BlackBerry Goes Bold with New 3G Smartphone (NewsFactor)   12 May 2008 15:48 GMT
NewsFactor - BlackBerry has gone bold and high-speed. On Monday, Research In Motion (RIM) announced the BlackBerry Bold, a new mobile device that it said will give business users "unprecedented functionality and performance" as the first BlackBerry to support tri-band HSDPA.
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RIM's BlackBerry Bold beats Apple to the 3G punch   12 May 2008 10:21 GMT
Amid swirling rumors about the impending announcement of a 3G iPhone, Research in Motion today introduced its slickest, speediest, most powerful, and most connected BlackBerry to date: the BlackBerry Bold 9000.
Source: InfoWorld

Biq Quake Takes out Mobile Network in Chengdu (PC World)   12 May 2008 09:50 GMT
PC World - An earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale knocked out mobile phone service in the western Chinese city of Chengdu...
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RIM's BlackBerry Bold Beats Apple to the 3G Punch (PC World)   12 May 2008 04:01 GMT
PC World - Research in Motion's sleek new BlackBerry Bold 9000 will support 3G networks worldwide, as well as Wi-Fi and GPS. Will it be able to withstand a 3G iPhone challenge?
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AT&T yanks iPhone free Wi-Fi info from site   09 May 2008 12:17 GMT
Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T's public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site.
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Paper is passe for tech-savvy South Koreans (Reuters)   09 May 2008 07:14 GMT
Reuters - Young, tech-savvy South Koreans are making coupon clipping a thing of the past and turning to their mobile phones instead.
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LG Unveils 3G Prada Phone in Japan (PC World)   09 May 2008 05:50 GMT
PC World - They say everything comes to those that wait. A year after it went on sale in the rest of the world customers in Japan will...
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Cablevision plans Wi-Fi network in NYC   08 May 2008 19:46 GMT
A day after Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced investments in a WiMax joint venture spearheaded by Sprint and Clearwire, Cablevision said it would build its own wireless broadband network, using Wi-Fi.
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T-Mobile's 3G Rollout Lags Behind Competitors (NewsFactor)   08 May 2008 16:24 GMT
NewsFactor - T-Mobile USA is now joining the 3G club. Earlier this week, the telecommunications company announced that it has begun the commercial rollout of its third-generation wireless network, starting with New York City.
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Microsoft to increase focus on handsets for poor   08 May 2008 14:23 GMT
Microsoft will increase its focus on making mobile phones part of its strategy to spread IT to people in developing nations, based partly on a prototype already developed for the purpose called Fone+ .
Source: InfoWorld