-- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT) Powers Revamped VZ Navigator: Digital map provider NAVTEQ has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), to use its NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile to power the…

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India had 261 million mobile phone subscriptions at the end of March, ranking it second in terms of the size of the mobile market—behind China, of course. “The Telecoms Regulatory…

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After losing out to its rival O2 last year, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has struck a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in ten countries, reports Reuters. Those…

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Bharti Airtel, India’s largest teleco, has put in a bid to acquire 51 percent stake in for South African telecom operator MTN, reports the Financial Times. This, after Airtel’s CFO…

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-- The Australian Jockey Club has launched a sponsored content service at Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Supported by brands like Thrifty and Lexus the Bluetooth service sends form guides to…

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A couple of weeks ago we covered DoCoMo’s (NYSE: DCM) rebranding and new strategy...Wireless Watch Japan has a video of Masao Nakamura, President and CEO of NTT DoCoMo describing what…

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That was fast. Four weeks after launching a trial for its 3G service, China Mobile has determined that the high-speed phone service based on the country’s homegrown 3G standard TD-SCDMA…

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Indo-U.S. mobile payment company Obopay Inc has secured a $20 million in a fourth round of investment led by India’s Essar Communications Holdings, and included Alliance Bernstein, ONSET Ventures, Redpoint…

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China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. It will focus on mobile…

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Mobile/web/IM status messaging service Twitter has launched its first localization in Japan. Tokyo has more Twitterers than even its native San Francisco. Unlike Twitter.com, Twitter.jp includes display ads. First…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still trails Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) in online search in China but has high hopes for mobile growth, Google’s China president Lee Kai-Fu said in an interview with…

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By the end of 2007 there were more than 17 million mobile TV users in Asia, according to Media Partners Asia and reported by Asia Media Journal. While that’s a…

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If only it were that easy…Japanese network NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has unveiled a new corporate logo (pictured, right), which it says will help stop its subscribers from switching…

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Japan’s KDDI will launch visual search on its Spring 2008 au line of camera phones, and will make the application available for download to current customers with an au camera…

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Mobile music is again the shining light in Japan, making up for the decline in CD sales. “Total music sales for 2007 in Japan came to JPY 466 billion (US…

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Business Standard reports, quoting “Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) retail sources” that the iPhone will be launched in India the first week of September with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). We have not been…

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The market for mobile TV in India will hit $360 million in revenue and 12 million customers according to Springboard Research—which would be impressive considering that there is currently only…

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As Motorola (NYSE: MOT) sinks, its rivals rise. LG Electronics (SEO: 066570), the world’s fifth largest handset maker by market share, posted a net profit in the first quarter after…

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The waiting game for 3G licenses to be issued in China looks like it will drag on, despite the recent launch of China Mobile’s trial for the standard—involving up to…

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Days after we reported on American students at Case Western University being unimpressed by mobile barcodes, news surfaces from the two-year old Hong Kong company MyClick, an image recognition mobile…

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Live by spam, die by spam. Just weeks after China Focus Media Holding (NSDQ: FMCN) found itself in trouble with the Chinese authorities for regularly carpet bombing some 200 million…

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Would a ringtone, horoscope, or a music track be enhanced if a “pleasing fragrance” accompanied it? NTT Communications announced today that it’s running a ten-day trial starting April 10 of…

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The mystery of the missing iPhones has reached a fever pitch, and several pundits including Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster have interpreted the shortage to mean that a 3G model…

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Indian consumer electronics maker Videocon Group will be bidding for Motorola’s mobile devices business, its chairman Chairman Venugopal Dhoot told Dow Jones today. Venugopal declined to put a price or…

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Gemstar-TV Guide International has signed a deal with Japanese mobile network KDDI to provide the mobile version of the company’s digital TV guide G-Guide Mobile for OneSeg, a terrestrial digital…

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