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- Nokia, RIM offer tempered growth outlooks
Nokia today issued its second warning in three weeks about the wireless-device market, predicting that industry sales volume will fall even further than predicted -- about 5% -- as consumers slash spending.
The phone maker's prognosis echoed two other developments: Research in Motion issued an unexpected warning Tuesday night that the BlackBerry maker's third-quarter revenue and profit will fall well short of analysts' expectations; and a Gartner report released today saying that unit phone sales grew 11.5% globally in the third quarter, the smallest amount Gartner has recorded since the research firm began tracking sales. Reuters
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RIM pursues encrypting firm Certicom with $52.6 million offer: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has bid an estimated $52.6 million for Certicom. RIM said it made the hostile bid only after Certicom officials ignored its inquiries. CNNMoney.com/The Associated Press
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- Nokia updates patent-payment deal with RIM
Nokia said Research in Motion signed a new multiyear patent and royalty-licensing agreement that covers the BlackBerry manufacturer's use of Nokia's GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 technologies. Nokia, which negotiated a patent deal with China's Huawei in September, said the RIM renewal pointed to the company's increasing success in pursuing payments for use of its patented technologies. The Washington Post/Reuters
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- ChaCha gains AT&T's nod in voice-search deal
AT&T and ChaCha, a mobile voice-search company, have allied on a marketing deal in which Cha-Cha will promote AT&T to those who call its voice-search service and provide a co-branded greeting on its toll-free number, the companies said Wednesday. The agreement also calls for the partners to find ways to improve ChaCha's free mobile-answers service and look for ways to cooperate on text and voice ad-based services. Wireless Week
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- New .tel domain will act as Web's phone book
A new Internet domain that launched Wednesday -- .tel -- could provide a virtual phone book to help people get in touch with the domain's owners even if they have not actually built a Web site. Site owners can register for a .tel domain that will act as a universal contact point that users can access through traditional online platforms or mobile devices such as the iPhone or BlackBerry, according to Telnic, the company that will run the registry. BBC
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- Some stores still in dark on mobile bar-code scans
The increasingly routine use of mobile applications in such mundane activities as grocery shopping is presenting challenges to store owners, according to this columnist, who notes some outlets remain ignorant of a popular application that lets shoppers compare prices by using their cell phones to scan products' bar codes. Retailers must not only keep up with the constant flow of new technology, but they also must decide whether it is prudent to give shoppers an opportunity to find cheaper prices at their competitors' stores. NYTimes.com/ReadWriteWeb
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- Martin: FCC will take up free-wireless mandate
Over the objections of many carriers, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Wednesday that the agency would take up a proposal Dec. 18 that could lead to the creation of a national wireless broadband service using valuable AWS-3 spectrum being auctioned off to wireless companies. The FCC would require the winning bidder to devote 25% of the spectrum to build a network that penetrates 95% of the U.S. within 10 years, although some carriers object on the grounds that the service would be anti-competitive and could interfere with signals from its own networks. InternetNews.com
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