DoCoMo targets businesses with Motorola handset   15 Apr 2005 11:50 GMT
TOKYO -- Japan's largest mobile carrier has unveiled a high-end 3G (third-generation) mobile phone with several features aimed at business users, but lacking two of the carrier's trademark applications.
Source: InfoWorld

After porn, music and gaming, time for TV on cellphone (AFP)   15 Apr 2005 11:34 GMT
AFP - With pornography, music and gaming already well established with millions of cellphone users around the world, the burning question now is whether television will make it big on the tiny screen too.
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Sony Ericsson blames market, old products for quarterly profit dive (AFP)   15 Apr 2005 11:04 GMT
AFP - Mobile phone giant Sony Ericsson reported tumbling profits for the first quarter, blaming a seaonally weak market and admitting that its outdated product range had failed to excite consumers.
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Sony Ericsson Shocks as Profit Falls (Reuters)   15 Apr 2005 09:01 GMT
Reuters - Sony Ericsson, the world's No. 6 mobile phone maker, shocked the market on Friday as its first quarter earnings not only missed expectations by a wide margin but fell against the previous year.
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Samsung Profit Off on LCD Prices, Phones (Reuters)   15 Apr 2005 07:09 GMT
Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reported a worse-than-expected 52 percent drop in first-quarter profit on Friday, hammered by a slide in flat-screen prices, lower profit margins on mobile phones and losses at its credit card affiliate.
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Oracle, Sybase to offer RFID integration solutions   14 Apr 2005 23:30 GMT
Database vendors Oracle and Sybase this week made significant RFID announcements related to integrating RFID and traditional enterprise data.
Source: InfoWorld

Rogers to offer 8 to 10-channel TV service to cellphones with Idetic's MobiTV (Canadian Press)   14 Apr 2005 22:29 GMT
Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Rogers Communications will offer an eight-to 10-channel TV service to cellphones over its wireless networks in partnership with California-based Idetic Inc., the companies announced Thursday.
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Cisco to buy Topspin for $250 million   14 Apr 2005 19:49 GMT
The networking giant gets a grip on the clustering racket with an agreement to buy the InfiniBand start-up.
Source: ZDNet

Mitsubishi Electric to Shut Down Unit (AP)   14 Apr 2005 18:03 GMT
AP - Japanese consumer electronics maker Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is pulling out of the European mobile phone market and closing its site in western France.
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New round of outages peeves some Comcast users   14 Apr 2005 17:43 GMT
Subscribers report slowdowns, problems viewing pages in third system breakdown in a week.
Source: ZDNet