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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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FCC Tests Determine White Space Devices Can Operate Without Interference Problems - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:54 PM PST

Devices are capable of accessing the “white spaces” between airwaves without affecting the adjacent licensed networks under certain power-level limits, the FCC concluded in a detailed report released Friday afternoon.…

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Verizon Backtracks On 3 Cent SMS Fee; It’s A ‘Proposal’ Up For ‘Discussion’ - 0 Comments
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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Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, And paidContent:UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 10 Oct 2008 11:59 AM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Yahoo’s Stock Below $13; Other Media Stock Down To New Lows -- Financial Crisis Sends Ad…

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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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Italian Mobile Entertainment Company Neomobile Raises $13.5 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 10 Oct 2008 10:11 AM PST

Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, has raised $13.5 million (10 million euros) from the Private Equity arm of Monte Paschi Siena, which will recieve a 16 percent stake in…

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CEA Group Gets Involved In Mobile TV Standardization - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 09:51 AM PST

The Consumer Electronics Association has thrust itself into the mobile TV standardization process by working with a group, which is defining the characteristics of a mobile/handheld features that will be…

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Don’t Miss Tina Brown Interviewing Cathie Black at EconWomen, Oct. 29 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rachelle Crum - Thu 09 Oct 2008 09:52 PM PST

We’re excited to announce that Tina Brown, co-founder and editor in chief of The Daily Beast, will interview Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black in a Spotlight Q&A at our EconWomen…

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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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Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 09 Oct 2008 11:42 AM PST

Now that we are weeks into a financial crisis, not only are the predictions starting to surface on how technology, and specifically wireless will be affected, but actions are starting…

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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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Our FOBM Keynote: Q&A With WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson - 0 Comments
Posted By Rachelle Crum - Wed 08 Oct 2008 10:14 PM PST

We’re thrilled to announce that we will feature Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of *Dow Jones* and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, in the keynote Q&A at our Future of…

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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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Teleflip Assets Sold For $650,000 To Undisclosed Buyer - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 08 Oct 2008 08:56 AM PST

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Teleflip has been sold to an undisclosed buyer, according to creditor Hercules Technology Growth Capital, SocalTech reports. The firm received $650,000 in common stock for Teleflip’s intellectual…

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Trilibis Mobile Raises $5.7 Million In Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 08 Oct 2008 08:51 AM PST

San Mateo, Calif.-based Trilibis Mobile, which publishes interactive network applications for mobile phones, has raised $5.7 million in a second round of funding. Altos Ventures led the round, and ATA…

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