Mobile e-mail heading for the masses   23 Nov 2006 12:00 GMT
Carriers and other service providers are poised to give consumers cheap, easy access to personal e-mail on their regular phones.
Source: ZDNet

Time to plug in to Wi-Fi   23 Nov 2006 11:00 GMT
I love The Village. Where else can I work and sip a $6 tea while watching: great-looking NYU girls who are too young for me; a guy jumping up every five minutes because he's got more gadgets on his belt than Batman and doesn't know which one is vibrating; and another guy apparently dressed as a pirate from the waist down arguing with a food-challenged model about who has dibs on the bathroom. The model just accused Blackbeard 0.5 of not having any class. Meanwhile, she's wearing a t-shirt three sizes too small that appears to say "Too drunk to [#$%@]" for which she probably paid $300. You can't beat that.
Source: InfoWorld

888 to sign mobile phone gaming deals: source (Reuters)   23 Nov 2006 10:47 GMT
Reuters - Online gaming group 888 Plc (888.L) is close to signing deals with some of Europe's bigger mobile phone operators to offer their customers gambling over their handsets, a source close to the company said on Thursday.
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Global Sales Of Mobile Phones Up 21.5%, But Motorola Loses Market Share (TechWeb)   22 Nov 2006 23:48 GMT
TechWeb - Motorola lost ground to Nokia and Samsung, as sales of the Kzr phone proved disappointing.
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EU looks to expand 3G bandwidth (Reuters)   22 Nov 2006 16:39 GMT
Reuters - The European Union plans to widen the number of radio frequencies that can be used for 3G mobile networks, but an EU official said on Wednesday the most attractive bands for rural areas are not yet available.
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Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland   22 Nov 2006 16:21 GMT
Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products.
Source: InfoWorld

Nokia emerges as mobile phone leader (AFP)   22 Nov 2006 13:20 GMT

AFP - The Finnish group Nokia was the world's leading provider of mobile telephones in the third quarter, capturing 35.1 percent of the market after 32.5 percent in the same period last year, a study by the Gartner institute has revealed.

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Mobile phone sales grow -- except in Japan   22 Nov 2006 12:36 GMT
Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 21.5 percent year on year to 251 million units in the third quarter, with India and China driving growth, according to research from Gartner Inc.
Source: InfoWorld

Siemens fails to find buyer for Enterprise Networks division: report (AFP)   22 Nov 2006 08:48 GMT

AFP - German electronics giant Siemens has failed to find a buyer for its loss-making Enterprise Networks division, with observers directly blaming the debacle surrounding the collapse of mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile, the Financial Times Deutschland reported.

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Clerics in India dismiss Quran ringtones (AP)   21 Nov 2006 23:44 GMT
AP - Muslim clerics at a leading seminary in India have asked people to refrain from using verses from the Quran as ringtones for their mobile phones, saying the practice was un-Islamic.
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