voice Offers Lots of Services and VMail Transcription
Google is launching its Google Voice service, only for former Grand Central users, the service it acquired in 2007, today. The free service from Google offers a lot of features. It's an IP-based phone managing service that routes home, office...
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IDC Outlook for Mobile Growth Negative -8.3%
The worldwide mobile phone market was influenced the economic crisis in the fourth quarter of 2008 - shipments fell 11.6% year over year. It was the first time the holiday quarter has not recorded double digit growth in seven years....
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Nokia 5030 XpressRadio Revealed
Nokia also revealed, today, the Nokia 5030, their first phone with an internal FM radio antenna, which eliminates the need for a headset or external speakers. The one touch FM radio and channel selection keys on the side of the...
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Nokia 5330 XpressMusic Lights Up and Goes with Musical Wardrobe
Another music phone with unlimited music for a year from Nokia announced, today, is the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic has personalization features.This phone will literally light up your life with illumination effects to react to your mood, music, or clothes you...
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Nokia 5730 Xpress Music Full QWERTY Social-Musical Powerhouse
The new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for quick messaging, social-sharing and on-the-go entertainment services. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording and connections to photo sharing services. It works with voice commands, Bluetooth 2.0...
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Deal of the Day: T-Mobile Google G1 Price Drops to $47.77 (4Gig) with Trade-in/Contract
If you wait long enough usually the price of the last lastest most popular smartphone drops when you sign up for a contract. The T-Mobile G1 which originally sold for $199 can be had now for as little as $97...
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Oklahoma Leads in Wireless-Only Households - Wireless-Only Growing On Map
Oklahoma is leading the nation's wireless-only movement, with more than one in four households (26.2%) in that state using only wireless phones in 2007 reports a new study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center...
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Both Sides of Free SMS Fence iPhone App: Infinite SMS Now Finite
Google does not like independent developers entering their territory. Infinite SMS a 99 cent iPhone app (developerd by Innerfence) used the Google free text messaging in Gmail Labs so that iPhone owners could send free SMS.The app was hit because...
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Microsoft App Store Details Revealed, Developers Get 70% Cut
Microsoft detailed how developers can build and sell applications for Windows smartpones through Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the app store available with the Windows Mobile 6.5. operating system. Developers will get at 70% cut, no coast distribution, set their own...
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Palm Corrects McNamee's Palm Pre Exaggerations in SEC Filing
The televangelist for the Palm Pre, Roger McNamee stands to be corrected in SEC filings from Palm. McNamee loves to praise the capabilities and of the Palm Pre and poo-poo other smartphones such as the iPhone.Bloomberg broadcast an interview with...
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Hyundai Watch Phone Coming
Hyundai Mobile will offer the MB-910 phone watch, which includes features such as a Bluetooth headset, email client, video playback, music player and touchscreen control, is already selling well in mainland Europe. Hyundai Mobile UK expects the MB-910 to retail...
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RIM BlackBerrry Sponsors U2 360° Tour
U2 announced yesterday, that their U2 360° Tour will open at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona on 30th June and it will be sponsored by BlackBerry. It is U2'ss first stadium outing since the Vertigo Tour 05/06 and follows...
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Unlimited Wars Heat Up: MetroPCS Offers BlackBerry Curve
MetroPCS is offering their first BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone from Research In Motion, along with an unlimited data plans.The BlackBerry Curve has a full-QWERTY keyboard and advanced multimedia capabilities. MetroPCS offers two unlimited rate plans to support the BlackBerry Curve...
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AT&T Invests in Wireless & Broadband, Cuts Some Jobs in Wireline
In a news release, AT&T says that demand for connectivity remains strong and they will invest $17 billion to $18 billion in 2009 in its wireless and wired broadband networks. Approximately two-thirds of AT&T's 2009 investment will extend and...
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Rugged Digital Assitants From Motorola MC5590 EDA and MC5574 EDA
Motorola has launched the MC55 line of small and light Enterprise Digital Assitants(EDA) with 3.5 inch displays. Designed for mobile workers inside and outside an organization's four walls, MC55 EDA have two-way radio, bar code scanner, digital camera, and mobile...
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Social Networking More Mobile, Says Nielsen
According to a new Nielsen report "Global Faces and Networked Places," two-thirds of the world's Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time. Social networking is also becoming more mobile. Time spent...
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T-Mobile Wins Injunction and $5 Million in Damages from Prepaid Phone Traficker DK Wireless
T-Mobile USA announced it obtained a final judgment and permanent injunction to combat the unauthorized bulk purchase and resale of T-Mobile's prepaid mobile phones and accessories.The order, handed down by a federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., permanently enjoining DK...
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Average Cost of Wireless Call $3.02 Says UCAN, San Diego
A study sponsored by utility-watch-dog group Utility Consumers' Action Network, and conducted by auditors with Teletruth, the New Networks Institute, and LTC Consulting found that phone bills are more than expensive. The study of 703 consumers found that many San...
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Cascada Breeze Partners with Polar Mobile for More Mobile Apps
Cascada Mobile announced a partnership with Polar Mobile to utilize Cascada's Breeze mobile development platform to extend the reach of Polar Mobile's platform beyond smartphones to Java-based mobile phones. With Cascada Mobile's Breeze platform, developers can create mobile apps in...
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blinko Public Beta for Private Meaningful Relationships
Buongiorno at the Social Networking World Forum in London, revealed the new beta version of blinko They claim blinko is the first mobile social network which allows users to select 20 people with whom to share constant and meaningful relationships,...
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Cricket Unlimited in Philadelphia
Cricket unlimited wireless services are available in the greater Philadelphia area. Philadelphians will now have access to unlimited, feature-packed 3G wireless voice and broadband services. Cricket's coverage area expands from Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, across South Jersey to...
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More March Madness Mobile from Yahoo! Chance to Win a Million Bucks
March is really madness month and for some lucky betters, I mean speculator, it could mean a million bucks. Yahoo! Sports is giving college basketball fans a triple-double of madness with mobile access to brackets, millions in prize money, up-to-the...
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Mobile Phone Third Most Important Innovation in 30 Years, Says Wharton & NBR
A lot of innovations have happened since 1979 and when news was read on paper and the personal computer was a pipe dream. Nightly Business Report, partnered with Knowledge@Wharton to create a list of the "Top 30 Innovations of the...
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Nuance Helps You Tell Your Samsung Memoir What to Do & Spell
Nuance Communications VSuite 3 and XT9 Smart Input products are both embedded on the Samsung Memoir from T-Mobile. VSuite enables voice commands while XT9 offers predictive test. The voice commands start off with saying "Go to" "Go to Web" opens...
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Review Samsung Memoir T929 (T-Mobile) Review of Reviews
T-Mobile Samsumg Memoir Rated 4 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News' Review of Reviews (Best Camera Phone) The Samsung Memoir ( T-Mobile) packs a full digital camera in a feature phone. The 8 megapixel camera has advanced camera features including video...
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Free Heads or Tails BlackBerry Storm App of the Day: Nickel Buddy Coin Toss
If you no longer have coins because you pay for everything with your credit cards this free BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry App is for you. Although we didn't flip-out over this particular app. It does let you flip a...
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March Madness Deals 2: Make $100 or $250 and Get Dashed or Renewed
We thought they were really reducing prices over the Holidays, now it looks like it is truly March Madness with some crazy wireless, cheap, best deals. Let’s Talk sent us some of there best offers, when you get a free...
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CSR and Murata Make 200 Million CSR9000
CSR and Murata have produced 200 million modules that combine CSR and Murata technology. CSR worked with Murata on its breakthrough Connectivity Centre product, CSR9000. Launched this year at Mobile World Congress, CSR9000 is the world's smallest Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solution...
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Android Free Download of the Day: ShopSavvy Gigan
ShopSavvy just got more savvy with its Gigan version available today. The app garnered over 400,000 users who on G1 phones to scan barcodes and look up items online to comparison shop in real-time. It also saves items for future...
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Air2Web Delivers Domino's TXT Mobile Coupons
Air2Web is now Domino's Pizza sole mobile services provider for Domino's new mobile coupon campaign management platform, which will serve its franchises across the country. Domino's sends coupon codes to opted-in consumers via text message. Customers can use the coupons...
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Free BlackBerry Download of the Day: Myspace Update 1.5
RIM has updated its myspace application to version 1.5, with enhancements to share events and experiences as they happen.Here are the enhancements: Friend Updates: Users can now view their MySpace Friend Updates from within the application and click on a...
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Smartphones Will Treble While Handsets in Trouble, Says Informa
Informa Telecoms & Media predict that in 2009, total new handset sales will fall 10.1% year on year. Smartphone sales will maintain robust growth, 35.3% year on year - Smartphone penetration will reach 13.5% of new handsets sold. In 2013,...
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BlackBerry Storm Free App of Day: WHERE Location Location Location
"Oh Romeo, oh Rome wherefore art thou?" Juliet tweeted."Methinks thou must check WHERE on thy BlackBerry Storm dear Juliet," Romeo tweeted back.WHERE has just launched its app for BlackBerry Storm, two fair maidens Lacy and Chrystie show you how to...
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Smartphones Bright Spot in Dim Handset Market, Says iSuppli
Smartphones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli Corp. predicts, although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim. iSuppli's optimistic scenario predicts global smartphone unit shipments...
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OMG No Catholic Txt or Twitter During Lent!
Dioceses and Catholic groups in Italy requested a ban on text messaging every Friday in Lent, which began last week on Ash Wednesday. AP reports "It's a small way to remember the importance of concrete and not virtual relationships," the...
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Palm Pre Not Delayed Says Palm Tweet
One way to spread a rumor and also stop a rumor nowadays is to Tweet about it. Which is what Palm did on Wednesday. "Palm Pre still on track for first half of 2009," Palm tweeted, yesterday in response to...
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Nokia Sees the Light in LTE
Nokia has confirmed that they will support LTE (Long-Term Evolution) not WiMAX for 4G data networking. Nokia will be making devices for LTE networks in 2010 according to James Harper, Nokia's senior manager of technology marketing. He did not divulge...
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Cricket Now Selling Samsung r211
Cricket is now selling the candybar Samsung SCH-r211 mobile web phone with AWS. "The r211 is an extremely attractive and durable device for customers who want easy access to all the services and features they need to conduct their mobile...
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LG Already has 1 Million Pre-Orders for LG Arena
According to Telecoms Korea, the LG Arena has drawn a lot of attention from mobile operators worldwide, and the company reportedly has already received pre-orders for over 1 million units.The previous LG hit phone the Chocolate only had pre-orders of...
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Apple Wins Juniper's Future Mobile Gold Award, Fishlabs Gets Silver
According to Juniper research Apple iPhone game volume was remarkable. The decline in Java downloads in Western Europe and North America in 2008 was offset by the remarkable volume of downloads generated through the Apple App Store for the iPhone....
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BlackBerry App World (formerly Application Storefront) Open for Notifications
RIM has named its application storefront, "BlackBerry App World." The website suggests BlackBerry users sign up for BlackBerry App World today.They claim that BlackBerry App World will personalize BlackBerry smartphones with games, social networks, personal productivity applications and so much...
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Smartphones 23% of Sales, Says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, market research, consumer sales of smartphones to U.S. consumers represented 23 percent of all handset sales in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2008 compared to just 12 percent in Q4 2007. Led by the release of...
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Fring Now Expressed on Nokia XpressMusic 5800
Fring today announced the launch of a brand new version of its social community and communication service for the new Nokia 5800 touch screen device. Their news release says, “This has been one of the most hotly anticipated fring launches...
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Google Mobile Finance for Android Launched
The Google Mobile Blog reported yesterday that Google has launched Google Finance for Android.During their research they learned that many people needed to stay connected to the market. .As the Finance for Android application took shape, and the team added...
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RCR News RIP - Wireless and Mobile News Welcomes RCR News Readers
RCR Wireless News ended operation of both its print and online products, yesterday.A statement on the website said, "Unfortunately, the market for RCR's products has been hit particularly hard by the global financial meltdown.""RCR Wireless News was passionately run by...
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AT&T Rebaters Will Get $2.63 Million in New Visa Gift Cards, Says NY Attorney General
A $2.63 million agreement with AT&T Mobility over a misleading and deceptive sales promotion involving rebate offers that were fulfilled with onerous and condition-laden rebate cards by the New York's Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. AT&T is required to provide...
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BlackBerry Storm App of the Day: QuickLaunch
Here's an app developed by a BlackBerry Storm lover for Black Berry Storm users that makes use of the Storm easier. It makes shortcuts for the apps and functions you use the most. We named it the BlackBerry Storm App...
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T-Mobile Tops Wirefly's List of Top Camera Phones
Wirefly announced its Top 10 list of camera phones on the market today. The T-Mobile Samsung Memoir with an unprecedented 8.0 megapixels, the 5.0 MP Motorola Zine and 5.0 MP Samsung Behold top the list. They are also offerins some deals...
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New Development Platform for Java Phones Nemo
Everypoint has developed a new platform bringing graphics and always-on services to mass-market mobile devices. They are showing the first five applications developed using the mobile application development platform, Nemo.Each application illustrates the full potential of Everypoint's unified approach to...
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic 3G Issues Only in N.Y. and Chicago
The Nokia Blog received the following about "3G network problems" with the 5800 XpressMusic phones reported yesterday.It appears the Nokia 3G network problems were only in New York and Chicago."We have learned that some Nokia 5800 XpressMusic devices are having...
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Economic Downturn Downer for Mobile Phones Sales, Says Gartner
The economic downturn has taken its toll on handsets. Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner,...
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AT&T Will Subsidize Netbooks and Data-Hungry Devices
According to Investor's Business Daily, AT&T will continue its subsidy band wagon for all sorts of devices including netbooks, cameras, portable video games, GPS and anything that eats up data."The economics for us are terrific. We're willing to invest to...
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Cricket Offers New AWS Broadband Modem
Cricket is now offering the Cricket A600 USB modem. The AWS compatible A600 features a rotatable USB hinge for ease of use with any laptop or desktop computer with a USB port. The A600 also has a microSD memory slot...
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T-Mobile Unlimited Plans Will Boost Keeping Customers?
T-Mobile has launched an unlimited plan for customers who have been with T-Mobile for at least 22 months without adding a contract commitment.The plan includes unlimited calling for $50 a month, taxes are not included. These select customer can...
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Plam Pre webOS Apps Coming from these Suspects
Suspected makers of Palm Pre apps have been outed by PalmInfoCenter. The partners most likely have access to the webOS SDK and are already developing apps for the Palm Pre. Partners were announced at CES. Here are the companies followed by...
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1/3 Say They Will Upgrade to Smartphone, Says In-Stat
Global smartphone growth this year will be strong globally, but even stronger in the US market. Recent research by In-Stat found the following: By 2013, Smartphones will double their share of all cellphones to about 20 percent, reports In-Stat. Almost...
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Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Nixed in U.S. Stores
Nokia stopped selling the U.S. Version of the 5800 Xpress Music phone in U.S. stores due to problems connecting to 3G networks. They are substituting the European model which does not work with 3G networks.There have also been reports of...
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Women Gets $5000 Data Bill on $100 Netbook, Files Class Action Lawsuit
Billie Parks thought she was getting a deal, when she signed up for a $100 netbook computer from Radio Shack subsidized by committing to a two-year AT&T wireless data contract. What she didn't realize was that the price she would...
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iPhone 66.61% of Mobile Web Browsing
Market Share by Net Applications shows the shares of different phones operating systems for the mobile web.Although the iPhone has a hugs lead in mobile browsing share (66.61),Android and BlackBerry are rapidly gaining market share. This does not mean that...
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TurboTax Twitter, Facebook and myspace Status Contest - Grand Prize $25,000
Here's a new twist on contests to get more people to use TurboTax software. TurboTax has launched a campaign through social networking and widgets, only. They launced a social networking website Freeloader Nation on myspace and are offering games with...
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Palm Pre webOS Developer Video Available
The developer webinar for the Palm Pre has some interesting information about the Palm Pre webOS titled, "O'Reily Webcast Developing Applications Uses Palm webOS. Mitch Allen describes webOS as a system that melds a card-face windows OS with a browser...
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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Will Be Tech-Savvy: Palm Pre Guest?
The new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon may be a beacon for gamers, mobile social networkers, uber-geeks and technoholics. Gavin Purcell former producer of G4's Attack Of The Show and now co-producer of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon says he...
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BlackBerry Storm Free Themes of the Day: BlackLight Themes
If you don't like the "theme" or the the look of your BlackBerry Storm, there are a designers at BlackLight Themes who have designed themes and let you download them for free. You can browse through the forum for themes...
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Best Cheapest Deal of the Day: LG Vu Free w/NCAA from A&TT with Coupon-Link
AT&T has slashed the price of the LG Vu to $49.99 with a rebate and is running a special promotion for and including exclusive coverage of all 60 March Madness NCAA games for free. For NCAA fans who need their...
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