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- T-Mobile USA shows mixed results in quarter
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA unit remains on target to meet its 2009 goal of hooking its 3G network to 200 million subscribers, the German telecom said today in reporting third-quarter earnings. T-Mobile grew operating profit margins from a year earlier, but the parent company still termed the carrier's performance as "unsatisfactory" as revenue fell slightly while its subscriber base inched up 4% to 33.42 million. The company did say that business at T-Mobile U.K. had stabilized. The Wall Street Journal
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, Bloomberg
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T-Mobile sets own Android "channel," on-bill process: T-Mobile will let Android users tune into a new "T-Mobile Channel" via the online app marketplace aimed at providing them with suggestions on content for the platform, Chief Technology Officer Cole Brodman said Wednesday at an industry event. The carrier also said that it would soon begin allowing customers to pay for applications on their monthly bills. MocoNews.net
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, PC World/IDG News Service
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- Apple's iPhone gains Wi-Fi handset share
Nokia's share of the Wi-Fi phone market took a plunge in the second quarter, from 50% a year earlier to 35% as Apple jumped into second place with a sixfold leap from 3% to 20%, according to a new In-Stat report. Samsung has remained relatively flat over the last few quarters while HTC has also gained market share since early 2008, In-Stat said. CNET/Crave
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- Ericsson executive wants telecoms to go own way on app stores
A senior Ericsson executive says wireless companies should move beyond Google and Apple by developing cross-industry mobile app stores.
"[Android] is a step in the right direction, but we think that we have to go even further to get applications across different devices," Ericsson Senior Vice President Jan Uddenfeldt said. The Register (U.K.)
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- Verizon Wireless sets 2010 date for Droid tether
Verizon Wireless subscribers will be to tether the new Motorola Droid smartphone next year, the carrier said, a move that will give them the ability to connect their laptops to Verizon Wireless' 3G network via the Android-based Droid. Motorola has positioned the Droid's ability to act as a modem on laptops as a major selling point for the device. CNET/Signal Strength
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- Group to speak as One Voice for LTE SMS, voice standards
A dozen wireless carriers and equipment companies have formed One Voice, a group designed to ensure that common industrywide standards are developed for SMS and voice services over LTE networks, its members said Wednesday. The group, which includes Verizon Wireless, AT&T and 10 others, has vowed to find a consensus on standards in order to avoid fragmentation and consumer confusion. Network World/IDG News Service
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, Unstrung.com
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- Apple surpasses 100,000 apps at online store
Apple has surpassed 100,000 applications at its online App Store, which has been around only since July 2008. The store offers apps for the company's iPhone and iPod Touch in 20 categories, including games, books, news, travel and sports and has become, according to Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, "clearly a major differentiator." InternetNews.com
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, The New York Times/Bits blog
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- The pros and cons of electronic recharging mats
Electronic mats such as Powermat and myGrid that recharge devices such as cell phones and GPS units when placed on top of them can be a marvel when it comes to reducing clutter. But, according to this report, the mats do not use energy as efficiently as copper wires do and they do not come cheap. The Wall Street Journal
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- Study suggests data caps will hit smartphone vendors
If wireless carriers implement bandwidth-metering, smartphone providers that deliver more content-heavy devices will suffer more than those -- such as Research in Motion's BlackBerry phones -- that are relatively efficient because of their ability to compress information such as e-mail messages, according to a report from the industry house Canaccord Adams. Telephony Online
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- Profit increases at MetroPCS on deep cost-cutting
MetroPCS managed to boost its third-quarter profit 64% after a broad cost-cutting program, the prepaid wireless carrier said, but it conceded its subscriber growth underperformed expectations because of higher churn and slower consumer demand. "We believe this was the result of continued U.S. macro-economic weakness, an increasingly competitive environment, and upward adjustments we made to the price of certain handsets," said Chairman and CEO Roger Linquist. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires
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- Profit down, but business recovers at Qualcomm
Qualcomm's chip business recovered somewhat in the fiscal fourth quarter, growing 9% from the previous period, the company reported Wednesday as profits fell because of onetime charges. "We hit our numbers pretty well," said CEO Paul Jacobs. Qualcomm investors were cheered by the chip maker's 15-year extension of its patent-royalty agreement with Samsung in which the phone maker will deliver a $1.3 billion down payment, Samsung said. The Wall Street Journal
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, MocoNews.net
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, Reuters
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