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Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks

via the New York Times By JEREMY KAHN Published: December 8, 2008 David Guttenfelder/Associated Press A soldier in Mumbai during the siege of the Taj Mahal hotel last month. The attackers studied satellite images of the city online. MUMBAI, India … Continue reading

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ROADMAP: 5 Milestones in the Future of Mobile Social Networks

Via Mashable Cheng Wu is the co-founder and chairman of Azuki Systems. As mobile social networks gain popularity, many are wondering how to ride the wave of this phenomenon. Leveraging the 3.3 billion potential mobile screens and the viral capabilities … Continue reading

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City firm helping drivers meet ban

Via Metro Tech Now by Paul Brent November 06, 2008 03:46 try { Prop8=”False” } catch(err) { } ANSW.Trigger.showLogoIfEnabled(“AnswerTips_landing_square.gif”,”"); No handheld cellphones … No dialing, no texting, no handheld GPS, no checking e-mails on the Blackberry. That, in a nutshell, … Continue reading

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19% of mobile consumers in U.S. now using smartphones, according to study

Via Mobile Crunch by Greg Kumparak on November 3, 2008 As the entry fee for smartphones drops lower and lower, the wallet friendly price point found with most feature phones (or, as some might say, “dumbphones”) is beginning to lose … Continue reading

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Low Mobile Video Figures Show Networks Need to Get Smart and Play Dumb

Via Mashable November 1, 2008 – 9:52 am PDT – by Paul Glazowski I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little … Continue reading

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Instructor Identities Can Now Roam With Graspr’s New Video Player

Via Tech Crunch by Mark Hendrickson on October 16, 2008 Graspr, the instructional video syndication network run by an ex-Yahoo exec, has released an advanced video player with a featured called the “gCard” that carries the identity of a video … Continue reading

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MySpace, Facebook holding mobile social networking back

Via ARS Technica By David Chartier | Published: October 07, 2008 – 10:25PM CT Social networking made the leap from desktops to mobile phones a long time ago, and a new report suggests that MySpace and Facebook still dominate even on the … Continue reading

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Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking

Via The New York Times By ALEX MINDLIN Published: September 28, 2008 In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average … Continue reading

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New cellphone carrier launching in second half of 2009

Via CBC Globalive is aiming for 1.5 million subscribers in its first three years.Globalive is aiming for 1.5 million subscribers in its first three years. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press) More cellphone competition is on the way as Globalive Communications Inc. is … Continue reading

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