Did anyone else catch this CTIA ad last night during the Democratic National Convention? It sure plays the harmonious tone like a pharmaceutical commercial and oversimplifies the wireless industry with…

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Zi Corp.’s license agreement with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) for predictive text services has been renewed and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Nuance Communications, which makes speech-based technology…

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TV viewership didn’t drop off in Canada during the Olympics despite a jump in mobile and online access, the Canadian Press reports. CBC generated more than 46 million page views…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) shared its plans today for how it will distribute applications mobile phones running its Android operating system, and it sounds startlingly similar to Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) App…

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What is happening with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit of VG which is now part of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) after the merger? We have been hearing rumblings of…

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Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) losing two more of its senior executives, this time from its mobile division, which falls under the heading of Yahoo’s Connected Life. Steve Boom, SVP of Connected…

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Paramount Pictures is adding another feather to its mobile cap with a series of comics based on films from its catalog. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, a movie based on…

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Sprint (NYSE: S) has integrated a slew of content and location-based services into its upcoming XOHM WiMax wireless broadband network. In the release, the company stressed the importance of developers…

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EU telcoms commissioner Vivianne Reding may have had her attempt to reduce roaming data charges thwarted last month - but she isn’t giving up that easily. While Europe’s price ceiling…

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Mobile social network myGamma‘s parent BuzzCity is getting a $10 million funding from South African media group Naspers, with the aim of investing in applications that can leverage partnership opportunities.…

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Reuters’ mobile journalism project, which is no longer using the catchy “MoJo” moniker, is reprising its Davos roving-reporter experiment at the Democratic and upcoming Republican conventions - but without a…

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Nevermind the dodgy 3G, the tough sales targets or those allegations of poor working conditions on Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Chinese production line; life on the iPhone coalface is a laugh…

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Cricket Communications and Mexico’s Telcel both announced two separate mobile video services today: -- Cricket is rolling out a flat-rate unlimited streaming mobile video service for $5 a month. Subscribers…

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The number of text messages sent during the second quarter jumped 20 percent to 52 billion messages, compared to the previous quarter, according to VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN), which compiles statistics…

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Maybe it’s not all Apple’s fault after all. French wireless carrier Orange has admitted to capping 3G network speeds at 384Kbps for iPhone customers, AppleInsider reports. Perhaps that’s why iPhone…

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Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) CEO Howard Stringer was quoted as saying in a German newspaper on today that its mobile-phone joint venture with Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) must do better, Reuters reported.…

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Last week, I caught up with Jeff Holden, the CEO of Pelago, which is developing Whrrl, an application for mobile phones that lets people share opinions about events and restaurants…

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Consumers worldwide are expected to purchase as many as 190 million smartphones this year, representing an increase of 52 percent compared to last year. Gartner Research Director Carolina Milanesi told…

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Beauty and fashion online-only mag VIV, which relaunched this past week, is readying an iPhone-specific version for next month, MIN reports. The title started as an all-digital magazine last year.…

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Andrew Bagguley, the head of mobile strategy at News Corp’s (NYSE: NWS) News International UK news publisher, is leaving next month, a further casualty of the corporate-level reorganisation ensuing from…

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More often than not, video on mobile phones is a lackluster experience. MediaFLO has been the most obvious exception to that rule in the United States since its service launched…

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Well, someone stood up for it: the Advertising Standards Authority in UK has ruled that one of the most prominent Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone ads is misleading for the consumers,…

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If there is a lock on visual voicemail, Judah Klausner holds the key. The inventor has protected a series of patents he holds with tenacity and a track record to…

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-- 2.9 million text messages sent from Obama campaign: Nielsen Mobile estimates 2.9 million people received a text message from the Obama campaign that named its vice president over the…

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The ubiquitous image software Photoshop is going mobile, though it is a simpler version: Photoshop.com Mobile beta is Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) first attempt at creating a mobile version of one…

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