Mobile news

Several telecom companies met with the FCC this week to voice their disapproval of the FCC's planned auction around free mobile broadband services. AT&T, Motorola, T-Mobile and Texas Instruments were among the few that commented on the idea. T-Mobile ...
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Google has recently made improvements to its Gmail Contacts program. One update will halt Gmail from automatically adding email addresses that you send messages to to your contacts list. This will cut down on duplicate entries and cluttered contacts ...
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AT&T recently announced that users of the Apple iPhone will have free access to AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots. AT&T hotpsots are located across the country in Starbucks shops and hundreds of other locations, such as convention centers, airports, restaurants, bookstores, ...
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The Rural Telecommunications Group has petitioned the FCC to reinstate a cap on how much spectrum any one wireless provider can hold in a single market. The cap was first introduced during the mid-90s and raised several times before ...
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During a press call today, Nokia's head of mobile devices, Kai Oistamo, confirmed that the company will bring at least one touch-based device to the market during the second half of this year. The device for this year will ...
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Today Zumobi announced a new widget offering for BlackBerry smartphones. The platform is ad supported, but there are plenty of widgets available, which are called "tiles" in Zumobi parlance. Some of the first batch of tiles ready for BlackBerry ...
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Nokia has made a library of over 1,000 widgets available for S60 handsets using its Widsets platform. The library was designed so that it can be easily searched or browsed to find widgets based on categories, such as Blogs, ...
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Directly addressing some misinformation that had been reported earlier this week, SK Telecom publicly said that it is not interested in purchasing a majority stake in any of the wireless network operators in the U.S. It did, however, confirm ...
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After a short delay, the latest version of Opera Mobile, 9.5, is available for download to mobile phones. Opera 9.5 offers a lot of enhancements over the previous version, such as panning and faster page loads.

The Samsung a227 recently appeared on AT&T's business web site. This basic clamshell has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios and a full HTML web browser. It offers mobile email, an MP3 player, and SMS and MMS messaging capabilities, but not Bluetooth, ...
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