Philips cell can run on AAA battery (AP)   29 Mar 2007 13:13 GMT
AP - Philips Electronics is introducing a mobile phone with a built-in compartment for an ordinary AAA battery to power the device when the main battery runs low.
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Silicon Valley VCs predict tech winners, losers   29 Mar 2007 12:12 GMT
In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future.
Source: InfoWorld

Visa talks up mobile payments, invests in wireless   29 Mar 2007 12:12 GMT
Mobile banking hasn't yet caught on in U.S., but CEO calls cell phone the "most promising form of payment system" available.
Source: ZDNet

Nokia unveils 3 new phone models, to ship in Q2 (Reuters)   29 Mar 2007 10:42 GMT
Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) unveiled on Thursday three new phone models which it expects to start selling in April-June quarter.
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Intel Promises Fast Penryn Chips in 2007 (PC World)   29 Mar 2007 00:00 GMT
PC World - Intel Corp. will begin producing its next-generation "Penryn" processors by the end of 2007, using greater power efficiency to push improved Core 2 and Xeon chips to speeds over 3GHz, the company said Wednesday.
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Cingular's Video Share service has business side   28 Mar 2007 22:22 GMT
AT&T's Cingular mobile division is pushing its Video Share service at the CTIA Wireless trade show primarily as a consumer service, but the live-video-stream technology will also be supported on enterprise phones and has a place in business, company executives said Wednesday.
Source: InfoWorld

Advertisers want to go mobile, U.S. carriers mull plans (Reuters)   28 Mar 2007 22:04 GMT
Reuters - While marketers line up with fistfuls of dollars to display advertisements on mobile phones, the biggest U.S. cellular providers are only starting to build their mobile ad strategies.
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Intel promises fast Penryn chips in 2007 (InfoWorld)   28 Mar 2007 20:47 GMT
InfoWorld - Intel will begin producing its next-generation "Penryn" processors by the end of 2007, using greater power efficiency to push improved Core 2 and Xeon chips to speeds exceeding 3GHz, the company said Wednesday.
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IPv6 to power the 'city of the future' (InfoWorld)   28 Mar 2007 19:53 GMT
InfoWorld - The city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, will experience a wide variety of new Internet-based services, such as mobile-phone commerce and clear Internet video, with the rollout of citywide IPv6, people working with the city said Wednesday.
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RIM adds APIs for new types of applications   28 Mar 2007 19:40 GMT
RIM is hoping to expand the types of applications developers can make for its BlackBerry handheld by adding APIs to the BlackBerry Java Development Environment.
Source: InfoWorld