Trend to more wireless communication continued in Q2, says Statistics Canada (Canadian Press)   08 Nov 2005 14:05 GMT
Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Statistics Canada says the trend to more wireless communication by cellphone and what it calls personal digital assistants continued in the second quarter of this year.
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Japan to grant first new mobile phone licenses for 12 years (AFP)   08 Nov 2005 13:26 GMT

AFP - Competition in Japan's already crowded cellphone market is set to intensify as the government prepares to open the door to new entrants for the first time for 12 years.

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November's coolest gadgets   08 Nov 2005 12:38 GMT
Glance through the gadgets covered in this month's column and you'll see they are all portable. There's no doubt about it: cords are bad news in electronics today and are on the way out.
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NTT DoCoMo to offer credit-card payments by handset   08 Nov 2005 12:21 GMT
NTT DoCoMo will launch a service in December that allows its customers to make credit card purchases using the contactless smart card technology embedded in its latest cellphone handsets, it said Tuesday.
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IBM to acquire Indian services company   08 Nov 2005 11:58 GMT
IBM announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire Network Solutions, an infrastructure services company in Bangalore, India.
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Nokia 770 Internet tablet available for order in Europe   08 Nov 2005 00:23 GMT
The Linux-based tablet announced by Nokia Corp. a few months ago can now be ordered from various Nokia Web sites in Europe for about €350 (US$413.35), Nokia announced Monday.
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Consumers Warm To Internet TV On Mobile Phones (TechWeb)   07 Nov 2005 23:46 GMT
TechWeb - Consumers appear to show early demand for watching TV programming over the Internet on desktop computers, portable players and mobile phones.
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Netgear to ship wireless LAN router   07 Nov 2005 23:05 GMT
Netgear, a maker of wireless LAN products, announced Monday it will soon ship what the company says is among the fastest wireless LAN [WLAN] routers.
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Qualcomm sues Nokia over mobile phone patents (Reuters)   07 Nov 2005 19:49 GMT

Reuters - Wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. said on Monday it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nokia (NOK1V.HE), less than two weeks after Nokia and five other companies complained about Qualcomm's competitive practices to the European Commission.

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Qualcomm files patent infringement suit against Nokia   07 Nov 2005 19:39 GMT
Qualcomm Inc. on Monday said that it had filed a lawsuit against Nokia Corp. on Friday, charging Nokia with patent infringement. While this is the latest in a series of lawsuits dating back many years involving Qualcomm's patenting activities, the more recent lawsuits are significant because they point to the competing agendas of Qualcomm on one hand with other vendors including Nokia, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Motorola Inc. on the other.
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