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Vodafone boosts payouts, unveils new strategy (Reuters) 30 May 2006 08:25 GMT
Reuters - Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc unveiled plans to return an extra 3 billion pounds ($5.6 billion) to investors and boosted its dividend on Tuesday, as it posted earnings that beat analysts' average forecast.
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NEC, Matsushita talk cell cooperation 30 May 2006 03:25 GMT
Companies discussing ways to cooperate in their cell phone business, the latest bid to turn around their loss-making operations.
Source: ZDNet

German operators start TV-to-mobile phones experiment (AFP) 29 May 2006 20:23 GMT

AFP - Germany's four mobile phone operators began trials of broadcasting television pictures, including coverage of World Cup football matches, on handsets.

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NEC and Matsushita seek mobile phone tie-up (FT.com) 29 May 2006 10:35 GMT
FT.com - NEC (NASDAQ:NIPNY) and Matsushita (NYSE:MC) are in talks to extend their co-operation in the mobile phone sector in an effort to ensure survival in the overcrowded Japanese market, according to NEC's president.
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Hack Tales: Keeping track of tools the wireless way 29 May 2006 10:00 GMT
“Who has that damn cart now?” During a network build-out for a large New York commercial real estate manager a few years back, that phrase got shouted often enough to become a stress mantra.
Source: InfoWorld

Hack Tales: Keeping thin clients synced from coast to coast 29 May 2006 10:00 GMT
I once consulted for a medical-records company that was rolling out thin clients to nearly 50 offices around the United States. The goal was to build a large Citrix MetaFrame farm over WAN links to the main datacenter, which was located outside Boston, providing a Windows desktop for every user without dealing with hardware problems at each site.
Source: InfoWorld

Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring 29 May 2006 10:00 GMT
What do you do when the auditors are breathing down your neck, wanting to see an exhaustive report on the Windows network security of a 2,000-user network across eight sites? That’s easy. Break out a text editor and start writing some Perl.
Source: InfoWorld

Send us your hacks 29 May 2006 10:00 GMT
Do you have a hack you’re particularly proud of? (And by hack I mean an ingenious fix-it job that may not follow established procedures but gets the task done.) I ask because this week’s cover story, “Heroic Hacks and Inspired Work-arounds” (page 26), relates six seat-of-the-pants hacks that saved the day when a company was in a pickle. These enterprising enterprise rescues, from the case files of three InfoWorld contributing editors, are all variations on a theme — how to solve a problem using smarts, a certain twisted logic, and the tools at hand.
Source: InfoWorld

NEC, Matsushita to seek mobile phone cooperation (Reuters) 29 May 2006 09:26 GMT
Reuters - Japan's NEC Corp. said on Monday it has agreed with Matsushita Electric to discuss ways to cooperate in their cellphone business, the latest bid to turn around their loss-making operations.
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TI eyes video to drive semiconductor sales (AP) 29 May 2006 00:59 GMT

AP - Chip-maker Texas Instruments Inc. has ridden the wireless wave since the dawn of the cellular age, with its sales and profits growing along with the popularity of games, cameras and other fancy mobile phone features that require more computing horsepower.