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WIRELESS

Google released an update to its offerings for the iPhone, hoping to continue a trend that recently saw the iPhone briefly become the No. 1 mobile phone hitting Google sites. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/14/iPhone-briefly-number-one-Google-user_1.html?source=NLC-WIRELESS&cgd=2008-01-17  1/14)

Wireless high speed internet provider Clearwire is collaborating with Google to offer an suite of Google Apps to Clearwire customers. In addition to Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Talk, Clearwire will use AdSense to provide Google search capabilities for future Clearwire portal applications. The deal will provide Google with a valuable testing ground for delivering applications over WiMax technology, also being rolled out by Sprint. 

Mobile phone maker Nokia will lay off 2,300 employees at a German plant and move production to lower-cost European sites, the company announced Tuesday. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/15/Nokia-to-close-German-plant-lay-off-workers_1.html?source=NLC-WIRELESS&cgd=2008-01-17  1/15)

Sprint Nextel and its hardware partners sought to convince a small audience at the Consumer Electronics Show that their WiMax plans are on track, despite the recent departure of Sprint’s CEO and the dissolution of its partnership with Clearwire. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/08/Sprint-insists-WiMax-network-on-track_1.html?source=NLC-WIRELESS&cgd=2008-01-17  1/8)