InfoWorld - With the iPhone 3G's banner opening weekend and newsstands looking like a rack of brochures for the device, a review of the iPhone 3G at this point might be pro forma, except for one thing: -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top
cellphone maker, has ended three years of legal battles with
wireless chip developer Qualcomm and signed a patent
agreement that boosted both companies' shares.
AFP - The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines.
AP - Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of chips that run cell phones, issued fourth-quarter and full-year earnings guidance Thursday that fell short of Wall Street targets, but the stock soared on a broad-ranging legal settlement. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:11:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - The once media-shy Taliban have gone
hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails
and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their
Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company said iPhone 3G unit sales in its first 12 days of availability doubled over the like sales period for last year's iPhone. -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:54:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool — perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself.
AP - In the English-speaking world, many cell phone users leave emergency contact information in the devices' address books under an entry labeled "ICE" — for "in case of emergency." -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:52:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
NewsFactor - Last week's iPhone 3G launch appears to have been a success, with the device sold out in virtually all U.S. locations. Calls to local AT&T stores in the metropolitan Chicago area, for example, turned up no phones, and long wait lists. Reasons for the shortage range from Apple underestimating demand to a shortage of components from overseas suppliers. -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
Reuters - Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S.
mobile service, has offered to divest assets in 85 cell phone
markets in a bid to gain regulatory approval for its proposed
$28.1 billion purchase of smaller rival Alltel. -- read full article
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:10:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
AP - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
Reuters - Mobile phone chip and technology
supplier Qualcomm Inc on Wednesday posted a profit for
its fiscal third quarter and revenue rose amid increasing
demand for phones with high-speed Web links.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The companies have entered into a 15-year agreement regarding wireless technology patents, and have dropped all litigation. -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
PC World - Intel on Wednesday said it was developing new x86 chips to put in devices ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones... -- read full article
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:10:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology
