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Verizon Chaperone comes to new handsets

Date January 30, 2007

Verizon Wireless’ innovative Chaperone service has been launched for new handsets. The child-tracking program was previously only available on the LG Migo. Chaperone is now available on the following…



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Consumers driving demand for BlackBerry

Date January 23, 2007

The Wall Street Journal has an article about Research In Motion’s fastest growing customer, consumers. The company previously courted business users almost exclusively, but the BlackBerry Pearl has…



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Wirefly announces top phones of 2006

Date January 10, 2007

Wirefly has released a list of their top selling phones for the year of 2006. Unsurprisingly the Motorola RAZR topped the list. However there are some surprises:

Cingular RAZR by Motorola (in…



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Palm licenses Palm OS Garnet from Access

Date December 12, 2006

Palm has cut a deal with Access for a perpetual Palm OS Garnet license. Back in September of 2005 Access bought out PalmSource, the company that makes PalmOS.

Palm paid Access $44 million for the…



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Multi-tap calculator

Date December 12, 2006

Cameron Marlow, a researcher at Yahoo!, has put up a simple tool to calculate the number of key presses it takes to enter in data via multi-tap. His goal was to see how long different URLs would take…



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