News: Mobile

• Mobile group to lead expansion of 3G beyond phones
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 20 2008
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  The GSM Association and several partners, including Vodafone and Huawei Technologies, plan to promote the use of 3G (third-generation) technology in cameras, cars and other devices that could link ...

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• New handsets needed for Microsoft's mobile IE6
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 20 2008
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  Microsoft faces a tough sell with its latest mobile browser, Internet Explorer 6, since consumers will need to buy more powerful handsets to run it. Microsoft, which announced plans earlier this ...

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• Group wants to kick start embedded mobile market
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 19 2008
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  • Mobile

  Backed by Huawei Technologies and operators including Telefónica and Vodafone, the GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Embedded Mobile initiative, aiming to bring down prices of 3G modules that ...

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• China Unicom to spend $1.5 billion on 3G next two years
  Fiona Chau
  Nov 19 2008
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  • Mobile

  China Unicom plans to spend 10 billion RMB (US$1.5 billion) over next two years on building and developing its 3G network and business, chairman Chang Xiaobing said Tuesday. Chang said at Mobile ...

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• Nokia says China 3G smartphone to use Symbian OS
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 18 2008
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  The world's largest mobile phone maker says the handset it's developing for China's 3G mobile telecommunications standard, TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), will ...

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• Nokia to launch first 3G handset for China
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 18 2008
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  • Mobile

  Nokia plans to launch a mobile phone based on China's home grown 3G (third-generation) technology standard, TD-SCDMA, in tandem with service provider China Mobile. Nokia's handset will be launched ...

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• India's mobile phone demand to continue growing
  John Ribeiro
  Nov 17 2008
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  India's mobile phone demand is forecast to continue growing next year, despite the global economic slowdown, according to research firm iSuppli. The proposed rollouts in the country of 3G (third ...

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• NTT DoCoMo to launch LTE mobile broadband in 2010
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 17 2008
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  • Mobile

  Japan's largest mobile network operator plans to beef up its wireless data services by introducing LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband in 2010, becoming one of the first companies globally to ...

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• Public-private collaboration to improve supply of AIDS drugs
  Rebecca Wanjiku
  Nov 17 2008
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  A major public-private partnership comprised of Axesstel, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), Dell, the Nairobi Provincial Medical Office, Qualcomm, RTI International and Telkom Kenya is ...

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• IT ushers Next Generation care for roaming nurses
  Darren Pauli
  Nov 16 2008
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  The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) has connected its 1,200 mobile staff on Telstra's Next G mobile network. The RDNS provides nursing and healthcare across Melbourne and its northern suburbs ...

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