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Russia’s rival to GPS hit by technical problems

Russia’s bid to create a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, has been delayed by equipment flaws and other technical problems, a senior Cabinet official said Wednesday.

First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov acknowledged that Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System, or GLONASS, failed to become fully operational at the year’s start as the government had planned.

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‘Mobile Payments Making Progress in North America’ is the Essential Guide for Any Company Considering Offering Mobile Payments and Mobile Financial Services

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79207) has announced the addition of “Mobile Payments Making Progress in North America” to their offering.

Using mobile handsets to accomplish financial transactions and purchases is starting to appear as something inevitable in the worldwide marketplace. However, we do not believe that 2008 will be the year of mobile payments. It may not even qualify as the year of trials of mobile payments; However, there is evidence that the US market may overcome a crucial issue: technology incompatibility, and make progress toward contactless payments using cellphones.

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Silverback Media Partners With Puretracks, a Digital Music Provider, to Deliver Both Music and Mobile Content Promotions Through the Use of a Single Pin

TORONTO, ONTARIO — (MARKET WIRE) — 01/09/08 — Silverback Media (PLUS: SBMP)(FRANKFURT: SVD), a mobile marketing advertising agency with operations in North America and Europe, has entered in a new three year partnership with Toronto-based Puretracks Inc (”Puretracks”), a North American digital music provider (the “Partnership”). The Partnership intends to offer a one stop shop to companies interested in incorporating both digital music and mobile content into their business-to-consumer promotions.

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Anssi Vanjoki To Present Keynote At GDC Mobile 2008

GDC MobileAnssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President of Nokia’s Markets division, will delve into how mobile games are playing a key role in the company’s move into the services market in a keynote address at this year’s Game Developers Conference Mobile (GDC Mobile), being held February 18-19 in San Francisco.

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Nokia World 2007: Nokia 3110 Evolve

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - At the annual Nokia World conference today, Nokia outlined its vision for the mobile industry, predicting rapid change driven by the convergence of mobility and the internet, and the need for the industry to make an increasing contribution to environmental sustainability. In his keynote address, Nokia president and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo highlighted Nokia’s commitment to driving both trends.
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Speaking to an audience of some 2,700 delegates who had gathered in Amsterdam to experience Nokia’s vision of the mobility industry’s future, Kallasvuo said: “We are at the dawn of a new era in mobile communications driven by the rapid convergence of the internet and mobility, and Nokia is setting the pace of change. But with market leadership in an industry of this scale also comes responsibility,” he said. “We are committed to taking a leading role in increasing environmental awareness and performance right across the industry, creating further products and services that help people make more sustainable choices. It is both the responsible thing to do and it makes good business sense.”
Nokia unveils “Comes With Music”
During the event the company announced Nokia Comes With Music, a revolutionary program that enables people to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to millions of tracks from a range of great artists - past, present and future. Once the year is complete, customers can keep all their music without having to worry about it disappearing when their subscription is over.
“We set out to create the music experience that people are telling us they are looking for - all the music they want in the form of unlimited downloads to their mobile device and PC,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Multimedia, Nokia. “Even if you listened to music 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you would still only scratch the surface of the music that we’re making available. Comes with Music fulfils our dream to give consumers all the music they want, wherever they want it, while rewarding the artists who create it.”
The program will launch with Universal Music Group International, and Nokia is in discussion with the remaining major international labels.
Universal Music Group International Chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge was at Nokia World to launch the program with Nokia. “It’s fantastic to work with Nokia on Comes With Music,” said Grainge. “We feel it’s an innovative way for people to discover and enjoy new artists, while at the same time having access to the amazing depth of the Universal catalog. Comes With Music allows our artists to reach new audiences in a very easy and affordable way.”
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Samsung Develops Single-Chip RFID Reader for Mobile Devices

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today the development of its new single-chip radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for mobile devices. Embedded RFID reader chips can provide consumers with product or service information retrieved from RFID tags incorporated in items such as movie posters, clothing, and museums or tourist exhibits.

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Samsung to present ‘dual stand-by mobile phone’ for Chinese businessmen

BEIJING, China (AVING) — <Visual News> Samsung Electronics presented its ‘dual stand-by phone(model:W629)’ during PT EXPOCOMM CHINA 2007. Since it can have two SIM cards (GSM and CDMA) at the same time, users can take the advantages of two different service providers simultaneously with just one device. It is designed for businessmen with sleek card phone design and leather case, 2.6-inch QVGA TFT LCD, 3M camera, Bluetooth headset, and some conversational languages (English, Chinese and Korean). It is scheduled to hit China market at the end of this year.

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Sky’s IM-S240K cellphone

Here comes yet another sweet Korean cellphone, this time made by Sky: the IM-S240K .

As usual, the design is very nice, and as usual, it is only for Korea… the specifications of this slide phone include a 2MPx camera, HSDPA 7.2MBps, multimedia player, DMB, E-dictionary… this little wonder will soon be put on sale at a price of 400000Won (~307Euros)… just to let you know.

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Nokia’s downloadable challenge to Appleokia today stepped up its defence of the mobile market, launching a new range of handsets and an online music store in an attempt to counter the threat posed by Apple’s iPhone.

Nokia today stepped up its defence of the mobile market, launching a new range of handsets and an online music store in an attempt to counter the threat posed by Apple’s iPhone. The Nokia Music Store will be accessible through a new mobile internet portal dubbed Ovi and will compete head-on with Apple’s iTunes, the dominant force in online music. Nokia’s new online platform, which will also offer games and mobile mapping tools, is expected to launch in the UK in the autumn.

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