Sony Ericsson has announced a new organisational set-up for its market units Austria, Benelux, France, Germany and Switzerland. These changes are effective 1 July and will be completed by the end of September. The new organisational set-up will group the Austrian....
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Microsoft is preparing to launch its own mobile phone in a project code-named Pink, ZDNet reports. The Microsoft-branded phone will launch with a set of accompanying consumer services being developed largely by the Danger team that Microsoft acquired last year. Pink....
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Telefonica has joined Vodafone in considering a bid for T-Mobile UK, while France Telecom is weighing up a possible joint venture with the British mobile operator, the Financial Times said.The FT had on Monday reported that Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone company....
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The number of Smartphones shipped with open source operating systems (OS) will increase from 106 million this year to 223 million by 2014 according to a new report from telecom consultants Juniper Research. The Open Source OS research found that operating systems....
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Developing countries, like India, China, Bangladesh and Indonesia, will generate more than 60% of the mobile service revenues in the Asia Pacific region in 2014, according to “Asia Mobile Market Forecast, 2009-2014,” recently released by the Strategy Analytics Emerging....
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LG is targeting the number two spot after seizing the number two spot from Sony Ericsson and Motorola. In an interview Yonhap, LG’s president of mobile business Ahn Seung-kwon, stated that the company hoped to give second place (in terms of global market share) Samsung....
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NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today a new service that will enable an individual subscriber to use their DOCOMO mobile phone to easily and quickly remit money to another DOCOMO user, beginning on July 21. Customers of DOCOMO's i-mode™ mobile Internet service....
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The Nokia Ovi Store has been recognized with a Meffy Award for Technology Innovation. The Meffys are given out by the Mobile EntertainmentForum (MEF), a global trade association for the mobile media industry, to recognize products, services, apps and projects that....
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As rumours continue to name ever increasing numbers of companies interesting in bidding for T-Mobile UK, the German parent, Deutsche Telekom could be looking at an asset swap as opposed to a direct cash sale.Two people familiar with the German telecoms operator told the....
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A few years back, whether 3G networks would become a reality was a big question. Such doubts have died down with more than 160 million UMTS/3G subscribers around the globe and network deployments underway.Changing subscriber expectations are the main driver of....
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The latest update of Greenpeace International’s “Guide to Greener Electronics” indicates that the world’s biggest PC makers — Hewlett Packard, Dell and Lenovo — have again failed to meet their commitments to eliminate PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs)....
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According to the latest news on the Web, US wireless carrier Sprint is set to come to the market with 3G femtocells before any other carrier in the country does so. Recently, AT&T announced that its 3G femtocells would soon enter into a public testing program, and that....
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There’s not a ton of information so far, but BlackBerry has launched a web site that is teasing U2 fans, who own a BlackBerry, that a mobile U2 Album is “almost here,” notes Crackberry.com. In a short video, there’s some vague language set to an inspiring U2 track that says....
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CARPHONE Warehouse is to begin offering contracts from Vodafone from next week in its 820 stores, ending a three-year stand-off.Vodafone switched to an exclusive deal with Carphone rival Phones4U in 2006 in the hope it could pay lower sales commissions. The move....
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German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom, is looking to swap its loss-making unit T-Mobile UK for an asset in another country, the FT reported on Friday.Quoting sources familiar with the matter, the FT said a swap was considered a "preferred option" to selling the unit outright....
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According to the study conducted by Frost & Sullivan amongst European and Russian consumers, Nokia is the number one choice for mobile navigation over other leading handset manufacturers.The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the perceptions, understanding....
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Orange Business Services (OBS) has launched the pilot of a managed videoconferencing service that connects companies regardless of the vendor of their equipment or the type of network they are using.Open Videopresence, which will be available on a monthly subscription....
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Less than a month has passed since the Nokia N97 hit the shelves and here comes its first official firmware update. Bringing a whole load of bugfixes this new firmware should have a pretty positive impact on user experience.The new version of the N97 firmware is already available....
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Telefonica-owned O2 has won the exclusive UK distribution rights for the Palm Pre smartphone, according to a report from Guardian .co.uk, which says an announcement is due next week. Reports have linked the two companies to a UK tie-up for the some time....
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The crowded UK mobile market could be about to get a bit smaller, according to several reports that say a handful of networks are interested in buying Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile UK network, the country’s troubled, fourth largest network. Guardian.co.uk, , Times Online....
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The new iPhone 3GS may have only offered a small number of upgrades, but that didn’t stop consumers from flooding AT&T’s web site and retail locations to make “iLaunch 2009” one of the largest periods in the company’s history, achieving its best-ever sales day in storesaccording....
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Complaints from Korean tech buffs and early adopters are growing due to resentment that foreign and domestic mobile phone manufacturers either do not release their new smartphones to the Korean market, or they make a belated entry.Industry sources said yesterday....
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Apple's new iPhone 3GS gets hot during usage, according to anecdotal reports that have begun to emerge on the web in the fortnight since the device was released - which seems to have prompted the company to issue a warning against leaving it inside cars in hot weather....
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The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America.The satellite, owned by TerreStar Corp. of Reston, Va., blasted off from Kourou in the South American territory of....
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Dialog Semiconductor has scored two smartphone design-wins which reflect the growing significance of the emerging market for next generation mobile phones.Some observers are saying that there are already signs that the demand for silicon smartphones is beginning to....
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