HTC to use Qualcomm chips in 10 handsets this year (InfoWorld)   05 Sep 2007 13:08 GMT
InfoWorld - Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest developer of smartphones that use Microsoft software, plans to launch more than 10 mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) armed with Qualcomm chips by the end of this year, the companies said Wednesday.
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HTC to use Qualcomm chips in 10 handsets this year   05 Sep 2007 13:01 GMT
Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest developer of smartphones that use Microsoft software, plans to launch more than 10 mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) armed with Qualcomm chips by the end of this year, the companies said Wednesday.
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Qualcomm aims at Intel with SnapDragon chips (InfoWorld)   05 Sep 2007 12:45 GMT
InfoWorld - Global mobile phone makers including Taiwan's High Tech Computer are already testing new processors from Qualcomm with which the chip manufacturer hopes to challenge Intel in the market for ultramobile PCs and mobile devices.
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Cellphones get the 'all clear' at some hospitals (USATODAY.com)   05 Sep 2007 12:24 GMT
USATODAY.com - Anyone who has been inside a hospital probably has been cut off from relatives and colleagues because of a common rule: no cellphones. But some health care facilities are creating wireless networks to let patients, family members, physicians and staff members use their phones.
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UN: World now has 4 billion phone lines (AP)   05 Sep 2007 00:56 GMT

AP - Largely because of the mobile phone boom in developing countries, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to 4 billion lines worldwide, according to a report Tuesday from the U.N. telecommunications agency.

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AT&T Offers Cell Phone Control to Parents (NewsFactor)   04 Sep 2007 23:15 GMT
NewsFactor - If you've been keeping track of the competition between untethered kids and anxious parents, AT&T scored one for parents with a new service to control their offspring's mobile phone use.
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Palm nixes the Foleo   04 Sep 2007 23:04 GMT
Just when Palm was expected to ship the Foleo, its controversial smartphone companion product, the company instead decided to kill it.
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FBI: Enterprises need counterintelligence   04 Sep 2007 22:45 GMT
The Chinese government has denied involvement in a series of hacks carried out against IT systems at the Pentagon in June this week, but the threat of technology-driven espionage has forced the FBI to push businesses and academic institutions to better prepare for such attacks.
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Microsoft says a Zune phone "not unreasonable" (Reuters)   04 Sep 2007 19:35 GMT

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it is "not unreasonable" for the company to introduce a mobile phone combined with features of its Zune digital music player to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

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UN agency says world now has four billion phone subscriptions (Canadian Press)   04 Sep 2007 19:03 GMT
Canadian Press - GENEVA (AP) - Largely because of the mobile phone boom in developing countries, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to four billion lines worldwide, according to a report Tuesday from the UN telecommunications agency.
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