Ben Patterson - Zune users have been able to sync their music and videos over Wi-Fi for years now — not so for patrons of the iPhone or iPod Touch, which can only sync up files via USB tethering. That said, an enterprising developer is looking to change the game when it comes to wireless iPhone and/or iPod Touch syncing … if Apple will let him, that is.
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Ben Patterson - What’s the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to a BlackBerry? For me, it’s Research In Motion’s iconic QWERTY keypad, or at the very least the modified “SureType” keyboard, which crams a couple of letter keys on each number key. So it’s a little jarring to get a load of RIM’s new, pumped-up Pearl 3G — the first BlackBerry ever with a standard alphanumeric keypad, same as on many garden-variety cell phones.
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AP - Qwest Communications International Inc., the nation’s fourth largest phone company, on Tuesday said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 39 percent as customers disconnected traditional landline phones in favor of cell phones.
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AFP - Kuwait’s Zain telecom said on Tuesday it expects to make returns of up to five billion dollars from selling its operations in Africa to India’s Bharti Airtel for 10.7 billion dollars.
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PC World - One of the two new smartphones with Google’s Android mobile operating system that High Tech Computer (HTC) plans to start selling in March isn’t officially billed as an update to Nexus One, but its design is similar and it offers improvements over the Google phone.
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PC World - At Mobile World Congress, T-Mobile USA plans to introduce a USB stick that will run on HSPA+, a high-speed wireless network technology that the operator has built out so far only in Philadelphia.
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AFP - Few French seniors are embracing mobile phones compared to their counterparts in Sweden where nearly all people older than 65 use the technology, while three in four British and US pensioners own handsets, a study said Tuesday.
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AP - Mexican media giant Televisa said Monday it has agreed to buy 30 percent of cell phone carrier Nextel de Mexico for $1.44 billion as part of its plan to offer “quadruple play” — voice, video, Internet and wireless products.
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PC World - Nokia and Intel have become allies in a new clash of the operating systems with the joint creation of MeeGo. MeeGo is an operating system that blurs the line between a robust mobile phone OS and a lightweight netbook OS.
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PC World - Nokia and Intel have become allies in a new clash of the operating systems with the joint creation of MeeGo. MeeGo is an operating system that blurs the line between a robust mobile phone OS and a lightweight netbook OS.
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