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Industry Moves: mBlox; Quattro; Pelago’s Whrrl; MocoSpace - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 21 Aug 2008 11:54 AM PST

-- mBlox: Ken Elmer has been selected to lead mBlox’s global finance and human resources as CFO. Previously, he was SVP-finance and administration for Tiburon. -- Quattro: Quattro Wireless has…

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iPhone Round-Up: 3G Lawsuit; Yahoo Search; Russian Availability; LinkedIn And Other New Apps - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 21 Aug 2008 09:28 AM PST

-- 3G lawsuit: A lawsuit has been filed against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), alleging that the iPhone 3G is defective. The plaintiff hopes the suit will become a class-action complaint, reports…

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Move Networks Plans To Stream High-Definiton TV To Mobile Devices With Intel’s Help - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 20 Aug 2008 02:45 PM PST

At Intel’s (NSDQ: INTC) Developer Forum in San Francisco, Move Networks announced today that it was going to adapt its high-definition media player that streams content over the Internet for…

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Cox Hints At Wireless Network Plans: “Wireless Is Straight From Our Offensive Playbook” - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:21 PM PST

Cox Communications today said it will launch its own wireless service based on the spectrum it purchased for $304 million in March, but was cautious in giving away too much…

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Japan’s Mobile Tech Too Quirky To Succeed Overseas? - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Aug 2008 02:33 AM PST

For all of the cutting edge mobile technology that Japanese consumers have routine access to, surprisingly little of it has made its way outside of the country. Its government, however,…

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Google Launches “White Spaces” Advocacy Site; FCC Expects Decision By Year-End - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 18 Aug 2008 12:11 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to push for more wireless broadband options in the U.S., and today took another step forward by launching ”Free The Airwaves,” a Web site advocating for…

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Flawed Chip To Blame For iPhone Connection Woes? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 15 Aug 2008 04:15 AM PST

When my colleague Matt Kapko said he was returning the iPhone after two weeks of use, he took a bit of a slating from fans of the phone. But now…

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Teleflip Shuts Down Flipmail, Is Flipout Next? - 2 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 12 Aug 2008 09:48 PM PST

Debt financing and two rounds of funding – $4.9 million as recently as of January – weren’t enough to keep Teleflip’s Flipmail service afloat. Flipmail enabled email to be sent…

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Clearwire Call: New Subscribers Take Backseat As Focus Moves To Mobile WiMax Build-Out - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Aug 2008 02:09 PM PST

During Clearwire’s (NSDQ: CLWR) Q2 call, CEO Ben Wolff focused on four topics: the company’s pending merger with Sprint’s (NYSE: S) WiMax division; its deployment of mobile WiMax; its decision…

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Earnings: Clearwire Reports Mixed Q2 Results; New Subscriber Adds Plunge - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 07 Aug 2008 01:11 PM PST

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), which is waiting for regulatory approval of its merger with Sprint’s (NYSE: S) WiMax division, announced second-quarter results today, saying that its initial markets are performing well,…

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CallWave Acquires WebMessenger For $9 Million In Cash - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 06 Aug 2008 04:35 PM PST

Online communications firm CallWave has acquired WebMessenger, a mobile messaging software provider focused on enterprise customers, for $9 million in cash today. WebMessenger says it provides secure messaging solutions for…

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Sprint And Clearwire Say Imposing Regulations On Merger Would Hamper Abilty to Compete - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 06 Aug 2008 12:45 PM PST

During Sprint’s (NYSE: S) second-quarter conference call today, CEO Dan Hesse said that its WiMax merger with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) was on schedule to close by the end of the…

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W3C Publishes Recommended Mobile Web Standards - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 04 Aug 2008 04:20 AM PST

You know the mobile web is getting serious, when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) steps in with standards. The group has announced new standards that are supposed to make…

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China Mobile Gets Permission TD-SCDMA Construction in 28 Cities - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 01 Aug 2008 09:14 AM PST

China Mobile has won approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to start the second phase of construction of its TD-SCDMA network in 28 cities after the…

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India To Release Five 3G Licenses - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 01 Aug 2008 07:10 AM PST

Updated Here India is planning the launch of 3G networks, a little late but at least the country is going with established standards. The government is auctioning 5 licenses over…

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Microsoft Misses Windows Mobile Sales Target By 2 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:21 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) sold 18 million Windows Mobile licenses in 2008, two million short of its own goal of 20 million, the company said Thursday. The company blamed delayed launches…

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iPhone Cuts Help O2 Customer Growth, Data Spending Up Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 03:09 PM PST

That price cut in the run-up to the iPhone 3G’s release seemed to do the trick for O2 - between January and June it added 137,596 pay-monthly customers; that’s 80.8…

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Paymo Secures $5 Million in Seed Financing - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:19 AM PST

Micropayments company Paymo has secured $5 million in seed financing, “provided by prominent angel investors in the United States and Europe”. Paymo connects online merchants with mobile phones, letting payments…

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Garmin Delays Launch Of Nuvifone Again - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 30 Jul 2008 09:20 AM PST

Personal navigation device company Garmin has delayed the launch of its smartphone for the second time, pushing the launch date into the first half of 2009 because “meeting some of…

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Earthquake Puts Los Angeles-Area Wireless Networks On The Fritz - 5 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 29 Jul 2008 04:55 PM PST

Did you feel that? A little before noon today an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rolled through Southern California and sent much of the region’s wireless infrastructure on…

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Skyfire Beta 2 Browser Delivers Rich PC-Like Mobile Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 28 Jul 2008 03:33 PM PST

Skyfire threw another hat in the mobile browser ring recently with the launch of its second private beta program. So far the new beta has been pretty limited in reach,…

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FCC’s Planned Free WiFi Is For Five Year Olds - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 Jul 2008 10:13 AM PST

The FCC’s plan for a nation-wide free wireless network has received a number of criticisms, including that previous free WiFi plans haven’t fared too well. There’s another issue being raised…

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LBS Provider deCarta Raises $20 Million Third Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 28 Jul 2008 06:03 AM PST

deCarta, the San Jose-based provider of technology for location-based services, says its third round totaled $20 million. An initial $6 million of this round, coming from Deutsche Telekom’s (NYSE: DT)…

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AT&T Opposes Sprint/Clearwire Merger—Or At Least Wants It To Be More Difficult - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Jul 2008 03:23 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) has asked the FCC to deny a merger request from Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), which the two companies announced back in May, stating:…

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Android And Symbian Sitting In a Tree: Suggested Merger Pretty Unlikely - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Jul 2008 11:57 AM PST

Analyst J Gold and Associates has come out with a prediction that Symbian and Android will begin merging into one open source OS within 3-6 months, and it’s gotten a…

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