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Cell Phones' Hard Drives Could Doom MP3 Players
submitted by at date 2006-05-07 00:00:00
Cell phones with hard disks will significantly cut into sales of MP3 players, a study released Thursday by ABI Research claims....
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Sprint Delivers Spanish-Language TV Service
submitted by at date 2006-05-04 00:00:00
Sprint announced today the availability of Sprint TV En Vivo, the first live Spanish-language video and audio service for cell phones in the U.S....
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Nokia and ATI Collaborate on Multimedia Devices
submitted by at date 2006-05-04 00:00:00
Nokia and graphic chips designer ATI Technologies Inc. said today they had started strategic collaboration to develop multimedia mobile devices. ATI and Nokia are now working closely together to drive high quality multimedia experiences such as music play...
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Helio Launches Cell Phone Service
submitted by at date 2006-05-02 00:00:00
Helio, a venture of SK Telecom and EarthLink, began U.S. cellular phone service today by targeting niche segments such as teenagers. ...
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China's ringtone fad brings in big bucks
submitted by at date 2006-05-02 00:00:00
Peng Shan, a 21-year-old Beijing design student, changes her cell phone's ringback tones as often as people change clothes, part of a growing fad that's delivering piles of cash to China's mobile carriers....
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Few Consumers Sending Pictures From Camera Phones
submitted by at date 2006-05-01 00:00:00
U.S. consumers like their camera phones, but only one in five is using the devices to send photos to others, a market research firm said Monday....
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Minitablets to gain considerable steam
submitted by at date 2006-04-27 00:00:00
Despite the general shoulder shrugging that greeted the launch of the first Microsoft-based "ultramobile PCs," the minicomputers are still set to find a market, analysts believe....
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Nokia to pay $253 million in patent dispute
submitted by at date 2006-04-27 00:00:00
Wireless technology firm InterDigital Communications on Thursday said Nokia has agreed to pay it $253 million to resolve a patent royalty dispute....
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Nokia and Yahoo! Bring Flickr to Camera Phones
submitted by at date 2006-04-25 00:00:00
Nokia and Yahoo! announced that they are making it easy for mobile photographers to upload and add comments to photos directly from their Nokia Nseries multimedia computers to Flickr....
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Motorola Mixes Ringtones and Videos Online
submitted by at date 2006-04-24 00:00:00
Motorola today unveiled StudioMOTO, a free online music studio that lets users create their own ringtones and videos for their cell phone. ...
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Nokia teams with MIT on mobile software
submitted by at date 2006-04-21 00:00:00
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday opened the doors to a new research lab that has a distinct software flavor....
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Nokia to unveil new multimedia phones
submitted by at date 2006-04-21 00:00:00
The world's largest cell phone maker Nokia will unveil new multimedia phone models, including an N73 camera phone, at an event in Berlin next week, sources close to the company told Reuters. ...
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25 Million U.S. Cell Phones to be Mobile Wallets in 2011
submitted by at date 2006-04-21 00:00:00
As many as 25 million wireless subscribers in North America could be using their cell phones as mobile wallets by 2011, reports In-Stat. ...
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Mobile phone market stays strong
submitted by at date 2006-04-20 00:00:00
Despite a slight seasonal decline, worldwide shipments of cell phones rose 26 percent in the first quarter of 2006 compared with the same period last year, according to research firm IDC....
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Alltel to offer free-calling plan, with limits
submitted by at date 2006-04-20 00:00:00
Alltel, the mobile phone company, announced a new service plan Thursday that lets customers make free calls to any 10 numbers regardless of the cell phone or land-line carrier of the person being called. ...
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Patent Eliminates Cell Phone Noise
submitted by at date 2006-04-18 00:00:00
Cell phone noise could soon be a thing of the past. TechnoConcepts today filed two patent applications for new inventions which virtually eliminates background noise in cellular and other communications devices....
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Will that be cash, credit, or a cell phone?
submitted by at date 2006-04-15 00:00:00
Forget about cash and credit cards. There's a new payment alternative for buying CDs, DVDs and other such entertainment pleasures--your cell phone....
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Sprint Unveils Mobile Child Locator Service
submitted by at date 2006-04-13 00:00:00
Sprint today introduced a new service to help parents use a phone to pinpoint the location of a child on a map. Tracked via cell phone, parents can also program the service to automatically send them a text message at a specific time each day to confirm t...
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Nokia phone prices beat forecasts
submitted by at date 2006-04-11 00:00:00
Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, said its phone prices in the first quarter were above its and market forecasts, sending the company's stock to its highest level in more than two years....
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Fuel cells take another step toward reality
submitted by at date 2006-04-11 00:00:00
Britain's Johnson Matthey and Polyfuel are teaming up to provide membranes for fuel cells for consumer electronics....
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Band will make mobile-only single
submitted by at date 2006-04-10 00:00:00
An Anglo-Italian five-piece band is set to make an entirely different kind of record next month when it launches Britain's first single that can be bought only by cell phone, mobile network operator 3 said on Monday....
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Cell phone subscriptions surge in India
submitted by at date 2006-04-10 00:00:00
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has announced that 41.26 million Indians have subscribed to phone service since the beginning of 2005. Of the 5.33 million phone people who subscribed to phone service in March 2006...
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Sprint Nextel, cable to test cell service
submitted by at date 2006-04-10 00:00:00
Sprint Nextel and a group of four cable operators, who announced a joint venture last year, will be testing wireless service in several markets starting this summer....
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Cingular to sell ring tones from MySpace bands
submitted by at date 2006-04-07 00:00:00
LAS VEGAS--Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. cell phone service, said on Thursday it plans to sell ring tones from bands that put their music on MySpace.com, the social Web site that is popular among teenagers....
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