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TechWeb - InformationWeek - In a deal worth up to $15 million, Verizon Business will manage and track mobile devices for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company’s first mobile phone will be delayed until 2009, but representatives said it will be rolled out with a wireless carrier or two.

The Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 is the iPhone for people who need Windows Mobile smartphone because they love the products or because of their work. The Omnia comes with touch screen that can be used in portrait or landscape mode, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G, and 5 megapixel camera. The stylish smartphone lets users create personal home screens using small programs called widgets.

PC World - Whether you’re building an application for the 3G iPhone in the United States or trying to figure out how to deliver health…

Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a
bigger-than-expected 47 percent fall in quarterly profit and
cut its outlook, hurt by its struggling mobile phone joint
venture with Sweden’s Ericsson (ERICb.ST), while rival
Matsushita (6752.T) nearly doubled its profit on rising flat TV
sales.

PC Magazine - We’ve been hearing about 8-megapixel camera phones for a while–but the Samsung innov8 raises the bar, with smile shot, blink shot and face recognition features

PC World - China Telecom will pay US$6.41 billion for China Unicom’s CDMA business.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - Chinese consulting firm BDA also says that China has the world’s largest number of mobile phone users, with about 560 million subscribers.

AP - AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons.

AFP - Nokia will reimburse a German state over 1.3 million euros (two million dollars) to resolve a plant closure dispute that has cost the mobile phone giant tens of millions already, officials said Saturday.