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3 announced X-Series pricing. For just 5 pounds per month you can make unlimited Skype calls. Question is though whether it also includes the related voice minutes’ cost - as servic

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GSM carriers are to push NFC.
Nokia provides a mobile network solution that lets operators control the use of network resources by bandwidth hungry P2P applications.
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Singapore nationwide Wi-Fi initiative started.
3 announced unlimited data plans while actively promoting using bandwidth-hungry applications like Skype and Sling. Full

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Flash storage embedded into SIMs as well as related functionality that uses software built-in into flash and SIMs starts to reach critical mass - and leaders are Sandisk/msystems an

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Mobile voice and data is promised to be soon available while in-flight.
Cingular launched universal mobile music store.
Motorola intends to open-source J2ME while ”’M

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Wireless Data News Blog

© Leonid Iakovlev, Helsinki, 2006
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Research In Motion decouples push e-mail from application server and allows just to serve enterprise mobile applications.
3ple-Media offers integrated suite that combines MMS

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USSD-based applications are still alive - and are quite popular in developing countries playing the long-promised role of poor man Internet.
NEC offers i-Mode out-of-the-box portal

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Sony provides a free US-wide Wi-Fi access to Mylo users - and that can really push the thing as a convenient Net communication device. Vendors of similar wireless-enabled PDAs should foll

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Telenor in cooperation with Norwegian banking industry has introduced a country-wide BankID service that allows to provide electronic proof of identity with mobile phone and access related ser…

Sony Reader is finally out - marking the important event of actual first mass availability of a device for digital content viewing simultaneously with a real marketplace to buy this content fr..

RIM expands offerings in India, starts in Japan and offers a nice GPS-enabled handset in USA. FitSense Technology offers small and durable body wireless sensors enabling potentially..

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There is a real torrent of news during this CTIA week - and a lot of them are quite interesting. That’s why I didn’t mark any of them as more important this time - to encourage a reader t

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Mobile advertising is predicted to be big already this year.
Toronto goes wireless - and for now WiFi service is free.
RIM is now deeply into consumer mobile terminals.
Nokia…