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Alameda, Calif.-based Blaze Mobile says it is launching two services, Blaze Wallet and Blaze Movies. The Blaze Mobile Wallet service lets people check bank accounts, pay bills, make transfers, and provides access to Blaze Movies, which allows people to buy movie tickets up to seven days in advance. The...
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There are four major wireless carriers in the U.S., and all but Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) have a default mobile search provider. Both AT&T ( NYSE: T ) and T-Mobile USA use Yahoo! ( NSDQ: YHOO ) and Sprint ( NYSE: S ) Nextel uses Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ). If Verizon Wireless chooses Yahoo!, that...
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-- HTC: 1 million G1s by end of year: HTC's CEO Peter Chou has upped the ante and is now projecting T-Mobile will sell one million G1s by the end of the year, DigiTimes reports . Last month, Chou predicted HTC would sell 600,000 G1 devices by the end of the year. T-Mobile sales appear to be growing...
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Apple has not only been successful at selling millions of iPhones, but its application storefront has been a runaway hit, too. Launched in July, the App store is available in 60 countries, and is stocked with about 8,000 games, social networking sites, and other reference tools. The number of apps is...
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T-Mobile USA is unveiling its new portal strategy on Thursday, which integrates Yahoo! ( NSDQ: YHOO ) search, and an application storefront similar to the one found on the iPhone. We first reported on this in August . The new portal is being called web2go, and is replacing the company's long-standing...
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It's not all bad news for Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) these days. T-Mobile USA has picked the company's OneSearch platform for its default search engine on mobile phones, InfoWorld reports . The carrier will be placing a OneSearch button on phones under a deal expected to be announced at the Open Mobile...
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T-Mobile is getting deeper into the photo business. The carrier is offering a new service that lets customers email pictures straight from a cellphone to a digital photo frame—but it'll cost them. The frame, which holds a SIM card, sells for $100 at T-Mobile stores. On top of that, customers pay...
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In a rare move, UK pay-TV provider Sky has taken control of its mobile inventory, and will sell mobile ads around its content across T-Mobile and Vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ) portals, to give advertisers a "single buying point on Sky," Tim Hussian, Sky's recently appointed head of mobile, told...
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Over the past few years, the mobile games industry has been been hampered by high royalty costs, distribution difficulties and the costs of supporting a wide number of handsets. But now, there's a renewed sense of optimism. New platforms, such as Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Nokia's...
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This is a bit ironic. T-Mobile USA has turned to AOL ( NYSE: TWX ) to help sell the Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) phone. AdAge.com reports that the carrier is buying 1 billion ad impressions across AOL's Platform-A ad network next week on Monday and Tuesday that will help promote the phone being called the...
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Turns out Barack Obama's campaign wasn't the only one using text messaging during the elections. Wireless subscribers used election day to send them, as well, leading to at least a 10 percent spike above normal, according to three of the top four U.S. carriers. All the carriers extrapolated data...
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T-Mobile International plans to speed past some of its competitors by jumping to a fourth-generation network well before them. CTO Joachim Horn told Unstrung that the carrier will bypass HSPA Evolution and move straight on to Long Term Evolution technology. While there's a clear leapfrog opportunity...