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SingTel unearths another SMS World Record for Singapore

­A Singapore web programmer has beaten the world record for the fastest typist of a text message on a mobile phone.  more

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SKoreans named world texting champs

Two South Korean teenagers have been crowned fastest texters in the world. more

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Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone bill

Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. more

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Record result in Q4 for India - but Q1 09 looks set to beat it

India is the world's second largest mobile market behind China and it has seen extraordinary levels of growth in recent quarters. The first three quarters of 2008 all saw net additions in excess of 25m, and Q4 08 went one better with a gain of 31.58m, an all-time Indian and world record. The number of connections in India stood at 346.77m at the end of 2008 with annual growth of 48.5%, compared to 60.8% in 2007.  more

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Ericsson pushes HSPA to Offer 56Mbps Mobile Download Speeds

Ericsson says that it will break its own HSPA world record with the world's first demonstration of HSPA multi-carrier MIMO technology, providing peak downlink data rates of 56Mbps, at the CTIA Wireless exhibition.  more

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Spinning carbon nanotubes spawns new wireless applications

..litary and consumer audiences The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its world-record-breaking carbon nanotubes. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered new uses by spinning carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into lo more

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Breakthrough for post-4G communications

With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.  more

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modu Secures $38.5 Million Initial Order for its Mobile Phones

Israeli handset vendor, modu has announced an exclusive agreement with Lynk Communications to distribute modu phones and modu jackets in the Philippines, with agreements in several other countries in the region to be announced at a later date. An initial order of modu phones and modu jackets, valued in total at $38.5 million, will hit the region beginning in the 2nd quarter 2009.  more

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Qualcomm Invests in Modular Mobile Phone Concept

Israeli based handset developer, modu has reportedly secured a US$7 million investment from Qualcomm's venture capital division. Local newspaper, Calcalist reported the investment last week.  more

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JCB Breaks Record for Worlds Toughest Mobile Phone

The ultra-rugged JCB Toughphone has achieved a Guinness World Record for the World's Toughest Mobile Phone. To fulfil the Guinness World Record requirements, the record attempt had to be witnessed by independent judges who would act as testers once the phone had been dropped and who would also verify the height the JCB Toughphone had been dropped from.  more

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