Cell Phone Users Dissatisfied With Online Help: Report   28 Dec 2005 16:15 GMT
Web access is extremely important according to 83% of cell phone users, yet only 29% are currently satisfied with using online help to resolve wireless data problems, according to a report by Detacon Inc.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

CES: Samsung to show HSDPA cell phone at CES   28 Dec 2005 15:45 GMT
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to demonstrate at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) its first cell phone compatible with a fast data download service that many wireless carriers plan to introduce beginning in 2006.
Source: InfoWorld

What the Google-AOL deal means for users   28 Dec 2005 15:35 GMT
Google promises purity in its interface and results, but more ads, video links and AIM chat from AOL deal.
Source: ZDNet

Lenovo Said To Be Developing Windows Mobile Smartphone   28 Dec 2005 15:05 GMT
The device will be available this spring in Asia with no word about availability in the West.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Europe's first Galileo navigation satellite lifts off   28 Dec 2005 13:17 GMT
Giove-A, the first element of the Galileo global satellite navigation system, took off successfully from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the European Space Agency said.
Source: InfoWorld

Cell Phones Get Peer-To-Peer Video Sharing   28 Dec 2005 12:57 GMT
Openera Technologies has developed a peer-to-peer video sharing (PPVS) application with integrated rich presence.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Samsung to market new phones with Vodafone, Qualcomm (Reuters)   28 Dec 2005 11:29 GMT
Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's third-largest maker of handsets, will supply Vodafone Group Plc with new mobile phones that use Qualcomm Inc.'s modem chips, Samsung said on Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo

China to get tough on cellphone fraud, spam (Reuters)   28 Dec 2005 07:15 GMT
Reuters - China will require all mobile phone subscribers to register using their real names next year, in a bid to curb rampant spam and growing fraud conducted over mobile services, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Source: Yahoo

Philips to Boost Stake in China TV Maker (AP)   28 Dec 2005 05:06 GMT
AP - A unit of Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe's largest consumer electronics maker, will buy an additional 5 percent stake in Chinese television and mobile phone maker TCL Corp., becoming the company's third-largest shareholder, TCL said Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo

Cell Phone Lodges In Woman’s Throat   27 Dec 2005 15:22 GMT
Police in Blue Springs, Missouri said a woman swallowed a cell phone Friday, after an argument over the device with her boyfriend.
Source: Mobile Pipeline