Virgin Mobile buying SK Telecom's Helio
submitted by cellsea at date 2008-06-27 20:57:56 |
Virgin Mobile USA Inc said on Friday it will buy SK Telecom Co Ltd's money-losing U.S. mobile unit, Helio, for $39 million in stock, hoping a combination of their youth-focused services will help weather a slowing economy. South Korea's SK will also invest an additional $25 million in Virgin Mobile, as will the Virgin Group, which jointly owns Virgin Mobile with Sprint Nextel Corp....
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Microsoft Launches Windows 6.1
submitted by cellsea at date 2008-04-01 12:34:27 |
Microsoft Corp. today announced improvements to Windows Mobile, including a plan to add desktop-browsing quality seen in Internet Explorer 6 for new smart phones by the end of the year.
The new version of IE Mobile will make it easier to pan and zoom through Web pages and to access the Web at the outset from a phone, said John Traynor, senior director of mobile communications at Microsoft. "It's going to be much closer to the desktop experience," he said. ...
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Approval for mobiles on aircraft
submitted by cellsea at date 2008-03-26 12:22:09 |
The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more....
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By 2013 One in Every Three Phones Sold Will be a Smartphone
submitted by gateway at date 2008-03-21 11:39:20 |
The market for smartphones will grow from around 10% of the total handset market in 2007 to 31% of the market in 2013. A new study from ABI Research projects this meteoric growth to be a product of a number of complex factors including carriers’ drives to grow data revenues from advanced services and the general trend to pushing “smart” operating systems down into middle tier devices....
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Google sees surge in Web use on mobile phones
submitted by cellsea at date 2008-03-19 12:37:53 |
Google has seen an acceleration of Internet activity among mobile phone users in recent months since the company has introduced faster Web services on selected phone models, fueling confidence the mobile Internet era is at hand, the company said on Tuesday....
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