mobile phones

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash memory products, today announced it is bringing to market its 16GB* microSDHC™ and Memory Stick Micro (M2)? mobile memory cards – the world’s largest removable…

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Reuters – French telecoms regulator Arcep said on Monday that it planned to launch a new tender for the country’s last remaining 3G high-speed mobile license, after an earlier one failed.

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PC Magazine – News Analysis: This week, Visa announced its latest moves towards being able to bank and pay for things with your mobile phone using a technology called Near-Field Communications. The problem is that the U.S. landscape is littered with failed NFC pay-by-phone efforts.

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Reuters – Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.

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PC Magazine – Visa unveiled several sweeping partnerships on Thursday to move payment processing from the PC to the mobile phone. Agreements with Nokia, U.S. Bancorp and Google will allow phones to be used as credit cards and Western Union-style wire services, among other features.

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The new G1 phone running Google’s Android software is displayed in New York. NEW YORK — The new Google (GOOG) phone, called the G1, made its long-awaited debut on Tuesday in New York, officially marking the arrival of…

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AP – Apple Inc. on Friday advised iPhone 3G users in many countries to replace the device’s power adapter following reports that metal prongs broke off and stuck in power outlets, creating a risk of electric shock.

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Don’t expect to see smartphones built on Linux-based follow up to the much-loved but ancient Palm platform until the middle of 2009, at the earliest. Palm’s been working on a follow up to the ancient Palm OS, still used in…

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Back in August, LG officially announced the new LG KC910, the successor to the LG Viewty. Officially given the name LG Renoir, the phone has made its appearance in a few pictures snagged from it168.com. A short review…

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Sony Debuts iPod and iPhone Compatible Boombox, HD Radio With iTunes Tagging, CD Clock Radio and Docking Speaker Sony today is taking the wraps off 4 audio products that work with current dockable iPod? and iPhone™…

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PC Magazine – Sony Ericsson confirmed today that their highly-anticipated Xperia X1 Windows Mobile phone will become available in a few countries, including the United Kingdom, on September 30. A U.S. release should not be far behind.

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By Tarmo Virki 5 minutes ago HELSINKI (Reuters) – Analysts said the success of Blackberry-maker RIM (RIMM.O) is the most dependent on Wall Street’s future. “RIM probably looks most exposed to any downside risk in this…

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Compatibility comes in 3 flavors. Let’s call them Windows, Linux, and OS X.In relational database language, these 3 models are one-to-many, many-to-many, and one-to-one.Windows is the one OS maker across many PC…

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AFP – Five European mobile telephone operators released a study Friday aimed at proving that EU plans to force them to cut certain mobile phone costs will not reduce prices for consumers.

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AFP – Shares in Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile handsets, shed nearly 10 percent of their value on Friday after the Finnish group cut its forecast for its market share in the third quarter.

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PC Magazine – Apple’s iPhone 3G 2.1 firmware update offers some noticeable improvements in both backing up and syncing, and solves a number of smaller issues as well.

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Reuters – Deutsche Telekom’s
(DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile unit is set to start selling a mobile phone
based on Google Inc’s Android software within weeks,
according to people familiar with the matter.

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Reuters – Asia will continue to deliver strong
growth in the mobile phone market due to sustained demand from
China and India, the world’s 2 biggest markets of such
services, industry officials said.

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NewsFactor – The market for smartphones is heating up and forcing competitors to make smart choices. With lots of players, including Apple going global with its iPhone 3G and HTC’s Google Android-based phone, companies like Nokia-owned Symbian are paying attention.

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PC Magazine – Dell has officially entered the netbook market with the Inspiron Mini 9, a notebook that will not only be sold by Dell, but by wireless carriers as well. Why? Integrated 3G, which isn’t being talked about at launch.

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