Samsung next with touchpanel cellphone (InfoWorld)   08 Feb 2007 13:33 GMT
InfoWorld - Telephones with touchscreen displays that occupy most of their front face are starting to looking like the next big thing in the cellphone market.
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Samsung next with touchpanel cellphone   08 Feb 2007 13:33 GMT
Telephones with touchscreen displays that occupy most of their front face are starting to looking like the next big thing in the cellphone market.
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Nokia offers free mapping program, phone search   08 Feb 2007 13:13 GMT
Nokia will give away mapping software to its customers as well as users of Window Mobile devices.
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Softbank, Internet and cellphone provider, says quarterly profit fell 66% (Canadian Press)   08 Feb 2007 13:11 GMT
Canadian Press - TOKYO (AP) - Softbank Corp., an Internet services company and mobile phone carrier, said Thursday its net profit fell 66 per cent in the most recent quarter due to hefty sales promotion costs.
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Softbank profit soars after buying mobile phone firm (AFP)   08 Feb 2007 11:14 GMT

AFP - Japan's Softbank Corp. has said its net profit for the nine months to December jumped 23.1 percent from a year earlier after it entered the mobile phone market and sold off assets.

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Vodafone to offer eBay on mobile phones (Reuters)   08 Feb 2007 11:09 GMT
Reuters - Vodafone pushed further into the world of mobile Internet services on Thursday after it said it would become the latest operator to offer online auction site eBay on mobile phones.
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Nokia to roll out free mobile map service (Reuters)   08 Feb 2007 09:56 GMT
Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia will open a new service on February 10 offering free maps and routing in more than 150 countries, the Finnish company said on Thursday.
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Japanese phone subscriptions top 100M (AP)   08 Feb 2007 04:00 GMT
AP - The total number of mobile telephone subscriptions in Japan topped 100 million for the first time in January, a telecommunications association said.
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ACLU slams final San Francisco Wi-Fi contract   07 Feb 2007 21:58 GMT
The ACLU has turned up the political heat on EarthLink and Google's plan for Wi-Fi in San Francisco, telling the city's Board of Supervisors that the proposed contract doesn't have enough privacy or free speech protections.
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U.S. funds sell Greek cellphone carrier TIM for US$648M to Egyptian company (Canadian Press)   07 Feb 2007 21:34 GMT
Canadian Press - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Two U.S.-based private-equity firms Wednesday said they had sold Greece's third-largest mobile phone operator, TIM Hellas Telecommunications SA, for US$648 million to an investment firm controlled by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris.
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