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10 reasons why camping out for iPhone is better this year

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2008-07-10 16:45:07 by Sonya Smith in Gadgetress
From earlier: iPhone countdown: All you need to know New year, new iPhone. Same nerd and same plan to wait all night outside the Apple store at the Irvine Spectrum to be one of the first to get my Mac-fanatic hands on the 3G iPhone Yep, its iGirl and right now Im waiting for MobileMe, the 2.0 iPhone operating software, the iPhone App store and...
 
Tags: iphone, iphone apps, iphone applications, current iphone, iphone release, iphone countdown, iphone app store, live apple iphone, iphone leaves igirl
 
 
 
 
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iPhone 3G for $199 comes with 2-year contract

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2008-06-09 19:29:09 by Peter Ha in CrunchGear
For the sake of time, Ill just paste the release. Pricing for the iPhone 3G is based on a 2-year contract. Woohoo. Unlimited data plans for iPhone 3G customers will be $30/month while business users will have to pony up $45/month. Also, revenue sharing has ceased going forward between Apple and AT&T Update : Just got this in from AT&T Current...
 
Tags: wireless data, wireless, wireless network improvements, mobile applications, mobile applications represents, mobile business applications, business applications, broadband wireless network, iphone
 
 
 
 
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Huge global growth in SMS continues over the new year period

2008-01-11 18:39:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
SMS popularity shows no sign of slowing as billions do not ring in the New Year - but text instead Acision, the messaging and charging company of choice for over 300 network operators and service providers worldwide, today announced that according to their figures, global SMS traffic over the 2007/2008 New Year period increased by 30 per cent...
 
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Informa: Active users of EV-DO up 80% year-on-year

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2008-01-28 16:45:05 by dusanb in IntoMobile
According to Informas World Cellular Data Metrics, the number of subscriptions worldwide actively using data services via CDMA2000 1xEV-DO increased more than 80% year-on-year. The figure surpassed 56 million at the end of 3Q07, up from 30.8 million a year earlier, to represent 15.3% of the worlds overall CDMA base The increase was driven by the...
 
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Revenues for Irvines Blizzard grew 58 percent year-over-year

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2008-02-01 01:17:35 by Sonya Smith in Gadgetress
World of Warcraft added two million subscribers in 2007, helping the game reach the milestone of 10 million subscribers and also contributing to an 8 percent year-over-year revenue growth for parent company Vivendi This is interesting for two reasons. First, World of Warcraft was released Nov. 23, 2004, meaning 20 percent of its users joined in...
 
Tags: division, vivendi games division, games, vivendi, vivendi games mobile, revenues, earnings, vivendi earnings report, percent
 
 
 
 
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Half a Billion GSM/UMTS Subscriptions Forcasted by End of Year

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2008-03-07 15:23:13 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
3G Americas yesterday announced that by the end of 2008, there will be more than half a billion mobile wireless subscriptions to the GSM technology family including EDGE and UMTS/HSPA in the Americas, according to forecasts by Informa Telecoms & Media Tremendous growth was posted in the year 2007, as the GSM family of technologies once again...
 
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MagicJack Ultra-cheap ($20/year), ultra-simple Internet phone calls from your laptop

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2008-03-31 15:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
That's right: $20/ year not month for unlimited calls to the U.S. and Canada from anywhere in the world David Greenberg reviewed it quite favorably in yesterday's Washington Post Travel section, as follows. MagicJack What: A phone jack for your computer that lets you plug in a standard phone and make low-cost calls Aimed at: Travelers with...
 
Tags: phone, calls, standard phone, free local phone, magicjack, phone service, cheap calls, phone jack, internet calls
 
 
 
 
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A year with the iPhone - iPhone turns 1 year old

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2008-06-29 23:19:42 by Will Park in IntoMobile
As of 6pm PST today, my iPhone will be turning exactly 1 year old. Well, actually, seeing as how it took me a good 20 minutes to get inside the Apple store last year, my iPhone's 12-month birthday will fall on approximately 6:20pm PST So, just how has the iPhone lived up to expectations? And, how has the iPhone failed to deliver as a mobile...
 
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10-Year Old Tennessee Boy Enlisted To Drive Drunks Home, Flips Van At 90MPH

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2008-10-10 11:00:26 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
A 10-year old's driving services were requested by 43-year old Randy Lewis (that's actually him in the picture, he was really wearing that shirt) and Paula Elaine Evans because they were too drunk to drive themselves. Other passengers included another 10-year old and a 6-year old. However, the driver lost control of the van at 90MPH and flipped...
 
Tags: drunks home, 10-year, home, van, drive, lewis, paula elaine evans, rolls van, randy lewis