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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1899 Wireless and Mobile Technology en-us Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:00:05 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1899 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/iraq_refugees_un_dc nm/20070831/iraq_refugees_un_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:00:05 GMT Reuters - The U.N. refugee agency is alerting more than 33,000 vulnerable Iraqi refugees in Damascus through text messages on cell phones, which many of them use to keep in touch with family and friends. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20070831/ca_pr_on_tc/japan_sharp cpress/20070831/japan_sharp Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:16:00 GMT Canadian Press - TOKYO (AP) - Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. plans to start shipping a new touchscreen liquid crystal display with scanner functions for mobile electronic devices this September, the company said Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo afp/20070831/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:41:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.ptu16.310807142829.photo00.photo.default-350x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Fh.HodIh2WjdnmDgL2rX1Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="An NTT DoCoMo employee displays the &quot;F1100&quot; mobile phone during a press conference in Tokyo. NTT DoCoMo says it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Leading Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.ptu16.310807142829.photo00.photo.default-350x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Fh.HodIh2WjdnmDgL2rX1Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="An NTT DoCoMo employee displays the &quot;F1100&quot; mobile phone during a press conference in Tokyo. NTT DoCoMo says it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/tc_nm/wireless_fcc_dc nm/20070831/wireless_fcc_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:34:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/tc_nm/wireless_fcc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_30t212256_450x332_us_wireless_fcc.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=ur9YAdOHSce4dJ.IbzDzIg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A man uses a cell phone in a file photo. Regulators said on Thursday they had proposed penalizing three wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone callers in an emergency. (Will Burgess/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. regulators said on Thursday they had proposed penalizing three wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone callers in an emergency.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/tc_nm/wireless_fcc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_30t212256_450x332_us_wireless_fcc.jpg?x=130&y=95&sig=ur9YAdOHSce4dJ.IbzDzIg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man uses a cell phone in a file photo. Regulators said on Thursday they had proposed penalizing three wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone callers in an emergency. (Will Burgess/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/wi_fi_setback ap/20070831/wi_fi_setback Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:40:56 GMT AP - A year ago, it seemed like just about every major U.S. city was drawing up ambitious plans to build wireless Internet networks so more people, both rich and poor, could have online access wherever they wanted. Now, economics is blurring the Utopian vision as city leaders and the companies proposing to build the Wi-Fi networks haggle over whether the projects make financial sense. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/bs_afp/ustechnologyit afp/20070831/ustechnologyit Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:54:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/bs_afp/ustechnologyit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.psm68.310807124156.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=ioUUWEjw4fRRgaZksBAGAQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google&#39;s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Specialized blogs are all abuzz this week with rumors that Internet giant Google will soon launch the &quot;Google Phone&quot; or &quot;GPhone,&quot; a cheap mobile phone equipped with a Google operating system.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Specialized blogs are all abuzz this week with rumors that Internet giant Google will soon launch the &quot;Google Phone&quot; or &quot;GPhone,&quot; a cheap mobile phone equipped with a Google operating system.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/bs_afp/ustechnologyit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.psm68.310807124156.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=ioUUWEjw4fRRgaZksBAGAQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Google&#39;s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Specialized blogs are all abuzz this week with rumors that Internet giant Google will soon launch the &quot;Google Phone&quot; or &quot;GPhone,&quot; a cheap mobile phone equipped with a Google operating system.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/malaysiaracecrimetelecom50years afp/20070831/malaysiaracecrimetelecom50years Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:48:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/malaysiaracecrimetelecom50years"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.ppf42.310807064817.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=cxb.nvjNZxOV2OSZW5IqOA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Pedestrians walk past a giant billboard displaying a PDA phone in Kuala Lumpur, 20 March. Malaysian police have set up a special police task force to investigate mobile telephone text messages amid fears they could incite racial violence, the Star newspaper reported Friday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Malaysian police have set up a special police task force to investigate mobile telephone text messages amid fears they could incite racial violence, the Star newspaper reported Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/malaysiaracecrimetelecom50years"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.ppf42.310807064817.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=cxb.nvjNZxOV2OSZW5IqOA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Pedestrians walk past a giant billboard displaying a PDA phone in Kuala Lumpur, 20 March. Malaysian police have set up a special police task force to investigate mobile telephone text messages amid fears they could incite racial violence, the Star newspaper reported Friday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070830/bs_ibd_ibd/2007830trends ibd/20070830/2007830trends Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:00:00 GMT Investor's Business Daily - More than 5,000 people who don&#39;t have fixed addresses are sleeping at 24-hour Internet cafes across Japan. One-third of them are in their 20s, and 23% are in their 50s, a government study found. Net cafe refugees usually rely on their cell phones to arrange temporary low-paying day-hire jobs. In Tokyo, 33% of surveyed people said they lost their homes after they quit their jobs, according to Japan Times. Many said that job hunting is difficult without a fixed address. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070830/bs_ibd_ibd/2007830general ibd/20070830/2007830general Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:00:00 GMT Investor's Business Daily - Wireless phone company Vimpel-Com, sparked by surging mobile usage in its home market of Russia and some central Asian markets, on Thursday reported second-quarter profit and sales that beat expectations. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070830/bs_nf/55007 nf/20070830/55007 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:24:43 GMT NewsFactor - Nokia is making moves on Apple in more ways than one. While its latest rendition of the N95 mobile device debuted as a so-called iPhone killer, its Ovi Internet services are launching as a formidable iTunes competitor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070830/tc_pcworld/136641 pcworld/20070830/136641 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:00:00 GMT PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed fines totaling US$2.8 million to three wireless carriers for failing to meet coverage requirements for an emergency dialing service called E911, the agency said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070830/tc_infoworld/91463 infoworld/20070830/91463 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:57:59 GMT InfoWorld - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)&#160;has proposed fines totaling $2.8 million to three wireless carriers for failing to meet coverage requirements for an emergency dialing service called E911, the agency said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070831/tc_cmp/201803320 cmp/20070831/201803320 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:55:00 GMT TechWeb - The federal agency hopes to help companies improve factory designs and avoid blocking transmissions that make it difficult to take advantage of wireless networks. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070830/tc_pcworld/136615 pcworld/20070830/136615 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:00:00 GMT PC World - 3G femtocells, which promise to deliver indoor coverage and cheap service for 3G networks, are a step closer, thanks to a base station built using chips designed for mass-market handsets. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070830/tc_infoworld/91446 infoworld/20070830/91446 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:53:50 GMT InfoWorld - Taiwan&#39;s High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has taken the wraps off a thinner, faster version of its Touch smartphone. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070831/tc_cmp/201803197 cmp/20070831/201803197 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:25:00 GMT TechWeb - The trial will feature 25 live content channels and test Clipcasting media, a short-format video content service that can be viewed on mobile devices after it has been stored. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070830/tc_pcworld/136587 pcworld/20070830/136587 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:00:00 GMT PC World - Toshiba Corp. is refreshing its line-up of Gigabeat music players with new models including one that packs built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070830/tc_pcworld/136582 pcworld/20070830/136582 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:00:00 GMT PC World - Taiwan&#39;s High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has taken the wraps off a thinner, faster version of its Touch smartphone. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070830/tc_infoworld/91443 infoworld/20070830/91443 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:00:37 GMT InfoWorld - Toshiba Corp. is refreshing its line-up of Gigabeat music players with new models including one that packs built-in Wi-Fi connectivity. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/wireless/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070830/tc_pcworld/136593 pcworld/20070830/136593 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:00:00 GMT PC World - EarthLink Inc.&#39;s current contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be dead following a restructuring of the struggling Internet service provider.