Systems glitch hits hundreds of Tokyo stations   12 Oct 2007 13:21 GMT
Hundreds of thousands of commuters in Tokyo got a free ride to work Friday morning after a systems glitch caused more than 7,000 ticket gates at 662 railway stations to fail.
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Wal-Mart eyes $287 million benefit from RFID   12 Oct 2007 11:31 GMT
Wal-Mart Stores could increase sales by $287 million by fixing just a small portion of its inventory problems using RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, and that could be just the start, an executive said Friday.
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Nokia slashes hit phone price ahead of Christmas (Reuters)   12 Oct 2007 10:04 GMT

Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) slashed this week around 15 percent off from the price of its 3G phone model E65, one of the top sales and profit generators for the world's largest cellphone maker, market data showed on Friday.

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Mobile phones boost Samsung's profit (AP)   12 Oct 2007 06:12 GMT

AP - Samsung Electronics Co., one of the world's top technology companies, announced its first net profit gain in four quarters Friday, led by record sales in its mobile phone division.

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Mobile Firefox likely to work on Symbian   11 Oct 2007 22:58 GMT
Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser, which the company said earlier this week is in the works, will likely be available for phones running Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Linux operating systems, a developer working on the project said.
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Sanyo near deal with Kyocera (FT.com)   11 Oct 2007 22:10 GMT
FT.com - Sanyo is close to an agreement to sell its lossmaking mobile phone business to Kyocera (NYSE:KYO), in a move that would create the world's seventh-biggest handset maker.
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Motorola introduces nine new mobile phones, including luxury Razr2 (Canadian Press)   11 Oct 2007 21:30 GMT
Canadian Press - LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. - Motorola Inc., badly in need of hit products to spark a turnaround, announced nine new cellphone handsets Thursday to be available this quarter.
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Head of AT&T mobile phone group retires, replaced by another AT&T executive (Canadian Press)   11 Oct 2007 20:49 GMT
Canadian Press - SAN ANTONIO - Stan Sigman, the president and chief executive of AT&T Inc.'s mobile phone business, announced Thursday that he is retiring after 42 years with the company.
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AT&T mobile phone chief retires (AP)   11 Oct 2007 19:47 GMT
AP - Stan Sigman, the president and chief executive of AT&T Inc.'s mobile phone business, announced Thursday that he is retiring after 42 years with the company.
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Mobile systems management maturing fast   11 Oct 2007 18:22 GMT
One of the most frustrating aspects of being an IT professional who is required to be on call to respond to emerging support issues has long been the lack of flexibility available to these employees when trying to balance work with their home lives.
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