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Monday, January 17, 2005

TiVo Struggles to Find Its Niche After Quitting a Deal with Cable. How did a nasty philosophical split at TiVo lead to the company's founder being kicked upstairs? By By SAUL HANSELL. [NYT > Business]
11:30:57 AM

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Q&A: Nortel CTO sees big year ahead for wireless. Nortel CTO Brian McFadden talked this week about how consumer devices emerging in 2005 will drive the technologies that corporations eventually adopt -- a reversal of what happened in recent years. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
11:30:37 AM

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Dial-a-Prayer, Upgraded for the Wireless Age. The Holy See stays in touch with the faithful all year by texting "The Papal Thought of the Day" by mobile phone on a daily basis. By By ROBYN CURNOW, International Herald Tribune. [NYT > Technology]
11:10:43 AM

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After 20 Years, Finally Capitalizing on Cool. Apple's iPod ads have firmly established the iPod as the icon of the dawning digital lifestyle and sped 10 million units out the door. By By RANDALL STROSS. [NYT > Technology]
11:10:19 AM

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Is Apple Thinking About Mac TV?. Why did Steve Jobs spend so much time talking about HDTV at last week's Apple announcement? By By JOHN MARKOFF. [NYT > Technology]
11:09:03 AM

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Mobile E-Payments 2005 Forcast. AFX News on Yahoo!, 12 January 2005 The market for electronic settlements via portable handsets such as mobile phones is likely to start growing in Japan in 2005, say brokerage houses. Nomura Research Institute Inc (NRI), a unit of Japan's largest brokerage house Nomura Securities, said in a report ... [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:07:59 AM

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Softbank Offers to Buy Tu-Ka Mobile. Kyodo News, 15 January 2005 Internet investor Softbank Corp has offered to acquire three Tu-Ka mobile service firms from KDDI Corp for more than 200 billion yen, a leading Japanese economic daily reported Saturday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said the three are Tu-Ka Cellular Tokyo Inc, Tu-Ka Cellular... [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:04:34 AM

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Motorola Gain from Samsung's Pain. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. may have gotten a Christmas present from rival cell phone maker Samsung -- the Asian company was slow to beef up its product portfolio in time for the holiday season, giving Motorola's newest feature-rich phones an edge, analysts said. [eWEEK Technology News]
10:37:42 AM

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3G Gets Real. Carriers eye improvements, services for next-gen networks. [eWEEK Technology News]
10:33:36 AM

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SmartServ Completes Acquisition of Prepaid Telcom Distributor KPCCD, Inc.. PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA -- SmartServ Online, Inc., a Mobile Virtual Network... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
10:33:18 AM

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Motorola and Oakley Form Joint Venture. LIBERTYVILLE, IL and FOOTHILL RANCH, CA -- Motorola, Inc. and Oakley, Inc.... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
10:33:00 AM

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Siemens mobile arm for sale or closure. No profits, no future [The Register]
10:14:49 AM

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Blue screen of brain death. I really dislike watching TV. I went cold turkey in 1989 when I went to university. Before that I was a certified TV addict, receiving the standard-issue dose of BBC 1 and 2 each day, with some dabbling in Channel... [Telepocalypse]
10:13:26 AM

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Put that phone down!. We were Skyping my in-laws this morning when I suddenly noticed another way that the traditional phone network has brainwashed us about how telephony should work. My wife wanted to tell her parents that she was coming on a surprise... [Telepocalypse]
10:12:28 AM

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