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- iPhone Growing
The iPhone is emerging as king of the corporate world as global shipments of smartphones reached a new peak. Defying speculation about a global recession, worldwide smartphone shipments climbed to just shy of 40 million units in the third quarter, according to the latest estimates from Canalys. That means smartphones now represent about 13 percent of the total mobile-phone market, up from 11 percent in the second quarter. - Texting While Driving
Tapping out text messages on a cell phone while driving is dangerous, the American Medical Association agreed on Monday, and supported state legislation to ban it.
The group, which represents about 240,000 U.S. physicians, voted to lend its weight to laws that would make it easier for police to pull over drivers who are doing it. - Cell Phone Tickets
Forget e-tickets. Going paperless is the next wrinkle in air travel as American Airlines tests mobile boarding passes at OHare International Airport.
Travelers on American can flash a bar code on their cell phone screens to board flights and get through security checkpoints at OHare using new technology rolled out Thursday.
To use the feature, passengers must have an active e-mail address and an Internet-enabled mobile device to which their boarding pass and a 2-D bar code can be sent.
complete article - Telecom Carrier Settings Updated
We have made an effort to update many of the Telecom carrier settings see the updates for SNPP, WCTP, TAP and SMTP settings. Let us know if you have any suggested additions. - Verizon Must Sell Assets in Alltel Deal
The Justice Department on Thursday effectively gave Verizon Wireless the go-ahead to buy Alltel Corp. in a $28 billion deal that would create the nations largest wireless carrier.
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Britains Vodafone Group PLC, already has agreed to the governments condition that it sell assets in 22 states.
complete article - RIM Application Store
Research in Motion is coming online with an application store uniquely its own. On Tuesday, RIM unveiled two distribution initiatives for BlackBerry smartphone applications at its annual developer conference: A new online application store and a new on-device application center that opens up BlackBerrys millions of users to developers vying for an audience.
RIM said it plans to launch the BlackBerry application store in March 2009, giving its users a one-stop shop for compatible applications and a user-friendly way to manage upgrades and purchases.
complete article - Texts Tackle HIV in South Africa
The popularity of mobile phones in South Africa is helping to tackle HIV and AIDS in the nation.
Project Masiluleke will send one million free text messages a day to push people to be tested and treated.
Approximately 350,000 people die of AIDS related diseases in the country every year.
Trials of the system showed that calls to counselors at the National AIDS helpline in Johannesburg increased by 200% when messages were broadcast.
complete article - Tracking Terrorists Using Mobile Phones
Taliban insurgents said Tuesday they had told mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the day in the Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, saying signals help track insurgent fighters.
The warning comes on top of a Taliban order earlier this year for phone operators to turn off their networks throughout the country at night.
complete article - DriveAssist Prevents Calls While Driving
A Canadian company has unveiled software crafted to prevent people, particularly mobile device-loving teenagers, from making telephone calls or text-messaging while driving.
Aegis Mobility describes DriveAssist as advanced call management technology that essentially creates virtual personal secretaries to intercept calls or text messages intended for mobile telephones in moving cars.
DriveAssist software detects when phones are moving at automobile speeds and then tells callers that the person they are trying to reach is driving. Callers are invited to leave messages or call-back numbers.
complete article - RIM Touch Screen
Research in Motion the maker of the Blackberry, unveiled its first smartphone with a touch-screen on Wednesday, its answer to the popular Apple iPhone.
The phone, the Blackberry Storm, will be available later this year through Verizon Wireless in the United States and Vodafone in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, the Canadian company said. - Projections for Mobile Phones Sales Are Cut
The global mobile phone market should grow at much slower-than-expected rates next year as consumers put off buying new devices due to deepening economic concerns, according to forecasts from analysts.
While industry executives often say mobile phones are the last thing consumers will give up to save money, analysts are now citing lengthening phone replacement cycles and weakening economies around the world for their weaker sales estimates.
UBS analyst Maynard Um halved his forecast for 2009 global handset growth to 3 percent from 6 percent, pointing to particular weakness in Europe and North America.
complete article - Verizon Looking to Purchase Alltel
Verizon Wireless says it is moving forward with plans to acquire Alltel Corp. for $28.1 billion, although the countrys financial climate has worsened since the companies reached an agreement four months ago.
complete article - T-Mobile Lost Confidential Data
Europes leading telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, admitted Saturday that it has lost confidential data belonging to 17 million T-mobile clients.
The theft, in 2006, which is now subject to a judicial inquiry, involved telephone numbers, dates of birth, addresses and email addresses, subsidiary T-Mobile said in a statement.
complete article - Cell Phone Popularity in Europe
A growing number of Europeans do not bother to buy landline telephone service in their homes, relying instead on their cell phones, the European Commission said Thursday.
Cell phones, which first outnumbered human beings in Europe in 2006, did that by an even greater margin in 2007: nearly 112 phones for every 100 people, the EU executive body said.
One reason is that monthly line rental for fixed phones costs more on average than a prepaid mobile phone package.
complete article - RIM TouchScreen
Research In Motion is preparing to launch the long anticipated touch-screen version of its BlackBerry smartphone, according to an official promotion e-mail from U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless .
RIM Touchscreen - G1 Phone Game Changer
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