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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.
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.
AP - The legal salvos between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. stopped months ago, part of what officials at the wireless industry heavyweights described as a truce in a long-running battle that spanned three continents.
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.
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.
AP - TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool 聴 perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself.
AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Wednesday it would repurchase shares worth 1.0 billion pounds (1.3 billion euros, 2.0 billion dollars) and stressed that it was undervalued.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Wireless
Ever since we got our hands on Samsung's Media Center Extender at CES last year, we've wondered how the CE giant's rendition would stack up against the rest. Rather than build the Media Center Extender functionality into a TV the way HP has, or make a completely separate set-top-box like Linksys or D-Link, the $200 MediaLive Media Center Extender is designed to be a companion product for Samsung HDTVs. It can be mounted to the back of certain Samsung sets, and with the help of HDMI-CEC, the TV's remote will control the box even while it's out of sight -- of course, this begs the question of whether or not it will work with other TVs, but we'll just have to wait and try it ourselves when it launches next month. Oh, and in case you don't know already, Media Center Extenders are not just another media streamer, because it will allow you to have the full (almost) Vista Media Center experience -- including the ability to watch live HD from CableCARD tuner -- on any TV (connected wired or wirelessly) in your house.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Reuters - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg
Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before
entering the secret headquarters of his underground art
collective on the outskirts of Moscow.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Wireless
Continue reading AMIMON, Motorola, Sony, et al. join hands on wireless HD standard
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Filed under: Wireless
AFP - Indian mobile phone group Reliance Communications and Africa's largest cellular firm MTN have called off talks for a tie-up because of "legal and regulatory issues", the companies said.
Reuters - Motorola Inc has sued a
former executive for allegedly violating a non-compete
agreement and threatening to reveal its trade secrets by taking
a job with Apple Inc's iPhone division, the cell phone
maker said in a lawsuit.
AFP - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced Friday it was cutting 2,000 jobs worldwide after reporting an operating loss in the second quarter due to difficult market conditions and the global economic slowdown.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
Despite AT&T's best attempts at completely failing its free WiFi promises eternally, iPhone owners can finally fire up Mobile Safari in their local Starbucks, or, um, that one other place we heard about with AT&T WiFi, and get browsing. Of course, that's not to say the service won't crash horribly in the next 10 minutes, but at least AT&T stuck by its word, and can now move on to more pressing issues.
AFP - Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, reported on Thursday an 8.0-percent rise in underlying second-quarter net profit and its shares soared despite a heavy hit for closing its Bochum plant in Germany.
AFP - The European Commission warned children and teenagers on Thursday to beware of mobile telephone ring-tone scams after hundreds of Internet sites were found to be charging too much for the services.
Filed under: Wireless
