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Articles tagged with: Atlanta
Seattle, Atlanta And D.C. To Get First Mobile TV Tests
A coalition of TV broadcasters on Monday said they plan to use Seattle, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., as test markets for digital mobile TV services this year. more
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Sun Dial uses mobile phones to alert Muslims to prayer
Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it's only natural that many of them will be using their gadgets to help them enrich their spiritual life as well. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a mobile application known as Sun Dial, which alerts Muslim users when it's time to perform the five daily prayers known as salat. The device is currently being discussed this week at the human-computer interaction conference, CHI, in Boston. more
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Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
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Sprint Outlines WiMAX Expansion Programme
USA network, Sprint Nextel has announced the next markets in its WiMAX network rollout. The network is being folded into the national WiMAX network being built by its joint-partner, Clearwire. Sprint says that it plans to deploy WiMAX in many markets in 2009, including: atlanta, Honolulu, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelphia, DallasFort Worth, Portland and Seattle more
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Asking Teens to Turn Down Their Music Player is Counter-Productive
A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher. more
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3G Upgrade for Indiana and Atlanta
T-Mobile USA is close to signing a network upgrade contract in the Indiana market to add 3G services to its base stations. The work on these sites should start by the end of December and be substantially completed by the end of the first quarter of 2009. more
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Nokia Offers Location Based Mobile Advertising
Nokia has announced a new offering that lets advertisers target their mobile campaigns to consumers in 10 major metro areas of the United States on Nokia's mobile advertising agency platform. more
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Nokia Teams up with Visa for Mobile Money Trials
Credit card processor, Visa and Nokia have announced plans to deliver Visa payment and payment-related services - including contactless payments, remote payments, money transfer, alerts and notifications - for Nokia phones beginning with the Nokia 6212 Classic, expected to be available starting October 2008. more
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T-Mobile USA Expands 3G Coverage to 13 Cities
T-Mobile USA has announced the expansion of its 3G coverage to 13 major markets and the signing of a raft of new backhaul agreements to cope with the increased traffic across its network. T-Mobile USA confirmed that it was on track to expand its 3G service to 27 major markets in the United States by the end of 2008. more
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Hands-Free Law Helps Boost Sales of Bluetooth Headset Devices
California cell phone users have learned that driving and dialing is a thing of the past. Sales of Bluetooth headset devices surged in the months prior to the new law going on the books, according to market research company, The NPD GroupĂ's store level data. more
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