Telecom Italia beats analysts view, evaluates Tim Brasil offer (Canadian Press)   06 Nov 2006 23:56 GMT
Canadian Press - MILAN, Italy (AP) - Europe's fifth-largest telecom company, Telecom Italia SpA, said Monday that its profit in the latest quarter grew 3.5 per cent, beating analysts' expectations, and confirmed it was evaluating the sale of its Brazilian cellphone operations.
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NTP files patent infringement suit against Palm   06 Nov 2006 20:59 GMT
NTP Inc. filed a patent infringrement lawsuit against Palm Inc., echoing the allegations the patent-holding firm made that nearly shut down Research in Motion Ltd.'s (RIM's) BlackBerry service.
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Palm hit by patent suit (Reuters)   06 Nov 2006 19:53 GMT
Reuters - Patent holding company NTP Inc. said on Monday it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Palm Inc. , maker of the Treo mobile phone, in a U.S. court, sending Palm shares down more than 7 percent.
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Cingular Rolls Out New 3G Smartphone (NewsFactor)   06 Nov 2006 17:06 GMT
NewsFactor - Cingular Wireless hopes to get its customers up to speed with a new communications device that operates on the latest third-generation networks and lets users talk while surfing the Web or streaming digital video.
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Zimbabwean court suspends regulations on international calls (AFP)   06 Nov 2006 16:46 GMT
AFP - Zimbabwe's high court has suspended new regulations aimed at giving state-run fixed line operator TelOne a monopoly on international calls following protests from two private cellphone firms.
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Microsoft: Vodafone first to standardize software   06 Nov 2006 13:35 GMT
Software company says it sees no reason Windows Mobile adoption won't continue to grow through mid-2007.
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NTT DoCoMo 3G subscriptions hit 30 million   06 Nov 2006 12:58 GMT
The number of subscribers to NTT DoCoMo's 3G cellular telephone service hit 30 million Saturday.
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Vodafone chooses Microsoft as third phone platform   06 Nov 2006 12:41 GMT
Vodafone Group has picked Microsoft's Windows Mobile as the third operating system it will offer in its line of mobile phones, it said Monday.
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Murdoch says may offer MySpace on Japan cellphones (Reuters)   06 Nov 2006 11:32 GMT

Reuters - News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he hoped to find partners to enter Asian markets for its MySpace.com Internet business and would discuss offering the world's most popular online community via cellphones with Japan's Softbank Corp.

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Tests in Newfoundland could cast doubt on Marconi's transatlantic feat (Canadian Press)   03 Nov 2006 21:02 GMT
Canadian Press - ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - It was a technological milestone that laid the groundwork for today's cellphones and BlackBerries.
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