Venezuela to buy Verizon's stake in telecom firm   13 Feb 2007 14:12 GMT
Buying Verizon's 28.5 percent stake in country's top telecom company is part of Venezuela's nationalization drive, official says.
Source: ZDNet

CEOs: Emerging markets will pave the way (InfoWorld)   13 Feb 2007 14:09 GMT
InfoWorld - Some mobile phone companies are looking to emerging markets to find early adopters and for a glimpse at services of the future, CEOs said during the opening day keynote of the 3GSM conference in Barcelona on Tuesday.
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CEOs: Emerging markets will pave the way   13 Feb 2007 14:08 GMT
Some mobile phone companies are looking to emerging markets to find early adopters and for a glimpse at services of the future, CEOs said during the opening day keynote of the 3GSM conference in Barcelona on Tuesday.
Source: InfoWorld

At 3GSM, a call for mobile ad standards   13 Feb 2007 13:25 GMT
Standards will make advertising easier, more cost-effective, say GSM and Vodafone CEOs. Also, Yahoo announces new ad deals.
Source: ZDNet

Mobile advertising not here yet   13 Feb 2007 12:54 GMT
Despite the buzz around mobile advertising, end users and eager advertisers may have to wait a while for widespread deployments as the mobile industry sorts out the requirements for it.
Source: InfoWorld

Samsung to demo faster Mobile Wimax   13 Feb 2007 12:23 GMT
Samsung Electronics this week will demonstrate a version of WiMax that can transport data at double the speed of current systems at the 3GSM trade show in Barcelona, Spain, it said Monday.
Source: InfoWorld

Samsung unveils new phones, including world's thinnest (Reuters)   13 Feb 2007 10:23 GMT
Reuters - South Korea's Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) unveiled six new mobile phones on Tuesday, including a model which is 5.9 millimetres thick and claims the title of the world's thinnest phone.
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Qualcomm, Spansion join for low-cost CDMA phones (Reuters)   13 Feb 2007 09:04 GMT
Reuters - Cell phone chip maker Qualcomm and memory chip maker Spansion Inc. announced a partnership on Tuesday to make cheaper sets of semiconductors that will help reduce the cost of affordable phones for CDMA networks for emerging markets by as much as 25 percent in 2007.
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Cell phones mobilized to fight AIDS in Africa   13 Feb 2007 05:50 GMT
Mobile phones are being harnessed to fight HIV/AIDS under a new $10 million plan with the backing of leading companies and the U.S. government.
Source: ZDNet

Cell phones mobilized to fight AIDS in Africa (Reuters)   13 Feb 2007 05:12 GMT
Reuters - Mobile phones are being harnessed to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa under a new $10-million scheme announced on Tuesday with the backing of leading companies and the U.S. government.
Source: Yahoo