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| Feb 8, 2014 | In 3.5 Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 1, 2013 | What the F*ck Does AT&T Have Against Obscene Language | (Screenshot: AT&T)
Employing obscenity in passwords–either for the personal amusement or just to feel alive for once in your sorry life–is a longstanding tradition hearkening back to the AOL dialup days of yore when “b00b!es” was your p... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | Мобильное преимущество | К 2015 году цифровые банковские услуги должны стать основным каналом взаимодействия банка с клиентом, но банки пока не придают должного значения важному новому источнику роста доходов, говорится в исследовании PwC «Новые цифровые технологии... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Even The OECD Is Noting How Dreadful Patent Quality Is Negatively Impacting Innovation | Christian Tremblay points us to news of a new OECD report that agrees that falling patent quality is holding back innovation: |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Carl Icahn In Talks With Motorola About Its Massive Patent Portfolio | In the land of mobile, patents have never been more crucial. He with the most patents has the most power. Period. In the last few months alone we’ve seen Apple and Samsung duke it out, Apple and HTC take it to the mat, Google chat it up wit... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Homeless Man Arrested For Using Private Outlet To Charge Phone | Clearly, theft is wrong. But what about that ethical grey area? You’ve heard the example before: the man with no job steals bread for his family to survive. Wrong or right? I’d have to lean toward the “right” side, although that doesn’t mak... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | AVG: Smartphone Users Not Aware Of The Many Threats Out There | Troubling news here. AVG, the anti-malware company, says that the majority of smartphone users are unaware of the security risks they face when, um, using smartphones. What? You mean I have to be careful when fiddling around with my iPhone ... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | Samsung App Store Hits 100 Million Download Mark | Ten months after Samsung launched their own App Store for Bada devices, the company reached the 100 million download milestone, a notable result for what we can only termed as a Quixotic quest. The rush to app download nirvana began with th... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Apple Pulls "Gay Cure" App Under Heavy Criticism | Apple has pulled the controversial Exodus International app that many claim promoted the “curing” of gay people. Apple was petitioned by over 146,000 people demanding that the offensive app be removed from the iTunes app store.
The ministry... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Anti-Virus Company Installs Cellphone Malware And Then Charges To Remove It | A Chinese company, NetQin, allegedly secretly installed malware whenever users installed a copy of their special “cellular malware detector” and then charged a 30 cent update fee to remove the virus. The software also deleted other anti-vir... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | Shock Study: Women Spend More Time Talking And Texting | Wireless provider Mobistar recently announced the results of their survey which sought out cell phone usage by gender. If stereotypes are to be believed, then the results are hardly shocking.
The survey found that women spend more time on t... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Verizon Slated To Cancel Unlimited iPhone Data | According to Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo, speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Verizon’s current unlimited data plan is untenable and cannot remain in place forever, a bit of news that is disconcerting at worst and obv... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Regional Provider Says Libya Blocking Voice, Data Services | Guardian’d
You’re a North African dictator with a penchant for “voluptuous” Ukranian nurses. What do you do when your people rebel against your 42-year rule, demanding such things as basic human rights? Why you shut down communication with ... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Irony: Smartphones Can Save The Honeybees | Here’s an interesting use for old smartphones: monitoring bee activity. According to research done at the UK’s Nottingham Trent University, it may be possible for smartphones to monitor activity in beehives. Many smartphones have accelerome... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Shock(ing) Study: No Link Between Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer? | Here’s another CrunchGear Shock Study, shocking not because of cognizability but because of what it claims. The study by the University of Manchester says that RF exposure from cell phones does not appear to increase the risk of brain cance... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | One Billion People Will Have Access To WiMax In 2011 | The WiMAX Forum says that WiMAX will expand coverage to potentially serve a billion people by the end of this year. Last year, the strongest growing areas included the United States (with Clearwire), Japan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippin... |
| Feb 11, 2011 | Vodafone Releases Webbox $100 Web-Surfing Keyboard For Emerging Markets | Emerging markets need the Internet. Whether they’re looking up commodity prices or contacting loved ones overseas, users in developing countries like South Africa and Ghana need a way to get online and this unique device from Vodafone looks... |
| Feb 11, 2011 | Smartphones And Tablets Continue To Consume All The Mobile DRAM | In 2011, the market for mobile DRAM is expected to increase by 71% according to IHS. It’s projected that we will see 2.9 billion gigabits shipped in 2011; quite a bit more than last years sales of 1.7 billion Gb. By 2015 it’s expected that ... |
| Feb 11, 2011 | New Study: "Obama Phones" Could Actually Generate $4 Billion In Income | There’s a new study out that says having tax dollars go towards free cell phones for the poor actually creates money for the economy. They’ve been dubbed “Obama Phones” in the press even though the program, Lifeline Assistance, has been aro... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Verizon iPhone Teardown Reveals Only Minor Changes | No need to get excited — there are no CDMA unicorns or solid-gold Verizon logos hidden inside the new version of the iPhone 4. An iSuppli teardown has revealed that the only real changes are an integration of the GPS with the main Broadcom ... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | RIM Agrees To Filter Pornographic Content On Indonesian BlackBerrys | Flickr’d
Another day, another example of RIM having to buckle to governmental pressure in order to stay in business. It has emerged that RIM has agreed to filter pornographic content on Indonesian BlackBerrys as a direct result of a governm... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | CommInsure appoints string of executives | CommInsure appoints string of executives
CommInsure has made a string of executive appointments, recently hiring a wholesale underwriting manager and a retail
RETAIL Customers get the service and satisfaction they deserve by being in consta... |
| Jul 6, 2010 | The "Tube" shall be getting Wi-Fi, old chum | Pip pip and cheerio! The London Tubemaster General, Mayor Boris Johnson ESQ 1st Class Deceased is proposing that the tube lines in London have Wi-Fi coverage. While he does not want cellular coverage – then they’d have to have quiet cars – ... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Bharti Airtel plots its course | Bharti Airtel plots its course
Indian operator Bharti Airtel will start a five-day strategic meeting to plot its course in the African market following the conclusion of its $10.7 billion Zain Africa buyout, reports Business Daily Africa.
T... |
| May 4, 2010 | Can Oprah Do What Driving-While-Yakking Laws Can't? | There’s been a big push by politicians across the country (and around the globe, as well) to enact laws that ban the use of cell phones while driving. While using your phone while driving isn’t a great idea, neither are these laws. They att... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Technology Isn't What's Holding Mobile TV Back | Nearly every single year of the past half-decade or so has been touted as “the year of Mobile TV”, the year in which the long-heralded service would finally break through and get widespread adoption. It didn’t happen in 2008, it didn’t happ... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Oh no you didn't: woman stabs man after looking at his call log | Crazy womanSuch are the perils of technology. A Las Cruces woman is being charged with battery after stabbing her ex-husband repeatedly after looking at his cell phone’s call log.
No word on exactly what calls she was upset about, but I’m p... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Oracle Research Reveals Challenges Communications Service Providers Face in Servicing and Retaining Customers | Lack of Integration between Departments and Systems Hinders Delivery of Seamless, Consistent Customer Experiences
News Facts
Today Oracle released research that shows that a lack of integration between departments and business systems is ha... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | Social Networking Sites Dominate Mobile Web | “I didn’t really use Facebook that much until I got my iPhone.” Sound familiar? That sentiment and variations of it has provided powerful anecdotal evidence over the past several months about the impact smartphones are having on the way peo... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Safety: Obama Administration now looking to eliminate texting while driving | Looks like the Obama Administration, which really ought to be focused on getting Americans like me affordable health care (unless doctors now accept World of Warcraft Gold as payment, lol!), has set its sights on eliminating the scourge of ... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Orange France outs the LG GD910's excessively high price | Oh man, Devin is going to be upset. He is enamored with the LG GD910, but I have a feeling that the price is a tad too rich for him. There was a rumor that it was going to be pricey and sure enough, Orange France is going to sell it with at... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | MobileBeat 2009: Come hear executives from EA Mobile, CBS, Pandora, China Mobile and more | Below is latest batch of speakers we’ve got confirmed for MobileBeat 2009, our executive conference for the mobile industry on July 16 in San Francisco.
I’m really looking forward to the debates we’ll be having about which mobile platform r... |
| May 12, 2009 | Boston Trolley Accident Sadly Shows, Again, That Cell Phone Bans Alone Don't Really Work | The driver of a Boston trolley that caused a crash that injured about 50 people was apparently sending text messages at the time of the accident, despite a transit authority ban on such activity. This latest incident comes after the horribl... |
| May 12, 2009 | No, The FBI Isn't Gunning For The Business of Mailboxes Etc. | A note to all the stupid criminals out there: when making a purchase with a forged check, you’re probably better off not using your local FBI office as the delivery point for the goods you’re trying to scam. That’s what a mastermind in Monr... |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Can You Automate Patent Processing? | One of the big complaints with the current patent system is the amount of time it takes for an application to actually go through the process of approval. Supporters of the patent system often insist that the “solution” is to fund the Paten... |
| Apr 13, 2009 | The Circuit City brand and website could be sold to Systemax (who owns CompUSA) | A tipster informed us about the mysterious CircuitCity.com message a week ago, and it seems that the brand might indeed be resurrected. Systemax, of TigerDirect and CompUSA fame, is interested in purchasing Circuit City‘s brand name and web... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Judge Denies Appeal Based On Juror's Twitter Messages | The legal world is catching on to social media in a pretty big way. Status updates and other messages are commonly cited as evidence, while there’s growing concern over jurors’ use of Twitter and other services on their mobile phones during... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | No One Should Profit From Criminals (Except Us) | The head of a company that makes cell phone jammers says mobile operators should hand over all the revenue they make from prisoners using contraband phones in jail. Apparently there is a “growing epidemic of inmates using cell phones in pri... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Is Voicemail The Next Thing To Fade Away? | I’ve noticed something recently: I rarely listen to voicemails anymore. If I know who called, I can simply call them back, or get in touch with them through other means. The whole process of calling in to my phone and actually listening to ... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Prisoner Sues Because Prison Confiscated And Destroyed His Contraband Mobile Phone | We’ve seen plenty of stories over the past few years about prisoners getting contraband mobile phones — even to the point that many prisons have been asking for exemptions against mobile phone jammers. However, here’s a new one: a former pr... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | Police Chief Gets Into Car Accident While Checking His Blackberry | Just as politicians and the police have been increasingly cracking down on drivers who are using mobile phones for texting and emailing while driving, a police chief in the Seattle suburb of Federal Way has issued an apology for hitting ano... |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Lawyers Use Juror's Twitter Messages As Basis For Appeal | Lawyers for an Arkansas building materials firm have appealed a $12.6 million judgment against the company, alleging that a juror’s Twitter messages show that he was biased against the company. The lawyers say tweets like “I just gave away ... |
| Mar 11, 2009 | European Parliament Committee Backs Further Hack Of Roaming Charges | The European Union has been interfering in the market for international mobile-phone roaming rates for some, taking the populist position that the charges were too high, and forcing caps on the wholesale rates operators charge each other, h... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | HTC lost Germany patent case, plans to appeal | As it stands right now, HTC will not be able to import its mobile handsets into Germany once a court’s ruling goes into effect. The company lost a patent case against IP-com last week, but plans on appealing the decision. The patent in ques... |
| Mar 6, 2009 | Cathay Pacific: Want Free Stuff? Throw An Airport Tantrum | About a month ago, somebody posted a video on YouTube of a woman flipping out at the Hong Kong airport after missing her flight. Apparently the person that recorded the woman’s tantrum was an employee of the airline Cathay Pacific, and the ... |
| Mar 2, 2009 | SMS Alerts Over Credit Card Transactions? Patented! Visa Sued | Let’s say you were an engineer at a major credit card company like Visa, and put in charge of watching over new technologies, and thinking about ways that you could make the credit card process better and more secure for card holders. It pr... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | New Innovations Show How Mobile Devices Can Be Helpful To Learning… Just Not In Pennsylvania | While some politicians in Pennsylvania are trying to push a law that would put an outright ban on most portable devices, such as mobile phones, in schools, not too far away, in Washington, DC, this week, there was an entire conference on ho... |
| Feb 20, 2009 | LG announces the world's first transparent design phone | LG announced today the LG-GD900 cell phone, which has a very distinguishing feature – a translucent sliding keypad. The phone was designed to make a new fashion statement, and is scheduled to release during the second quarter of 2009. No wo... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Wow, E911 Has Finally Come Along | For years, there’s been talk of how 911 service needed to include the ability for a mobile phone user’s location to be sent to call centers when they made an emergency call. The implementation has taken ages, thanks to toothless government ... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | India's Do Not Call List Now Covers SMS Spam, Too | The problem of spam text messages sent to mobile phones has been a significant one in many countries, though it hasn’t reached epidemic proportions (yet) in the US. Operators have done a pretty good job of stopping the messages from getting... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | It's Not Technology That's Causing A Decline In Critical Thinking… | There’s a new study out that is leading to headlines claiming: Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis? Of course, the details don’t match up with that claim at all. Basically, the report seems to say that being ... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Is Nokia Demanding The Right To Spy On Its Employees? | There’s quite a story making the rounds, suggesting that Nokia is putting significant pressure on the Finnish government, demanding that it pass a law allowing it to spy on its employees, or the company will leave Finland. Nokia is quickly ... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Now there's a Barack Obama-branded cellphone (in Kenya) | Hah! A Kenyan cellphone company has released a Barack Obama-branded cellphone. It’s decked out in red and blue, with fun phrases like “Yes We Can” all over it.
The company, Mi Phone, has named the phone the Mi-Obama. (Obama’s father was bor... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Angry mob attacks Nokia store in India | Nokia’s maps caused a big stir in Jabalpur city, India, because they show Kashmir as being part of Pakistan. Led by members of the youth wing of BJP, one of India’s political parties, an angry mob seized Nokia handsets from a local store an... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Is The UK Patent Office Ignoring Court Ruling On Software Patents? | Back in October, we were disappointed by a UK court ruling that effectively told the UK’s Patent Office that it had to stop rejecting software patents outright, and instead consider software patentable if it met certain criteria. Given the ... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Gullible Consumers Easily Swayed By Meaningless Tech Specs | I imagine this won’t come as a huge surprise to many of you, but it appears that we’re all influenced by the presence of tech specs on a product — even if those specs are somewhat meaningless. A variety of separate studies showed that peopl... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | Chill Out On The Texting While Walking Bans, Says Professor | At the University of Virginia, there’s a professor who studies “the historic relationship between pedestrians and motorists.” Lately, he’s been looking at pedestrians texting on their phones while crossing the street, and he says that the p... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | AT&T And T-Mobile Pay Up For Not Being Truthful About Voicemail Hackability | Many mobile phones’ voicemail systems have worked on the basis of checking the caller ID of the incoming caller — and if it matched the number of the voicemail box, it would automatically push the caller through to the admin interface. The ... |
| Dec 12, 2008 | Now you too can buy all your mobile apps on SD cards. Wait, what? | Best Buy announced today that they are going to start selling Smartphone software applications from their in-store “Mobile Genie” system. They also announced that Handango’s In-Hand client will be custom branded for Best Buy, and automatica... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Nokia Reportedly Looking To Start Its Own MVNO In Japan | A local report says that Nokia is considering setting up an MVNO in Japan, focused on its high-end Vertu line of handsets. Nokia has a small presence in Japan, making it one place — along with the US — where its market share lags badly behi... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | GPS receivers to be embedded into SIM cards | So apparently GPS chips are getting really, really small. Small enough to fit onto tiny SIM cards, as telephony electronics company Sagem has teamed up with GPS experts BlueSky Positioning on technology that “incorporates a GPS receiver and... |
| Oct 24, 2008 | Loud Mobile Phone Talkers Leads List Of Mobile Etiquette Annoyances | There are all sorts of annoyances associated with mobile phones, but apparently the biggest one remains the fact that people talking on mobile phones seem so prone to do so loudly, greatly disturbing those around them. A recent study found ... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | India activates 4 cellphones per second | India saw 9.9 million cellphone activations in September which is 3.9 activations per second. Pretty nuts, right? The market is 310 million right now with 27.5% penetration, meaning 3/4 of the country will still be heading to the local Tata... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | MobileActive08: Using Mobile Web for Social Action | MobileActive08, a conference about using mobile technology for social action, was held this week in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference was a 3 day event and covered topics such as: mobile internet usage by low income youth, how mobi... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Australia may be allowing mobile phone use on planes soon | Pending the passage of this amendment, you may be able to use that celly at 30,000ft if you’re flying Down Under. The pico cell technology has been in testing for 18 months and there have been no complaints by the airborne or landside porti... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Smart Lighting brings it all back to 1999 | Boston University, home of the Fightin’ Aristocrats, is working on “Smart Lighting” that includes LED lights and a optical networking adapter. Each light works as its own access point and can mesh together for full in-home coverage. Instead... |
| Sep 30, 2008 | Worldwide Sony Ericsson re-org hits US | Sony Ericsson will lay off over half of the employees of its research facility in Research Triangle Park just outside of Durham, North Carolina. The cutback is a part of a wider re-structuring taking place at the joint mobile phone company.... |
| Sep 30, 2008 | Laptops to begin shipping with completely unnecessary "Mobile Broadband" badge | Rehashing the idea set forth by all of those useless “Intel Inside” and “Designed for Windows XP” stickers that have been on laptops for years, 17 companies (including Asus, Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, Toshiba, and 12 other heavy hitters) have... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | People Finally Realizing That SMS Isn't Good For Emergency Alerts | Only two years or so after we questioned why anyone would seriously consider the notoriously unreliable SMS text messaging system for emergency alerts, the mobile trade group 3G Americas has released a research report stating the same thing... |
| Sep 10, 2008 | Dear Motorola: Instead Of Suing Competitors, Maybe Figure Out Why Employees Are Leaving | As a company, if things aren’t going well, it’s often difficult to accept that some of the blame may be on your end — which makes it especially easy to lash out at competitors, assigning blame to them. This becomes troublesome when it start... |
| Sep 3, 2008 | Roundup: iRobot co-founder moves to new robot venture, botnets surge, IPOs come and go, and more | Roomba technologist moves to new robotic venture — Rodney Brooks, chief technology officer and co-founder at iRobot, is moving on to a new company called Heartland Robots, which will work to “rehumanize and revitalize manufacturing.”
Zombie... |
| Aug 28, 2008 | Nortel tests LTE 4G wireless at 60 mph | Note the BS
The biggest issue with 4G networks is handover. When you’re speeding down the highway, your cellphone and wireless devices constantly hop from station to station, picking up connectivity as you go along. In a perfect world, this... |
| Aug 28, 2008 | Nortel updates WiMax competitor to handle 60 mph speeds | Note the BS
The biggest issue with 4G networks is handover. When you’re speeding down the highway, your cellphone and wireless devices constantly hop from station to station, picking up connectivity as you go along. In a perfect world, this... |
| Aug 20, 2008 | Femtocells could upset the UMA-based fixed-mobile convergence market | Apparently the fixed-mobile convergence market is on the brink of very interesting times, according to analysts at ABI Research anyway.
While so far most fixed-to-mobile solutions have been UMA-based, such as T-Mobile’s Hotspot@Home service... |
| Aug 5, 2008 | Connecticut Gives Up Banning Cameraphones In Court Rooms | It’s been somewhat amusing watching as various folks overreacted to the rise of cameraphones over the past few years, with some companies banning them entirely, and a few clueless industry analysts insisting that they were just a fad that s... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | There will be a James Bond edition Cyber-shot C902 | Sony Ericsson will release a James Bond edition Cyber-shot C902 to tie in the with release of the new, cursed Quantum of Solace movie. The phone will ship with a memory card with pre-loaded Bond content.
Sounds a lot like The Dark Knight ph... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Alcatel-Lucent shakes up management, gives CEO and Chairman the boot | Two years after merging, Telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent has not posted a single profitable quarter. Following its second quarter 2008 earnings statement, a major executive shakeup has been announced for the company.
Though revenu... |
| Jul 24, 2008 | Nokia and Qualcomm kiss and make up | Just when we were finally going to see LIVE coverage of a technology patent hearing, Nokia and Qualcomm have settled their lengthy legal battle, at least for the next 15 years.
Settling a licensing dispute that has spawned lawsuits in three... |
| Jul 17, 2008 | SK Telecom not intereseted in acquiring Sprint | Following up on reports that it was angling for an acquisition of Sprint Nextel, South Korean carrier SK Telecom reportedly said in a regulatory filing that, while its looking into business opportunities in the U.S. (including its recently ... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Before Getting Bought By Verizon Wireless, Alltel Tried To Buy Sprint, T-Mobile And AT&T Wireless | After being rumored for years, Verizon Wireless finally bought Alltel earlier this month. However, Alltel’s CEO has now admitted that the company wasn’t just looking to be acquired these past few years. It had, itself, aggressively looked i... |
| May 6, 2008 | Resurgent Taliban bans music-playing cellphones in areas of Pakistan | Guess there’s no VibeTonez in certain parts of Pakistan. A recent crackdown by the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal regions means that, among other things, men must grow traditional Islamic beards and music must not be played in vehicles or on ... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | Doctor Claims That Sending Too Many Text Messages Is A Sign Of Mental Problems | Remember the doctor pushing to add internet addiction as an official mental disorder? In a recent journal article, he’s now saying that one sign of such a disorder would be people who send lots of text messages. Of course, as MobHappy puts ... |
| Mar 29, 2008 | ¿Mexico getting iPhone in June? | [photopress:mexico.jpg,full,center]
Attention Hombres: the iPhone is coming to Mexico via Telcel in June, or so says the El Universal newspaper. Telcel has 72% of the Mexican cellular market, and landing the iPhone should boost that even hi... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned… Setting Fire To 400 Mobile Phones | Okay, well, here’s a silly story that I couldn’t resist writing about because the title practically wrote itself. Over in China, apparently the angry wife of a mobile phone retailer who was upset that her husband was abandoning the marriage... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Will Politicians Now Ban Walking While Talking On A Mobile Phone? | In the past we’ve seen stories about hikers not doing a very good job preparing for a hike, figuring that as long as they have a mobile phone with them, they can always call for help should things go wrong. Some recent studies are also now ... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Garsh n' Begorrah, my wee bairns! Ireland's O2 gets the iPhone | ‘Tis their intention ta dry off and then buy an iPhone . Join ’em?
Pull a pint and twiddle your muff because Ireland’s O2 will be selling the iPhone (translation: “tha’ bleedin’ iPhone, ye ponce”) at $600 for the 8GB and $750 for the 16GB. ... |
| Nov 20, 2007 | Vodafone: iPhone Sucks… But, Hey, Why Won't Apple Let Us Sell Them In Germany!?! | Vodafone boss Arun Sarin made some news for saying that the iPhone “a pretty poor experience,” but apparently that hasn’t stopped the company from sending out the lawyers when it wasn’t allowed to sell them. Vodafone’s German unit has convi... |
| Nov 9, 2007 | T-Mobile: German iPhone launch sold 10,000 units on day one | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Sep 14, 2007 | Verizon Decides It Doesn't Like Open-Access Wireless Rules After All | Discussion of the upcoming auction for licenses for 700 MHz spectrum has been dominated by the desire of Google and other groups to have “open-access” rules put in place. These rules would force license winners to sell wholesale access to t... |
| Aug 10, 2007 | Shocking News: People Hate Mobile Ads! | According to a new GfK NOP survey commissioned by Pontis there is a deep level of dissatisfaction amongst the public with the way that mobile service providers are marketing their voice and data services. 64 percent of people who viewed mob... |
| Aug 8, 2007 | U.K. Smoking Bans Equals More Texting | Seems that people who would normally light up might be using those fingers to text instead. With no cigarettes to hold it seems that text messages are what smokers might be doing more of in the U.K. following the smoking ban, which went int... |
| Aug 7, 2007 | Low-End Handsets Drive Down Chinese Mobile Revenue | Here is something unexpected. Lower-end foreign handsets are on the rise in China, and are actually driving prices down! According to a new report from CCID Consulting some 71.478 million domestic-made handsets were sold in China in the fir... |
| Aug 6, 2007 | Fake Nokia Handsets Seized in India | It isn’t uncommon to find counterfeit goods coming out of India, but last weekend Indian policed seized fake Nokia mobile phones worth approximately $40,000. The Indian government received a tip-off from the Nokia staff, and a total of nine... |
| Aug 6, 2007 | Zimbabwe Mobile Network Expansion | Massive unemployment, decades of sporadic civil war and other economic hardships aren’t enough to keep people from wanting to stay connection. Thus Zimbabwe, the landlocked southern African nation once known as Rhodesia, is looking to incre... |
| Aug 3, 2007 | Sky Sports Delivers Football to Mobile | In Europe they take football – what we Americans know as soccer – as seriously as many Americans take football – what we Americans call football. So when U.K. satellite service Sky Sports announced that it plans to offer all of its 92 Barcl... |
| Jul 25, 2007 | Floods in U.K. Force Vodafone to Evacuate HQ | It hasn’t been a good summer for Northern and Central England, where weeks of rain have caused massive flooding. The rain picked up again last week, and we’ve heard that it was so bad in the Newbury, Berkshire region that Vodafone had to ev... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Sprint Nextel in Last Place in Call Center Satisfaction | The motto in the logo may say “Sprint Ahead,” but not so fast there. Because as a former Sprint subscriber this news comes as no surprise, Sprint Nextel came in last place in call center satisfaction in a survey published by Vocal Laborator... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Chinese Mobile TV on the Rise | Let the games begin! Next summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing will likely be the catalyst of mobile TV service in the land of the Dragon. Juniper Research predicts that mobile TV will grown from about $36 million in 2007 to nearly $100 millio... |
| Jul 20, 2007 | South Korean 3G Users to Pass 23 million by 2010 | By the year 2010 there could be more than 23 million 3G mobile phone users in South Korea, according to a new research report by ROA Group. And 41.95 million South Koreans, or roughly 85% of the total population, will be using some form of ... |
