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Articles published in January 2011
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41 published in january 2011

Android Dethrones Symbian Globally


LR Mobile News Analysis - Sarah Reedy - Post a comment
January 31, 2011 : For the first time in 10 years, Symbian is not the global OS leader. Google has taken the crown, and the regime of Android will rule in 2011

Chongqing Telecom Creates a Wi-Fi Ruckus


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January 31, 2011 : A unit of China Telecom will roll out more than 4,000 Wi-Fi nodes to blanket China's largest province with indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi coverage

OpenWave Amps Up Browser Apps


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January 31, 2011 : Vendor announces Amplicity, a development platform on which operators can offer browser-based mobile apps

OS Watch: Samsung Tabulates a Record Quarter


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January 28, 2011 : Samsung's riding the success of its Android Tab, ZTE has displaced RIM in handset shipments and CostCo gets the Atrix in this week's OS digest

ZTE Sees Mobile Growth in the US & Europe


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January 28, 2011 : Chinese vendor is targeting the US and Western Europe for an onslaught of low-cost, Android-based smart phones

Microsoft WP7 Shipments Start Slow


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January 27, 2011 : Company shipped 500,000 Windows Phone 7 devices in December. That's a lot, but the growth is nowhere near Android's quickening pace

AT&T's Answer to the Verizon iPhone: Android & Friends


LR Mobile News Analysis - Dan Jones - Comments (2)
January 27, 2011 : AT&T says the Verizon iPhone could make smart-phone sales in the early in the year 'volatile,' but is confident it will grow its base in 2011

Elop Promises Nokia Will Change Faster


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January 27, 2011 : Handset maker's market share drops in the fourth quarter, as its new CEO urges the company to change faster and teases a new OS for Nokia

Moto Hangs in Mobility Limbo


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January 26, 2011 : Moto Mobility's first earnings report as an independent company were so-so as it waits for its new advanced devices to hit the market

Rumor: RIM Bringing Android Apps to QNX


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January 26, 2011 :
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Analyst: Android Overtakes Symbian


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January 31, 2011 : Google's Android becomes the world's leading smart phone platform, Canalys reveals smart phone market exceeded 100M units in Q4 2010

Motricity to Acquire Adenyo


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January 31, 2011 : Motricity has signed an agreement to acquire Adenyo

Docomo Goes Flat Rate for Tablets


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January 28, 2011 : DOCOMO to offer flat-rate data billing for smartphones and tablet PCs

Samsung Reports Q4


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January 28, 2011 : Samsung Electronics reported fourth quarter and full year revenues

T-Mobile Cuts Smart-Phone Signaling


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January 28, 2011 : Operator reduces its peak signaling traffic load to more manageable level with help of NSN

Samsung Unveils 4 New Galaxy Smart Phones


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January 27, 2011 : Samsung unveiled the Samsung GALAXY family: the Samsung GALAXY Ace, Samsung GALAXY Fit, Samsung GALAXY Gio and the Samsung GALAXY mini

Nokia Reports Q4


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January 27, 2011 : Finnish giant reports fourth-quarter revenues of €12.7 billion and full-year 2010 revenues of €42.4 billion

Telmap Offers Operator LBS Metrics


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January 26, 2011 : Inaugural Telmap Metrics Report is unveiled

Roke Makes Smart Phones Smarter


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January 26, 2011 : Roke Manor Research has developed ‘SmartSwitch’, the world’s first intelligent network congestion and traffic manager

MetroPCS Turns on LTE in Four More Markets


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January 25, 2011 : MetroPCS launches 4G LTE service in Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami and Orlando metropolitan areas
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Talking Smack on the WAC


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January 31, 2011 : 4:00 AM Openwave director says the WAC is wack

AT&T: Getting the User View


Jonestown - Dan Jones - Comments (4)
January 27, 2011 : 2:35 PM What's your experience of AT&T's 3G network now?

Starbucks' Mobile Brew


Light Reedy - Sarah Reedy - Comments (2)
January 21, 2011 : 3:40 PM Starbucks is serving up mobile payments, a brew carriers are wise to order

Qualcomm Adds the Ching to ChaCha


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January 20, 2011 : 5:40 AM Qualcomm Venture Partners invests $3 million in ChaCha's SMS search biz

Apple's Sour Note


Wireless Bits - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
January 19, 2011 : 7:00 AM Its Q1 numbers are great, but there's trouble ahead in Europe

Verizon Soothes Non-iPhone Buyers' Remorse


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January 18, 2011 : 1:45 PM Bought a Verizon Android and now have iPhone envy? Big Red will give you $200 to ease the pain

Comes With Carriers?


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January 18, 2011 : 1:00 PM As Nokia has learned, unlimited music packages, such as Ovi Music Unlimited (aka Comes With Music), are still a hard sell

Verizon Looks Ahead With LTE


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January 14, 2011 : AT CES 2011, Verizon Wireless's executive director of 4G LTE strategy talks about how the operator expects its LTE network to evolve this year

Ciuses For All!


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
January 14, 2011 : 6:15 AM There's an obvious, available test base for the Cius tablet

Wireless in the Caribbean


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January 13, 2011 : 4:05 PM What I did for my Christmas vacation
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