Cell Phone News
PayPal launches text messaging for goods
submitted by at date 2006-04-06 00:00:00
MTV, the National Basketball Association and others will accept payments from a new PayPal service allowing purchases via cell phone text message, the companies said Thursday....
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Motorola links DVRs to phones for content transfer
submitted by at date 2006-04-06 00:00:00
Motorola has announced video-sharing technology designed to let digital video recorders from the company send recorded programming to Motorola phones....
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Adobe signs first Flash deal on cell phones
submitted by at date 2006-04-05 00:00:00
Adobe Systems unveiled a deal on Wednesday with Verizon Wireless, the second largest U.S. wireless provider, to build Flash animation software into Verizon mobile phones....
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Samsung to sell thinnest cell phone in U.S
submitted by at date 2006-04-05 00:00:00
LAS VEGAS--South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it will sell the slimmest cell phone in the United States, aiming to compete with U.S. market leader Motorola's popular Razr line....
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MapQuest Launches Cell Phone Navigation Service
submitted by at date 2006-04-03 00:00:00
MapQuest today unveiled a mobile map service that customers can use on their cell phones, complete with voice directions, text and maps in a bid to expand on the popularity of its Internet maps....
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Late smart phones coming soon, Nokia says
submitted by at date 2006-04-03 00:00:00
Handset maker Nokia said Monday that six of its new smart phones missed their planned first-quarter shipping deadlines as it works to sort out their software....
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AOL offers more mobile Web services
submitted by at date 2006-04-03 00:00:00
AOL, in partnership with Sprint, announced a new Web portal service that adapts Internet content for easier use on cell phones....
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Mobile ESPN Offers MLB Content
submitted by at date 2006-03-31 00:00:00
Mobile ESPN today unveiled a suite of wireless content and features designed around the upcoming 2006 baseball season....
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Spy program snoops on cell phones
submitted by at date 2006-03-31 00:00:00
New software that hides on cell phones and captures call logs and text messages is being sold as a way to monitor kids and spouses. But one security company calls it a Trojan horse....
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Sprint Outlines 3G Expansion and Upgrade
submitted by at date 2006-03-30 00:00:00
Sprint Nextel today announced plans to expand and upgrade its existing Sprint Power Vision broadband network to EV-DO Revision A. ...
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Bluetooth Set for Speed Upgrade
submitted by at date 2006-03-29 00:00:00
The Bluetooth wireless standard used in cell phones and other small devices will take a leap in transmission speed by incorporating a new radio technology known as ultra-wideband, or UWB. ...
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Sprint Offers Local Search
submitted by at date 2006-03-27 00:00:00
Sprint Nextel today launched a local cell phone directory service to find information such as nearby restaurants, driving directions, and movie times....
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Mobile-phone cheating in exams on the rise
submitted by at date 2006-03-26 00:00:00
The number of students penalized for cheating in school exams and coursework in England rose by over a quarter last summer, the country's exam watchdog said....
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Samsung Develops 'Smell Tones'
submitted by at date 2006-03-25 00:00:00
Samsung Electronics has developed a perfume spraying cell phone to release "smell tones" when incoming calls are received....
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PayPal to Offer Payment via Cell Phone
submitted by at date 2006-03-23 00:00:00
Online payment company PayPal said it was preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers through text messages via cell phones....
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Intel Inside for cell phones
submitted by at date 2006-03-23 00:00:00
A branding effort similar to "Intel Inside," the ad and marketing campaign that helped make the chipmaker a household word, is coming to cell phones....
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Cingular Offers American Idol Ringtones
submitted by at date 2006-03-22 00:00:00
Cingular Wireless today announced it would begin offering ringtones of live performances from "American Idol" made within 24 hours of the show's broadcast....
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Live TV Merges with Mobile Gaming
submitted by at date 2006-03-21 00:00:00
Dialing into the fast-growing market for mobile games, a San Francisco-based startup is unveiling a new service to transform television viewers into active participants in live television programs....
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Siemens, Nokia build faster T-Mobile network
submitted by at date 2006-03-21 00:00:00
Germany's Siemens and Finland's Nokia are equipping T-Mobile's mobile phone network to speed up third-generation services such as Internet surfing and downloading movies in Germany and Austria....
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South Koreans clearly see mobile TV
submitted by at date 2006-03-19 00:00:00
SEOUL, South Korea--Since January, cell phone users in Seoul have been able to watch television on their cell phones through a government-subsidized technology called Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, or DMB....
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Nokia and Baidu.com Cooperate on Mobile Search in China
submitted by at date 2006-03-17 00:00:00
Nokia said today it will collaborate with Chinese language internet search provider Baidu.com on Chinese speaking markets, including mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan....
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Fandango Sells Movie Ticket Deal to Cingular
submitted by at date 2006-03-16 00:00:00
Fandango, the nation's largest movie ticket provider, is expanding its service further into the mobile arena by adding Cingular to its roster of cellular partners....
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Motorola PEBL Gets a Colorful Makeover
submitted by at date 2006-03-15 00:00:00
Continuing to bring vibrant color to consumers everywhere, Motorola is adding four new shades to the smooth, pure lines of the iconic PEBL, showcasing the driving importance of color inspiration in the mobile space....
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Motorola CEO: Razr technical glitch solved
submitted by at date 2006-03-15 00:00:00
Motorola, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday it had solved a technical glitch in its hot-selling Razr cell phone that had stopped shipments for three to four days....
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