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- Sprint joins rivals in netbooks, brings WiMAX to more cities
Sprint Nextel has partnered with Dell to enter the mini-laptop market, the carrier said Monday, in a move that mirrors steps taken by rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T as telecoms aim to branch out. Sprint will sell the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook, which will run on its EV-DO Rev. A network and cost $200 under a two-year package that starts at $60 a month. In an expected move, Sprint also expanded its WiMAX network as part of its Clearwire partnership with 4G services rolling out in 10 new cities, including Chicago, Dallas and parts of North Carolina. The Wall Street Journal/Digits blog
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, Network World
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, CEDMagazine.com
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- Nokia: Why we're finally getting it right
Nokia has figured out how to crack the U.S. market, Executive Vice President Niklas Savander said in an interview, adding that its Ovi Internet services platform has gained traction after the company might have originally introduced it prematurely. Nokia said AT&T would launch Ovi on its network by year-end. Asked why it hasn't happened yet, he said: "You might be able to look at this and say that perhaps the business conditions have not been attractive enough to AT&T. It's hard to dispute that. You can't say it's because the device is not good enough or the service is not good enough." CNET/Signal Strength
(11/2)
- China Unicom sets goal of adding 1M subs a month
Having launched the iPhone on Friday, China Unicom said today that it expected to boost its 3G customer base by 1 million users each month after introducing the high-speed service Oct. 1. Chairman Chang Xiaobing said the company had added 5,000 iPhone subscribers as the country's exclusive carrier. The Wall Street Journal
(11/3)
- RIM shares sink after analyst cites market worries
Investors turned bearish on Research in Motion on Monday, sending shares down more than 5% after an analyst's downgrade of the BlackBerry maker's stock because of rising competition in the sector. "The revolution of product and application service offerings is going to start to crack open the enterprise door and pose a risk for BlackBerry," wrote Citi Investment Research analyst Jim Suva in a note to clients. The Wall Street Journal
(11/3)
, Reuters
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- NSN ponders layoffs, other cuts to save $1.5B
Nokia Siemens Networks cited the lingering economic stagnation and tougher competition as it outlined plans to possibly cut its workforce up to 9%, trim its number of business divisions from five to three and seek additional cuts aimed at saving the equipment maker up to $1.5 billion. Some telecom-equipment makers have continued to suffer in areas where carriers have not returned to their pre-recession spending habits. The Wall Street Journal
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, Reuters
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- Loopt feels it has Pulse on location-based market
Loopt, a location-based service provider, will today introduce "Pulse," an application that will join the increasingly crowded field of tools that enable people to find what their looking for via their mobile devices, according to a published report. The company said it would set itself apart from rivals by providing a more comprehensive set of services. The New York Times
(11/2)
- Report: Apple's iPhone could be Kindle's biggest rival
A report from Flurry, a market-research company, found that Apple's iPhone may be the biggest challenge yet to Amazon's Kindle. In the past couple of months, e-book applications for the iPhone have become more popular than gaming applications, according to the report. Flurry predicts that the iPhone could take market share away from the Kindle. PC World
(11/2)
- Google Voice reaches 1.4M users
Google said that 570,000 people used its Google Voice tool each day and that 1.4 million were regular users as the company unintentionally let slip the information -- part of a confidential FCC filing -- on the agency's Web site. Also Monday, Google said -- intentionally via a blog posting -- that it had brought its voice search application to China through the Nokia S60 cell phone in a move that will let users issue commands in Mandarin Chinese. CommsDay.com (Australia)
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, Google/Agence France-Presse
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- Sibling rivalry could nip at Symbian's heels
Symbian, the world's leading mobile-operating system, could face a competitive threat from an unlikely source -- Nokia's new Linux-based Maemo software developed by the same company responsible for most of the Symbian-powered phones in the market, according to industry analysts. They predict Symbian's growth will slow -- because of competition from Maemo and Android -- until its numbers start to shrink in 2014. Silicon.com
(11/2)
- Chinese companies dive into 3G bonanza
The introduction of 3G in China has companies scrambling to introduce products to appeal to the country's more than 700 million mobile users. Analysts caution, however, that the rush could lead to increased pressure from government censors and concerns about unpredictable technology from some carriers. Reuters
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