Helio Launches Phones Linked to MySpace (AP)   02 May 2006 15:56 GMT
AP - U.S. mobile phones are pretty staid affairs compared to what's available in Asia and Europe, but a phone service launching Tuesday aims to bring cutting-edge features from South Korea to a U.S. audience.
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China's ring-tone fad brings in big bucks   02 May 2006 15:24 GMT
Ringback tone revenue is one of the fastest-growing revenue streams for China's mobile carriers.
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Despite cellular strength, Verizon profit falls   02 May 2006 14:24 GMT
Biggest-revenue U.S. telephone company says MCI merger-related costs offset stong growth for Verizon Wireless.
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Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape   02 May 2006 10:00 GMT
The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini  nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?”
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China's latest cellphone fad rings up big bucks (Reuters)   02 May 2006 05:30 GMT

Reuters - Peng Shan, a spirited 21-year-old Beijing design student, changes her cellphone's ringback tones as often as people change clothes, part of a growing fad that's delivering piles of cash to China's mobile carriers.

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Helio launches cellphone service for 20-somethings (Reuters)   02 May 2006 04:14 GMT
Reuters - Helio LLC, a venture of SK Telecom and EarthLink Inc, on Tuesday began a U.S. cellular phone service aimed at attracting young people who use cellphones for services like Web surfing.
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Helio kicks off cell phone service   02 May 2006 04:00 GMT
Joint venture between SK Telecom and EarthLink officially launches, providing young hipsters with a service rich in multimedia.
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Sweeping telecom bill unveiled   01 May 2006 23:40 GMT
The draft represents the greatest rewrite of laws dealing with video, satellite and broadband communications in 10 years.
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Visto wins patent suit, plans to challenge RIM   01 May 2006 16:22 GMT
Victory in patent suit against Seven could give the wireless e-mail vendor ammunition in its spat with RIM, Microsoft.
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Cities deploying Wi-Fi face challenges   01 May 2006 16:21 GMT
Cities already offering Wi-Fi service to residents struggle in the early days to meet users' bandwidth and reliability expectations.
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