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Mobile Content Bits: Sony Ericsson And Usher; m.friendster.com; Sprint’s Instinct; ShoZu’s NowPublic - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 12:41 AM PST

-- Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today that it will be partnering with Grammy Award-winning artist Usher and AT&T (NYSE: T) to market Sony Ericsson’s Walkman music phones…

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Electronic Arts Buys Korean Division Of Hands-On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 May 2008 06:25 PM PST

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The Korean division is best known for its mobile…

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Christian Dior Turning To Designer Handsets To Boost Revenues - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 21 May 2008 03:18 AM PST

Forget the designer handbags, which are apparently on the wane anyway. French luxury goods firm Christian Dior is turning to mobile phones—priced at a jaw-dropping 3,500 euros ($5,000)—to boost revenue,…

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Indian Mobile Content Firm OnMobile Acquires France’s Telisma S.A. - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 18 May 2008 09:30 AM PST

OnMobile Global, one of the biggest mobile content and technology companies in India, has acquired France-based speech recognition software provider Telisma S.A. As per the earnings call we had covered…

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Industry Moves: DoCoMo; Handango; Uclick - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 15 May 2008 03:07 PM PST

-- NTT DoCoMo: NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is making a bunch of changes to its executive team. Most importantly, Ryuji Yamada will be promoted to President and CEO from Senior…

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Mobile Entertainment Forum Launches Initiative To Spur Mobile Social Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 10:18 AM PST

Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the London-based trade association, is launching a new initiative today that will explore mobile social networking in the U.S., France, India, Italy and the U.K. to…

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LG, Samsung Team Up In Pitch For (Yet Another) North American Mobile TV Standard - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 08:44 AM PST

South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea…

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Chinese Mobile Ad Exchange CASEE Receives $6 Million In Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 02:24 AM PST

Chinese mobile advertising firm CASEE has received $6 million from London mobile marketing company Velti, which takes a 33 percent stake in the start up that China-focused news site Pacific…

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iPhone Round-Up: Launches In Asia; Rumors Of Black iPhone And Jobs’ Upcoming Keynote - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 11:32 AM PST

-- Australia-Asia Availability: SingTel will bring the iPhone to its 2.3 million subscribers in Singapore; Bharti Airtel will offer it to its 64 million customers in India; Globe Telecom will…

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Mobile Content Bits: Navteq Verizon Navigator; Chaka-Uta Full R Hits 200 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 09 May 2008 06:02 AM PST

-- 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 Hits 261 Million Mobile Subscribers - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 06 May 2008 05:21 PM PST

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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Vodafone To Distribute iPhone In Ten Countries; Apple Breaks With Exclusive Deal In Italy - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 06 May 2008 08:34 AM PST

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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India’s Bharti Airtel Bids $22 Per Share For 51 Pc Stake In South African Telco MTN: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 May 2008 01:16 AM PST

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

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Mobile Content Bits: Bluetooth Races; Filipino DVB-H; Find.mobi; UrbanWorld - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 30 Apr 2008 03:42 PM PST

-- 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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DoCoMo “Gets It”, Stops Pushing Technology In Favor Of Good Service - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 Apr 2008 08:24 PM PST

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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3G Services In China Up And Running On China Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:25 AM PST

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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Obopay Inc Secures $20 Million From Essar, Qualcomm, Promethean India And Others - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 25 Apr 2008 07:59 AM PST

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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Vodafone, Softbank, China Mobile Team For Mobile Widget Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 24 Apr 2008 08:57 AM PST

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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Twitter Says Konichi-wa To Japan; With Ads - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 12:34 AM PST

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 China Exec: Mobile-Search Volume May Exceed PCs In Three Years - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:59 PM PST

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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Current Business Models For Mobile TV Don’t Work: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:32 AM PST

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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NTT DoCoMo Rebrands; Shifts Focus From Getting New Customers To Keeping Existing Ones - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 18 Apr 2008 05:13 AM PST

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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KDDI Adds Visual Search From Bandai - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:46 AM PST

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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Full Track Downloads In Japan Rise 91 Percent In 2007 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:17 AM PST

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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iPhone In India In September? - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 02:08 AM PST

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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