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Article | 26/05/2009 Mobile phone location technology fights card fraud
Ericsson is courting major banks with a security service the company thinks could cut down on credit card fraud as well as eliminate an inconvenience ...
Article | 26/05/2009 Vodafone, 3 reassure customers on pricing plans
A merger between Vodafone and 3 in Australia won't the pricing of customers' current mobile plans for at least two years, according to a statement rel...
Article | 23/05/2009 Mobile consumers want greener phones
The results of a recent consumer survey conducted in North America by ABI Research suggests that nearly half of all mobile consumers are "somewhat lik...
Article | 20/05/2009 Nokia cuts logistics, support jobs
Nokia plans to cut approximately 170 employees working in logistics, production management and support, it said on Tuesday.
Article | 15/05/2009 Vodafone kills data-roaming charges for the summer
Vodafone has revealed its customers will be able to send texts and picture messages as well as make phone calls from abroad for the same price as in t...
Article | 15/05/2009 O2 users cut back on calls, new phones
O2 on Thursday announced that the amount of money it made from each UK customer in the past quarter has dipped by 3.6 percent. The company said this r...
Article | 13/05/2009 Nokia readies its own App Store with 20,000 titles
The world's largest handset manufacturer, Nokia, is prepping its long-awaited application store for mobile devices at the end of May. With the new ser...
Article | 6/05/2009 Mobile phone shipments in Philippines take a dip
Mobile phone shipments in the Philippines fell 20% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08) as the economic downturn continued to impact cons...
Article | 5/05/2009 Telstra unveils new mobile user interface
Telstra today announced the launch of a new mobile interface, dubbed the TelstraOne Experience, which will be exclusive to a range of Next G mobile ph...
Article | 5/05/2009 Optus introduces new 'yes' mobile plans for consumers, small businesses
Optus today announced new 'yes' and 'yes' Business GSM mobile plans targeted at consumers and small businesses.
Article | 1/05/2009 Samsung launches UltraTouch mobile phone
Samsung Mobile Australia today announced the launch of its latest "hero" mobile phone, the UltraTouch, which comes equipped with a touch screen and a ...
Article | 1/05/2009 Mobile-phone vendors focus on software as sales drop
Mobile-phone sales continue to be hurt by the faltering economy, so vendors are increasingly looking to software and services to lure buyers of new de...
Article | 30/04/2009 Acer working on several Android devices
Acer is already working on several different devices using Google's Android operating system and software, and plans to launch a smartphone using the ...
Article | 28/04/2009 Samsung unveils its first Google phone
Samsung Electronics became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android software.
Article | 24/04/2009 CTIA backs universal cell-phone charger
CTIA, the main industry association for U.S. mobile operators, has put its weight behind an initiative calling for a universal cell-phone charger.