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Sprint to Lease More Network Capacity

Facing a prolonged decline in its consumer business, mobile carrier is looking to boost its sale of network access to device makers such as Amazon and Garmin.
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Motorola Unloads Mobile Email Unit

Troubled cell phone maker takes itself out of RIM’s line of fire by selling Good Technology to Visto, a VC-backed mobile email company.
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4 Billion Served as Nokia Shrinks

While the mobile industry celebrates a new growth milestone, handset leader slashes away in preparation for a tough 2009.
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Google Locates Mobile Latitude

Can Google jumpstart the sluggish location-based services market in the throes of a global recession?
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Nokia Takes Jarring Profit Fall

Mobile phone giant blames the recession but analysts say many of the company’s problems are self-inflicted.
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DISH Network Unwraps Slingbox DVR

The combination of time-shifting, HDTV, and place-shifting in the same box give DISH, EchoStar, and Sling Media a leg up in the race to control TV on-the-go.
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A Startup’s Recession Survival Guide

After the second major economic implosion in less than a decade, companies scramble to stay alive.
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Will Sprint Modem Save Mobile WiMAX?

The carrier’s modem that does both 3G and WiMAX will appeal to a small segment of the business market and do little to stave off the onslaught of LTE, analyst says.
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Best Buy, Handango Team on Mobile Apps

Deal opens new avenue of distribution for developers and opportunity for another app store to raise its profile in the emerging mobile applications market.
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Will Wal-Mart Kill iPhone’s Appeal?

Apple’s still-unconfirmed move to market a $99 iPhone through Wal-Mart is either foolhardy or brilliant. Remember the RAZR was once the coolest phone in the room.
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Vodafone Nabs Wayfinder for $30M

Carrier pays a steep premium for developer of the mobile killer app of the moment.
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Nokia Lowers Market Forecast Again

Handset maker says the effects of recession are worsening and warns that 2009 looks bad.
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Recession To Stall Nokia’s U.S. Invasion

Credit crunch will postpone U.S. carrier plans to build new networks friendly to European phone makers while Apple, RIM, and even Motorola are at the border.
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Nokia Dials In Microsoft Exchange

Handset giant moves on collision course with RIM as it incorporates Microsoft Exchange into 80 million smartphones.
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Computing in a Mobile Cloud

It’s back to the future for frustrated mobile app developers as they adopt cloud computing to bypass mobile bandwidth and handset problems.
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Verizon Wireless, Rhapsody Make Mobile Music

After a number of spectacular failures is mobile music finally ready for the mass market?
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Nokia to Acquire Plazes for Location Services

Cell phone giant will acquire its ninth mobile services firm in the last two and a half years as it fuels its transformation into a full-service mobile player.
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Verizon Wireless to Acquire Alltel

The two U.S. mobile carriers would join to become No. 1 as the financial climate and Verizon’s recent spectrum purchase bring the long courtship to an end.
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Google Chases Yahoo, Microsoft in Nokia Search

Search king is playing catch-up to rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, which already have mobile application deals with the mobile phone giant.
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Juice Taps $6M From Mobile-Funding Geyser

Juice Wireless' funding comes as roughly $431 million has been shot into 92 mobile social-networking companies in the first three quarters of 2007. Time for a shakeout?
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