Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu , the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007. Mobiledu is a mobile service that essentially provides English-language learning materials and other educational content, from a variety of content providers, directly to mobile phones
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Nokia, Pearson form wireless education joint venture in China
It’s sometimes difficult to believe that a service which initially failed to catch on could become so widely used. When SMS was introduced back in the mid-90s, very few messages were sent as the take-up of 2G GSM mobile phones was slow. In fact, I recall selling phones such as the Motorola 7200 and discussing the benefits of digital over analogue, of which SMS was one, and almost no-one caring! ‘Surely voice is the future of communication,’ I would hear, ‘and not a message limited to 140 characters?’ The Mobile Data Association’s latest report paints a very different picture to the indifference seen at its launch, as they quote a total of 96.8 billion SMS messages were sent during 2009 in the UK alone! This figure is up from 2008’s total of 78 billion and up again over the 56 billion sent in 2007. The report also shares some Christmas Day and New Years Eve 2009 figures. A mere 441 million messages were sent on the 25th of December, a drop in the ocean compared to the 874 million sent on over New Years Eve and Day! The average 265 million sent each day puts these figures into perspective. Do you use SMS as an alternative to calling someone? Is it the cost, the simplicity or the convenience that makes you do this, or another reason entirely? Let us know in the comments! Post from Dial-a-Phone, UK’s no
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U Still Love Txt! SMS Messages Still Going Strong
If you make international business trips and carry a laptop computer than PC-to-Phone service is a great way to stay connected while on the road. As long as you have an INTERNET connection, you can make cheap international calls from any location to other computers or to any phone in the world.
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Stay Connected with PC-to-Phone Service
Technology is responsible for everything good that ever happened. Never mind the iPhone in your pocket, Michelangelo would never have had time to paint the Sistine Chapel if he’d had to hunt-and-gather his food every day, and without the advance of tools Mozart would have composed his concertos arranged for Grunt and Banging Rocks. Unfortunately not every use of human ingenuity is really useful, ingenious, or – if you apply a lower intelligence limit to the species – even “human.” 1.
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DaP Dumbass Devices
Images of the BlackBerry Magnum have been floating around for a while, now it has been spotted on video, confirming previous suspicions – that it will feature both a hardware QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen. It was way back in May 09 when rumours first emerged on GSM Arena about a device codenamed Magnum
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The BlackBerry Magnum hits the big screen.
Google’s newest phone, the Nexus One, is becoming more and more popular with each passing day. The phone is sleek and sexy and has something for everyone – from gadget lovers to everyday business professionals. The phone itself has a very sensitive touch screen as well as four soft key buttons and a clickable track ball on the front.
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Upgrade Your Status with the Nexus One Smart Phone
Times of India reports that the buying pattern of Indian consumers has changed with time, more so for the good of companies who run their business over the web. Alibaba , recently conducted a search over the web, the result of which turned out to be a pleasant surprise that ‘The Indian’ especially the Indian Entrepreneurs have started using the web as a medium to buy more of pre-used products.
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Are Indians ‘Buying on The Web’?
Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO thinks Wow Mobile is doomed. To be fair, Peter is cynical but then again, he is right most of the time. In this case he thinks a MLM, get-rich scheme which sells mobile service has no chance — especially when you consider the history of MVNO failure in the US
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Is Wow Mobile Doomed Already?
In many cases, the rates charged on international calls to mobile phones are substantially higher than the rate charged for the same call to a land-line. Therefore, when making international calls, callers should take care and read the fine print so they fully understand the rate charged for making a call to the type of phone they plan to call or they may receive an unpleasant surprise.
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Rates on International Calls to Mobile Phones
During the first week of 2010, Google began a “soft launch” of its new Android phone – the Nexus One. This light (130 gram) phone is the Internet search giant’s latest admission to the competitive smartphone market, which already has big hitters like Apple’s iPhone and the Blackberry series providing strong competition.
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Get Your Favorite “Smart App” On With the Nexus One Smart Phone
Well we are now into the new year and I started to reflect on the past year and the year ahead. For the most part 2009 saw a substantial decline in overall phone card sales and I’m afraid we will continue to see the same trend throughout 2010. Prepaid Mobile phones with competitive international rates are only going to get more aggressive this year and with increased penetration of broadband in recent immigrant households, VOIP services like Skype and Vonage will also continue to errode the phone card market share
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New Year Same Old Trend – Phone Card Sales Declining
From the EFF – 12 Trends to Watch in 2010 , Tim Jones writes – It’s the dawn of a new year. From our perch on the frontier of electronic civil liberties, EFF has collected a list of a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we think will play a significant role in shaping online rights in 2010. In December, we’ll revisit this post and see how it all worked out
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From the EFF – 12 Trends to Watch in 2010
Mobile phones are definitely one of the most important gadgets that have become an important part of our lives. Now becoming mobile and getting connected at the go are not alien words. With the ever increasing demands of our today’s fast moving lives, mobile phones are surely one of the major necessities and the most desired gadgets of today
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Mobile Phones to Get Connected
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified two mobile phones from the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei. Models ZTE C76 and Huawei G7600 simple, they both represent a piece with a digital keyboard. ZTE C76 at the pictures from FCC – in bright orange casing
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ZTE C76 and Huawei G7600: two simple phone approved by FCC
What do you think of when you think about mobile phones and church services? Most people would think about the embarrassment (or annoyance, if you’re not the guilty party) of having a phone go off in church. However mobile phones and church services are not mutually exclusive
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Mobile Phones and Church: Not Always What You Think
Did you ever encounter a situation when you really wished you could surreptitiously listen to conversations taking place on other side of the wall or at some far off location? Well, I’m sure that for most of us the thought did occur at some point in our lives. In the past, electronics enthusiasts used radio bugs for this purpose.
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Cell Phone Bug – The Ultimate Mobile Phone Spy Tool
The Japanese-Swedish joint venture is well known for its high-end and stylish devices, heavy marketing campaigns and ambitious innovations. Right now, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is one of the most anticipated devices of 2010 as it promises to deliver the very first 1GHz Snapdragon Android mobile phone to the market; technically the Acer Liquid is the first Snapdragon Android phone, but it is under clocked at a speed far below 1GHz. Aside from the X10, the company has several other amazing mobile phones set to be launched.
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A Quick Look at Sony Ericsson’s 2010 Lineup
Recycling has been an agenda for many companies and people at home these days and recycling mobile phones has it’s benefits for many people who wish to partake in it. If you own a mobile phone, it’s likely you’ll fall into this category when it comes to recycling it yourself.
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Top 5 Reasons to Recycle Your Mobile Phone
Anyone under the impression that mobile phone legislation isn’t enforced better buck up: Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has been prosecuted for a no-injury “collision,” even though anything under five miles an hour is a “collision” in the same way a pet cat is a predator. Talking on the phone, she managed to hit another carm, even at these sub-walking speeds – if nothing else, she proved that phones really do distract drivers. And that absolutely anyone can be arrested for it
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Harriet Harman Fined For Phoning Behind The Wheel
Smartphones can access the Internet, send and receive email, log-in to our favourite social networks and a perform a stack of other functions, and as they’re wrapped up inside a device which more often than not, slips straight into our pocket when we’re done, they’re very convenient. When you need something more, your options extend to a netbook or a hybrid like the Nokia N900, but convenience often suffers as a result. LG demonstrated another option for anyone who thinks their smartphone is too underpowered at CES in Las Vegas late last week. Called the GW990, it stretches the smartphone definition further than ever before; just take a look at this spec list: A 4.8″ 1024
The Bravo name may have passed you by during the whole Nexus One and HTC Passion excitement at the tail end of last year. If it did, then here’s an update to bring you right up to speed with one of HTC’s most interesting phone releases currently expected this year. Initially leaked as an entry under their ‘Performance’ banner on their 2010 product roadmap , the Bravo was linked with the Passion name, which in turn was linked to the Nexus One. Well, as we know, the Nexus One turned out to be something else, and subsequent information revealed the Passion to be the US-name for the Euro-bound Bravo. Clear? We hope so! Anyway, back to the Bravo. It may still be unconfirmed by HTC, but we have a good idea of what it’s spec sheet is going to look like: A 3.7″ OLED WVGA toucshcreen. The Qualcomm 1Ghz Snapdragon chipset.
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HTC Bravo Could Steal Nexus One’s Thunder in UK
Welcome to 2010 and the first weekly roundup of the mobile phone news stories you may have missed this week. With the CES show in Las Vegas just getting under way, we should be seeing more than a few new handsets and mobile accessories – speaking of which… 1. LG Calm Windows Mobile 7 Fears.
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Top Ten Mobile Phone News Stories of the Week
For weeks now, the Google Phone has hogged the spotlight, and it doesn’t look like things are about to change. The first ever Google Phone is already being shipped, sim-free to the USA, UK, Hong-Kong and Singapore, but as yet no carriers are taking it outside of the US.
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Vodafone’s Getting the Google Phone…
The patent infringement battle between Nokia and Apple is rapidly escalating. Nokia has filed a new complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against the iPhone maker, claming that almost all of its products infringe Nokia’s patents.
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Nokia Opens New Front in Patent War Against Apple
As the world awaits the announcement and introduction of numerous new gadgets at CES 2010, being held Jan. 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Google has gotten ahead of the curve and has launched the Nexus One Smartphone. The Nexus One Smartphone is the first mobile phone designed and marketed by the search engine giant.
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Nexus One – Google Phone – Prepares For Lift-Off
With the new year now upon us, 2010 already looks to be another big year for international education. As we reported in our Financial Aid Blog, 2009 saw record numbers in the USA for international students with a large 8% increase in the numbers from the previous year. With the worldwide recession and the recent tightening of air security some think that students could be discouraged from studying abroad – but we at InternationalStudent.com believe strongly that, with ongoing government initiatives, the support of the international education community and a little push from us, the overall numbers will continue to grow! The financial scenario for international students has changed over the past two years, mainly due to the recession which has had a large impact on the availability of financial aid and international student loans
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International Student Essentials for 2010
Badoo , a social network popular in emerging markets like Russia and Brazil, has been banned in Iran. As of December 2009 Badoo says it had broken the 50 million user mark globally, with 250,000 of those coming from Iran. Pictured is the text that comes up when trying to access Badoo from inside Iran
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Social network Badoo is banned in Iran
The user interface is very similar to the ASUS video phone. I’ll have more for you from CES tomorrow. For now, here’s their blog post , the @skypeonyourtv twitter page, and text from Skype’s news release: Skype-enabled Televisions Skype is already renowned for popularizing video calling and bringing people closer together through rich, real-time communication.
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CES2010: Skype for Television
3G Auction Delayed,Yet Again The Indian Government seems to have lost it way with the much awaited 3G auctions.If the Department of Telecom(DoT) is to beleived , the official 3g auctions might get delayed by a more than a month and start around the first week of March.DoT is yet to finalise the Notice Inviting Applications. The 3G hype has been doing the rounds for quite sometime but it got delayed on a regular basis.India despite being one of the largest growing telecom network, is still waiting in wings to have access to the 3G network.More than that, the spectrum being offered is one of the lowest too. The government has estimated to generate over Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion) from the sale of 3G spectrum.
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Telecom Tuesday: 3G Auctions, Advertisments,Mobile Banking
When it comes to protect your HTC Touch HD2 mobile phone you can instantly rely upon Silicone Case for HTC Touch HD2. This is the ultimate protection for your HTC mobile phone. It is a stylish case made from the best material to ensure higher protection for your mobile phone
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Protect HTC Touch HD2 using Black Silicone Case