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OneSearch, one product Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) keeps highlighting despite through its own troubled times, has got another deal. The web-based version of the mobile search app will power search for Virgin Media's new mobile portal in the UK from December 8. OneSearch already this year inked similar partnerships...
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The Japanese handset market spits out another victim. Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ), the world's largest handset maker, said it would stop selling cellphones in the country, except for its high-end luxury Vertu model, Reuters reports. The news comes days after another report from Japanese newspaper Yomiuri...
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Hundreds of people waited in line last week to get their hands on the Blackberry Storm, the first touchscreen device from Research In Motion. Too bad the warning not to buy it didn't come until today. The highly anticipated phone was expected to be RIM's and Verizon Wireless' response to...
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In UK, a television ad touting the speed of Apple's 3G iPhone has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading consumers, the second time this has happened there. It's easy to see from the commercial itself, created by ad agency TBWA/London, why the watchdog ruled against...
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Is China gearing up to finally issue its long-awaited 3G licenses? Chinese Industry and Information Technology vice minister Xi Guohua said at the China Mobility International Summit today that the "time is now ripe" for the country to issue 3G licenses, reports China Daily . Xi added that...
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-- Orange launching 60 TV channels in France: Orange is gearing up to launch a mobile TV service in France that will feature 60 channels of high-quality video on the carrier's 3G and UMA platform, Unstrung reports . The service is the first of its kind to use 3G and UMA (or Wi-Fi) to offer seamless...
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Vivendi ( EPA: VIV ) Games Mobile Europe is no more. Mobile Entertainment reports that European partners have received "Dear John letters" that effectively ends their contracts with the publisher. A snippet of the letter that ME has seen reads, "I regret to inform you that, following the...
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The use of the mobile internet in Britain grew eight times as fast as the growth of the wired internet, according to the latest study from research firm Nielsen Online. Of course, the actual number of Britons surfing the wired internet is still overwhelmingly higher. The Mobile Media View report found...
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Ad-funded, youth-targeted European mobile virtual network operator Blyk announced yesterday that it had secured a massive $50 million (40 million euros) in funding from its existing backers, which include Goldman Sachs, IFIC and Sofinnova Partners, no mean feat for a company whose business model relies...
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Easou Technology, the Chinese mobile search and advertising firm, has raised $12 million in a third round of funding led by iD Tech Ventures and AXA Private Equity, reports ChinaVenture (via Pacific Epoch ). The three-year old company, which employs 500 staff, is using the investment for product research...
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NTT DoCoMo is developing an Android-based smartphone with an aim to launch it next year, a spokesperson with the Japanese operator confirmed to AFP via Business Standard. The phone could help the carrier compete with its smaller rival Softbank, which has been growing customers at a faster rate since...
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China Mobile, which has more subscribers than there are U.S. residents, is looking replicate the success of the iPhone App store on a much grander scale. At this point, there's probably very few operators and handset manufactures that aren't trying to open up a content and application store on...