BlackBerry to debut in China by late May   13 Apr 2006 11:38 GMT
Research In Motion (RIM) is working with the world's largest cellular phone service provider, China Mobile (Hong Kong) to launch its popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail services in China by the end of May, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
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IMO provides cellphone buying without hang-ups (USATODAY.com)   13 Apr 2006 11:30 GMT
USATODAY.com - IMO intends to help consumers navigate the cellphone maze with sleek stores featuring uncommonly helpful representatives and interactive PCs that can whittle down choices in seconds. IMO, or Independent Mobile, says staff can be unbiased because they offer all the major carriers.
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Sony Ericsson Net Profit More Than Triples (AP)   13 Apr 2006 11:30 GMT
AP - Mobile-phone maker Sony Ericsson on Thursday said first-quarter earnings more than tripled as demand grew for its popular Walkman music phones and the company upped its global market forecast for 2006.
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Intel, Baidu to jointly develop search apps   13 Apr 2006 11:16 GMT
Intel China and Chinese search company Baidu.com announced plans on Thursday to jointly develop Internet search applications.
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The long road to RFID interoperability   13 Apr 2006 10:00 GMT
Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions.
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Next-gen RFID tools expand the market   13 Apr 2006 10:00 GMT
Despite the hype, the truth is that RFID deployments made little headway in 2005. New standards, prohibitive costs, and the lack of upper-level business context left most companies tuned out to this much-ballyhooed technology.
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Sony Ericsson sees market for TV on phones soon (Reuters)   13 Apr 2006 09:39 GMT
Reuters - Television on mobile phones could become a mass market feature in a couple of years, the head of world number five mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson (6758.T) (ERICb.ST) said on Thursday.
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Sony Ericsson reports three-fold net profit rise in quarter (AFP)   13 Apr 2006 09:35 GMT

AFP - Mobile phone giant Sony Ericsson reported a more than three-fold increase in net profit for the first quarter and gave a more optimistic outlook on global handset sales.

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Sony Ericsson upbeat on market as Q1 beats forecast (Reuters)   13 Apr 2006 08:32 GMT
Reuters - Sony Ericsson, the world's fifth biggest mobile phone maker, on Thursday beat market expectations by more than doubling first-quarter pretax earnings and gave an upbeat 2006 forecast for the global handset market.
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KDDI, MUFG may set up bank for electronic shopping (Reuters)   13 Apr 2006 06:08 GMT
Reuters - KDDI Corp., Japan's No. 2 telecoms company, said on Thursday it was in talks with the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ to set up a new bank that would allow shoppers to pay for their purchases electronically using their mobile phones.
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