Study finds wireless users want short video clips, not television programming (Canadian Press)   15 Jan 2007 22:17 GMT
Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Mobile television services on cellphones have had little commercial impact so far and that's likely to continue in 2007 despite a significant amount of money invested in the technology, according to a Deloitte research report released Monday.
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Nokia supplier Perlos to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide (AFP)   15 Jan 2007 16:53 GMT

AFP - Finnish company Perlos, which makes mobile phone casings for Nokia, has said it will cut 4,000 jobs, or a third of its worldwide workforce, by the end of the year to return to profitability.

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Video Blogging from a war zone   15 Jan 2007 11:00 GMT
Mainstream media outlets were making lots of hay about announcements out of last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, such as Sony’s promise to equip most of its televisions with a module that can receive Internet video content.
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AT&T set to launch rebranding campaign next week for Cingular switch to AT&T (Canadian Press)   14 Jan 2007 17:03 GMT
Canadian Press - NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T Inc.'s planned rebranding of Cingular Wireless cellphone service under the AT&T name - not AT&T Wireless - is slated to start next week with a multimedia ad campaign announcing what's expected to be a multi-month transition.
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Smartphones And Services Ride Next-Gen Cell Networks (TechWeb)   13 Jan 2007 05:00 GMT
TechWeb - Amid the 3G buildout comes a bevy of feature-rich devices and bandwidth-hungry services.
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BlackBerry betting to catch on in a New York minute?   12 Jan 2007 21:00 GMT
New state regulation lets people bet on horse races via the Net and other electronic platforms, including smart phones.
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Google and Yahoo Take Fight Mobile (NewsFactor)   12 Jan 2007 17:48 GMT
NewsFactor - Where Yahoo goes, Google follows -- or is that where Google goes, Yahoo follows? At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Law Vegas, both search giants announced new plans to put their products on mobile phones.
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AT&T to replace Cingular brand Monday   12 Jan 2007 13:47 GMT
The Cingular name will start to disappear on Monday, when the AT&T brand will once again describe a mobile offering in the U.S.
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HTC lauds Apple iPhone, but won't mimic it (InfoWorld)   12 Jan 2007 12:49 GMT
InfoWorld - The president of High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of Microsoft Windows mobile phones, thinks Apple's new iPhone is "pretty innovative," but his company has no plans to put out a similar product.
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HTC lauds Apple iPhone, but won't mimic it   12 Jan 2007 12:49 GMT
The president of High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of Microsoft Windows mobile phones, thinks Apple's new iPhone is "pretty innovative," but his company has no plans to put out a similar product.
Source: InfoWorld