PC World - Motorola and Kodak on Monday launched the ZN5, a new candy bar-style mobile phone with a 5.0-megapixel camera, the first... -- read full article
Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia
said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up
Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet
services. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A crowded marketplace and lack of removable battery may be obstacles for Apple's latest phone overseas, according to a survey. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Analysts differ on the exact figure, but AT&T could be paying as much as $425 in subsidies per iPhone. -- read full article
Reuters - After taking on the big and
small screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman
may soon be appearing on an even smaller screen -- your mobile
phone.
AFP - Agence France-Presse announced Friday the launch of a new service providing mobile phone users with access to its global news coverage and incorporating multimedia and messaging options.
PC World - Late last year, the mobile phone industry passed a remarkable milestone, one that not so many years ago it didn't even expect... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The experimental phone network uses geo-tagged data, mobile social networking, and "virtual sticky notes" to send and receive real-time information. -- read full article
Reuters - After taking on the big and small
screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman may soon
be appearing on an even smaller screen -- your mobile phone.
USATODAY.com - CANNES, France - They're hip, hot and everywhere on the planet. But despite a drumbeat about mobile phones being the new frontier in the ad world, marketers have been slow to dial it up, particularly in the USA. -- read full article
AFP - Television viewed on mobile phone handsets could be a huge revenue generator for the telecoms sector but significant hurdles stand in the way, industry players and analysts said Thursday.
NewsFactor - Sprint Nextel is hoping to knock the iPhone off its lofty perch with the launch this month of Instinct -- a new smartphone it codeveloped with Samsung Electronics. Like Apple's new 3G handset, Instinct combines full touch-screen functionality and fast wireless speeds with live TV, stereo Bluetooth, and GPS with turn-by-turn navigational capabilities. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Current iPhone users are automatically eligible to buy the 3G iPhone, but potential new users might have to prove they are worthy. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The U.K. carrier O2 says more than 130,000 people have preregistered for the latest iPhone, compared with only 35,000 people who had preregistered for the original model. -- read full article
Reuters - South Korean cellphone makers and
Swedish-Japanese rival Sony Ericsson forecast robust handset
sales, defying worries that a slowing U.S. economy and record
oil prices will hurt consumer demand.
