TechWeb - InformationWeek - The groups also want to know the number of times the government has sought cell-phone location information without court permission and how many times it has obtained the information. -- read full article
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:07:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - A hedge fund swindler who set off a national manhunt when he faked his suicide to avoid reporting to prison rode his scooter to a small-town police station in Massachusetts on Wednesday and turned himself in while talking to his mother on his cell phone.
AFP - The European Commission gave the greenlight on Wednesday to Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia's purchase of US digital navigation group Navteq after finding the deal would not hurt competition.
AFP - BlackBerry mobile devices do not pose a security threat and no permission is needed from the Indian government to make the service available, an official said Wednesday, according to media reports.
Reuters - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia and
InterDigital agreed to drop patent cases in the British courts
against each other, sending the wireless technology firm's
stock up as much as 7 percent.
AP - In a July 1 story about the new version of the iPhone, The Associated Press, relying on information from an AT&T spokesman, erroneously reported that the carrier is working on creating a prepaid plan for the phone. Spokesman Michael Coe later said he miscommunicated, and that there will be no prepaid plan for the iPhone 3G. -- read full article
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:00:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Both states require drivers to use a headset or other hands-free approach if they want to chat on a cell phone while driving. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:20:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Customers will have to pay more to use Apple's latest smartphone -- including an extra fee for text messaging. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The deal could place Google and its Android Open Handset Alliance in competition with Nokia and its Navteq navigation technology. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone? -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:51:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - French Internet service provider Free and
Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc
over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in
France, French daily Les Echos reports. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:11:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology