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100 million users of mobile LBS in Europe by 2012

2008-04-15T08:31:00.000-07:00

Research group, Berg Insight reports more than 100 million mobile subscribers will be using LBS services in Europe by 2012.
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Aircell Receives Critical FAA Approvals to Launch Inflight Mobile Broadband

2008-04-04T05:36:00.000-07:00

Aircell receives two critical FAA approvals to further its push toward providing air-to-ground inflight mobile broadband for U.S. domestic flights beginning on American Airlines and Virgin America later this year.

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AT&T Navigator service launches

2008-04-03T02:27:00.001-07:00

AT&T announces the launch of its own-branded GPS-enabled navigation service - AT&T Navigator - providing turn-by-turn driving directions and full-color moving maps and integrated speech recognition. The service is available to AT&T customers with compatible handsets as a free 30-day trial.

AT&T Navigator service launches

2008-04-03T02:27:00.000-07:00

China Mobile announces commercial deployment of TD-SCDMA technology

2008-03-31T05:03:00.000-07:00

China Mobile to begin commercial deployment of TD-SCDMA technology beginning in April offering "attractively priced" calling plans, six subsidized handset models, USIM cards for users purchasing TD-SCDMA handsets through other channels, financial incentives for resellers and after-sale customer support.

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O2 pursues two more for misselling

2008-03-25T06:42:00.000-07:00

O2 takes legal action against two South Wales call centres
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Huawei unveils world's first 3.5G mobile TV datacard

2008-03-08T02:43:00.000-08:00

Friday March 7, 2008The Chinese manufacturer showed off its new E510 HSUPA stick at the CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, Germany last week.

The device will have mobile TV and mobile broadband functionality and able to turn PCs and laptops into televisions.The E510 will be available before June 5. Details of pricing and networks will be announced shortly. In 2007, Huawei sold more than 40 million terminal products including handsets, data cards, fixed wireless terminals and gateways including eight million mobile broadband devices to Europe, the US and Japan.
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Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph

2008-02-26T02:47:00.001-08:00

Morph, developed by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge, uses nanotechnology to create a stretchable, flexible device allowing the user to change its www.mobiletechnews.com/

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph

2008-02-26T02:47:00.000-08:00

Morph, developed by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge, uses nanotechnology to create a stretchable, flexible device allowing the user to change its www.mobiletechnews.com/

Review: Samsung's Mysto for Helio

2008-02-25T07:52:00.000-08:00

The Helio Mysto is a beautiful handset with mind-boggling multimedia features that is a dead ringer for Samsung's SGH-U600, but is the experience fully there? We put this slim slider through the gauntlet in this review to see how it measures up.
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T-Mobile completes SunCom Wireless acquisition

2008-02-23T03:48:00.000-08:00

T-Mobile USA Inc. has completed its $2.4 billion purchase of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc.
The Bellevue company, the U.S. operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT - News) of Bonn, Germany and a wholly owned subsidiary of T-Mobile International, announced the deal last September. The deal includes a $1.6 billion cash payment and assumption of about $800 million in debt.
SunCom Wireless (NYSE: TPC - News) of Berwyn, Pa., has more than 1 million subscribers and 1,900 employees. The company provides service in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Sprint offers the First Slider Power VIsion Phone

2008-02-22T06:18:00.000-08:00

Sprint offers the Samsung M520 slider Power Vision Phone featuring Sprint Navigation, live TV and over-the-air music downloads.
Click for details...
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Cancer link' to heavy mobile use

2008-02-18T08:52:00.000-08:00

Last Updated: Monday, 18 February 2008, 11:52 GMT
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'Cancer link' to heavy mobile use

The majority of studies have not found an increased cancer riskHeavy mobile phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, a study suggests.
Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition and compared their mobile phone usage with 1,300 healthy controls.
Those who had used the phone against one side of the head for several hours a day were 50% more likely to have developed a salivary gland tumour.
The research appeared in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
Numerous studies have focused on the risk of tumours among those who use mobile phones, and overwhelmingly found no increased cancer risk.
But researchers at Tel Aviv University say these have tended to focus on brain tumours, and often did not include long-term users.
Cancer of the salivary gland is a very rare condition. Of the 230,000 cases of cancer diagnosed in the UK for instance annually, only 550 relate to this area.
Mixed messages
Dr Siegal Sadetzki, who led the research, said while mobile phone use in Israel was much heavier than in many other parts of the world, this gave an insight into what the long-term, cumulative impact could be.
Precautions should be taken in order to diminish the exposure and lower the risk for health hazards
Dr Siegal SadetzkiTel Aviv University
"Compared to other studies, the amount of exposure to radiofrequency radiation we saw here was much higher. If you like, you're seeing what could happen elsewhere 'speeded-up' in Israel," she said.
One of the key findings of the study was that heavy users in rural areas had an even higher risk that those in cities, due, the team suggested, to the fact that mobile phones in areas without strong signals need to emit more radiation to work properly.
But Dr Sadetzki stressed one study was not enough to prove a link, and that further research was needed.
Nonetheless, until more evidence became available, a "precautionary" approach was best, she said, particularly when it comes to children's use of mobile phones.
Despite these latest findings, the largest and longest-running investigation ever to be carried out into mobile phone usage found no increased risk of any sort of cancer.
It followed 420,000 people in Denmark, some of whom had been using a mobile phone for as long as ten years.
There was in fact a lower incidence of cancer than expected in a group of that size, suggesting mobile phones had no impact on the development of tumours.
Last year, the UK's Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme said that while the evidence so far was "reassuring", there was still a need for studies to examine the very long-term impact, and to look at the effect in children.
Ed Yong, of Cancer Research UK, said: "Mobile phones are a relatively recent invention and new research into any possible health risks is welcome.
"However, it's important to remember that the vast majority of studies so far have found that mobile phones do not increase the risk of any type of cancer."
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Death Toll Rises to 6 in Campus Attack

2008-02-15T09:11:00.000-08:00

New York Times - 1 hour agoA memorial near the student center at Northern Illinois University on Friday morning. More Photos > By SUSAN SAULNY and MONICA DAVEY DeKALB, Ill.Video: Raw Video: NIU Students Vigil for Victims AssociatedPress'Rapid-Fire Assault' in Lecture Hall Leaves Numerous Students Wounded ABC NewsGuardian Unlimited - CNN - Lincoln Courier - AHNall 3,741 news articles »

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/15cnd-shoot.html

Boston Globe At Crunchtime, Clinton and Obama Make Their Final Appeals

2008-02-14T01:31:00.000-08:00

By Avis Thomas-Lester and Ovetta Wiggins Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stumped throughout Prince George's County this week in last-ditch efforts to sway voters before Tuesday's historic, high-stakes primary ...

Mobile 17 Delivers 10-Millionth 'Make-Your-Own' Ringtone/Graphic, Since 2005

2008-02-10T06:43:00.000-08:00

BOSTON, Feb 08, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Mobile17.com has offered the ability to create your own mobile content, such as ringtones and graphics, from your computer's personal media library, music program (i.e. iTunes), or photo collection, now since 2005. This week is a big anniversary, as their "content creation" counter has rolled over to the 10-million-file mark! Since this milestone, the project has already delivered another 100,000 pieces of content.

The killer in all of this: it was first built in 2005 by 17 year-old Ben Guild, a Boston-area resident seeking something more than just an average education. Through both peer and word-of-mouth marketing, and especially thanks to the excited words of a few friends and family members, the site now boasts just under 1.5 million users across the country.

Ben, now 20 years-old, is seeking to expand Mobile17 from its primarily student-aged audiences (think Facebook) to the average consumer, allowing anyone with a cellphone to enjoy both the convenience of popular content for sale by your service-provider (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) alongside Mobile17's alternative abilities to prepare customized conversions of lesser- known, independent artists, or different lengths/variations of songs that are not normally offered in a more commercial setting. It is this audience, this demand that has made Mobile17 a success (60-70% of all traffic is made up of repeat customers); 2008 is going to be a big year.

Ben offers Mobile17.com's services at no charge, however you may choose to pay if you want faster service (non-paying customers line up in a 'queue'). All expenses are primarily supported by advertising.

For additional information, please feel free to browse http://mobile17.com or contact Ben himself at any time

source: www.foxbusiness.com/article/mobile-17-delivers-10millionth-makeyourown-ringtone2fgraphic-2005_471521_1.html

Google to show off mobile phone software next week in Barcelona

2008-02-10T06:06:00.000-08:00

Google to show off mobile-phone software: Google's mobile-phone operating system will go on display next week at an event in Barcelona, Spain, as the company seeks to challenge Microsoft and Nokia in wireless software.

The program, dubbed "Android," will be shown on prototype devices at the annual Mobile World Congress event, Google spokesman Barry Schnitt said Thursday in an e-mail to Bloomberg News. It will be showcased by companies including chip designer ARM Holdings.

Google is seeking to expand beyond Web searching and break the hold big phone companies have over dictating which applications run on which devices. Google is making the software open to any programmer who wants to develop features for wireless devices.

The market for mobile-phone operating systems is dominated by Symbian, a software maker that is majority owned by No. 1 mobile-phone maker Nokia.

Dell backs away from AMD: Dell has moved to cease selling most of its consumer systems powered by chips from Advanced Micro Devices on its Web site.

The computer company will still sell computers using AMD chips in retail stores and on the telephone.

"Most of Dell's sales volume still goes through the Web site," said Roger Kay, an analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates, told the Wall Street Journal. "If you take away that channel, it's not a reward."

The decision is not good news for AMD as its continues to battle Intel for market share and business with the nation's top computer makers.

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo raises worries: Microsoft views its proposed takeover of Yahoo as the missing piece in its Internet advertising puzzle, but skeptics think the deal could become a jumbled mess that will help make rival Google even stronger.

The investor backlash during the past week has reduced Microsoft's market value by more than $40 billion, an amount roughly equal to the current value of its bid for Yahoo.

"Whenever you see something like that, you have to wonder if something is wrong," said Anant Sundaram, a professor of finance at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business.

The second-guessing about Microsoft's unsolicited bid, initially valued at $44.6 billion, is typical for large acquisitions. Investors are debating whether the benefits outweigh the potential management distractions, sagging employee morale and other headaches that can arise after the deal is done.

The dynamics of the rapidly evolving Internet and sheer size of this deal have magnified the worries about a Yahoo acquisition backfiring on Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft.

Report looks at deadly blast at spaceship test site: Workers at a pioneering space tourism company were watching a rocket propellent system test through a chain-link fence in the Mojave Desert when a fatal explosion occurred last summer, according to a state investigation released Thursday.

The report comes nearly a month after Mojave-based Scaled Composites LLC was cited for five workplace violations and fined $28,870 in connection with the July blast that killed three technicians and critically injured three others.

Scaled, which put the first privately funded manned rocket into space in 2004, was conducting a so-called cold-flow test of nitrous oxide when the accident occurred. The test was part of the development of a new hybrid rocket motor for a commercial spaceship Scaled is building for Virgin Galactic.

State occupational safety inspectors faulted Scaled for failing to train workers and supervisors about the potential hazards of nitrous oxide. "Nitrous oxide is a volatile substance and it blew up," said Kate McGuire, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Industrial Relations.

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