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Mobility and Wireless: Breaking News

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    Virgin spam leads to $22,000 fine 18 March, 2010 15:56:00

    Mobile carrier also forced to develop comprehensive training programs
    Virgin Mobile has been fined $22,000 and forced to extensively retrain staff after allegedly spamming customers who had opted out of getting marketing messages.
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    LTE may heat up mobile net neutrality debate 19 March, 2010 05:28:00

    New control mechanisms for LTE and 3G let carriers dole out capacity to applications and users
    Fine-grained network controls that are coming with next-generation mobile technology could make some demanding mobile applications such as video perform better but may also raise net neutrality concerns.
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    Alcatel-Lucent lays groundwork for next-gen mobile services 19 March, 2010 07:29:00

    Alcatel-Lucent's Dynamic Services Controller is designed to let operators offer premuim subscriptions
    Alcatel-Lucent's new Ultimate Wireless Packet Core is designed to let operators get a handle on the current mobile data explosion and offer subscribers more advanced services, the company said on Thursday.
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    Google Maps for Android gets improved user interface 19 March, 2010 07:46:00

    Users with Google's Nexus One phone can now turn the homescreen into a map that updates itself
    Google has released version 4.1 of Google Maps for Android, adding a constantly-updated map wallpaper, tweaking the way search results are displayed and adding a new Latitude widget for tracking your friends.
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    Android gesture search extended to wider market 18 March, 2010 08:09:00

    Users outside the US and those with older handsets will have access to the touch search application
    Google has made its new gesture search application compatible with smartphones based on Android version 1.6, and is also opening it to users outside the U.S., the company's said in a blog post on Tuesday.
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    Windows Phone 7 dumps cut & paste 18 March, 2010 05:37:00

    Software giant says users don't need the function
    Microsoft has removed the cut and paste function from its forthcoming mobile phone OS, Windows Phone 7.
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    Telstra and Polycom release new desktop video phone 17 March, 2010 11:59:00

    Telstra claims it is the first Australian telco to offer a video telephony service
    Telstra has partnered with Polycom to release what it claims to be the first video telephony service from an Australian telco.
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    Transition Systems becomes first distributor for AV vendor 16 March, 2010 16:52:00

    US-based Vaddio products are a good fit for the Polycom range, according to Transition
    Transition Systems has become the first distributor for US-based audio-visual (AV) vendor, Vaddio.
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    First Data, Tyfone work on mobile wallet 17 March, 2010 05:01:00

    The system would let people buy a MicroSD card to use their phones to pay for goods
    Tyfone is putting the pieces together for a commercial mobile wallet offering, forming an alliance with First Data.
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    Embarrassment as 10,000 Microsoft staff buy iPhones 17 March, 2010 00:57:00

    Shun Windows Mobile, annoy Steve Ballmer
    Steve Ballmer doesn't use one but apparently as many as 10,000 Microsoft employees do. Embarrassingly, the device in question is Apple's iPhone.
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    Researchers use light from LEDs to send data wirelessly 11 March, 2010 08:35:00

    Speeds of 230Mbit/sec. reported
    Light coming from lamps in your home could eventually be used to encode a wireless broadband signal, according to German researchers.
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