Late breaking news
(Investor’s Business Daily)
Investor’s Business Daily - America Movil’s 2008 mission: Bring next-generation, 3G mobile phone services to much of Latin America.
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Tiny Pictures received $7.2 million in investment funding to build its Radar Gallery service, which allows instant sharing of pictures and videos taken with camera phones and camcorders.
(Reuters)
Reuters - Japan’s eAccess Ltd (9427.T) aims to
quadruple its wireless services subscribers over the next year
with its mobile phones, as growth slows in its ADSL broadband
business.
(FT.com)
FT.com - Customers at La Caixa, Spain’s largest savings bank, are being urged to spurn the queues for automatic teller machines. Instead, as suggested by a campaign being launched today, they should call up a virtual cash machine from the comfort of their 3G telephones. With a few taps on the keyboard, they will have access to most conventional ATM functions, with the obvious exception of cash withdrawal.
(Reuters)
Reuters - Cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said
on Sunday its agreement in a U.S. court in Delaware with
Qualcomm was unlikely to solve the major legal battle over
patent fees between the two technology heavyweights.
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Subscribers can now use their GPS-enabled mobile phones in more than 45 major metro areas in the United States.
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Younger consumers are more likely to use their mobile phones for retail activities, the Gartner survey found.
(Reuters)
Reuters - LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS), the
world’s fifth-largest mobile phone maker, said on Friday
difficulties at rival Motorola Inc give it a strong
chance to win market share from the world No.3.
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Forget about counting minutes. In an unusual synchronicity, three major carriers — AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile — announced Tuesday unlimited wireless plans for voice.
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sprint has rolled out the Samsung Ace — a dual-mode smartphone capable of switching seamlessly between Sprint’s CDMA and high-speed EVDO networks in the U.S. and the GSM/GPS networks more typically used overseas.
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft appears to be looking for new ways to tie Windows Mobile phones and Zune media players together, although a Zune phone remains unlikely.
(Reuters)
Reuters - AT&T Inc , the biggest U.S.
mobile service, said on Tuesday it would offer unlimited mobile
phone calls for a flat rate of $99.99 a month, hours after
Verizon Wireless announced a similar plan.