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Archive for May, 2008

Bangladesh to cut off unregistered mobile phones (Reuters)

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Reuters – Bangladesh’s mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.

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Laptop-Embedded Wireless Broadband Closer To Mainstream (TechWeb)

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TechWeb – InformationWeek – New technologies and pricing due by the end of 2008 have the potential to eliminate the problems of embedded wireless 3G notebook purchases, Gartner now suggests.

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Wi-Fi, 3G Gains Propel Marvell To Better-Than-Expected Results (Investor's Business Daily)

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Investor’s Business Daily – Marvell Technology shares jumped 23.3% Friday to a six-month high after the company late Thursday reported better-than-expected results, buoyed by strong sales of Wi-Fi chips and of 3G chips to a smart phone maker that appears to be Apple.

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Slower cellphone growth in USA could bring good deals (USATODAY.com)

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USATODAY.com – The wireless industry added 23% fewer subscribers in the first quarter this year than it did last year. The overall growth rate – how fast the total is growing – dropped to 7.9% from 11.5%.

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Samsung Soulb 9mm Candybar Phone Announced

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Korean electronics giant Samsung today announced the launch of Soulb, a candy-bar version of its Soul (or Spirit of Ultra) handset. Covered in an elegant metallic body, softly brushed with a hairline pattern, the Soulb’s minimalistic design measures a mere 9.9mm thin.

The Soulb is equipped with features such as an embedded 3.0-megapixel camera with Power [...]

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Sony Electronics Inks Interactive Cable-TV Deal (NewsFactor)

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NewsFactor – Six cable-TV operators that serve more than 82 percent of U.S. cable households have inked an agreement with Sony Electronics that will soon make it possible for cable subscribers to forego the use of stand-alone set-top boxes. The enabling Tru2way technology, based on Sun Microsystems’ Java runtime environment, enables interactive capabilities in TV [...]

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Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Released for T-Mobile

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T-Mobile today announced the availability of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone, offering an enhanced music experience with external music controls, stereo Bluetooth connectivity, wired stereo headsets, a USB cable for side-loading music and a memory card.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic offers up to 18 hours of music playback, with memory for [...]

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Apple Seeks Patent for Solar-Powered Mobile Devices

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Solar-powered Apple devices may be on the horizon, according to patent filings by the Cupertino-based company. The patent suggests that Apple may contemplate integrating a layer of solar cells underneath a device’s liquid crystal display, possibly used in iPhones, iPods or MacBooks.

Apple products, such as the iPhone, have screens that are [...]

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Google Shows Off ‘Android’ Software for Mobile Phones

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Google today showed off its Android mobile phone software system, appearing to mimic Apple’s iPhone. But Google officials downplayed the notion that they will face off against the iPhone in the handset market.

The demonstration in San Francisco represented the most extensive public look so far at Android – an open-source platform under development by Google [...]

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Google shows off 'Android' software for mobile phones (AP)

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AP – Google Inc. showed off its nearly completed mobile software system to about 3,000 computer programmers Wednesday, hoping to cultivate more services and advertising for people on the go.

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