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Monday, September 06, 2010
Nokia plans to renew its line of smartphones with the introduction of its new flagship model E7 as well as the N8 model next week.
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LG is showcasing at IFA 2010 a new technology that makes it possible to share multimedia files on LG?s upcoming LG Optimus 7 and all DLNA compliant digital devices at the touch of a finger.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Movie server maker Kaleidescape today announced the
availability of a free app for iPhone that simplifies the
movie-shopping experience for Kaleidescape customers.
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 has finally released to
manufacturing (RTM). While the final integration of Windows
Phone 7 with Microsoft's partners? hardware, software, and
networks is underway, the work Windows Phone team internal
engineering team is largely complete.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Motorola today introduced MILESTONE 2 enhanced with MOTOBLUR.
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Developers who are members of Palm's Early Access program can now download the first early access release of webOS 2.0.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Beginning today, the Samsung Epic 4G, America?s first 4G-capable phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and Super AMOLED touchscreen, is available in all Sprint retail channels, including Sprint.com, Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and U.S. retail partners, RadioShack, Best Buy and Walmart.
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Today Microsoft announced the first official Bing for Mobile
Android App available to Verizon customers.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
The Alpha release of the next major version of Fennec is now available for Android and Nokia N900 users to download and test.
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Infineon Technologies AG and Intel have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Infineon's Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel in a cash transaction valued at approximately US Dollar 1.4 billion.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Netflix today announced the availability of its free Netflix App for iPhone and iPod touch, allowing Netflix members on plans starting at just $8.99 a month to instantly watch a selection of TV episodes and movies streamed to their iPhone or iPod touch at no additional cost.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Intel, Nokia and the University of Oulu officially opened the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center today. It will employ about two dozen R&D professionals and become the latest member of Intel's European Research Network, Intel Labs Europe.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Nokia today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Motally Inc., a privately-held US-based company.
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Sony has developed the 'single wire interface technology', a hybrid transmission technology which facilitates both data and power transmissions through a single cable.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Built on Android 2.2 with Adobe Flash Player 10.1, DROID 2 Comes Equipped with More Power, More Speed and an Improved QWERTY Keyboard
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
RIM launches the BlackBerry Torch 9800 a premium smartphone features a capacitive touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and the new BlackBerry 6 operating system, which includes a powerful WebKit browser.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba today announced that they have concluded a definitive agreement to merge their mobile phone businesses, for which the companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on June 17, 2010.
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Blackberry is expected to unveil next week the new BlackBerry 9800 touchscreen that could effectively with Apple's iPhone and other smartphones.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
LG Electronics today announced the opening of an all-new LG Application Store, with more than twice as many apps targeting users of both feature phones and smartphones in 33 countries.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Apple's iPhone 4 faces much stiffer competition than its predecessors.
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Fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc today announced
it has entered into a licensing agreement with NTT DOCOMO,
INC. regarding "LTE-PF," a mobile-terminal platform based on
Long Term Evolution (LTE).
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Apple has postponed the release ot its white iPhone 4 until later this year, the company said on Friday, conceding that making the model has proven surprisingly difficult.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Sharp will start shipments of its new STX-2 (FX) quick messaging phone to AT&T in the United States. FX supports AT&T Mobile TV powered by MediaFLO, a multimedia broadcasting service for mobile handsets.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
SanDisk is partnering with Tiesto, the world's No.1 DJ, to create a crowd-sourced music video using mobile phone footage from concert audiences around the world.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola today jointly announced that the companies have entered into an agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the majority of Motorola's wireless network infrastructure assets for USD 1.2 billion in cash.
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HTC, Samsung and RIM attacked Apple CEO Steve Jobs today after his effort to convince consumers that iPhone's 4 antenna problem is typically met in many other available smarthpones.
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said that reception problems with the new iPhone 4 have been overblown but apologized to buyers who experienced issues and offered free cases as a fix.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Apple today released iOS 4.0.1 software update for iPhone, which improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display.
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Firefox Home, a free application, is now available for download on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Apple will hold a press conference for Friday to talk about the iPhone 4, as the company continues to deal with fallout from reported reception problems on its popular smartphone.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sr. VP of Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business, Andy Lees today showed Microsoft partners a line of consumer products and services that are connected with one another. He?s also showing off our own Windows Phone 7 and sharing a few updates on features and capabilities.
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Microsoft has released the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta, a near final version of the tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Google released App Inventor, a new tool that makes it easy for anyone - programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students - to create mobile applications for ndroid-powered devices.
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Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. has joined the Open Handset Alliance.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
NTP Incorporated, the company that won a settlement of more than $600 million from the maker of the BlackBerry said Friday it has sued six other makers of phones and phone software.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Samsung is the top handset manufacturer overall with 22.4 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 41.7 percent market share, according to the latest comScore report.
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AT&T Inc. said Wednesday that a software defect in its network is limiting data uploads from the phone in some areas.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Motorola today announced the upcoming availability of Motorola CHARM, a touch screen smartphone that packs a social networking punch with Android 2.1, MOTOBLUR enhancements and a BACKTRACK feature for easy screen navigation.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Renesas Electronics and Nokia are deepening their collaboration by forming a business alliance to develop modem technologies for HSPA+/LTE (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access / Long-Term Evolution) and its evolution.
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Monday, July 05, 2010
LG today announced new "Optimus" smartphones and an Android-based tablet.
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Murata has developed a field-coupled type of power transmission system capable of supplying power to devices wirelessly.
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Apple on Friday denied that the iPhone 4 had a faulty antenna, claiming that the problem was the software that determines how many signal bars to display.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
LG Electronics upgraded its Application Store, targeting users of both feature phones and smartphones in 33 countries.
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Apple has been sued by iPhone customers in at least three complaints related to antenna problems on its newest iPhone 4 model.
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HP today announced it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash.
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Microsoft does not plan to sell its "Kin" phones in Europe this Fall, while it will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current phones, the company said today.
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Mozilla submitted its new iPhone app, Firefox Home, to the Apple App Store.
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Yahoo today expanded the reach of its services with the immediate availability of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger apps for Android as well as a Yahoo Search Widget for Android.
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Qualcomm Incorporated has joined forces with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to establish the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio, a research and design center aimed at pioneering new advancements in
mobile gaming and interactive media.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Ricoh today announced an iPhone app with Flick File functionality that connects iPhone users with its visual online storage service "quanp," currently in beta.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Google today released a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help users view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files they have uploaded to their documents list, without needing to download the file.
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Amazon.com, Inc. updated the Kindle for iPad and Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch, which allows readers to enjoy embedded video and audio clips in Kindle books.
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Apple's new iPhone 4 costs almost $20 more to make than its
predecessor, the iPhone 3GS, but the device will still help
the company continue to rack up high profits, the research
group iSuppli said Monday.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Apple claims that it has sold over 1.7 million of its iPhone 4 through Saturday, June 26, just three days after its launch on June 24.
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T-Mobile USA brings Samsung 'Vibrant' and Sprint introduces the 'Epic 4G' Galaxy S smartphones to the U.S. market.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of Apple's smart phones that use image processing technology ver a patent infringement complaint filed by computer graphics firm S3 Graphics.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Research firm iSupply compares the pros and cons of Android and iPhone mobile softwarte platforms and predicts that
Android will overtake Apple in smart phone lead in the years to come.
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UBM TechInsights has dissecting the latest handset from Apple, and what we found was both interesting and surprising at the same time.
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The new iPhone's signal reception can be weakened if you don't hold it correctly. That's what Apple told Engadget Thursday.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Apple said Wednesday that the white version, which had been scheduled to go on sale on Thursday, will be delayed until next month because of manufacturing difficulties.
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Verizon Wireless and Motorola today unveiled the Android-based DROID X by Motorola, which will debut in the U.S. on July 15.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Apple's next-generation iPhone sports chips from Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology and STMicroelectronics, according to a disassembly analysis by technology firm iFixit.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Microsoft launched Windows Live Messenger for iPhone in the US, Canada, UK, and France.
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Adobe today released the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to mobile the compamy's platform partners.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Apple is offering iPhone and iPod touch users to download the newest version of its mobile operating system, called iOS 4.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
AT&T and Samsung today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Captivate, a Galaxy S smartphone.
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Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft is making several key investments in the enterprise handheld device market, including the new Windows Embedded Handheld brand.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba Corporation announced that today they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to merge their mobile phone businesses.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Apple and its carries partner AT&T today admitted that they cannot cover the high demand for the new iPhone 4 devices, suspending sales of the device before its June 24 debut.
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Sony Ericsson will update its Xperia collection later this year with Android 2.1 models, announced the new Xperia X8, the affordable Sony Ericsson Cedar model and the Sony Ericsson Yendo with Walkman, the first full touch Walkman phone.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Today, the Unified Testing Initiative (UTI), home to the Java Verified program, announced that UTI has become an independent organization.
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Skype announced today the availability of Skype on three Sony Ericsson smartphones based on the Symbian platform.
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Following the global debut of the Galaxy S, Samsung will be showcasing a lineup of devices based on Android, Windows Mobile, and bada at CommunicAsia 2010 in Singapore from June 15 to June 18.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation allegations made by HTC Corp that Apple infringes its technology, as HTC seeks to win a ban on the U.S. sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Motorola and Research In Motion have entered into a Settlement and License Agreement which ends all outstanding worldwide litigation between the two companies.
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Toshiba and Fujitsu are reportedly in talks toward integrating their mobile phone businesses.
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The technology battle between Apple and Google has expanded to the cell phone display market, with the iPhone 4's new retina display taking on the Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) screen used in the Google Nexus One, according to iSuppli Corp.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Google said on Wednesday recent changes to Apple's developers agreement would cripple Google's advertising tools for the iPhone, creating "artificial" barriers to competition.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
UBM TechInsights discovered that the just-released Samsung Wave S8500 features the same 1 GHz ARM CORTEX A8 core as that found in the very popular Apple iPad as well as the new iPhone.
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Monday, June 07, 2010
As it was widely expected, Apple today introduced the newest version of its iPhone, hoping to stay a step ahead of a growing cast of rivals like Google in smartphone market.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco and the world expects to learn from him news about the next generation iPhone.
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Friday, June 04, 2010
LG today announced the upcoming availability of three new phones from LG for T-Mobile customers, a first-time collaboration between the two companies.
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
At a media conference held today in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Nokia unveiled its latest Cseries mobile phones with three new products under the Nokia C1 name, as well as the new dual-SIM Nokia C2 which will follow at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
At Computex Taipei 2010 today, Telegent Systems and Innocomm announced the introduction of the first 3.5G touchscreen smartphone based on the Android operating system to incorporate Telegent mobile TV technology.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Renesas has joined the Symbian Foundation, bringing its mobile chipset technologies to the Symbian ecosystem.
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Garmin-Asus' newest Android smartphone offers navigation that brings people and places together.
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Skype today released the new version of its iPhone application.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Mozilla's team has been working on an application for the iPhone based on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. The app is called Firefox Home, and it gives iPhone users instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Nokia's Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation service from Nokia will deliver more relevant information on more points of interest.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Adobe Reader for Android is available today in the Android Market, Adobe announced last week.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Samsung today announced the commercial availability of the Samsung Wave (Model: S8500) in European countries, including Germany, France and the UK.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Ricoh today launched the Ricoh HotSpot Printing application (app) for BlackBerry smartphones.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
LG will release a premium cell phone in collaboration with an Italian luxury fashion house, Gianni Versace S.p.A., and French handset maker and distributor ModeLabs Group SA.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17 per cent increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today 20 new handsets for launch on or after May 21, including 17 models in the four main series of FOMA 3G handsets - docomo STYLE series, docomo PRIME series, docomo SMART series and docomo PRO series - plus three docomo Smartphone models.
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Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming this summer.
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Fujitsu today announced that its new docomo STYLE series F-07B mobile phone will be available from NTT DOCOMO, Inc. in Japan beginning May 21, 2010.
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Fujitsu Components America today released a durable, Film-Film resistive touch panel series targeting mobile applications.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple in the first quarter rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place, according to iSupply.
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