Quarterly Mobile Phone Shipments Top 200 Million Again (TechWeb)   01 Feb 2006 01:01 GMT
TechWeb - The number of worldwide mobile-phone shipments hit a record 245.2 million in the fourth quarter.
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Google earnings per share miss estimates   31 Jan 2006 21:57 GMT
Revenue meets analyst expectations at $1.29 billion, but stock gets hammered in after-hours trading.
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Second ITunes phone launched by Motorola Inc. and Cingular Wireless (Canadian Press)   31 Jan 2006 21:36 GMT
Canadian Press - NEW YORK (AP) - Motorola Inc. and Cingular Wireless LLC are out with their second cellphone with Apple Computer Corp.'s ITunes music service, and hope it's better received than the first ITunes phone.
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Google calls upon VoIP   31 Jan 2006 19:48 GMT
VoiceOne offers Internet telephony services for an unnamed Google service, possibly related to Google Talk.
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RFID subway pass? Sure, New York says   31 Jan 2006 18:43 GMT
Is waving better than sliding? Citigroup, MasterCard to test contactless PayPass cards with MTA riders this year.
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Portuguese film festival throws spotlight on mobile phone movies (AFP)   31 Jan 2006 17:18 GMT

AFP - Portugal has held its first-ever film festival featuring short movies made with mobile telephones, which are growing more and more popular around the world.

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Sling Media rakes in more big funding   31 Jan 2006 17:04 GMT
The little start-up selling a device to turn laptops and PDAs into TV sets lands $46.6 million.
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In Brief: Kodak, Sanyo to close OLED venture   31 Jan 2006 15:45 GMT
Eastman Kodak and Sanyo Electric will close their OLED (organic light emitting diode) display manufacturing joint venture in Japan. SK Display was established in Japan in 2001 on the back of a joint research and development project that began in 1999. Sanyo owns 66 percent of the company and Kodak owns the remaining 34 percent.
Source: InfoWorld

Visto Sues Good Technology Over Mobile E-Mail   31 Jan 2006 14:17 GMT
In a suit similar to those brought against Microsoft and Research In Motion, Visto claims that yet another vendor, Good Technology, is infringing its mobile e-mail patents.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Fujitsu reports $28.1M profit for quarter, reversal from loss (Canadian Press)   31 Jan 2006 13:07 GMT
Canadian Press - TOKYO (AP) - Recovering demand for computer chips and mobile phones helped Fujitsu Ltd. report Tuesday a 3.3-billion-yen ($28.1-million-US) profit for the latest quarter, reversing a loss from a year ago.
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