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PGA Tour gives fans green light to use mobile phones
Reuters Canada
By Mark Lamport-Stokes PACIFIC PALISADES, California (Reuters) - Spectators will be permitted to carry mobile phones at PGA Tour events and use them in designated areas starting at next month's Honda Classic, the tour said Tuesday. ...
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Mobile World: Google CEO says the phone is the new PC
Seattle Times
BARCELONA, Spain -- The mobile phone is the new PC, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said at Mobile World Congress. Schmidt gave a keynote speech today at the conference, which is chock full of Android device makers, wireless carriers selling scads ...
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VMWare Shows off Mobile Virtualization on Android
PCWorld
VMWare first started talking about its mobile virtualization platform in December but is now demonstrating it on the LG Optimus Black. Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy ...
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EBay mobile deal likely to mark significant m-commerce breakthrough
Parcel2Go.com
EBay is about to become much more widely available to mobile phone users throughout Europe, with the announcement that it has just inked a deal with a leading phone network to have its mobile app or mobile page pre-loaded onto phones running on that ...
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45% active users want to pay for goods, services through mobile
mydigitalfc.com
Consumers in Asia were the most enthusiastic about mobile commerce. Overall, 69 per cent of survey respondents in Asia indicated they favored using mobile phones for most payments, led by Chinese consumers (76 per cent) and India (75 per cent. ...
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Jigsee raises funding - Mobile video streaming comes to 2.5G phones in India
Siliconindia.com
"Our goal is to foster an environment that makes the mobile phone a great place to watch video content. To my knowledge, this has yet to exist in India or most other countries," says Newal in a futuristic tone. Are Indian experts right in voicing the ...
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Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to Verizon
CNET (blog)
by Marguerite Reardon BARCELONA, Spain--Verizon Communications Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone would love to see a third player in the mobile OS market, but Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be it. Melone said during an interview ...
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CNET (blog)
T-Mobile: Mobile payments coming to US in 2012
CNET
by Erica Ogg Google's Nexus S Android phone is one of the rare phones already equipped with near-field communications technology. Using our mobile phones as wallets is closer to reality. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, ...
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CNET
April Network Launch for PlayStation Phone
Geeks.co.uk
Whilst Ericsson used to make decent mobile phones, it was the partnership which escalated the dual brand to the next level. Compete with iPhone it doesn't, have the interactivity and personalisation of an HTC it doesn't but where it has excelled (and ...
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Bezeq's Pelephone inks another mobile operator deal
Reuters
TA), is the first of Israel's four mobile phone operators to agree to allow a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to use its network. Under the deal, Rami Levi will sell mobile phones and cellular services at its supermarkets via Pelephone's network ...
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MOBILE WORLD: Top Stories
Wall Street Journal
A mobile phone with very slick interface that is substantially different to all the others, a huge established tech company backing it, but a tiny ecosystem and almost no momentum. Sounds familiar? This time it isn't Microsoft and Nokia, but HP, ...
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Carriers try outflanking app stores with WAC
CNET (blog)
by Stephen Shankland China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou cautions against carriers becoming "dumb pipes," WAC is central to that effort. Nokia and Microsoft want to create a "third ecosystem" to rival the mobile phone realms built by Apple and Google--but ...
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CNET (blog)
Mature Mobile Industry Moves to Keep Customers It Has
New York Times
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN BARCELONA — In the pioneer days of the mobile phone industry, wireless carriers raced to put phones in the hands of the unconnected masses. With cellphones now ubiquitous and most markets saturated, the competition is to see which ...
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A Week With Windows Phone 7
The Next Web
Conclusion The Windows Phone 7 is as easy to use, or perhaps even easier than any of the other mobile phone operating systems currently available. Instead of scrolling through page after page of apps, all the information you care about is front and ...
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Near-Field Communication: Beyond Mobile Transactions
New York Times (blog)
Jenna Wortham/The New York Times Mobile phones equipped with near-field communication could be change the way that we use cellphones to interact with the real world. It's near-field communication, or NFC, as it is more commonly known. ...
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New York Times (blog)
Myriad Launches Text-Based Social Networking Service
InformationWeek
Users of mobile phones without data subscription plans will be able to access email, IM, and social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. By Alison Diana , InformationWeek Mobile-software developer Myriad Group on Monday launched Myriad Updates, ...
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Recommended: Facebook takes over the world, one SIM card at a time
msnbc.com
Even though smart phone sales are booming, feature phones still account for the majority of the world's 5 billion mobile phone users. Those who couldn't get on Facebook through their phone before because they needed a data contract or app download can ...
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CenturyLink to offer Verizon Wireless products, service plans
CanadianBusiness.com
CenturyLink is in the process of acquiring rival Qwest Communications International Inc. CenturyLink said its customers will be able to choose from Verizon Wireless' full lineup of devices, including smart phones, regular mobile phones as well as ...
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MWC 2011: Motorola Gleam review: First look
Know Your Mobile
The Motorola Gleam is a colourful device, clearly aimed at those who want a party phone. It's also perfect for a first mobile phone, so you'll probably see the yoof carrying these as an accessory on the streets very soon.
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AT&T Pioneers and Cell Phones for Soldiers Connect Military Families for ...
PR Newswire (press release)
From the recycling of used mobile phones and cash donations, the organization has raised more than $7 million, collected more than 7.5 million cell phones and provided troops overseas with more than 90 million minutes of free talk time. ...
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Powermat Car Charger gives all drivers wireless power
CNET (blog)
The Car Charger adjusts its width to hold any of the mobile phones that Powermat supports, and consumers will need to purchase the Powermat Battery Door separately ($19-$29) for each smartphone they wish to charge. It's not as sleek as the integrated ...
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CNET (blog)
Movius' Side-Line Service Offers Multiple Phone Lines On Single Device
TMC Net
All of which can be deployed on any mobile device." Although, mobile phones have provided individuals with easy connectivity, it has also given rise to number of issues that are in-turn fueling the growing demand and interest in Side-Line Services. ...
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Unilever Turkey's Cornetto Ice Cream Wins Global Mobile Awards
AdAge.com
They did print and place-based media in airports, to target people who travel and need such options on their phones. But if you are selling a service related to mobile phones, why not actually use mobile app inventory on your competitors' mobile phones ...
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Development Experts Ring Up Kenya's Mobile Money Success Story
Voice of America
M-Pesa allows users to send money to others through their mobile phones, and pay more and more items, from bills, to groceries, school fees, hotel bookings and even salaries and taxi fares. Digital amounts are exchanged for cash at any of the 25000 ...
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Focus shifts to mobile phone payments
GulfNews
Standard Chartered Bank is in talks with major tele-communications companies looking at how to enable the transfer of workers' remittances through mobile phone applications, said Tarek Al Yafi, the bank's director of transaction banking, declining to ...
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GulfNews
Canada Will Appeal Federal Court Ruling on Globalive License, Clement Says
Bloomberg
Globalive, backed by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris' Orascom Telecom Holding SAE, began selling mobile phones to Canadians in December 2009 after the government reversed a decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ...
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