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Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
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The co-founder of one of the most popular mobile Linux platforms has predicted a "revolution" in the use of open-source software on phones and handheld devices.
The next-generation wireless technology could take us one step closer to the mobile nirvana of one bill for mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity.
In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.
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The dot-eating snake is giving way to superheroes clad in ridiculous skin-tight costumes as the market for mobile phone gaming gets ready to explode.
Intel is picking up the pace on introducing 802.11g technology into its products, as the emerging wireless networking specification gathers customer and standards support.
A new version of Opera's Web browser, with revamped small-screen rendering technology, is due to debut next week.
The popularity of wireless access to Internet services and corporate data continues to grow—analysts at market research firm Jupiter Communications forecast that 79.4 million browser-enabled mobile phones will be in use by 2003, up from 1.1 million in 1999.
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