BellSouth quarterly profit boosted by Cingular (Reuters)   20 Apr 2006 18:34 GMT

Reuters - BellSouth Corp. , the No. 3 U.S. regional phone company, on Thursday said first-quarter profit including its Cingular Wireless joint venture rose 20 percent, boosted by cellphone and high-speed Internet services.

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Mobile phone market stays strong   20 Apr 2006 16:18 GMT
Consumer demand for the latest cell phones continues to drive the worldwide market.
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Update: Nokia, Qualcomm squabble over CDMA license   20 Apr 2006 15:37 GMT
Terse statements this week from Nokia and Qualcomm point to a licensing dispute over Nokia's continued use of important Qualcomm CDMA patents.
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Strong phone sales boost Nokia profits   20 Apr 2006 14:45 GMT
Strong phone sales for Nokia during the first quarter helped boost its market share and contributed to solid growth in sales and profits, the company said Thursday.
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Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Where's Junior? The phone knows (USATODAY.com)   20 Apr 2006 14:03 GMT
USATODAY.com - Thirty-eight football fields! That's about as close as I got to "pinpointing" my wife and daughter's whereabouts the other day during one attempt to find them via the cellphone in my spouse's purse. I was testing the Sprint Family Locator by WaveMarket, an LBS, or location-based service, launched by Sprint Nextel.
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French road test cashless technology   20 Apr 2006 13:31 GMT
Some 200 people in Normandy city of Caen test mobile service that can be used to pay for services and cull information.
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New Wal-Mart CIO steams ahead with RFID   20 Apr 2006 13:07 GMT
Exec promises to pursue the expanded use of radio frequency identification tags as fervently as his predecessor.
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Nokia reports strong growth in first-quarter sales, profit; surprises markets (Canadian Press)   20 Apr 2006 12:23 GMT
Canadian Press - HELSINKI (AP) - Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) surprised markets Thursday with a strong first-quarter report of double-digit growth in net profit and sales, and said its global share of mobile phone sales had increased to 35 per cent.
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Nokia Reports Strong Growth in 1Q Sales (AP)   20 Apr 2006 11:38 GMT
AP - Nokia Corp. surprised markets Thursday with a strong first-quarter report of double-digit growth in net profit and sales, and said its global share of mobile phone sales had increased to 35 percent.
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NFL draft on mobile phones (Reuters)   20 Apr 2006 11:33 GMT
Reuters - This year, football fans can add the NFL draft pick to their roster of live televised coverage viewable over their Sprint-powered mobile phone.
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