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AT&T is offering the Palm Centro “crossover device” to its customer base for $99.99. The device, said to be Palm’s lightest to date, features a QWERTY keyboard and supports voice, texting and Internet. (American City Business Journals/San Jose, Calif. 2/19)
Sprint Nextel has introduced a quad-band handset from Samsung that supports voice calling in 180 countries and data in 100. The Samsung Ace runs on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 operating system. United Press International (2/18)
French conglomerate Vivendi is launching a mobile service called Zaoza (Chinese for “word of mouth” or “buzz”) offering unlimited downloads of content — music, video clips, games — for $4.40 per month. Subscribers will be able to share everything they download with up to five friends. (http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2008/gb20080219_674610.htm 2/19)
A Microsoft developer posed the question to bloggers on how to more closely tie the Zune player with the Windows Mobile OS, which generated several ideas, with convergence being a running theme. “There are any number of ways that Microsoft could go about Zune integration. We might see a Zune application for Windows Mobile devices,” said Michael Gartenberg, a research director with Jupiter Research. (Yahoo!/InfoWorld 2/19)
Turner Sports said over 1 million text message votes were received during the NBA All Star Weekend Slam Dunk contest, with 78% of the fans choosing eventual champion Dwight Howard. Over 61,000 fans voted for the All-Star Access isolated camera feature.
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