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Reuters - Dutch navigation device maker TomTom is turning competitive pressure to its advantage, selling content and services to the very same mobile phone providers which are eating into its traditional market for satnav devices.


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Reuters - Yahoo Inc has struck a deal to expand the role of its services on cellphones of the world's second-largest handset maker Samsung, as the two battle larger rivals on the wireless market.


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AFP - Yahoo! said Monday it was expanding its partnership with Samsung to put more of its Internet services on mobile phones from the South Korean giant.


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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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AFP - Five mobile operators now own portions of the Netherlands' new 2.6 Gigahertz frequency band, which allows for super-fast broadband, the Dutch telecommunications agency announced Monday.


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NewsFactor - Research In Motion said Monday that the company is enhancing its voice over Wi-Fi calling platform to enable enterprise workers to share a work phone number between a desk phone and a BlackBerry smartphone when placing and receiving business calls. Called BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 (MVS 5), the technology is designed to work in tandem with Cisco Systems' unified communications manager and wireless systems at home, in the office, or available at public hot spots.
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AFP - Four leading Japanese electronics makers said Monday they will team up with top network operator NTT DoCoMo to develop the operating system for its next-generation cellphones, due for launch next year.


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AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on politics and the economy was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from April 7-12. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,001 adults. Interviews were conducted with 701 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.
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NewsFactor - Research In Motion on Monday rolled out two new 3G smartphones. With its BlackBerry Bold 9650 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G, RIM is offering something for both enterprises and consumers.
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NewsFactor - Twitter continues to press forward with improvements to its platform even as the young social-media phenomenon moves toward monetization with advertising opportunities. On Friday, Twitter announced it has acquired a mobile-messaging company called Cloudhopper. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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PC World - At RIM's annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium, the company revealed two new BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and the BlackBerry Bold 9650. The Bold 9650 is headed to Sprint on May 23 while the Pearl 3G will be available on multiple carriers in May. RIM also announced BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5, a voice-over-Wi-Fi service for business users.
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A model demonstrates a Nexus One smartphone, the first mobile phone Google will sell directly to consumers based on its Android platform, after a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Google Inc said it no longer plans to offer a version of its Nexus One smartphone for the Verizon Wireless network and will change its distribution plans in Britain, underscoring the challenges facing the Internet search company as it expands into the mobile phone market.


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PC World - Net neutrality rules proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could upset a complex mobile telecom marketplace and lead to fewer handset choices and fewer smartphone applications, a mobile trade group said Monday.
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The iPhone 3Gs is displayed at an Apple store in 2009. Gizmodo said Monday that police had raided the home of an editor for the gadget blog who published details last week of a secret next-generation iPhone prototype.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - Authorities seized computers, digital cameras, a cell phone and other items from a technology blog editor who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype.


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NewsFactor - If you were hoping to get fixed up with Google's Nexus One on the Verizon Wireless network this week, you're in for some disappointment. But Google, which markets and sells the HTC-made Nexus One, wants you to get its "cousin."
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Macworld.com - Next Mobile Web's free Craigsphone app, an iPhone interface for the popular online classifieds service Craigslist, has been updated to 2.0.
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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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PC World - County Executives of America (CEA), along with mobile broadband company M2Z Networks, has proposed to build a free wireless broadband network across the 700 counties that are members of the trade group.
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AP - Shaw Communications, which provides cable, high-speed Internet and phone services in Canada, said Monday that it plans to roll out a next-generation wireless service.
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AP - Google has scrapped its plan to sell a Nexus One phone that works on Verizon Wireless' network, the most widely used in the U.S.
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