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    2008 InfoWorld CTO 25: Bill Gruszka, Southern Polytechnic State University (InfoWorld)
    InfoWorld - It's clear that mobile computing is becoming an expectation, both through laptops and the emerging generation of Web-savvy handhelds such as the Apple iPhone and Nokia N95. But the mobile world is both highly fragmented and hard to control, given that users typically consider their devices to be personal ones that an outsider such as IT should not take over. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    China Unicom buys China Netcom in $56B stock swap (AP)
    AP - Mobile service provider China Unicom Ltd. is acquiring fixed-line China Netcom Group Corp. in a share swap valued at $56.3 billion, based on Unicom's stock last traded price. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:23:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Qualcomm Says Windows Mobile 7 Key for Mini-laptops (PC World)
    PC World - Mobile phone chip makers hope Windows Mobile 7 will help them win market share in mini-laptops. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:30:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    China Unicom buying China Netcom for nearly $24B (AP)

    From left, Li Fushen, executive director and chief financial officer of China Netcom, Zuo Xunsheng, chairman and CEO of China Netcom, Chang Xiaobing, chairman and CEO of China Unicom, and Tong Jilu, executive director and chief financial officer of China Unicom pose for photographers before a press conference in Hong Kong Monday, June 2, 2008, as they announcing the merging of China Unicom and China Netcom. Mobile service provider China Unicom Ltd. is acquiring fixed-line China Netcom Group Corp. in a share swap valued at $56.3 billion, based on Unicom's stock last traded price.  The companies said in a statement Monday that each existing China Netcom share will be swapped for 1.508 new China Unicom shares. China Unicom is the country's second-largest mobile operator by revenue. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - China pressed ahead with a restructuring of its telecommunications market Monday as mobile phone company China Unicom Ltd. announced plans to take over a fixed-line provider and sell off a mobile business.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:21:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Global chip sales rise 5.9 percent in April (Reuters)

    Memory chips, collected from discarded electronic items, are pictured at Dowa Holdings Co's Eco-System Recycling Co, a recycling plant, in Honjo, north of Tokyo March 28, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - Global sales of semiconductors rose 5.9 percent in April on solid demand for personal computers, mobile phones and products using flash memory, an industry group said on Monday.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:02:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Smartphones 'bigger security risk' than laptops (InfoWorld)
    InfoWorld - Smartphones are seen as a more of a security risk than laptops and mobile storage devices, according to new research. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:25:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Nvidia's Tegra Line Puts Computer on a Mobile Chip (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - On Monday, Nvidia upped the ante on Intel. The company introduced the Tegra family of processors, a single-computer chip that promises rich high definition and Internet exploration consumers have grown accustomed to on PCs -- but on small mobile devices. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:27:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Bangladesh to cut off unregistered mobile phones (Reuters)

    A pile of destroyed Nokia mobile phones lies on the ground in front of the Nokia plant in Bochum May 16, 2008. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)Reuters - Bangladesh's mobile telephone operators must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night, telecoms watchdog officials said.


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    Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:27:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Qualcomm's Plaza To Enable Easier Mobile Widgets (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company hopes its new platform-neutral widget framework will help operators drive mobile data usage. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 16:23:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Mystery Chip Powers New $299 UMPC (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - A previously unknown microprocessor firm, Ingenic Semiconductor, has turned up in a small Ultra Mobile PC from a Florida design firm, which the company's chief executive said may be powered by Windows in a future iteration. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 17:00:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Wi-Fi, 3G Gains Propel Marvell To Better-Than-Expected Results (Investor's Business Daily)
    Investor's Business Daily - Marvell Technology shares jumped 23.3% Friday to a six-month high after the company late Thursday reported better-than-expected results, buoyed by strong sales of Wi-Fi chips and of 3G chips to a smart phone maker that appears to be Apple. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 22:23:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor's Business Daily)
    Investor's Business Daily - Options are multiplying for users of cell phones and social networks who want to find the location of a friend who has agreed to be monitored. One new service is Sniff, short for "social network integrated friend finder." It uses the same approach that rescuers rely on when someone calls 911 by cell phone -- namely, triangulation based on nearby cell towers. The service works via cell phones and an application on the social network Facebook. Sniff has launched in the U.K. and plans a U.S. launch within weeks. Similar services are Loopt and Google's Dodgeball. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 22:45:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Wireless carriers draw fire for service charges (Reuters)
    Reuters - Legal pressure is mounting against U.S. wireless operators over their role in facilitating either false or misleading charges for mobile content -- primarily ringtones. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 23:11:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Laptop-Embedded Wireless Broadband Closer To Mainstream (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - New technologies and pricing due by the end of 2008 have the potential to eliminate the problems of embedded wireless 3G notebook purchases, Gartner now suggests. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 23:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
    Slower cellphone growth in USA could bring good deals (USATODAY.com)
    USATODAY.com - The wireless industry added 23% fewer subscribers in the first quarter this year than it did last year. The overall growth rate - how fast the total is growing - dropped to 7.9% from 11.5%. -- read full article
    Fri, 30 May 2008 11:10:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
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