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07/28/2011
International Business Times
Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone OS, code-named Mango, is set to launch this fall, which is around the same time Apple Inc.’s iOS 5 comes. But can Mango be sweeter than Apple iOS 5?
Mango (or Windows Phone 7.5) is expected to give the much-needed boost to Microsoft, whose performance has “gone from very [...]

07/28/2011
New York Times – Online, The
Phone companies have known for some time now that their industry’s carbon footprint and energy use will continue to grow due to the growth of always-on mobile devices, from cell phones to tablets to electric cars to smart meters. Verizon decided that it could use some help and announced Wednesday [...]

07/28/2011
ReadWriteWeb
The new version of the Android Market promised by Google earlier this month has begun rolling out to Android 2.2+ devices in the wild. The first sightings of the updated mobile application were spotted by members on the XDA-Developers forum, who have already extracted the mobile application and made it available to others who just [...]

07/19/2011
PC World
Recent years have seen an explosion in smartphone apps related to health and medicine–the Associated Press estimates that there are already over 17,000 medical apps on the market. Tuesday’s FDA decision, however, will only regulate a small portion of these.
For now the FDA plans to regulate smartphone apps that combine with medical devices [...]

07/20/2011
CNET.com – New York Bureau
Sprint Nextel’s unlimited data plan will eventually face its limits.
Dan Hesse at Sprint headquarters yesterday.
As the only carrier that can now boast of offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of data with no strings attached, Sprint has become a haven for bandwidth hogs. It’s a boon to customer growth and gives [...]

07/20/2011
All Things Digital
With its iPhones and iPads, Apple has led people toward a new way of operating digital devices that relies on direct manipulation of items with finger gestures, not a mouse and scroll bars. App icons are arrayed front and center, not buried deep in a file system or limited to a strip at [...]

07/01/2011
Giga Om
Japan’s KDDI has seen the future of cellular service, and Wi-Fi has a starring role. The mobile operator will build out a Wi-Fi network composed of 100,000 hot spots and a WiMAX overlay that will take traffic off the cellular network when needed and will integrate seamlessly with the carrier’s existing 4G network. Given [...]

07/01/2011
FierceWireless
Via Telecom, a privately held chipset maker based in Taiwan, hopes that its CDMA baseband win in Verizon Wireless’ (NYSE:VZ) LTE-enabled Samsung Droid Charge will help boost its U.S. market position.
The company, which has a fraction of the CDMA baseband market compared with the dominant player, Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), is realistic about its position but [...]

07/01/2011
Reuters
BANGALORE (Reuters) – Nokia Corp. will finally exit the Japanese cellphone market at the end of August, the Nikkei reported.
The Finnish handset manufacturer had stopped supplying cell phones to Japanese carriers in 2008, according to the report.
Nokia will shut high-end Vertu handset stores in Tokyo’s Shibuya and Ginza districts by the end of [...]

07/01/2011
Penn-Olson
To encourage entrepreneurship in the country, Indonesian telco giant Bakrie Telecom has launched a mobile app named Usahaku especially for Esia phones. Usahaku means “My Efforts”, and is designed to help Indonesians, especially lower-middle income groups, to earn revenue through mobile technology.
In the Usahaku app there’s the “Jual Pulsa” (Sell Phone Credits) feature that [...]