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Boeing working with AT&T for Multimillion Dollar contract

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today that The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) has selected AT&T to be its primary telecommunications provider. The contract calls for AT&T to provide advanced network and wireless services to help Boeing enhance its business processes and increase productivity. The value of the five-year contract is estimated at more than $400 million.

255 Percent Increase in Barack Obama Campaign SMS Text Messaging

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Obama made wireless history when it announced via an SMS text message to supporters that Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Biden would be Obama’s pick for vice president. Traffic on Sprint’s (NYSE: S) short code for the Obama campaign rose 255 percent following the announcement, which was texted shortly after 3:00 a.m. EST.
This marks the first [...]

UTStarcom Blitz available for sale at Verizon locations

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Verizon Wireless today launched the Blitz. Once again, Verizon has hidden the true manufacturer of the phone , UTStarcom, from any marketing and promotion materials. Verizon continues to brand both UTStarcom as well as HTC devices under their own brand name.
The Blitz is a mid-range phone with a unique design. Reminiscent of the XV6600 (et [...]

New Nokia 8800 Price says it all LUXURY

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Besides the RAZR, few handsets have milked longevity like Nokia’s 8800 slider — first introduced in April 2005 (spied in March). Unlike RAZR, however, the 8800 somehow manages not to annoy… too much. The latest Carbon Arte model brings 3G, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 4GB of flash memory, and OLED display with anti-fingerprint coating. Fine, [...]

Blackberry 8210-8220 Leaked out

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

That’s right folks! Even before RIM could rake in the credit for making its first clamshell BlackBerry (and by the looks of it, probably the last), Expansys decided to blow the lid off the BlackBerry 8220 aka the Kickstart. Not content with just the pics, the guys went ahead and posted all the technical deets [...]

Sprint Airwave Does it really work???

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

It’s not that Sprint’s Airwave  is minty fresh — as a matter of fact, individuals in Indianapolis and Denver were able to pick one up last September — but the device is brand new to the rest of the nation. The long-awaited CDMA femtocell (once dubbed the Samsung Ubicell) essentially acts as a super in-house [...]

Sprint HTC Diamond release date in August

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Over here in the United Kingdom, O2 is preparing to offer the HTC Touch Diamond to the British mobile public; the net whispers are saying that over in the USA, Sprint will re ready to offer the HTC Touch Diamond to the American mobile public.
Well, that is according to an article in The China Post, [...]

Sprint to award customers 18.2M for early termination fees

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Alameda County Judge has ruled against Sprint Nextel in a class-action lawsuit, awarding customers $18.2 million in restitution for early termination fees. “Though the decision could be appealed, it’s the first in the country to declare the fees illegal in a state and could affect other similar lawsuits, with broad implications for the nation’s [...]

In-Flight Cell Phone use pushed for approval

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a proposed bill that would ban using cellular phones during flights in the U.S. Cellular calls in flight have long been illegal because of concerns about interference with both aviation systems on board and cellular networks on the ground. But some regions of the world are now moving [...]

Nokia N96 Q3 prediction

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Nokia recently announced that they would be launching their Nokia N96 flagship successor alongside the Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 businessphones in the third quarter. The Finns made good on their promise to bring the much-anticipated enterprise handsets to market in Q3 2008, so now we turn our attention to Nokia”s new hotness - the [...]