Telekom and 3's mobile masts marriage (FT.com)   18 Dec 2007 16:30 GMT
FT.com - Hectare for green and pleasant hectare, mobile phone towers are a very profitable crop. That is why farmers could be the only people excited about the prospect of more metal masts in the meadows. By contrast, many mobile phone operators are embracing agreements that combine networks, share infrastructure and reduce the number of towers dotted across the countryside.
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Sprint Nextel names new CEO   18 Dec 2007 14:19 GMT
U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel has appointed Dan Hesse as president and CEO. He replaces Gary Forsee, who resigned in October.
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Bankinter and KPN in mobile, banking services deal (Reuters)   18 Dec 2007 13:36 GMT
Reuters - Dutch telecoms group KPN has made an agreement with Bankinter through which the Spanish bank will offer mobile phone services at special rates to its banking clients, Bankinter said on Tuesday.
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Zipit Wi-Fi messaging device adds cellphone text-messaging (Canadian Press)   18 Dec 2007 06:31 GMT
Canadian Press - NEW YORK - A small South Carolina company says it has a cure for the modern plague of budget-busting cellphone charges racked up by teenagers: a gadget for text-messaging that isn't a cellphone.
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Cognos puts BI on Nokia, Windows Mobile phones   17 Dec 2007 20:28 GMT
Cognos said Monday that its Cognos 8 Go! Mobile business intelligence software now supports Windows Mobile 6 smartphones, as well as Nokia E- and N-series devices running S60 Third Edition on Symbian OS.
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Cognos puts BI on Nokia, Windows Mobile phones (InfoWorld)   17 Dec 2007 20:28 GMT
InfoWorld - Cognos said Monday that its Cognos 8 Go! Mobile business intelligence software now supports Windows Mobile 6 smartphones, as well as Nokia E- and N-series devices running S60 Third Edition on Symbian OS.
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Qualcomm buys noise-reduction company SoftMax   17 Dec 2007 20:08 GMT
Qualcomm made a clear statement about its vision for future mobile devices on Monday by buying SoftMax, a provider of noise-reduction algorithms.
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Software tracks BlackBerry messages   17 Dec 2007 12:17 GMT
Gwava, a developer of security software, plans to introduce on Monday a new product that lets enterprises easily track and find text messages and phone calls that BlackBerry users send and receive.
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msg 2 candidates: u get more votes with txt (AFP)   16 Dec 2007 07:41 GMT

AFP - Text messaging is playing a growing role in the 2008 presidential race as a handful of candidates look to the technology to reach younger voters often glued to their mobile phones.

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Sprint To Offer Charge-Free Access To MySpace Mobile (TechWeb)   14 Dec 2007 19:40 GMT
TechWeb - Sprint subscribers won't have to type a URL address in browsers on their mobile phones to enter the social networking site, making the process a lot faster and more user-friendly.
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