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  • USAA Redefines Car Buying with Launch of Auto CircleTM: Find, Finance, Insure on Mobile App

    Posted on August 4, 2010 | No Comments
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  • MOG Mobile Music App Now Available for iPhone and Android

    Posted on July 20, 2010 | No Comments
    BERKELEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MOG (www.mog.com), the Web’s best on-demand music listening service, today announced its mobile streaming music application is now available for download through ...

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  • Study Shows High Consumer Demand For Second Mobile Line On A Single Device

    Study Shows High Consumer Demand For Second Mobile Line On A Single Device

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Frost & Sullivan survey for Movius Interactive Corporation reveals coast-to-coast demand for greater flexibility ATLANTA, Ga., U.S.A. – June 9, 2010 – In a new study conducted by Frost & Sullivan for US-based value added services company Movius Interactive Corporation, findings showed a high percentage of...

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  • The Age of the Mobile Mash-Up

    The Age of the Mobile Mash-Up

    Posted on May 29, 2010 | No Comments
    By Lars Erik Holmquist of the Mobile Life Centre, Kista, Sweden The rate of innovation in mobile services is just about to take a quantum leap. We are going from a divergent and messy ecosystem, where every new concept has to be made into a specialized ”app” that works only on a small sub-set of mobile [...]

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  • Mobile TV takes another blow, with Spain dropping plans for adoption

    Mobile TV takes another blow, with Spain dropping plans for adoption

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, mobile TV, you really are taking a beating, aren't you? Despite hopes and promises over the last few years, nothing has really come of it but failures. And now, Spain has abandoned plans to bring the DVB-H terrestrial mobile TV service to its citizens.

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  • Verizon’s Pixi Plus drops to free on contract

    Verizon’s Pixi Plus drops to free on contract

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Say what you will about the Pixi Plus; it may not be the best smartphone in the world, and heck, it might not even be the best webOS device on the block. But you know what? When your net cash outlay is a big, fat zero, it's pretty tough to argue -- especially when you've got dumbphones running $20, $50, $100, or even more. On that note, Verizon dropped the Pixi Plus from $30 to $0 on contract after rebate this week, which makes a pretty compelling case for the thing -- if nothing else, you could just use it for its free mobile hotspot service and pay $50 less upfront than you do for a MiFi (granted, you'll be paying more month to month, but... you know, you've got an actual phone). Now, here's our question: with this kind of insane price pressure, what comes next after free?

    Verizon's Pixi Plus drops to free on contract originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 May 2010 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Virgin Mobile increases value for prepaid broadband data buckets — $60 for 5GB

    Virgin Mobile increases value for prepaid broadband data buckets — $60 for 5GB

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Virgin Mobile’s Broadband2Go prepaid 3G data service made a splash last summer by offering no-contract plans that came close to competing with two-year offerings from the likes of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. The major drawback was that the top plan, at $60, only allowed for 1GB of data usage, whereas you’d get 5GB on a contract plan.

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  • Florida gets its own Tesla dealership

    Florida gets its own Tesla dealership

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    I can see it now. Instead of putzing around in electric golf carts, retirees will soon be cruising in Tesla Roadsters. The car is essentially a gigantic and dramatically more powerful golf cart anyway. It's not like they need to worry about the 244 mile range. The bingo hall and golf course is probably right around the corner from their retirement compound anyway.

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  • iPhone to be sold by Tesco in the UK, hemorrhages cachet

    iPhone to be sold by Tesco in the UK, hemorrhages cachet

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    So we know the iPhone has been slumming it and selling itself on Walmart shelves in the US for a while now, but it's retained a somewhat more dignified cachet over here in Europe. Until today, that is. Just "in time for Christmas," British retailer Tesco will make it possible for you to buy your socks, no-frills groceries, and shiny smartphone all in the same place. You'll still be riding O2's network, thanks to the Tesco Mobile service, but the department store chain is likely to price its contracts more aggressively, as it already has a £30 per month plan that includes unlimited calls, texts, and web surfing. Maybe there's something to this whole "competition" thing after all then, eh?

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    iPhone to be sold by Tesco in the UK, hemorrhages cachet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon “Mobile Web” service currently down

    Verizon “Mobile Web” service currently down

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    We've been getting a slow trickle of tips telling us that Verizon's Mobile Web service is currently down nationwide, with no ETA on a fix. That's Mobile Web, the featurephone service, not, you know, big-boy data, so chances are you're fine -- our various VZW smartphones are unaffected. (Although we did have a dropped call and some spotty voice quality on a DROID this morning -- ruh roh.) We'll let you know if we hear further.

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    Verizon "Mobile Web" service currently down originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • T-Mobile USA down all over the place? (update: yes)

    T-Mobile USA down all over the place? (update: yes)

    Posted on November 3, 2009 | No Comments

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    We're getting reports from sea to shining sea this evening that T-Mobile service is down or intermittent on both voice and data -- particularly bad timing in light of the recent Sidekick drama. We've tested in New York and it's definitely down for us -- both voice and data -- so how's service treating everyone out there?

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Update: We just got an official statement from T-Mobile, and it's confirmed -- service is down. Here's the statement:
    "T-Mobile customers may be experiencing service disruptions impacting voice and data. Our rapid response teams have been mobilized to restore service as quickly as possible. We will provide updates as more information is available."

    T-Mobile USA down all over the place? (update: yes) originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • T-Mobile 3G goes live in Columbia, South Carolina

    T-Mobile 3G goes live in Columbia, South Carolina

    Posted on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Congrats, Columbia, South Carolina! Your town city is the proud new recipient of T-Mobile’s (slowly) expanding national 3G mobile service! Now your citizens have no excuse not to stream your own favorite son’s show, The Colbert Report, to their mobile devices. Or, you know, porn. Crunch Network: TechCrunch obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products [...]

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  • Sprint changes the game, offers up unlimited everything for $69 per month

    Sprint changes the game, offers up unlimited everything for $69 per month

    Posted on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Let's just say it: Sprint is back. First the carrier nabs the hottest handhelds with the Palm Pre, BlackBerry Tour and soon the HTC Hero and Palm Pixi. But that's just the start. Now, it's offering up the $69 Any Mobile, Anytime plan which includes - get this - unlimited calls to any mobile phone, unlimited web surfing, Blackberry access, unlimited Direct Connect, unlimited text, picture, and video, and unlimited weekend minutes start at 7pm. Plus, the plan includes all the little extras like GPS Navigation, Music Premier, TV Premier, NFL Mobile Live, and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. Wowsers.

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  • Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Are Here

    Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Are Here

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Google Voice, previously called Grand Central, is rolling out the first mobile apps for the service this evening. The main function of the apps is to make it easier to use your Google Voice phone number by automatically routing outbound calls through Google and to the recipient. We first mentioned they were coming last month when we broke the news that Google would start letting users port their phone numbers over to the Voice product sometime this year. Google Voice users get a phone number that should be the only number you give out to people. You route calls to mobile, home and other phones based on who's calling and when. But there's always been a nagging problem with the service - when you call out from your phones, people don't see your Google Voice number on caller ID. They just see whatever phone number you are calling from. That means your friends have to store another phone number for you, or they don't know who's calling.

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  • iPhone App Prices Fluctuate As Developers Adjust To OS 3.0; Nav Apps Gain Pricing Power

    iPhone App Prices Fluctuate As Developers Adjust To OS 3.0; Nav Apps Gain Pricing Power

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Ever since OS. 3.0, the latest operating system for the iPhone, launched on June 17, prices among the top 100 apps in the iTunes App Store have been fluctuating wildly as developers push out apps taking advantage of all the new features in the OS. Some of the new features we are starting to see in apps include push notifications, turn-by-turn navigation, cut-and-paste, embeddable maps, access to external accessories, search within apps, and subscriptions. Mobile app distribution service Distimo just put out its June iPhone App store report As you can see from the charts above, the average pricing among the top 100 paid apps was pretty steady until the middle of the month, when developers started to test different price points. The most popular price for an app remained $0.99, but the month of June saw more top apps priced at $1.99, $4.99, and $9.99 (the green bars on the chart above).

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