Mobile phone antenna tax might prove a goldmine for Austrian province (AFP)   31 Jul 2005 21:21 GMT
AFP - Mobile phone users in Austria's biggest province are up in arms over a new tax on telephone antennae, saying they are being milked for cash by the local authorities.
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Western Wireless Corp. shareholders OK acquisition by Alltel Corp. (Canadian Press)   29 Jul 2005 22:08 GMT
Canadian Press - BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) - Western Wireless Corp. said Friday its shareholders have approved the cellphone service provider's $4.5 billion US acquisition by Alltel Corp. in a deal that would create the fifth-largest U.S. cellular phone company.
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Western Wireless Shareholders OK Buyout (AP)   29 Jul 2005 21:26 GMT
AP - Western Wireless Corp. said Friday its shareholders have approved the cell phone service provider's $4.5 billion acquisition by Alltel Corp. in a deal that would create the nation's fifth-largest U.S. cellular phone company.
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How Motorola Got Its Groove Back (BusinessWeek Online)   29 Jul 2005 19:58 GMT
BusinessWeek Online - It's a muggy Friday morning in mid-July and a group of Motorola Inc. designers are gathered on the 26th floor in the company's downtown Chicago design center. They're looking over prototypes for a new mobile phone when CEO Edward J. Zander pokes his head in the door: "Can I come in?" Dressed casually, in jeans and a polo shirt, he quickly gets down to business. The models on the table are for the Q, a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard designed to compete with the wildly popular BlackBerry, from Research in Motion Ltd. .
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National Cell Phone Courtesy Month Comes Calling   29 Jul 2005 15:30 GMT
Boorish cell phone behavior is getting so problematic that cell phone providers are offering advice on how to behave.
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Sybase Acquires Mobile Middleware Vendor   29 Jul 2005 13:38 GMT
Will fold Extended Systems and its 2500 enterprise customers into its iAnywhere subsidiary.
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WiMAX Equipment Sales Start Out Strong   29 Jul 2005 13:23 GMT
While WiMAX interoperability testing is just beginning, sales of wireless broadband equipment is starting to heat up, a market researcher says.
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What 3G Must Do To Succeed   29 Jul 2005 12:19 GMT
There are many reasons the world isn't yet clamoring for 3G, a wireless expert says. Here's what wireless operators must do make cellular data a success.
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NTT DoCoMo profits up due to popular new products, cost cutting (AFP)   29 Jul 2005 07:25 GMT
AFP - Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo June-quarter net profit rose 22 percent year on year, thanks to the popularity of new products and services as well as aggressive cost-cutting.
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Sneak Preview: Bumblebee Wi-Fi Spectrum Analyzer   29 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Berkeley analyzer precisely discovers wireless and RF interference but lacks full-spectrum support.
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