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| Trends & Innovations - Friday
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| Investor's Business Daily - A new service called My Mobile Witness lets users turn their camera phones into personal protection tools. The service is designed to help users when they are in a situation that has them on edge, such as letting strangers into their homes. Users take a photo of that person with their phone and send it to My Mobile Witness. The free service gives the message a time stamp and stores it in its digital vault. If a user ends up getting into trouble, the service gives police access to the message. Owners of a real estate firm developed the service after they got worried about their agents' safety. -- read full article |
| Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:47:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| Cable co. Cox to launch its own wireless service
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| AP - Cable TV provider Cox Communications Inc. is set to announce Monday that it plans to have its own cellular network up and running next year, a move that intensifies cable's competition with phone companies. -- read full article |
| Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:14:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| NII, RIM to launch new smartphone in Latin America
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| Reuters - Wireless carrier NII Holdings Inc said it will launch Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphone in Latin America during the first quarter of 2009. The company, formerly Nextel International Inc, said it will launch the BlackBerry smartphone in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. -- read full article |
| Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:11:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
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| InfoWorld - iPhones rule, everyone else drools this week in our news quiz. Whether it's employees or naughty words, everyone seems to be cutting back something. Also making headlines this week: Bill Gates' new company, Comcast's new speeds, and the strange things people do with their cell phones. Correct answers are worth 10 points. Are you ready to strain your brain? Then let us commence. -- read full article |
| Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| Verizon 3Q earnings up 31 percent
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| AP - Verizon Communications Inc. said Monday earnings rose 31 percent in the third quarter as wireless did better than expected, while its traditional phone business continued to decline. -- read full article |
| Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:24:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| Lawmaker questions Google-backed spectrum plan
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|  Reuters - A senior U.S. lawmaker on Friday joined a growing chorus asking the head of the Federal Communications Commission to explain his plan to open unused airwaves for wireless devices, an approach backed by Google Inc.
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| Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:40:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
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| InfoWorld - iPhones rule, everyone else drools this week in our news quiz. Whether it's employees or naughty words, everyone seems to be cutting back something. Also making headlines this week: Bill Gates' new company, Comcast's new speeds, and the strange things people do with their cell phones. Correct answers are worth 10 points. Are you ready to strain your brain? Then let us commence. -- read full article |
| Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| Lawmakers urge delay in FCC vote on white spaces
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| AP - Eight members of Congress are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to delay a planned Nov. 4 vote on a proposal to open up unused portions of the television airwaves known as "white spaces" in order to deliver wireless broadband services. -- read full article |
| Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:57:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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| Investor's Business Daily - Prisons across the U.S. are struggling to keep cell phones out of inmates' hands, as concerns grow about the phones facilitating escapes and even retaliation. One shooting suspect in Md. was able to use a phone to order a hit against a witness last summer, while in '05 two inmates used mobiles in their escape from a S.C. prison. Guards frequently supply the banned phones in exchange for bribes of about $500. S.C. wants to jam phone signals in prisons, but federal laws bar state and local agencies from interfering with federal airwaves. -- read full article |
| Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:49:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology |
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