The chaplain of Mountjoy Jail in Dublin was used unwittingly yesterday in an attempt to smuggle a mobile phone into the jail — in a birthday cake. The Belfast Telegraph reports.
“… Since x-ray machines were introduced, the smuggling of drugs and mobile phones into Mountjoy through visitors has ceased and the price of purchasing a […]

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A small bunch of S60 Touch UI screens popped up today over at Mobile Royale, and they don’t look half bad. The design has big on-screen buttons, clean design, and easy to read menus. The only item of concern is how narrow the header and footer bars are when the OS is in landscape mode. […]

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Several telecom companies met with the FCC this week to voice their disapproval of the FCC’s planned auction around free mobile broadband services. AT&T, Motorola, T-Mobile and Texas Instruments were among the few that commented on the idea. T-Mobile had recently asked the FCC to spend more time testing white spaces, which abut its own […]

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that SK Telecom and Sprint are in talks, but the discussion is a joint venture, and not a merger. The talks include ideas about new handsets and other shared services and technology. If SK Telecom were to make any sort of investment in Sprint, it would be minor, and […]

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Over the weekend, Apple sold one million 3G iPhones across the 21 countries in which it is available. The Apps Store also saw 10 million apps downloaded in the same time period.
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Industry Minister Jim Prentice has summoned Bell Mobility and TELUS to Ottawa to explain what he calls their “poorly thought out decision” to charge customers for incoming text messages, reports ITBusiness.ca.
“Prentice has sent letters to the CEOs of Bell and Telus asking to meet before Aug. 8 to hear an explanation of the pricing structure, […]

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UK network O2 has stopped taking pre-orders of Apple’s 3G iPhone, due to be released this coming Friday, in twenty two countries. The company’s website ground to a halt yesterday, as many customers attempted to pre-order the iPhone, some without success. It’s safe to say that O2 underestimated the number of users who wished to […]

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Microsoft and Billionaire financier Icahn had a chat last week and the message to Yahoo is that Microsoft is still interested to reopen talks if Yahoo elects a new board.
Meanwhile The Times Online reports that Yahoo is talking again with Time Warner to fend of a Microsoft takeover.
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A chain of German supermarkets have utilized cellphones to make it possible for the purchases to be scanned directly from the cellphone. This idea was launched by Real in a store called The Future Store which was opened near Duesseldorf.
They have software you can download directly to your cellphone. Then as you go through the […]

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GearDiary via tuaw is reporting that “a lineup of about 10 people started queuing up Friday for the iPhone 3G launch at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York.
The first people in line are a man, his wife and their young child. According to GearDiary, the couple told security that they’re trying to set […]

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