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Number of Wireless Subscribers Rises by 14% in 2005

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Yes, we know that the numbers are growing, but it’s still quite amazing to hear them every year. CTIA, the Wireless Association, announced on Thursday that 25.7 million new wireless subscribers were added in 2005, bringing the total number of subscribers in the States to almost 208 million. Another interesting stat is that 48.7 billion SMS/Text messages were sent during the last 6 months of 2005. This was a 97% increase from the last sixth months of 2004, when 24.7 billion messages were sent.

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Oxygen Phone Manager II 2.9

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Oxygen Software, a company well-known for its achievements in the field of developing software for mobile phones, today announces the release of Oxygen Phone Manager II 2.9, the newest version of the popular communication software tool for Nokia mobile phones, offering support for more than 20 new mobile phone models. With Oxygen Phone Manager II you can manage the content and settings of your mobile phone from a personal computer in the most pleasant, if not to say joyful, way. You can organize your phonebook, events, tasks and notes, gallery, profiles, FM radio, GPRS and WAP options, call lists and voice records.

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Beanbag Cell Phone Chair

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Beanbag Cell Phone Chair

No batteries needed for this gizmo-hugging device. Get one or two of these mini beanbags, stick them in an accessible location and drop your cell phone/blackberry/PDA/iPod into them when you’re at home. You’ll never lose those little gadgets again. Comes in lots of colors: Neon Green, Turquoise, Orange, Red, Fuschia, Charcoal and White.

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Commodore Gaming Announces Plans To Enter Mobile Games Market In

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Amsterdam, London, February 20th, 2006 – Commodore Gaming outlines its vision in the mobile games market at the 3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona and announces Telcogames as its preferred supplier of mobile games content.

Commodore Gaming, the new mobile, PC and video games joint venture between Commodore International Corporation and The Content Factory B.V., is preparing to roll-out a line of digital content touch screen MediaTowers in mobile phone and game retailers across Europe during 2006. The plan is to open new channels for delivering digital media content, which can include video, music, games and business applications for mobile phones and handheld devices.

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Asus Mypal A636

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Asus Mypal A636

Asus threw everthing into this PDA except the kitchen sink. The Mypal A636 supports 802.11b, Bluetooth and has a GPS. The 3.5 inch TFT-LCD works upright or side ways and supports full screen movie and music playback using built-in Windows Media Player 10 on Windows Mobile 5.0.

The device may seem expensive, but the Asus Mypal A636 is the ultimate in geek tools!

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Commodore Gaming Announces Plans To Enter Mobile Games Market In Distribution Deal With Telcogames

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Amsterdam, Barcelona, February 16th, 2006 – Commodore Gaming outlines its vision in the mobile games market at the 3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona and announces Telcogames as its preferred supplier of mobile games content.

Commodore Gaming, the new mobile, PC and video games joint venture between Commodore International Corporation and The Content Factory B.V., is preparing to roll-out a line of digital content touch screen MediaTowers in mobile phone and game retailers across Europe during 2006. The plan is to open new channels for delivering digital media content, which can include video, music, games and business applications for mobile phones and handheld devices.

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European 3G Users Embracing New Multimedia Mobile Culture

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LONDON—7 February 2006—M:Metrics, the authority on the consumption of mobile content and applications, today announced the findings of its first European Benchmark Surveys. Although 3G users account for a low percentage of mobile phones users overall, 3G users in the U.K. or Germany are as much as five times more likely to use the multimedia capabilities of handsets, with increased levels of messaging, and gaming, watching video and downloading new content for personalization of handsets. With 7.7 percent of its mobile users subscribing to 3G services, the U.K. tops Germany and the USA at 3.2 percent and 1.9 percent respectively.

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Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit for Skype

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Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit for Skype

Sure, you can sit at your computer, plug in a mic and headset and Skype away to your heart’s content, but wouldn’t it be much nicer to be able to use a telephone handset like you used to? Linksys has come up just the thing – a cordless handset that lets you talk via Skype. The kit comes with a base station that plugs into your computer via USB. The handset itself reads and displays your Skype contact list, shows the caller ID via the LCD display and you can dial Skype contacts from there as well. On top of these features, the handset acts like a regular phone as well.

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Modular Cell Phones on the Horizon?

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Not being on a GSM-type network, I’ve always been jealous of folks with SIM cards. It’s so easy for them to get a new phone and just plug their SIM card into the new one and off they go. Not me. I’ve got to make a trip over to the Sprint store and hope they have the right cables to transfer over my address book, and any other data stores I may have. Now, UTStarcom, a California company, is demoing what they claim is the first plug-in cellular phone module at the 3GSM Conference, which started today in Barcelona. From their press release, they say “Equivalent to the size of two SIM cards and less than 3mm thickness, MobileCard technology is designed to enable all the essential functions of a mobile phone. With this technology, a regular phone is reduced to a “shell,” which typically consists of mechanical housing, keypad, LCD, and speakers. Consumers can simply insert the module into the “shell” to have a complete phone.”

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