Vodafone lowers sales outlook amid economic gloom (AFP)   22 Jul 2008 09:40 GMT

AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that full-year sales would be at the lower end of expectations because of difficult trading conditions, particularly in Spain.

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Vodafone dims sales outlook amid economic gloom (AFP)   22 Jul 2008 08:02 GMT

AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that full-year sales would be at the lower end of expectations because of difficult trading conditions, despite a rise in first-quarter sales.

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Grow your mobile in a pot? Maybe someday, say Nokia researchers (AFP)   22 Jul 2008 03:26 GMT

AFP - With a mobile phone you can make calls on the go, shoot photos and pinpoint your position on a map. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be able to grow your phone in a pot, if the futuristic ideas of technology researchers come true.

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Hackers Post Software to Jailbreak Apple's iPhone 3G (NewsFactor)   21 Jul 2008 22:37 GMT
NewsFactor - According to an online community, the latest iPhone operating system 2.0 has been hacked less than a week after its release. The iPhone Dev Team, a portal for iPhone hacks, cracks and comments, announced in a blog entry that it had broken the code.
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Apple Struggling to Keep iPhone 3G in Stock at Stores (NewsFactor)   21 Jul 2008 21:00 GMT
NewsFactor - Apple appears to be having trouble keeping its new iPhone 3G in stock in the U.S., as reports suggest few phones were available in Apple's stores.
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Bidding for IPhone 3G Tops $1,000 on EBay (PC World)   21 Jul 2008 19:50 GMT

PC World - Pent-up demand for the iPhone 3G is manifesting itself on auction site eBay.

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iPhone 3G availability plummets   21 Jul 2008 14:01 GMT
Apple's iPhone 3G supply dropped dramatically over the weekend, as the company's own inventory tool showed fewer than 9 percent of its stores had any phones to sell on Sunday.
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InfoWorld adds Twitter to its mobile options   21 Jul 2008 12:00 GMT
Because IT news can be fast-moving and readers don't always have the time to scan sites for the major news, reviews, and blog posts, InfoWorld now offers quick, mobile-friendly access to its key stories via the InfoWorld Twitter feed at twitter.com/infoworld. Periodic tweets alert readers to the most compelling stories on the site as hand-selected by our news editors. Editors, reviewers, and reporters also occasionally tweet their key observations on breaking events or on in-progress testing.
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LG Elec posts strong Q2 profit on handsets, LCD (Reuters)   21 Jul 2008 05:48 GMT
Reuters - LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS) posted an 84 percent jump in quarterly earnings, helped by high margins on mobile phones, brisk sales of TVs and solid results at its LCD joint venture.
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India's RCom and SAfrica's MTN call off merger talks (AFP)   19 Jul 2008 17:43 GMT

AFP - Indian mobile phone group Reliance Communications and Africa's largest cellular firm MTN have called off talks for a tie-up because of "legal and regulatory issues", the companies said.

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