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T-Mobile Cell Phones Free T-Mobile Phone with a Plan. No Hassles & Free Shipping. LetsTalk.com

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Landline phones ringing up features (The Pantagraph)

Land-line telephones, welcome to the party. In recent years, as phone companies have beefed up their cellphones with a steady stream of enhancements, innovations to the old land-line phone have been slow to come.

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Hello, innovation: Companies are trying to teach old phones some new tricks (Deseret Morning News)

Land-line telephones, welcome to the party. In recent years, as phone companies have beefed up their cell phones with a steady stream of enhancements, innovations to the old land-line phone have been slow to come.

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Welcome to quotidienmutations.net (Quotidien Mutations)

T-Mobile Cell Phones Free T-Mobile Phone with a Plan. No Hassles & Free Shipping. T-Mobile.LetsTalk.com

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The China Youth Culture Study 07' Provides Insider Knowledge and Research to Understand This Complicated Marketplace (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of new Label Networks report China Youth Culture Study 07' to their offering.

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MIKE WENDLAND'S TECHCAST: Apple iPhone update leaves many howling (Detroit Free Press)

Apple's first significant update to the iPhone has left a lot of users howling today after it disabled third-party refinements like ringtones and messaging software. Watch Mike's short video detailing the changes.

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UTStarcom Debuts the CDM8935, the 'Mini', with Cricket(R) (The San Francisco Examiner)

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. ( Map ) - UTStarcom Personal Communications, a division of UTStarcom, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI ), a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, announced today that the UTStarcom CDM8935 mobile handset will be available beginning tomorrow to Cricket customers.

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PlayPhone Hires Andrew Page for Key CFO and SVP of Operations Roles (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

PlayPhone, Inc., a leading global, mobile media company specializing in the direct-to-consumer distribution of cell phone ringtones, wallpapers and mobile games, announced today the addition of Andrew Page to its executive team as Chief Financial Officer and the senior vice president of operations. Page will oversee all financial and administrative functions for PlayPhone as well as internal ...

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Dial M for a mobile I can actually work (Times Online)

There are a great many mobile telephones on the market these days. All are made by companies with preposterous mission statements, all have idiotic names and all are full of ridiculous features that you neither need nor want. So where do you go for some nononsense advice?

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Moto Fone packs a punch of simple, elegant features (Electronic Engineering Times Asia)

Quietly launched in rural India initially, the F3 Fone is aimed mostly at first-time cell users in markets offering low-cost prepaid or monthly service.

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UTStarcom Debuts the CDM8935, the 'Mini', with Cricket(R) (FinanzNachrichten)

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UTStarcom ( Nachrichten ) Personal Communications, a division of UTStarcom, Inc. , a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, announced today that the UTStarcom CDM8935 mobile handset will be available beginning tomorrow to Cricket customers.

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Myxer Launches 'Mobilized By Myxer' at DEMOfall '07 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Myxer, the company that radically simplifies mobile content delivery, today unveiled "Mobilized by Myxer" at the DEMOfall '07 conference. DEMO has a long-established reputation for identifying and presenting to an elite audience the products most likely to have a significant impact on the marketplace and market trends in the coming year.

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'Show and Tell' for Start-ups: Complete DEMO Coverage on Wired News (Wired News)

Wired News reports live from the DEMO conference in San Diego, California. Check back regularly for breaking news, updates and reports on the hottest new products from one of the web industry's premiere conferences for emerging technology.

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MyxerFlix(TM) to Bring ``Trailers from Hell'' to Millions of Mobile Devices (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. & LOS ANGELES----MyxerTones, the best place to make and share mobile content, today announced a new relationship with the Nickels Group and their new media brand and website www.trailersfromhell.com , the site that showcases classic-era coming attractions punctuated with humorous commentary by iconic genre filmmakers.

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Stephen Fry slams iPhone (Macworld UK)

Legendary UK actor, writer, director and Mac enthusiast Stephen Fry has published an in-depth report contrasting some of the UK's leading smartphones, including the iPhone.

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Boost Mobile Introduces Its Most Feature-Rich Phone Ever with ''Unlimited by Boost'' Flat Rate Wireless Service (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

IRVINE, Calif.----Boost Mobile, a lifestyle-based telecommunications brand and wholly-owned division of Sprint Nextel has added the Motorola W385 to its Unlimited by Boost cell phone offerings.

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2007 Australian Mobile Data and Content Report Out Now (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "2007 Australia - Mobile Data and Content - The long wait for 4G" to their offering.

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Advertisers try out bluetooth (rediff.com)

Apart from Caf Coffee Day, companies like Pantaloon, Levi's and Pepsi among others are also offering goodies through bluetooth that can be downloaded free-of-cost.

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Advertisers try out bluetooth (Agencyfaqs!)

The technology is being used in in malls and cafes for sending messages to select and targeted customers. The next time you walk into a Caf Coffee Day outlet in your city, dont miss the freebies on offer.

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Expo a hit with attendees and vendors alike (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

MATTOON Howard and Letha Snow both laughed when asked whether they planned to download rap music after a high-tech tutorial at Thursdays 2007 Mattoon Chamber of Commerce Business Expo at Cross County Mall.

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Ooma Tries to "Un-Fossilize" Telephony With Free Calls (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)

The $399 Ooma Hub routes U.S. phone calls over the Internet using a standard telephone, without monthly fees.

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IT and religion: Recite mantras through mobiles (CIOL)

Technology has made breakthroughs in all aspects of our lives, even religion. In other words, technology has aligned with religion to offer better services to devotees to offer prayer and donations from far away lands.

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AT&T and Nokia Deliver Speed and Elegance with the Nokia 6555 Phone (ThomasNet)

New 3G Mobile Phone Is Optimized for AT&T Services, Including CV and AT&T Mobile Music SAN ANTONIO, Texas and WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Sept. 12 -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today announced the immediate availability of the Nokia 6555 mobile phone, a new handset that has been engineered to take advantage of AT&T's high speed 3G network and innovative wireless services. A unique ...

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Is there any good reason why I should buy an iPhone? (Guardian Unlimited)

Well, writes Kate Bevan, it's lovely to look at with its glossy screen and candy-coloured icons.

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CORRECTING and REPLACING Cricket(R) Signs on as Presenting Sponsor of the 2007-2008 Declare Yourself Campaign (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

LOS ANGELES----Second graph, first sentence of release should read: Cricket, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, Inc. , . Third contact company name should read: Bock Communications for Cricket .

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Will E-Books Get Lost in Translation? (AdWeek)

WASHINGTON American publishers look at how the Japanese have embraced reading books on mobile phones and wonder if that response can happen here.

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Bronfman Offers Sunny Forecast In Keynote Address (FMQB)

Speaking at the Convergence 2.0 symposium in New York on Monday, Warner Music Group ( WMG ) Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. offered a very sunny forecast for his company and the music business in general despite the continuing problems of piracy and declining CD sales.

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Blue Frog Media Celebrates the National Launch of Bulla(TM) TV on LATV Networks (Broadcast Newsroom)

Combining Mobile and Television through Blue Frog's Innovative txtv(TM) Service, Bulla(TM) TV is The First Bi-lingual Channel Available 24/7 or As A Programming Block to Broadcast and Cable operat...

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Editors' Notes: Paying more and paying twice for less (MacCentral Online)

Sure, Apple's ringtones are cheaper. But Dan Frakes thinks the whole business is a scam.

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Verizon Wireless, Marley Estate Fight Over Ringtones (Fox News)

Reggae star's family upset that Universal Music licensed ringtones to cellular carrier without asking first.

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Microsoft Says Sprint to Use Software in Voice-Enabled Searches (Bloomberg.com)

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will provide software to Sprint Nextel Corp. that lets mobile-phone customers find nearby businesses by saying the company name or category.

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AmieStreet.com(TM) and Myxer(TM) Partner to Bring Demand-Based Pricing to the Mobile Ringtone Marketplace (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla.----AmieStreet.com, a fast-growing digital music store with a unique demand-based pricing system, announced today that is has partnered with Myxer to offer its members variably priced ringtones.

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Richa Vij (Agencyfaqs!)

| agencyfaqs! | New Delhi, September 18, 2007 In the first part of our series on digital music, we wrote about how music companies are exploring the Internet for sales. In this, the final part, we look at how digital kiosks and mobile phones are changing the way music is sold.

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Moto Fone is elegant yet simple (Electronics Supply and Manufacturing)

For all the hoopla surrounding high-end mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone, the low end of the market can often tell an equally important story, at least in the engineering realm. Motorola's F3 Fone is one such entry-level example.

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Tech company's Internet smileys are getting personal (The Columbus Dispatch)

MIAMI -- The team at VandIP is out to revolutionize the online smiley.

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What's next in cellphone design? (Electronic Engineering Times Asia)

Cellular telephony has beenand will continue to bea major contributor to the growth of Asian economies. This article discusses the future of cellphone design.

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Phone makers and Internet companies competing more on each other's turf (International Herald Tribune)

Nokia used to be just a cellphone maker. Google used to be just an Internet company. Now Nokia wants to be an Internet company and Google, according to rampant speculation among bloggers and technology analysts, may be about to enter the mobile phone fray.

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Sprint Nextel rolls out mobile comparison shopping service (San Jose Mercury News)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled on Thursday a new service that allows mobile handset customers to buy and compare a wide range of products over their phone.

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Alltel Wireless Debuts the MOTORAZR2 V9m (PDA Buyer's Guide)

Alltel Wireless today announced the MOTORAZR2 V9m is now available at shopalltel.com and Alltel Wireless retail locations. Here is more info from the announcement:"This powerful phone is designed to provide customers with superior wireless technology and entertainment. With ...

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Cellular Phone features Bluetooth wireless technology. (ThomasNet)

Measuring 4.4 x 1.9 in. and 0.4 in. thick, Super Slice includes VGA camera with 3x zoom and is powered by Li-Ion battery with up to 270 min of continuous talk time and 230 hr of standby time. In addition to Bluetooth technology, phone has built-in speaker phone for hands-free talking. Super Slice utilizes Qualcomm's CMX(TM)-enabled ring tones and screensavers, which support MIDI, QCP, MP3, PMD, ...

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Welcome to pagenewsonline.com (Page News and Courier)

Local News News , articles & events about technology in state and local gov't. www.Govtech.com Investools Learn how to invest in a volatile market. Sign up for a free class.

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du partners with MBC for Ramadan mobile content (MENAFN)

du partners with MBC for Ramadan mobile content

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Upwardly Mobile In Africa (BusinessWeek)

How basic cell phones are sparking economic hope and growth in emergingand even non-emergingnations

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Ringle to the rescue (Stuff)

With the humble CD single in its death throes, the music industry has come up with an idea it hopes will stem the flow of revenue to online sellers: the ringle.

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Beyond Ringtones and Games (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)

New services hope to transform the mobile commerce industry, which is currently dominated ringtones and games, into a mirror of the online shopping world where virtually any item can be retrieved with just a few clicks.

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Medio Wins T-Mobile Deal (Unstrung.com)

LONDON -- Medio Systems Inc., today announced that T-Mobile International has launched a new mobile search service to its European t-zones customers based on Medios powerful mobile search technology.

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Nokia 6555 3G mobile phone available from AT&T (PhysOrg)

AT&T and Nokia today announced the availability of the Nokia 6555 mobile phone, a new handset that has been engineered to take advantage of AT&T's high speed 3G network and innovative wireless services.

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AT&T and Nokia Deliver Speed and Elegance With the Nokia 6555 Phone (FinanzNachrichten)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas and WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. ( Nachrichten / Aktienkurs ) and Nokia ( Nachrichten / Aktienkurs ) today announced the immediate availability of the Nokia 6555 mobile phone, a new handset that has been engineered to take advantage of AT&T's high speed 3G network and innovative wireless services.

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Vibration motor driver IC uses Freewheel principle (Electronic Engineering Times Asia)

The MLX90283 vibration motor driver from Melexis successfully applies the 'Freewheel' principle to vibration motors by exploiting single-phase motor characteristics.

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du partners with MBC for Ramadan mobile content (Khaleej Times)

DUBAI At the start of this year's holy Ramadan observance today, du, the country's second telecom operator, begins "knocking on the doors" of subscribers and potential clients to increase its market share by offering famous religious TV shows on mobile phones.

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Meez and Vringo Announce First-Ever Avatar Ringtones (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

Meez(TM), the leading consumer avatar service, and Vringo, the pioneer in video ringtone sharing, today announced an alliance to fully integrate Meez 3D avatars into Vringo's video ringtone service.

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UK Telcos Launch Mobile Payments System Finextra (ePaynews)

Sep 10 2007 : Five UK mobile phone operators have launched a payment system which enables subscribers to use their handsets for low-value purchases.

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AT&T Releases the Nokia 6555 Flip Phone with 3G (PDA Buyer's Guide)

The Nokia 6555 3G flip phone is now available from ATnT, should be on the web site soon. It sells for $49.99 after $50 rebate with 2-year contract. Here is more info from today's announcement: "ATnT and Nokia today ...

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Bet-1.com Celebrates The Inaugural Launch of Their Combined Sportsbook, Casino, Poker Room and Bingo Hall (PRWeb)

Bet-1.com celebrates its inaugural launch, targeting young and old, recreational and professional players, providing first-class service and a secure and safe environment for players to place their bets. (PRWeb Sep 6, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SW5zZS1TdW1tLU1hZ24tSW5zZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=

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Apple unveils wireless iPod (TVNZ)

Apple has rolled out an iPod with a touch screen that can browse the internet wirelessly, Inc sharply cut the price of its iPhone as well as making improvements to its iTunes web store.

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Apple Announces iPod touch with Wi-Fi (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)

Steve Jobs took the stage on Wednesday to show off a touchscreen and Wi-Fi-enabled iPod, along with a 160GB "iPod Classic," new iPod nanos and shuffles, and a price drop for the 8GB iPhone.

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Scrabble Goes Mobile

While I know Google's patent application for its SMS mobile payments, gPay, has been a big issue in the mobile industry, I believe the perspective from Mobile Point of View is comprehensive enough for me not to cover this story....

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Is There Something Wrong with iPhone Price Cut?

Dreaming of iPhone? Wake up now! Apple has made another surprising and may I say confusing move as it slashes the price of iPhone 8GB model by $200. Starting today, mobile users can buy this ultra-hyped phone from $599 to...

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Orange Park Kennel Club Approved For Poker Room (FOX 30 Jacksonville)

It's official. The Orange Park Kennel Club will open a poker room. On Tuesday night, the town council voted three to two to allow the poker room.

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Barber to stand trial on charge of operating illegal poker tournament w/ criminal complaint (The Joplin Globe)

COLUMBUS, Kan. Sam Marshs tie, with a gambling motif depicting playing cards, a roulette wheel and the word casino, didnt bring him good luck during a court hearing Wednesday.

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AT&T Helps Parents Tighten Leash on Kids' Cell Use (E-Commerce Times)

A new service from AT&T aims to give parents more control over their children's cell phone usage. AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless is a Web-based service that allows a parent to set usage limits on a child's talk time, text messages, instant messages and downloads, as well as manage how and when a child can communicate, restrict access to mobile Web sites and allocate minutes among users of shared ...

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Rumors over revamped iPod peak before Apple event (Newsday)

Rumors about a revamped iPod have been abundant since the release of the iPhone, and intensified this past week over news that Apple Inc. had summoned analysts and reporters for a media event today.

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AT&T Offers Cell Phone Control to Parents (Wireless Newsfactor)

If you've been keeping track of the competition between untethered kids and anxious parents, AT&T scored one for parents with a new service to control their offspring's mobile phone use. Called Smart Limits for Wireless, it allows moms and dads to establish limits on talk time minutes, text messages, instant messages (IMs), and downloads. Parents can restrict access to Web sites, divide up ...

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AT&T Offers Cell Phone Control to Parents (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)

If you've been keeping track of the competition between untethered kids and anxious parents, AT&T scored one for parents with a new service to control their offspring's mobile phone use.

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AT&T puts muscle behind cell phone rules for kids (The Morning Call)

It offers parental controls to manage cost and content. . | For generations, parents have yelled at their kids about running up the family phone bill, talking to their friends at all hours, and sneaking calls to that low-life boyfriend.

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Digital tweens say gimme gadgets (MSNBC)

Sidney Nicole Popielarcheck doesnt expect her parents to get her everything she wants as she goes back to school, but it doesnt stop her from wishing. In her dreams, shes writing on a colorful Dell notebook computer and listening to music on a new video iPod.

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Google's Newest Role: Venture Capitalist (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! Asia News)

The tech giant's startup investments are narrowing opportunities for VCs. Other corporations are upping their venture investing, too

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Taming teens' phones, at last (The News & Observer)

Today AT&T announces a Web site that allows parents to limit cell phone minutes, text messages, ringtones and games.

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B4Playing Provides its Users with Over 43,000 Poker Tournaments in September (PRWeb)

Now, an online poker player can plan ahead and get notified before a poker tournament of his choice starts. (PRWeb Sep 4, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3F1YS1aZXRhLVRoaXItSW5zZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=

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Parents gain a weapon in phone wars (The Charlotte Observer)

For generations, parents have yelled at their kids about running up the family phone bill, talking to their friends at all hours, and sneaking calls to that lowlife boyfriend. Technology has just achieved what lectures never could. Today AT&T announces a Web site that allows parents to limit how many minutes teens can put on their cell phones, how many text messages they can send and receive, and ...

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Gambling rooms might get better deal (The Fresno Bee)

SACRAMENTO -- A year after he pushed a bill to eliminate wagering limits at card rooms, state Sen. Dean Florez is seeking to loosen gambling laws some more -- this time with legislation that would make it easier to add tables at small card rooms.

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NXP's Single-Chip Solution Drives Next Wave of Ultra Low-Cost Handsets With Fully Integrated Multimedia Functionality (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands----Underscoring its commitment to developing wireless technology in emerging markets, NXP Semiconductors today announced its Nexperia PNX4903 GSM/GPRS-optimized multimedia solution for the Ultra Low-Cost segment of the mobile handset market.

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'Like, he's so, like --' (The Sacramento Bee)

For generations, parents have yelled at their kids about running up the family phone bill, talking to their friends at all hours, and sneaking calls to that lowlife boyfriend.

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Playtech says FD to exit, pipeline healthy (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)

LONDON, Sept 4 - Online gambling software firm Playtech said its finance director was to leave as it posted first-half revenues within touching distance of levels before gaming firms were rocked by an effective U.S. ban last year.

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Web site lets parents monitor teens' cell phone use (Houston Chronicle)

The service works on any AT&T phone bought within about the past two years and costs $5 per line per month.

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Customize Your Ringtones with VoxTone

I don't get it. Ringtones, I mean. While I'm satisfied with the standard ringtones available in my Nokia handset, many mobile users want more something hip, funny, and cool. Moreover, they want it to be more personal. Welcome to the...

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AT&T debuts cell-phone controls for parents (The Herald)

For generations, parents have yelled at their kids about running up the family phone bill, talking to their friends at all hours and sneaking calls to that low-life boyfriend.

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Taming teens' phones, at last (The News & Observer)

AT&T lets parents set the rules.

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The B4Playing Smart Online Casino and Poker Players' Tool is Now Live (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

For the first time, a tool is available on the player's desktop, which provides customized information about online casino and poker rooms.

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Betting on Video Ringtones (TechNewsWorld.com)

The idea for his new startup came to Jon Medved two years ago at London's Heathrow Airport when he was trying to reach the Hertz call center. While waiting on hold, the Israeli venture capitalist was forced to listen to audio ads from Hertz about the various cars available. It suddenly struck Medved that it would be far more effective for Hertz to serve up images or even videos of cars.

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Raising The Stakes: New Gambling Laws (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)

Bookmakers, casinos and betting websites can advertise on television and radio for the first time as part of an overhaul of gambling laws.

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Is the British Gambling Regulation Act a Losing Bet? (Online Poker News)

It is doubtful whether the new British Gambling Regulation Act will acheive all the goals that it set out for itself. Here are a few problems with the act as well as a few viable solutions.

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Companies bite into Net surfing (Rocky Mountain News)

Most employees would never consider standing in their boss's office to gaze at an adult magazine or sit at their desk to deal a hand of poker.

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Phone makers and Internet companies competing more on each other's turf (International Herald Tribune)

Nokia used to be just a cellphone maker. Google used to be just an Internet company. Now Nokia wants to be an Internet company and Google, according to rampant speculation among bloggers and technology analysts, may be about to enter the mobile phone fray.

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A Yoigo Weekend

I've been in Spain for a couple of days and I am glad that a number of people have told me about Yoigo, a new mobile operator in Spain,  which offers Internet access via Prepaid SIMs. So here's a report from my weekend with Yoigo and Madrid:

How To Get The SIM Card

Once in Madrid the first mission was to get a SIM card. According to the Wiki, Yoigo SIM cards are sold in "The Phonehouse" shops. So before my departure I checked the web page and located the shop closest to my hotel. Buying the SIM card only took a couple of minutes. The SIM cost 20 euros and included 20  worth in phone calls and Internet connectivity. The price per day for Internet connectivity is 1.20 (1.36 with taxes) for 2G and 3G access. It doesn't sound like a lot but if used every day it amounts to about 40 a month which is on par with what other operators offer as well. However, charing daily certainly offers the door to new market segments.

Some people reported that Yoigo only covers a few cities with 3G so far, but Madrid was fortunately part of the list.

Mobile Phone And Notebook Use

The first megabyte is billed by the kilobyte and all data traffic afterwards during that day is free. After each data session or phone call a USSD message reports usage and remaining credit. The picture on the left shows the message which reports a cost of 0.00 of a data session established after the first megabyte has been used. Previous reports were not quite clear if Yoigo requires the use of a proxy and otherwise blocks all other ports or if the connection is open and other services like eMail, etc. can be used as well. I can definitely confirm that the connection is open and I used the SIM for both web browsing, eMail and Shozu with the mobile phone and with the notebok to browse the web, check my eMails, Yahoo messenger, for IPSec VPN connections, etc.

Network Performance

Yoigo does not seem to have 3.5G HSDPA yet, as my phone just established plain UMTS 3G connections. While 3G comes nowhere near 3.5G HSDPA speeds, it's nevertheless fast enough for most activities (384 kbit/s which equals about 45 kBytes/s). Unfortunately, Yoigo seems to have similar problems like Wind in Italy since I had a lot of IP layer retransmissions due to 'duplicate acknowledgments" which indicate packet loss. I tried during different times during daytime and also nighttime but the problem persisted. Thus, it's not a busy hour problem. I can also rule out terminal incompatibility as I saw the same behavior with a Motorola V3xx and a Nokia N93 in combination with a notebook. As a consequence web pages take somewhat longer load and file download performance is around 12 kByte/s instead of 45 kByte/s. Throughput peaks were at around 45 kBytes/s which indicates I got a 384 kbit/s bearer, while the low overall throughput is caused by the frequent retransmissions. The second picture on the left shows a pretty disastrous throughput graph of a file download.

I can't say if this is a temporary problem or not since I've only been in Spain for a couple of days. If I lived in Spain, however, and the problem persisted it would definitely make me go to another operator. So I hope Yoigo takes a closer look and fixes the issue. If you like Wireshark traces of the issue, let me know :-)

Summary

Despite the less than optimal performance I was quite happy with my Yoigo weekend experience in Madrid. In total I transferred about 60 MB during 4 days which is not much, but I have been on vacation after all :-) There are still about 13 of the initial 20 left on the SIM card which will probably be eaten up by the 6 per month minimum usage fees over the coming months. However, I hope that the SIM stays active till next February when I will probably come back to Spain for the Mobile World Congress (formerly the 3GSMWorldCongress) in Barcelona. Until then I hope Yogio will also have upgraded to HSDPA.

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[Source: Martin's Mobile Technology Page]

Pulling Gambling's Lever (The Tampa Tribune)

TALLAHASSEE - They are symbols of Florida, splashed across ads, brochures and Web sites touting one of the world's premier vacation destinations: Theme parks. Beaches. Golf courses.

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Gambling players must learn to deal with two years inside (Guardian Unlimited)

Professional sports players have been warned that they face two-year jail sentences if they break new laws that come into force under the Gambling Act today.

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Nokia's Ovi: Let's See How The Key Looks Like

This weeks announcement by Nokia of the launch Ovi (Finish for 'door') to bundle and extend their mobile services has certainly caught the attention of a couple of people in the industry, even though many saw it coming for a while. For now the announcement did not go into the details of the who, when, where and what but that's certainly going to change in the next months. I think it is a smart move that comes at the right time. Networks, devices, price plans and applications are close to having reached a level of maturity in many countries to offer an easy, affordable and fun way for people to extend their reach and to discover the world in new ways with the mobile Internet.

Nokia's Advantages Over Network Operators

Nokia has a number of advantages when it comes to mobile services over network operators. First, they develop the devices that the services run on themselves. Thus they don't suffer from the fracture network operators have to deal with since their strategy is that the services they offer must run on devices of different manufacturers. Take a look at Vodafone Live! for example and the constant struggle to make the menu structure, icons, etc. of phones of different manufacturers look alike. On top, Nokia has a great mobile platform with S60 that is far more capable than the common minimum denomiator of a multi vendor terminal approach. This makes it a lot easier to develop compelling and easy to use services such as NokiaMaps, which will become a part of Ovi.

Beyond the software platform, Nokia has launched great mobile phone hardware in the past 18 months with their N-series and E-series product categories. Most of these devices now include Wifi which I think is key to delivering services independently of a mobile operator. With Wifi the mobile phone, or rather the 'multimedia computer' to use a Nokia term, easily integrates into the users home and office environment.  The devices now also include a SIP client which (I think) can become active automatically when the correct WLAN is detected which again circumvents the mobile network operators monopoly and gives users more choice. Nokia didn't say if VoIP will be part of Ovi but I think it would be a smart move for reasons discussed further below. Integrating into the users home and office environment with Wifi will go far beyond VoIP in future though, as first attempts with UPnP and the Nokia Mobile Web Server already demonstrate today. With the Wifi integration the device can interact with other local devices such as the TV, the computer, the hifi stereo, the network storage, etc. which is not possible at all in a 3G only strategy. Nokia's cooperation with Microsoft might help further develop this opportunity in the future, too, if Microsoft is willing to cooperate despite their own ambitions with their Microsoft Mobile (Pocket PC) OS.

Economy of scale is also very important. Again, this is an advantage for Nokia since their platform embraces the Internet and can thus be available anytime anywhere. This is also a great tie-in with Wifi integration as some services might only be usable in some countries with still high 3G prices via Wifi at home due to the large amount of data that needs to be transferred (e.g. song downloads). Also, for travelers like me who are used to changing SIM cards several times a month, access to services is independent of operator and place. Mobile network operators on the other hand continue to struggle to recover their investments into their service portals and device adaptations since their user base is considerably smaller. Also, I think their innovation cycles must be a lot longer than what Nokia can do with Ovi since Nokia has to do operator specific adaptations of their software for a myriad of different operators which surely has a huge impact on number of people required and turnaround times.

I think Ovi comes a the right time because 2007 is definitely the year in which the mobile Internet has finally become affordable in many countries. On top, mobile Internet access is now also possible via pre-paid SIM cards in many countries. Early adopters like young people, students, hi-tech travelers etc. have waited for this for years. For Nokia this means that they no longer have to necessarily partner with mobile operators to deliver their services. Users can use pre-paid SIMs or Wifi at home. Excellent and almost unheard of only one and a half years ago! If I were Nokia, I would consider selling such prepaid offers in Nokia stores and on the web as a further kick-starter for devices and services.

The Bitpipe Clash

Inevitably this course brings Nokia even more head on with mobile network operators than before as many still have an interest on doing services themselves. Some might see the change coming and start partnering with Nokia. '3' has made a similar move a couple of months ago and their X-series brand in essence is a co-operation with Internet service providers such as Skype and Co. With Nokia's Ovi that could be much simpler in the future since an operator would only have to talk to Nokia and not to a myriad of different companies.

How Does The Key Have to Look Like?

I am looking forward very much at how Ovi is going to look like. Having good services is one thing, easy inital configuration is another. Ideally services are both usable from the mobile devices as well as from a PC. It should be possible to configure everything on the PC which is then pushed to the mobile device. Certainly not easy to do in a very very very user friendly way but not impossible. One could for example use SMS push,  Wifi or a plug-in for the Nokia PC suite. Personally I'd prefer web based services with SMS push configuration. No software installation would be required and it would be platform independent (think Windows, Mac OS, Linux,...)

And finally, I hope Nokia will stay committed to the S60 motto of 'open to new features' and follow a dual strategy of Ovi as a platform for their services alongside an open mobile OS platform for third party applications that can do the same and other things without the neat integration into one package.

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[Source: Martin's Mobile Technology Page]

Raising Stakes: New Gambling Laws In Force (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)

Casinos, bookmakers and online betting sites are placing their bets on new gambling laws which have come into force.

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Poker rooms across Florida flush with cash under new laws (Sun-Sentinel)

Poker rooms across state hit jackpot with new laws The state dealt a new hand to licensed poker rooms in July and it has meant full houses for many of them.

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Our view: Gambling isn't a win for everyone (Eagle-Tribune Online)

Gambling is all about temptation. There's a lot of money to be made - for some. Others will just as surely go home losers. What holds true for individual gamblers applies to governments as well.

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