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Profit Forecast Raised by Carphone Warehouse

On the back of strong half year profits of £75 million, the Carphone Warehouse has raised their full year earnings forecast and has said they are on track to complete the de-merger of their retail and telecoms firms by March next year reports the Times Online.

Carphone Warehouse if Europe’s largest mobile phone retailer and has stated that underlying earnings per share grew 88% to 6p in the 6 months to the 30th of September and thus has raised their full year earnings forecast to between 14 and 15p per share which is higher than analysts predictions of 13.7p.

The company attributed the strong performance to a rising quantity of broadband customers signing along with a buoyant demand for smartphones such as the Apple iPhone.

The group reported strong half year performance especially from TalkTalk, which added 124,000 new customers in the first half of the year. Shares in Carphone Warehouse have rose 2.7p up to 195p this morning.

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Finland Completes 4G Auction

Finland’s three main mobile operators – Elisa, TeliaSonera and DNA – were all successful in acquiring mobile broadband spectrum in a national auction that closed yesterday. The 4G spectrum licenses are granted for up to 20 years.

The auction – in the 2500-2690MHz band - closed after five days and 27 …
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Keynote Presentation by Motorola Co-CEO Greg Brown at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference

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O2 UK Start Offering HD2 Today

O2 has announced the HTC HD2, which will land in UK today and available for free on certain O2 Pay Monthly plan. The HD2 packs in a massive 4.3-inch touch screen, fast processor and camera with LED flash into a package just 11mm thick and weighing in at 157 grams.

The HTC HD2 is powered by a 1Ghz processor and has built in Wi-Fi, GPS, and FM radio. It has YouTube, Facebook and Twitter integration and a MicroSD card slot for expandable memory, as well as a standard 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth and microUSB charging port.

[via slashgear]

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Virgin Mobile Canada to Offer iPhone in Feb

Over in the great white space of Canada, the iconic iPhone is available on several carriers, much to the annoyance no doubt of those down in the states who still have to put up with a single iPhone carrier. And now Canada is about to get yet another iPhone carrier.

According to an article over on mobile syrup, Virgin Mobile Canada has now officially stated that they will offer the iPhone with the official line being “Virgin Mobile Canada will launch the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online in Canada in the coming months.”

Having said that, as mobile syrup believes Virgin Mobile will launch the iPhone in Canada sometime in February, but they are not letting on yet about expected price plans, but no doubt will probably be around the same area as all the others.

So if you’ve been holding off purchasing the iPhone in Canada for whatever reason, you will now shortly have another carrier option to choose from, and just maybe Virgin Mobile Canada will try to undercut the rest and offer the iPhone at a more attractive price.

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Swype: Faster Texting for Phones

Seattle-based Swype has a novel method for revolutionize typing on mobile devices, reports TechFlash. It’s called “Swyping.” You run a finger across an on-screen mobile keyboard to compose words rather than click on individual keys.

The self-funded company just announced that the Swype technology will be featured on the …
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Altoona Deploys Citywide Wireless Network from Motorola to Help Better Protect the Public

Innovative mesh wide area network provides fire, police and public works departments with reliable wireless broadband connectivity for voice, video and data applications

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Verizon Wireless Goes Rugged With The Casio G’zOne Rock

Verizon Wireless and CASIO today introduced the new Casio G’zOne (pronounced Jeez_wun) Rock, comes with 2 megapixel camera, LED light, bluetooth, microSD card slot and Triple Sensor technology for Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset and Tides software. The CASIO G’zOne Rock is available now for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

Lifestyle features:

• Earth Compass – functions as a standard compass; GPS shows the distance from and directions to over 40 domestic and worldwide locations
• Walking Counter – measures steps, time, distance, speed and energy consumption Thermometer – shows current temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Astro Calendar – provides the moon’s age and days until a full or new moon
• Sunrise Sunset – shows the current time and position of the sun and times for sunrise and sunset for current, past and future dates; allows you to view times for select major cities; shows the ratio of day and night in numbers and graphs
• Tides – shows the tidal graph for the day; shows the time of ebb and flood tides; shows the time of sunrise and sunset; shows past and future sea tide levels; shows tidal graphs for 100 locations made available by Surfline’s webcams, and GPS will show the nearest location; shows the current tide and the best time for fishing

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A Different Kind of Mobile Phone Leak

If you happen to live in Denmark and you are out shopping and suddenly get caught short and in desperate need of a leak but find you have no change for the public convenience, what is one to do? Whip it out and pee in the nearest doorway perhaps?

Well apparently according to the Copenhagen Post, UNWIRE and Lasepartner City has the answer to that problem with paying for a pee by mobile phone. Yes the future is in SMS pee payments which will still cost the pee-person two Danish Krone.

Apparently there are several urinals in operation in Gråbrødre Torv, Borgergade, and Hans Knudsens Plads and will also cost whatever the user pays their operator to send an SMS. The word is the two companies responsible for this new pee tech are going to collect data over a six month period to see if the deployment of other SMS toilets is worthwhile.

Put a whole new stance on a mobile leak doesn’t it, I suppose if you do need a leak and have no change it is always another option to desecrating the pavement.

Image via intomobile

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LG Shine II

This minor update to the Shine adds GPS navigation and replaces the joystick with a d-pad, but is otherwise similar. Features of this slim metal slider include 3G data, 2 megapixel camera, video sharing and a memory card slot.

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