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January 6, 2005

Working Women Inspired Toward "Life Simplication" in 2005: Turn Off The Phone...

Rugged Elegant Living: Baileys reported the results of a recent survey today regarding British working women. Their findings revealed that "information overload" is a major cause of stress in women's lives. In 2005, "Life Simplification" will be the key to...

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June 28, 2004

Mobile Phones Exceed Fixed Line Phones

Financial Times: The number of people attracted to voice calls continues to grow. Throughout 2004, around 800,000 new subscribers have joined the mobile world every day, driven by strong growth in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. There...

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June 23, 2004

BEDD: Social Networking Meets Bluetooth

Yahoo! News: Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan...

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June 14, 2004

Research: Natural Demand for Mobile Video

A recent, end-user survey performed by In-Stat/MDR found that 13.2% of US wireless subscribers are extremely or very interested in purchasing mobile video services for their wireless phones. "While still a relatively small niche of the market, this figure is...

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May 14, 2004

Wireless Broadband: Craig McCaw's Secret Plan

BusinessWeek Online: Although McCaw won't say what he's up to, the deals have again made him the talk of telecom. The wireless broadband technology he's investing in has the potential to be one of the most disruptive forces in the...

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April 16, 2004

Wireless Blooms Beyond Wi-Fi

BW Online: It's just one example of how the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum is turning into a hothouse of technological innovation. For years, these radio frequencies were neglected, the lonely domain of cordless phones and microwave ovens. In...

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April 5, 2004

First Soap Opera for Mobile Phone

Yahoo! News: The launch of TV's first-ever soap for the tiny mobile phone screen might not suit everyone's taste, but it is living proof that the TV and digital worlds are merging. With this convergence due to transform the average...

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March 19, 2004

Mobile Data: WiMax Versus 3G

Yahoo! News: Just when mobile operators are finally getting their costly third-generation (3G) networks up and running, a new wireless technology pushed by the computer industry is about to mess things up. At stake are tens of billions of euros...

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March 9, 2004

Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Booming In China

Taipei Times: China's top dotcoms believe multimedia messaging services (MMS) will become a gold mine sustaining their profit growth, and have earmarked large sums for aggressive development, state Chinese media said yesterday. Sohu.com Inc, one of China's three large NADAQ-listed...

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February 29, 2004

Bee Flight Could Inspire Miniature Spy Planes

Yahoo! News: LONDON (AFP) - British scientists say they are studying the flight of bees to see whether a tiny plane could be built with flappable wings for military or industrial spying. "Researchers here are quite confident that they can...

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February 23, 2004

Nokia Leaps Into Wi-Fi

WSJ.com (subscription): Nokia Corp., in a move that could loosen cellphone operators' grip on the wireless market, plans to unveil Monday its first handset capable of surfing the Internet using short-range wireless technology known as Wi-Fi. Nokia's Communicator 9500 will...

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February 18, 2004

"Smart Dust:" The Next Big Thing?

Mercury News: Imagine swarms of tiny sensors sitting in your office, seeing, listening and maybe even smelling everything that goes on around you. Such "smart dust'' sensors are under development by start-ups like Dust of Berkeley, to be used in...

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February 10, 2004

Nokia Boosts Stake In Smart Cell Phone OS

Mercury News: Nokia will become majority owner of Symbian as Psion becomes the second co-founder to cash out of the mobile device software consortium only months after boosting its investment by acquiring part of Motorola's stake. The purchase of Psion's...

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January 21, 2004

Intel Outlines Broadband Wireless Vision

MSN Money: Broadband wireless technologies will help bring the next five billion users to the Internet, an Intel Corporation executive explained today at the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) annual symposium. Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of...

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January 19, 2004

Voice Over IP Trends

NewsFactor Network: But VoIP is not just a way of transmitting phone calls on the cheap, says De Beer. "It is, and will be, a component of a range of broadband applications that will combine voice, data and other communications...

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How Your Mobile Could Be Spying on You

Mirror.co.uk (UK): It's the kind of thing that only happens in films... The hero, desperately searching for a terrorist or kidnap victim, taps their name into a computer. A map comes up on the screen, pinpointing the precise location of...

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Wi-Fi gear moving on the double

MSN Tech & Gadgets: The Wi-Fi gear market continued to pick up pace last year, with shipments and revenue rising more than twofold as prices fell and customers adopted new technology, according to a new report. Shipments of wireless networking...

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December 30, 2003

Mobile Phones & Touch Screen Interfaces

SMH.com: With the Internet now entrenched in business, a new wave of opportunity is emerging to extend beyond the network and into the physical environment. Mobile phone technology has become one of the key ways for extending the reach of...

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December 29, 2003

This Car Can Talk. What It Says May Cause Concern.

New York Times: Last year, Curt Dunnam bought a Chevrolet Blazer with one of the most popular new features in high-end cars: the OnStar personal security system. The heavily advertised communications and tracking feature is used nationwide by more than...

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December 15, 2003

Voice Over IP

New York Times: Politicians have worked hard to keep access to Internet connections and many forms of Internet communication free from regulation and taxation. But the debate over how government treats the Internet is likely to reach a new level...

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December 14, 2003

Free Wi-Fi Blankets San Francisco

TechTV: A project to help bring free Wi-Fi to the masses is picking up steam in the San Francisco Bay area. If it succeeds, it could become a model for other similar networks all over the world. On "Tech Live,"...

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November 28, 2003

Cell Phone Viruses

The Rutland Herald Online: As more consumers begin surfing the Web and sending e-mail messages on cell phone and hand-held devices, along comes a new worry: worms and viruses that spread via Internet-enabled handsets. The problem is still small, with...

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October 27, 2003

IBM vs. Microsoft: The Future of the Internet

New York Times: One year ago, almost to the day, Samuel J. Palmisano, the chief executive of I.B.M., delivered a speech in New York that sketched his company's vision of the future of computing, which he called "on-demand computing." Today...

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Sony, DoCoMo Join on 'Smart Card' Phones

My Way News: TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp. and Japan's top mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, plan to cooperate in developing a system that will allow people to use their cell phones to pay for train tickets or buy items...

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October 13, 2003

Cell Phones Now Debit Cards in S. Korea

AP via Yahoo! News: Kim Won-jung walked up to a vending machine and bought an orange drink. But rather than insert coins, she paid with the press of a cell phone button. Kim's Samsung handset has a debit card inside,...

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September 8, 2003

Asian Mobile Phone Makers Push Nokia

Daily Express, Sabah, Malaysia: Asia's mobile phone makers are mounting an aggressive campaign to build their presence in the region but challenging the dominance of heavyweight Nokia will be tough, analysts said. ... Asian mobile phone makers, already major domestic...

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August 22, 2003

Hollywood finds itself at the mercy of cellphone-toting teenagers

Cape Times: In Hollywood, 2003 is rapidly becoming known as the year of the failed blockbuster, and the industry now thinks it knows why. .. The problem, they say, is teenagers instant-messaging their friends with their verdict on new films...

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