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WIRELESS
(Below) SWEET. I can finally update my Facebook status in meetings. I can now rest peacefully. I downloaded and started using the application seamlessly. Unlike the iPhone application, the Facebook Blackberry application installs as a button on my home screen allowing me to access Facebook quickly (without going through the iPhone Safari browser).
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has launched Facebook software designed especially for its smartphones to make it easier for users to browse the popular social networking Web site.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071024/tc_nm/rim_facebook_rim_dc_1;_ylt=AvEqoLrHS7t_ItFCIk50IJ0E1vAI
11/24)
Yesterday, AT&T said that Q307 revenues nearly doubled to $30.1 billion, up from $15.6 billion in the same period a year ago (the latter did not include its acquisition of BellSouth, which was completed at the end of December 2006), with net income of $3.1 billion versus $2.2 billion in Q306. (http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-earnings-att-reports-record-number-of-mobile-subs-in-q307-10000-new-use 10/23)
Apple is acknowledging that nearly 250,000 out of the 1.4 million iPhones sold have yet to be activated to run on AT&T’s network. Demand for the popular handset remains high overseas, and it will go on sale in the U.K. and Germany next month. (FOXNews.com 10/24)
Will Google announce its much-rumored cell phone today? If so, analysts expect it not to be an actual handset but a bundle of software and infrastructure systems. Based on patents and other filings, analysts also predict the phone will be advertising-supported and feature tools such as search, mapping and instant messaging. (CNET 10/24)
Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, sees content for the wireless Internet as key to snapping up more cell phone users, including in emerging markets. The next big thing in cell phones could be “location-based services combined with social networks.” (http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL2341750720071024 10/24)
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