Trends & Innovations - Wednesday (Investor's Business Daily)   18 Apr 2007 23:00 GMT
Investor's Business Daily - Handset makers are racing to develop better mobile phone screens to meet expected demand for watching TV on the devices. In Japan, where TV on phones already is becoming commonplace, Sharp announced a fall release of phones featuring 2.2-inch screens that offer contrasts of 2,000:1, about 4 times greater than current top screens. The new phones also will be capable of receiving digital TV broadcasts, significantly expanding their capabilities since most phones are only able to show video downloaded from the Internet.
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Could RIM have responded better to outage?   18 Apr 2007 21:31 GMT
As of late Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Eastern Time, Research in Motion had offered no explanation for the cause of the BlackBerry e-mail service outage that affected users in North America.
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BlackBerry outage: RIM a victim of its own success?   18 Apr 2007 20:31 GMT
The very nature of RIM's network could have led to the outage that caused millions of BlackBerry users to go without e-mails for hours.
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Get up! No stalling! Virtual life coach is calling   18 Apr 2007 20:12 GMT
"eCoach" service being developed in Munich will tailor cell phone messages to motivate slackers, inspire the energetic.
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BlackBerry service restored, slow response irks users   18 Apr 2007 15:53 GMT
BlackBerry service was mostly restored by late morning Wednesday East Coast time, following a widespread North American outage that started Tuesday evening and has left some users irked enough by Research in Motion's laggard customer service that they are considering finding an alternative.
Source: InfoWorld

Intel favors WiMax over 3G for Centrino   18 Apr 2007 15:27 GMT
The chipmaker plans to pick up the wireless pace later this year with an internal mobile WiMax card. Next year: WiMax plus Wi-Fi.
Source: ZDNet

Motorola reports 1Q loss of $181 million (AP)   18 Apr 2007 12:35 GMT
AP - Motorola Corp. slipped to a loss in the first quarter, hurt by disappointing sales of mobile phones, as well as expenses to cover a legal settlement, restructuring efforts and an acquisition.
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Update: BlackBerry suffers widespread outage   18 Apr 2007 11:42 GMT
The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion appears to have suffered a widespread outage starting Tuesday evening in the U.S.
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Motorola posts quarterly loss, revenue down (Reuters)   18 Apr 2007 11:33 GMT
Reuters - Motorola Inc. , the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker, on Wednesday posted a quarterly loss and lower revenue due to weak handset sales.
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Report: RIM's BlackBerry system down   18 Apr 2007 10:41 GMT
Tuesday night failure of system serving BlackBerry users in Western Hemisphere likely to carry over into Wednesday, according to online news story.
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