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Gadget Round-Up: Kindle’s 2010 Estimates; BlackBerry Gets Touchy; Palm Downgraded To Sell - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 05:38 PM PST

-- Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle: There’s some big expectations for Amazon’s Kindle, which allows people to buy books and access other content over Sprint’s (NYSE: S) wireless broadband network. Citi…

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Verizon Wireless Rumored To Support Linux Mobile Phones Going Forward - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 13 May 2008 03:53 PM PST

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is close to announcing the support for Linux-based mobile phones to push forward the company’s “Any Apps, Any Device” open-access agenda, Unstrung reports. The Linux platform…

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LG Launches DVB-T Handset - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 01:37 PM PST

LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…

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Update: RIM-Thomson Reuters To Launch $150 Million Mobile App Fund; BlackBerry Bold Debuts - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 12 May 2008 03:22 AM PST

If Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can do it, then so can we. Just a few weeks after Apple announced its $100 million iFund dedicated to applications for the iPhone and iPod…

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iPhone Gets More Video, But Not From Apple - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 May 2008 01:26 PM PST

A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being the most noticed). NBC is…

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Best Buy Pays $2.1 Billion For Half Of Britain’s Carphone Warehouse - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 12:22 PM PST

U.S. electronics store Best Buy said today that it is paying $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse in order to enter the European consumer electronics market, Reuters reports. Carphone’s…

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RIM Ready For Battle With Apple; New Clamshell And MediaBerry; SAP Software; Brightpoint Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 02 May 2008 01:20 PM PST

In the last few months, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has stepped up in its fight against Apple, by securing new deals and by developing products that are popular even among consumers.…

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LG And Samsung’s “Breakneck Pace” Too Much For Motorola? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 02 May 2008 05:41 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the world’s dominant handset maker, but Motorola should be more worried about its fleet-footed Korean rivals, LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung, according to an in-depth…

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iPhone Round Up: Apple Seeks Wireless Domination; Subsidy Will Boost Sales; Free Wi-Fi - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 01 May 2008 12:39 PM PST

It seems a day doesn’t go by without someone writing something about Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone and its influence on the mobile industry. Today, there are three items worth noting:…

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AT&T To Subsidize The 3G iPhone By $200? - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 Apr 2008 05:13 PM PST

Rumors of a 3G iPhone coming out in June have been around for a while...now Fortune makes the unsubstantiated report that AT&T (NYSE: T) plans to subsidize the device to…

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InvenSense Raises $19 Million In 3rd Round - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:18 PM PST

InvenSense, which makes motion detecting technology for mobile devices (gyroscopes and accelerometers), has raised $19 in its third round of funding. InvenSense sees a market for its products with new…

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Mobile Content Bits: Spike Milligan; iPhone, Prada Update; Videos - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 10:32 AM PST

-- Spike Milligan: The work of quintessential Goon Spike Milligan has been made available for mobile, including mobile wallpapers of his cartoons and character sketches, ringtones of Goon quotes and…

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8GB iPhone Goes To End Of Life In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 09:43 AM PST

O2 will stop selling the 8GB iPhone, according to an internal memo reported by Engadget. The memo reportedly reads: “Due to the highly successful sales of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

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Moto’s Marketshare Went To Incumbent Handset Vendors, Not New Entrants: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 07:33 AM PST

There has been some shuffling in the marketshare of the top five handset manufacturers, but no major change in new entrants according to Strategy Analytics. Although Motorola (NYSE: MOT) lost…

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Is Europe Forcing Apple To Rethink Its iPhone Strategy? - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Apr 2008 02:34 PM PST

The iPhone vs Europe battle royale has gotten a piece in the International Herald Tribune, which links the rumors of a possible change in iPhone business strategy in Italy with…

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MS To Expand Live Mesh To Macs, What About Symbian? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Apr 2008 08:12 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has garnered a bit of attention with Live Mesh, designed to connect a person’s different devices (mainly PC and mobile phones but also game consoles, music players…

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Video On High-End Handsets Can Strain Business WiFi Networks - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 21 Apr 2008 05:51 PM PST

A lot of people have warned that cellular networks simply couldn’t cope if everyone were active users of mobile content, especially mobile video. One proposed solution was to stream the…

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Handset Maker HTC Wants A Brand Of Its Own; Launching U.S. Ad Campaign, Retail Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 21 Apr 2008 03:46 PM PST

Obviously, HTC doesn’t like all the attention the iPhone is getting. This week it is launching its first-ever brand campaign in the U.S. with simple TV commercials mirror Apple’s (NSDQ:…

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3G IPhone In Italy Without Exclusivity, Revenue-Sharing: Rumor - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:33 AM PST

The latest iPhone rumor has been sparked by an article in Italian paper La Repubblica, which claims that the 3G UMTS iPhone will hit Italy in the summer of this…

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Nokia Paying Universal Music $35 Per User For Comes With Music? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 16 Apr 2008 11:24 AM PST

More unconfirmed rumors as to how much Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is paying Universal Music Group for its music to be a part of Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service, from THR:…

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LG Posts Net Profit; Boosted In Part By Strong Handset Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 16 Apr 2008 07:01 AM PST

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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Def Jam Handset A Tilt At The Hardware Market - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 15 Apr 2008 07:43 AM PST

Last week Sony Ericsson and Def Jam announced a limited edition Def Jam W910i phone with some exclusive videos and music tracks from Def Jam artists (covered here). Reuters has…

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Nokia, Ericsson, Others In LTE Licensing Agreement - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:02 PM PST

A group of heavyweight manufacturers have joined to create a patent licensing framework for Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile technology. “The companies have committed to keeping royalty levels for essential…

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T-Mobile UK Sidekick Users Get Content Catalogue - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:58 PM PST

T-Mobile UK have added an on-device catalogue to its Sidekick handsets, giving those customers a “short description of the applications and the chance to ‘preview’ them before downloading” reports Mobile…

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Mobile GPS: At The Next Left, Hope For Anti-Trust Clearance - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 08:17 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is keeping quiet and corporate on its chances of winning European Commission clearance for its $8.1 billion acquisition of GPS map-maker Navteq, but TomTom sources are going…

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