Nokia Ups Its Global Handset Share To Near 40% (TechWeb)   26 Oct 2007 22:40 GMT
TechWeb - Nokia's 111.7 million units shipped between July and October were part of an overall robust mobile phone market worldwide, industry analysts said.
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AIM expands mobile options with texting (Canadian Press)   26 Oct 2007 21:55 GMT
Canadian Press - NEW YORK (AP) - Now you can access AOL's popular instant-messaging service using cellphone text messaging.
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Japanese cellphones ward off gropers (Canadian Press)   26 Oct 2007 21:54 GMT
Canadian Press - TOKYO (AP) - Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police?
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Ailing Motorola Phone Unit Shows Signs of Progress (NewsFactor)   26 Oct 2007 17:50 GMT
NewsFactor - Motorola's mobile-phone business recorded a $138 million loss in the third quarter, with handset revenues declining by 36 percent to $4.5 billion in comparison with the year-earlier period. Nevertheless, Motorola executives remain upbeat about the ailing unit's prospects for returning to profitability, noting that substantial progress has been made during the quarter.
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DoCoMo to cut fees and shake up pricing (FT.com)   26 Oct 2007 17:40 GMT
FT.com - NTT DoCoMo (NYSE:DCM) is set to cut calling fees and revamp its pricing model to win back mobile phone subscribers who have defected to rival operators.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo profit drops 15 pct (AP)   26 Oct 2007 15:06 GMT
AP - Japan's top mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, said Friday its profit fell 15 percent in most recent quarter because of growing promotional costs and discounts that were needed to compete with rival carriers.
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Search startups vie for position in mobile market   26 Oct 2007 11:02 GMT
Leading search companies Google and Yahoo didn't appear to have a presence at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment conference in San Francisco this week, but their startup competitors and smaller rival AOL were all angling for influence over mobile search.
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Solid-state drives still expensive   25 Oct 2007 19:48 GMT
Solid-state drives may replace hard drives as future storage devices on computers, but not until their price plummets. Alienware has SSDs and other cool hardware on its latest PCs, the Area-51 ALX and Aurora ALX desktops, but its prices rise with the SSDs. Innovation is also the appeal of Plantronics' Calisto Pro Series, a sophisticated hands-free telephone system that merges wired, wireless, and online communications into one system. Moving to the kitschy, Saitek allows users to personalize PC scrolling by inserting a printed picture on a mouse top.
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Never mind that '4G' stuff, Sprint now says (InfoWorld)   25 Oct 2007 19:43 GMT
InfoWorld - Now that WiMax has been certified as a form of 3G mobile data infrastructure, Sprint Nextel is changing its tune about the WiMax network it plans to launch commercially in April.
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Never mind that '4G' stuff, Sprint now says   25 Oct 2007 19:38 GMT
Now that WiMax has been certified as a form of 3G mobile data infrastructure, Sprint Nextel is changing its tune about the WiMax network it plans to launch commercially in April.
Source: InfoWorld