| 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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| Wal-Mart selling the T-Mobile G1 for cheaper
29/10/2008
Word on the street is that the top ten Walmarts in each market will be getting hooked up with the T-Mobile G1 on the 24th of November. That in itself isnt really news -- big boxes have really been ramping up their wireless sales as of late -- but heres where it gets juicy: were hearing that theyll go for just $148.88 on a two-year contract. Thatd certainly be consistent with Walmarts policy of... |
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| China Mobile working with Lenovo on Android
29/10/2008
Plans are in motion for the much anticipated launch of an Android device for China between February and March 2009, but unlike the US launch of the T-Mobile G1 handset, China Mobile has decided not to work with Taiwanese PDA manufacturer HTC and has instead opted for working with Lenovo Mobile to release its first Google powered phone.Looking at Lenovo Mobiles website though, we are finding it... |
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| China gets desperate for Android
29/10/2008
Plans are in motion for the much anticipated launch of an Android device for China between February and March 2009, but unlike the US launch of the T-Mobile G1 handset, China Mobile has decided not to work with Taiwanese PDA manufacturer HTC and has instead opted for working with Lenovo Mobile to release its first Google powered phone.US-ordered G1`s have been pouring into China illegally since... |
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