Archive | February, 2008

China Mobile in LTE camp

China Mobile (363.33 million subscribers in December 2007), the largest mobile operator in the world, announced it would be lending support to LTE as next generation cellular standard. China Mobile will join Vodafone‘s (252.3 million subscribers in December 2007) and Verizon Wireless‘ (63.7 million subscribers in September 2007) LTE technology trial. The announcement places the [...]

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The unified social address book is the new browser

Following Jaiku, Zyb, Fidgt, Plaxo, Fring and others, Yahoo! launched OneConnect, a content aggregator for mobile phones (client). The great thing is that they are aggregating more communication tools and networks than any other application announced or released until now — address book, email, IM, text messaging (SMS) and Internet social networking applications (Bebo, Dopplr, [...]

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Microsoft acquiring Danger

Picking up the pieces that Andy Rubin and Joe Britt dropped… after WebTV (now MSN TV) Microsoft picked up Danger. Applications on Danger-powered handsets include HTML Web browsing, instant messaging, games, multimedia, social networking, Web e-mail and personal information management applications. What better way to compete with Android than nabbing the company that Android founder [...]

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