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In a down economy, prepaid cell phone companies are prospering (Austin American-Statesman):
MetroPCS Communications Inc. and Leap Wireless International Inc., which sell cheap, no-contract mobile-phone service, might be the next Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Read full post Click Here B-mobile upgrades to multimedia service (Kuensel):
7 April, 2008 - Starting today, B-mobile’s 50 highest post paid subscribers and distributors within Thimphu will be able to download songs and browse high speed internet for free.Read full post Click Here Qtel to weed out SMS spams (AME Info):
Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said it is introducing new firewalls on its network to screen out offending SMS' and spam on mobile phones, reported The Peninsula. Unsolicited calls and SMS are claimed to mostly coming from outside the country, associated with scams and unwanted advertising.Read full post Click Here Nokia debuts mobile gaming system (BBC News):
Mobile gaming fans can finally get to grips with Nokia's N-Gage software as the service is officially launched.Read full post Click Here Under deal, cell phone buyers will see contract details upfront (The Washington Examiner):
People purchasing certain cell phone insurance in Maryland will see the major details of their contract upfront, under an agreement negotiated with four major wireless carriers and a cell phone insurance company by state Attorney General Douglas Gansler.Read full post Click Here Asurion pledges fuller disclosure of phone plans (The Tennessean):
WASHINGTON — Asurion Corp., the provider of insurance plans for mobile phones, and the four biggest U.S. wireless carriers agreed to more fully disclose terms of handset-replacement policies sold to consumers.Read full post Click Here NXP chooses SaaS-based B2B offering from Atos Origin and Axway (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance):
PARIS----NXP, a large semiconductor manufacturer founded by Philips, signed a multi-year contract with Atos Origin and Axway to manage its suppliers' and customers' business-to-business transactions worldwide.Read full post Click Here Dial Directions Powers Virgin Mobile USA's Voice-Activated Directions Service: A First From the Leading No-Contract ... (PRWeb):
Dial Directions, the leading provider of voice-activated location-based services, today announced that Virgin Mobile(TM) USA (NYSE:VM) is leveraging its voice-activated "Directions Assistance" service to let customers request driving directions by phone, then receive them by text message. As the first voice-activated and text messaging based service, Dial Directions lets Virgin Mobile USA ...Read full post Click Here Analyst: iPhone price cut portends 3G model (MacNN):
Piper Jaffray Senior Analyst Gene Munster is reiterating his theory that Apple will soon introduce new iPhones capable of operating on 3G networks, using T-Mobile's recent price cut on 8GB phones as his latest evidence. First confirming that T-Mobile cut the price of the 8GB iPhone to EUR99 from EUR399 ($156 from $624) while the price of the 16GB m... Read full post Click Here COVER STORY: The Disappearing TV Critic (Broadcasting and Cable):
The fraternity of the nation’s television critics at daily newspapers was once a thriving milieu, dominated by a great diversity of committed voices. The critics’ opinions were sought, revered -- in many cases, even feared -- and blurbed in network on-air promos. That reality has changed drastically of late as the ranks of critics have grown noticeably leaner.Read full post Click Here |
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