BlackBerry problems hit four continents

“Millions of BlackBerry customers across four continents are without electronic mail, messaging and browsing service on their smartphones after a series of failures in Research In Motion’s private network.”

Nokia pulls hack on free medicine in most markets

“The world’s circus tent cellular telephone maker, Nokia, is termination its bundling of free people medicine downloads with cellphones in 27 countries, where it has gained little traction since its 2008 launching.”

RIM takes on iPad

“BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion, a late newbie in the booming tab market, volition take on Apple’s iPad with competitive pricing of its rival Playbook device.”

Sprint Expected to Ship Almost Three Million 4G Phones in 2010

Smartphones’ ever-growing capabilities step-up the pressure to offer 4G carrying into action. When 3G was introduced there was no need for great haste in deploying compatible handsets, but mobile’s new more ambitious range of functions is drive requirement to roll out 4G (and 4G smartphones) more quickly.

According to ABI Research director Prince Philip Solis, “Sprint’s 4G smartphone gross sales have been partially responsible for its recent contributor emergence. ABI Research forecasts that the attack aircraft carrier

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RIM starts new Mideast services after escaping UAE ban

“Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion has launched new Middle Orient services after resolution a rowing with the United Arabian Emirates over information security measures.

The services include e-governing and online banking defrayal for consumers in the Middle East, Co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie told reporters at an industry event in the UAE emirate of Dubai on Monday.”

Flash on Android limited to high-remainder Android phones

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Can’t wait to get Flash 10.1 on your smartphone? Well, the causa whitethorn not be in your favor if you’re carrying around a first base multiplication Android phone. Even if your device is still up to snuff today, it’s said that the new variant of flash volition only support specific processors.

Last workweek at Mobile World Congress, Edgar Douglas Adrian Ludwig, Adobe employee, stated that Flash 10.1 volition tally on phones with ARM Cortex-A8 (in the

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SRS announces SRS TruVoice Voice Suite for mobile devices

SRS Labs announced SRS TruVoice at the CES – a rooms of voice technologies designed for mobile phones, portable media devices, Bluetooth headphones and gambling consoles. I’m not an audio tech expert, but I tin passing along the TruVoice key features, which include:

Improved part intelligibility on the near-remainder of voice communication theory Active ambient noise management organization Enhanced boilersuit volume amplification of other parties’ part in real number-time Modular designing which makes it simple

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Opera: State of the Mobile River Web November 2009: 41.7 million users viewed 18.8 billion pages

Opera, the web browser seller based in Norway, has released their latest “State of the Mobile River Web” reputation, based on Opera Mini usage. The big top 10 countries using Opera Mini are: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Indonesia, Republic of India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam War and Republic of Poland. In November 2009 Opera Mini had 41.7 million users who viewed 18.8 1000000000 pages and consumed 271.8 terabytes of

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deCarta is on board Samsung’s bada to enable location-aware apps for the platform

deCarta, the location-based services troupe which we know already rich person some seafaring trade in situation with LG, announced a partnership with the second base large electronics maker in Korea – Samsung, to provide developers with location geoservices on the new bada platforms.

As a result, developers volition be able to add maps, location-based search and routing instructions to any application designed for bada-enabled mobile phones. In that sense, you could think of deCarta’s offering

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Comverse Teams Up with Sony Ericsson on Visual Voicemail

Comverse today announced that it is workings with mobile handset maker Sony Ericsson to provide visual voicemail on its handsets for residential and business users. With visual voicemail, voicemail messages are displayed in an in-box, whose electronic mail-like interface provides such keystone information as date, time, duration of message, caller number and personal identity, when available. Users tin CAT scan the messages, click to hear new and previously heard messages in any order, and then reply, forward,

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