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Some U.S. Bank debit card customers now have access to the Visa Mobile application, enabling customers to manage their Visa accounts using mobile devices.
Union officials in the United States are teaming up with their German counterparts in a bid to organize workers at wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.
T-Mobile USA resumed selling Sidekick phones Tuesday, more than a month after a server meltdown at Microsoft Corp. caused contact numbers, pictures and other personal information to disappear from many of the phones.
Americans’ love affairs with mobile phones and the Internet are not contributing factors to an increase in social isolation in the United States, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
T-Mobile Sidekick phones that lost the information stored on them now can at least get the contact lists back.
Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal information they put on the device, including contact numbers, because of a failure of servers that remotely stored the data.
Banking by cell phone is growing in popularity, and the recession may be the reason behind it, experts say, as people "micromanage" their money more than ever before.
T-Mobile USA plans to start selling the first phone from Motorola that uses Google's software on Oct. 19.
T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan to begin charging customers $1.50 per month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail.
Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA said Tuesday they intend to combine their British mobile phone units — shaking up the country's intensely competitive market and forming the country's biggest mobile operator.
Microsoft Corp. is giving its operating system for "smart phones" a new look in time for the holiday shopping season.
China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Thursday its first-half profit rose just 1.4 percent from a year earlier as growth slowed due to competition and an economic slump.
RadioShack Corp. said Wednesday that T-Mobile USA Inc.'s new "Google phone" is now available in its stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
PC maker Dell Inc. is working on a smart phone for China Mobile Ltd., China's biggest cell phone carrier.
T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country, says it added a net 325,000 subscribers in the second quarter, with most of them choosing to prepay rather than sign two-year contracts.
Sprint Nextel Corp. is intensifying its focus on the fast-growing market for prepaid cell phone service with a $483 million deal to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc.
More Americans are accessing the Internet using wireless mobile devices such as smartphones and laptops, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
The end of the line for cattle raised at Elizabeth Poett's spread on the Central Coast used to come at an inland slaughterhouse after a five-hour drive crammed in a trailer with other spooked animals.
Testing of free mobile digital TV for cell phones, netbooks and other on-the-go devices is ramping up in the weeks ahead, and the first devices that can provide such broadcasts should be on store shelves by next year, according to the broadcaster-based group behind the effort.
Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday.
A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls.
Just as radios evolved from hulking home consoles into expected accessories in virtually all cars, so may Wi-Fi Internet access break free to become a commonplace automotive feature. That’s the hope of Autonet Mobile, a company that supplies in-car Wi-Fi routers that let passengers use laptops and other mobile devices in their vehicles.
North Korea has begun limited Internet service for mobile phone users, a government Web site reported, months after launching an advanced network in cooperation with an Egyptian telecommunications company.
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is set to announce Thursday that it is slashing the price of its unlimited calling plan to $50 from $80 per month, a result of fierce competition and price-cutting among second-tier cellular carriers.
Maybe “mobile Web browsing” should be called “mobile Web squinting” considering what it takes to view the Internet using a cell phone. Yet, largely because of Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones such as the BlackBerry and Palm, more users are checking the Internet this way, and the importance of those browsers are growing.
Twitter's New Retweets Work Via SMS TooFirst of all, yes, everyone on Twitter now should have access to the new Retweet functionality. Currently, only Twitter.com and a handful of clients support the new mechanism. But did you know that you can also trigger the new Retweets via SMS?
Google poised to become your phone companyGoogle is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.
Mobiles pimped with My Number vanity digitsAN Australian service provider is giving individuals mobile numbers to match their vain personalities.
'Stripper-mobile' with live dancers raises safety, decency concernsEven the men who hand out "nude girls direct to your room" cards stopped their hawking long enough to do some gawking at the "stripper-mobile" as it rolled down the Strip on Monday night.
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today that it has further strengthened its working relationship with LPTIC (Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company) by signing a multi million Euro contract to deploy the second phase of Eastern Liby …
Ribbit Launches Google Voice ChallengerRibbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions.
Google Releases Voice Light for Any Mobile Number | Epicenter | Wired.comMobile phone users who love their phone number but still want the cool features of Google Voice — including computer translations of voicemail messages — will get their wish Tuesday, as Google announces a light version of its innovative phone service (and a new feature for fu …
The problem with iPhone killers? Here we are again. The hype leading up to a new mobile device is reaching a fever pitch. Motorola's Droid sounds, looks, and by some accounts, is impressive.
Microsoft Launches New Phone Software - NYTimes.comThe New York Times looks at Steve Ballmer's Windows Mobile announcement.
Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There's No Excuse For ThisI really didn't want to beat up on WinMo here, because at this point it just feels tired. But man, come on Microsoft, you're giving me no choice. Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't just a letdown—it barely seems done.
Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints; no Start customizations and stylus still requiredI've had the chance to use both an AT&T HTC Pure and Pharos Traveler 137 running Windows Mobile 6.5 and I have to say Microsoft disappoints me greatly with this release.
Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: It Still Sucks.We went into this review with the full hopes of emerging with a generally positive outlook. Sorry, Windows Mobile 6.5 – it's just not going to happen.
Ex-judge accused of spanking U.S. male inmates in his office and awarding them reduced jail time in return for sex. By London Daily Mail, Foreign Service. 3:37 PM on 05th October 2009. A former judge is facing life in prison after being charged with sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Call halts Craig and Jackman playHugh Jackman and Daniel Craig were in a middle of a performance in a live stage show play, when someone's cellphone, in the audience, started to ring. Hugh Jackman halted, stayed in character, and told the audience member to pick it up! Video included.
Nikkei reports that Willcom, Japan's No.
Zune HD: You call that a browser?Regardless of how you're trying to navigate, the on-screen keyboard seems to require more finger accuracy than the fault-tolerant keyboard on the iPhone (probably because of the smaller screen). The back button is hard to hit--I kept selecting the favorites menu by mistake.
Mobiles and cancer: the plot thickensEvidence is increasing that radiation from handsets presents a cancer hazard, particularly to children and to those who use their phones for more than a decade.
Taxpayers Revolt Vs. Text Tax[Manila, Philippines] Consumer group TXTPower today called on consumers to prepare for a taxpayers' revolt over a new tax to be imposed on text messaging and warned reelectionists in Congress they will pay dearly for making life even harder amid the worldwide economic crisis …
How Much Radiation Does Your Cell Phone Emit?BOSTON -- The radiation from our cell phones has long been suspected of causing a variety of health issues and some devices do emit more radiation than others, according to a review by the Environmental Working Group.
New to apps? A few tips to help you get startedYou have probably heard a lot about this whole app craze, but without having actually downloaded an app, you are not sure where to begin. Fear not! You have come to the right place.
Report: Trio of Japanese handset makers mull merger - FierceWirelessNEC, Hitachi and Casio have entered into talks to merge their mobile phone operations, a move that would create the second largest handset company in Japan after Sharp, according to several reports.
Apple finally enters the world's biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in OctoberMajor Chinese news portal 163.com is reporting [Google machine translation] that Apple has finally signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone 3G to mainland China in October.
If You're Not Seeing Data, You're Not SeeingIt's not possible today, but the emergence of more powerful, media-centric cellphones is accelerating humanity toward this vision of "augmented reality," where data from the network overlays your view of the real world.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networksFriendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report. Only 94 cell phones were fitted with a software that could log the calls and the proximity of users with their friends.
Americans pay 5 times more than Netherlanders for wirelessA new OECD survey highlights the massive disparity in wireless service costs across countries. Americans pay significantly more than their counterparts in Sweden and the Netherlands for mobile broadband.
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