Criticism of U.S. wireless carriers has reached a peak during the dog days of summer, with cries that carriers are charging too much for wireless voice, data and texting even as consumers have benefited lately from cheaper smartphones. The outcry against wireless carriers follows recent plan...
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It's been a stressful day for AT&T, Apple, and Google, as the deadline looms for submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission on their treatment of mobile VoIP. Although we're still waiting to hear Apple's side of things, AT&T issued a statement saying it had nothing ...
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Let's get one thing straight: There's plenty to be angry about with wireless carriers. They charge too much for mobile roaming , they cripple VoIP applications that would steal away precious minutes, they hamstring applications that would use too much data, and they make us listen to obnox...
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Carriers to block prostitute mobile numbers 20 August 2009 London mayor initiates crackdown pre-Olympic Games Mobile carriers have been asked to block the mobile phone numbers of prostitutes who advertise their wares in phone boxes throughout the London area during the run-up to the Olympi...
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Samsung announces new budget phone 19 August 2009 Entry level slider mobile in choice of colours Samsung has announced a new, budget level, mobile phone that utilises a sliding form factor. The new, entry level handset is to be known as the S3100 (and arrives alongside the E2120 ...
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Windows 6.5 - more multi-touch evidence 20 August 2009 Windows 7 confirmed as iPhone competitor More evidence has been gathered to bolster the assertion that Windows Mobile 6.5 is moving towards a multi-touch interface and that the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system is to be targeted as ...
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iPhones just keep exploding 19 August 2009 Apple product hisses, shatters screen and injures French teen A French teenager is the latest person to experience an exploding iPhone. Apparently his girlfriend's Apple phone-cum-bomb made a hissing noise before the screen shattered and flew into the...
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LG Watchphone launches August 27 20 August 2009 World's first touch-screen watchphone for a mere £500 That's right, LG's much hyped phone-in-a-watch (and touch-screen, no less) hits the Bond Street station Orange Shop on Thursday, August 27. Along with a 1.43-inch AMOLED...
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T-Mobile Pulse - more details and images 21 August 2009 New price point and release date also revealed Additional details and images have been revealed on the forthcoming Huawei U8220, which will be badged by T-Mobile as the Pulse along with a release date and price point. The Android-pow...
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If you find browsing for new applications on your BlackBerry to be a slow and cumbersome process, fear not: Research in Motion has translated its BlackBerry App World to a desktop setting. 15 nifty BlackBerry apps for IT pros The new store greatly expands users' ability to search for applica...
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Despite anecdotes of Steve Jobs's capricious treatment of Apple employees, it seems he doesn't want anybody else to have them. Reports surfaced earlier this month that Cupertino struck a deal with Google that the companies wouldn't hire away each other's employees. Now comes news Jobs may have att...
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Research In Motion is set to bring full Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support to the company's BlackBerry phones. The BoyGenius Report blog claims RIM will introduce the new functionality sometime next summer, together with more powerful handsets. The BlackBerry Web browser is not part...
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Nokia plans to roll out a micro financing program for mobile phones across 12 states in India. The company has completed a pilot of this program across 2,500 villages in the rural areas of the Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states of India. Nokia tied up for the pilot with a micro finance institution...
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We gave you a sneak peek at Twitterrific 2.1 for iPhone earlier this week, but you should be able to grab a copy for yourself today. The Iconfactory's Craig Hockenberry tweeted (of course) that the new version was just approved, so it should appear in the App Store soon; possibly even by the tim...
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An official Wikipedia application for the iPhone first saw the light of day today, giving users quick and easy access to oodles of information and hours of directionless fun. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation announced that the 'Wikipedia Mobile' application is available for download no...
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Garmin-Asus, the mobile phone joint venture between GPS device maker Garmin and electronics vendor Asustek Computer, launched its first smartphone with the Windows Mobile operating system on Wednesday in Taiwan. The Nuvifone M20 , which has a 2.8-inch touchscreen and runs Microsoft's Windows Mobil...
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It used to be commonplace to carry pictures of loved ones in your wallet, but the iPhone makes showing off pictures even easier. Of course, you have to remember to sync the right photos to your device and, even with the iPhone's capacious storage, there's not always room for the massive number of di...
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Those who've been waiting for the Palm Pre to become a meaningful competitor to the iPhone are one step closer on Tuesday, as Palm announced that it's beginning to take submissions for its App Catalog's e-commerce beta program .e " Previously, the App Catalog had been restricted to a few ha...
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More than 15 million of the 38.1 million mobile phones sold during the second quarter used a touchscreen as the primary interface, according to market research company Canalys. That's much more than a year ago, when just 3.9 million of the 33.6 million phones sold in the second quarter of 2008 had ...
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T-Mobile Pulse creator readying another Euro phone? 18 August 2009 Huawei create new touchscreen handset Huawei, which was recently revealed as the creator of T-Mobile's forthcoming Android mobile phone, the 8220 Pulse , is about to release another mobile phone which, say observers, is also l...
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