| Apple Now No 2 in Worldwide Smartphone Sales
14/11/2008
Apple is now the world`s number-two smartphone manufacturer, according to a new Canalys study, which confirms that Apple`s popular iPhone device outsold Research In Motion`s entire BlackBerry franchise in the third quarter of this year.Finland`s Nokia continued to lead the smartphone market in Q3 by a convincing market, but saw its lead erode somewhat with the global launch of the iPhone 3G, as... |
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| 60% of Germans to Use 3G Wireless Services by 2012
14/11/2008
Germany`s 3G wireless penetration rate will reach 60% in 2012, by which time mobile data services will generate annual revenues of 5.7 billion in the country, according to a recent report from Goldmedia.The German mobile population is still growing, according to the report, but total revenues have been dropping off in recent quarters, as the price of mobile voice services continues to decline.... |
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| Apple iPhone Gradually Entering Corporate Smartphone Market
14/11/2008
Apple`s much-hyped iPhone device, already a big hit with consumers, is starting to make small but steady inroads into America`s corporate smartphone market, which is currently dominated by Research In Motion`s BlackBerry products.Although most companies are unwilling to abandon their trusted BlackBerries, analysts claim to see the beginnings of a grassroots movement, where employees attempt to... |
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| Google Brings Voice-Based Search Software to Apple iPhone
14/11/2008
Google is pushing the limits of speech recognition technology with the latest update to its mobile search application for the Apple iPhone device.The free software (available for download at the iTunes store) will allow users to ask verbal questions like Where`s the nearest Starbucks? or How tall is Mount Everest. Within seconds, Google`s servers transmit search results to the phone over a 3G... |
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| Cricket Kicks Off Holiday Season Early with Launch of MOTO VE240
14/11/2008
With the holiday shopping season quickly approaching, Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of unlimited wireless services and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. Delayed quote dataAdd to portfolio Analyst Create alertInsider Discuss Financials today announced the MOTO VE240 will be available tomorrow at Cricket retail stores in Tulsa, Okla., and will be... |
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| American Airlines trials mobile phones as boarding cards
14/11/2008
Imagine - instead of a piece of card that always finds its way to the bottom of your bag, and is also very easy to leave at home, youll soon be able to check onto a flight using your mobile phone. American Airlines is trialling mobile boarding passes for domestic passengers travelling out of certain US airports. The airline hopes that if this technology works, it will not only cut down on paper... |
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| British Telecom announces 10000 job cuts. India left untouched
13/11/2008
UK-based telecom major British Telecom Group (BTG) Thursday announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs at home and overseas, but said this would not affect the Indian operations of the company. The Indian operations would not see any retrenchment. The majority of the job cuts are UK based. It is too early to know country specific job cuts, a company spokesperson said. British Telecom has 600 employees in... |
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| Telecom suppliers face more bad times
13/11/2008
Vendors that make telecommunications equipment used by consumers or large phone carriers are bracing for a difficult 2009 as customers pare back on their spending to cope with whats unfolding as an economic downturn on a global scale.Earlier this week, Nortel Networks Corp. (NT:Nortel Networks Corporation News, chart, profile, more Delayed quote dataAdd to portfolio Analyst Create alertInsider... |
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| T Mobile to sell more than 600 Thousand G1 handsets in 2008
29/10/2008
A while back we wrote about a story reported by Fool.com that told about T-Mobile selling 1.5 million pre-orders. It turns out that the numbers were just uneducated guesses made by a single party. The actual number could not be disclosed but it is reported to be more than 600,000.HTC CEO Peter Chou told Mercury News, We are very excited about this new Android (Google`s mobile operating system)... |
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| Android not good enough for Sprint name
29/10/2008
Sprint may be having a lot of problems marketing its own brand in the last few years, but according to Chief Executive Dan Hesse, Google`s Android mobile operating system isn`t perfect either.He told the National Press Club in Washington that he didn`t think Android in its current form is good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.But Hesse promised to sell a phone powered by Android at some time... |
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