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T-Mobile Has Already Sold 1.5 Million G1s On Pre-order: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Sun 12 Oct 2008 07:04 PM PST

We’re still 10 days out before the first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android phone hits the streets and T-Mobile has already sold 1.5 million G1s in pre-orders, The Motley Fool reports.…

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Bell Canada Picks LTE For 4G Despite Investments In WiMax And Clearwire - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 05:16 PM PST

Bell Canada said today that it will use LTE to build out its 4G network, an unexpected move for a company which has many close ties to the competing WiMax…

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Verizon Backtracks On 3 Cent SMS Fee; It’s A ‘Proposal’ Up For ‘Discussion’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 01:25 PM PST

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is backtracking on the 3 cent per-SMS fee it told partners it would begin charging for every message delivered over its network. And yet it still…

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BlackBerry-Maker Research In Motion Ripe For Takeover Bid: Analyst - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:26 AM PST

The Research In Motion takeover guessing game has returned. With the BlackBerry-maker’s shares having dropped from more than $148 to around $60 in four tumultuous months, cash-rich companies could be…

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Google Readying iPhone-Specific Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:26 AM PST

Even with the first Android device set to launch in a matter of days, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still has the iPhone and the inherent opportunities it presents high on its…

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Industry Moves: Geraldine Wilson Leaves Yahoo To Become CEO Of Truphone - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 04:18 PM PST

Geraldine Wilson has been appointed to the position of CEO at Truphone, a London-based company that enables phones with Wi-Fi to make regular phone calls and send text messages using…

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Verizon Will Charge Companies 3 Cents Per Text Message Sent To Their Subscribers - 6 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 03:30 PM PST

For the better part of five years Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has allowed companies to send text messages to its subscribers without a fee, but the carrier is telling its…

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RAZR Still The Top Selling Cellphone In The U.S. - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 09 Oct 2008 10:49 AM PST

Even though it has lost its sense of cool, Motorola’s RAZR is still the best-selling cellphone in the U.S. more than four years after it first hit the scene, Electronista…

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Huawei Cancels Auction For Its Mobile-Devices Unit; Cites Economy - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:47 AM PST

China’s Huawei Technologies is canceling the sale of a major stake in its mobile-devices unit after only two bidders submitted offers, the WSJ reported. The lack of interest is an…

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Sprint Confirms Interest in Nextel - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 09 Oct 2008 06:01 AM PST

Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel CEO Dan Hesse has confirmed that the beleaguered carrier has received “significant interest” for its Nextel iDen business, but questioned whether any deal in which the…

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Interview: Andrew Fisher, CEO, Shazam; “Not Just For Pub Quiz Night” - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 09 Oct 2008 05:52 AM PST

Shazam announced today that it has struck a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany in which the operator will include its mobile music discovery application on its Vodafone Live! portal.…

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Will Verizon Ditch Alltel Deal In Face Of Economic Crisis? - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 04:46 PM PST

How badly does Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) want to call itself No. 1 again? And no, we’re not just talking about the quality of the can-you-hear-me-now network. There is some…

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FCC Must Decide If Blocking Text Messages Is Censorship Or A Way To Control Spam - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 04:39 PM PST

On one side, you have wireless carriers concerned about controlling spam, and on the other, you have the first amendment and free speech. Now in the middle is the FCC,…

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Mobile Content Bits: Yahoo Voice-Enabled Search; Playboy Pool Party; WeatherBug Gets Mobile Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:59 PM PST

Voice-Enabled Search Comes to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) oneSearch and Yahoo Go 3.0: Yahoo has integrated a voice-enabled search engine into its oneSearch application on Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Series 60 devices…

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Sprint, AT&T Coordinate Wide-Ranging Honda Ad Campaign With Sony - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 08 Oct 2008 03:17 PM PST

Wireless carriers Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are working with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television on a wide-ranging marketing campaign that places the carmarker on all available ad…

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Industry Moves: Bruce Stewart Leaves Yahoo To Become CEO of kgb’s Mobile Division - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 12:41 PM PST

Bruce Stewart, who left Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) Connected Life division last month, where he was responsible for the business development activities and product implementations in the Americas, including the AT&T…

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Text Messages Increasingly Used By Families And By Those Who Date: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 11:55 AM PST

Families are increasingly using text messaging to stay in touch, while the short snippets of text are also being to flirt and send love notes, according to two surveys released…

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Nokia Picks Nuance For Speech Recognition And More; Will Open Up Technologies To Developers - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 06:30 AM PST

Nokia is signing a multi-year deal worth “tens of millions of dollars” with Nuance Communications in an unusual arrangement, where Nokia will not only license Nuance’s speech-recognition and predictive text…

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Google Gives Closer Look At Maps On Android Phones - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 08 Oct 2008 06:26 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gives a lot more detail on how Google Maps will work on the new Android-based G1 in a post on its Google Mobile blog. Tight integration of…

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RIM Launches Touchscreen Blackberry Storm - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 08 Oct 2008 02:50 AM PST

RIM’s long-awaited touchscreen iPhone rival, the Blackberry Storm, is launching later this autumn with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) in the US and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) in Europe, India, Australia and…

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Presidential Debates On Mobile TV: Plenty Of Choices - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 07 Oct 2008 06:53 PM PST

We have tonight’s presidential debate up on the flat-screen HD set in the living room but I’m trying to watch for a while on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Mobile TV. Not…

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Analysts Lower 2009 Worldwide Growth Estimates For Handset Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 07 Oct 2008 06:08 PM PST

Analysts are revising their forecasts downward for 2009 global handset sales, citing lengthening phone replacement cycles despite the prevailing thought that cell phones are the last thing consumers will give…

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T-Mobile USA Expands NBA Partnership To Minor League And NBA Europe Live - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 07 Oct 2008 03:46 PM PST

T-Mobile USA has expanded its partnership with the NBA to include the NBA’s minor league and is also joining NBA Europe Live as an official partner in the host cities…

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Mozilla Mobile Browser May Appear In Alpha Within Weeks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 07 Oct 2008 01:47 PM PST

There’s a ton of attention on mobile browsers right now, as companies try and figure out the best way to render full web sites on small screens. Opera, Google (NSDQ:…

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Kineto Wireless Raises $15.5 Million To Develop New Femtocell Technology - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 07 Oct 2008 11:43 AM PST

Kineto Wireless has raised $15.5 million in funding to continue working on its unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology and a new technology for femtocells. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company brought on…

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