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Sierra Wireless today announced five new data cards and USB modems for mobile broadband networks worldwide. The expanded AirCard lineup includes support for the emerging HSPA+ technology standard, which offers download speeds of up to 21 megabits per second (Mbps).
The AirCard USB 308 and USB 309 and the AirCard …
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Pocket-Friendly Phone Will Entice Customers with Its One-Touch Access to Multimedia Features in a Classic Flip Design
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Apple today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store, that’s 500 millions more since July. There are now more than 85,000 apps available, with over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
The first one billion application downloads was done in nine months announced in April, and the second one billion downloads was much faster with more iPhone users in the world.
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The HTC Touch Pro2 on Sprint and T-Mobile commands a price tag of a rather ridiculous $349.99 on contract, but now it looks like Sprint may have realised just how ridiculous that price tag really is.
According to an article over on engmobdev, rumour has it that Sprint is gearing up to lower the price of the Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 to a more acceptable $199 after a mail in rebate.
This move by Sprint would at least bring their HTC Touch Pro2 in line with Verizon’s current pricing of the smartphone, and hopefully if said rumour comes to fact T-Mobile might just follow suit and drop their price for the HTC Touch Pro2 as well.
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Google has responsed to AT&T charges (pdf) that Google’s Voice application discriminates against users in certain, expensive locations.
Google Voice’s goal is to provide consumers with free or low-cost access to as many advanced communications features as possible. In order to do this, Google Voice does restrict certain outbound calls from …
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Motorola marks GPON win as Middleburgh Telephone readies all-fiber network to deliver the highest quality video and broadband experiences available to consumers today
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U.S. retailer J. C. Penney and Cellfire are now offering mobile coupons so that you can download the coupons to your mobile phones and use at JCPenney stores directly. New imaging scanners capable of reading these “2D” barcode coupons have been deployed at point-of-sale registers in 16 JCPenney stores in the Houston metro area.
“We’ve always made it easy for our customers to save money,” said Mike Boylson, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for JCPenney. “These mobile coupons are the ultimate in customer convenience, because there’s no need to clip or carry around a printed coupon, and they can be instantly scanned from a cell phone. It’s another way we’re innovating to enhance the customer’s shopping experience.”
JCPenney will promote this initiative – introduced during National Coupon Month – through Web and mobile advertising, and directly via e-mail and other messaging to members of JCPenney’s JCP Rewards program in the Houston market.
To receive JCPenney coupons, shoppers must be registered with Cellfire and live within the Houston metro area. Cellfire automatically delivers savings directly to consumers on their mobile phones, and provides frequently updated discounts specific to their geographic area.
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Ever since Garmin and Asus joined forces to deliver the nuvifone there has been delay after delay and the Garmin-Asus nuvifone has become the elusive handset, and unless the Garmin-Asus nuvifone breaks cover soon it will probable be a failure.
However, engadget mobile is reporting that the elusive Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 will release to AT&T as of the 4th of October, although there is no mention of which year that 4th of October will be, so lets hope it is next week.
As the Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 has taken so long, here’s a quick spec reminded…tri-dand HSDPA< Bluetooth, 3.2 megapixel camera, and microSD expansion, and apparently will command a $299.99 price tag with a 2 year contract requiring a $30 data plan.
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AT&T has now announced an upgrade to their Instant Messaging Relay service with will now deliver real time communication between callers. AT&T Instant Messaging Relay allows the hearing impaired to use AIM to communicate via an operator over the phone similar to TDD devices.
Now rather than waiting for a relay operator to type out long strings of text, the user now receives real time messages word for word as they are typed, reports engadget mobile.
The exec director of TDI, Claude Stout has said that it may sound like a trivial enhancement to hearing users, but for many hearing impaired callers it delivers and online communications experience which is closer to what hearing people encounter.
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Senate Republicans have ceased efforts to block FCC funding in protest of proposed net neutrality laws after receiving persuasive phone calls from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his staff.
Earlier this week, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said she planned to propose an amendment to an interior appropriations bill …
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