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Gresso unveils extravagant Pure Black mobile phone

Shane McGlaun, Feb 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

Gresso has announced a new mobile phone the falls in the Grand Monaco collection is called the Pure Black phone. Like other products in the Grand Monaco collection, the Pure Black mobile phone is made of materials inspired by supercars. The phone will come in two editions with one called the Pure Black Cayman with crocodile leather on the back. Read The Full Story

Nokia axes 4,000 jobs, begins smartphone customization strategy

Chris Davies, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nokia has announced a further round of job losses, shifting more cellphone production to Asia and turning existing factories elsewhere to "smartphone product customization" to satisfy niche demand. Around 4,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs at Nokia's Komarom, Hungary, Reynosa, Mexico and Salo, Finland facilities by the end of 2012, with the three factories moving to create boutique customized devices for the American and European markets. Read The Full Story

Facebook mobile ads incoming: Video and coupons tipped [Update: Denied]

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook's mobile advertising push is incoming, marketing agencies suggest, as the social network attempts to close off one of its weak spots ahead of the much-anticipated IPO. The dramatic rise in mobile users who, currently, don't see any adverts whatsoever was cited in Facebook's IPO documentation as one of the company's key weaknesses, meaning paradoxically that even as membership increased, revenues could dip. Not for much longer, though, with agency Razorfish confirming to Digiday that it was involved in Facebook ad pilots for mobile. Read The Full Story

NEC to chop 10,000 workers from payroll

Shane McGlaun, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

The axe is set to fall over at NEC Corp in Japan with just about one in 10 of its workers to be cut. NEC has announced that is set to lay off 10,000 workers as it attempts to claw its way out of the red and back into the black. One reason cited for the job losses is stiff competition posed from rivals from foreign countries such as Apple. NEC blames the poor performance and the job cuts on soft demand for its mobile phones. Read The Full Story

Office Depot starts test of PayPal POS system

Shane McGlaun, Jan 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Office Depot is in testing with a new system that will use the PayPal point-of-sell system. The roll out of the PayPal system will be done in a limited number of locations as part of a test. Apparently, the rollout is starting small due to some "rough spots" in the experience with the system. Those rough spots have to do with limitations on who can use the system and the carriers who support the new payment method. Read The Full Story

Samsung to overtake Nokia in 2012 mobile phone shipments

Rue Liu, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [9]

Samsung has already beat Nokia in terms of revenue, but now the South Korean company believes it will overtake the Finnish group in total shipments as well. Speaking to reporters in Las Vegas, Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sung revealed that the company had surpassed Nokia in revenue in the latest reported quarter and is confident it will be able to top Nokia in shipments, becoming the world's largest cellphone maker in 2012. Read The Full Story

Nokia grabs Smarterphone mobile OS for ambitious dumbphones

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nokia has quietly acquired a featurephone OS, Smarterphone, intended to dress the low-cost handsets up in the manner of their smartphone siblings. The acquisition, reported by previous owner Ferd Capital, took place in November last year, though neither Nokia nor Smarterphone have given any public indication of what they might be doing with the software. Read The Full Story

All mobiles phones sold in Chile to be unlocked

Shane McGlaun, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [1]

Mobile phone fans in Chile received some good news this week when the Department of Telecommunications of Chile, Subtel announced that all mobile phones in the country had to be sold unlocked. The rule went into effect right away and will mean that any phone can be taken to any carrier the user wants. Read The Full Story

Text message use declining in some countries

Shane McGlaun, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [1]

Everywhere you go in most parts of the US, you will run across hoards of people that are texting no matter where they are. According to an analyst from M.I.G. Research, Tero Kuittinen, the number of text messages being sent is actually in decline on some parts of the world. Kuittinen cites Finnish Mobile network Sonera and the number of text messages sent on Christmas Eve as proof. Read The Full Story

GSM standard has flaw that allows crooks to take over phones

Shane McGlaun, Dec 27th 2011 Discuss [3]

The GSM standard is widely used on mobile phones of all kinds depending on the carrier you are on. A security researcher is claiming that a flaw in the GSM standard has been discovered that could be exploited by criminals and hackers to give them control of the device. Once that control was going that hacker could force the phone to make calls or send text messages. Read The Full Story

Republic Wireless goes true unlimited

Shane McGlaun, Dec 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

I think we all know that there are few truly unlimited plans left out there for smartphone users. They may say unlimited, but those little asterisks tell us that they actually limit most of the time. It may be a fair-use policy that charges you more after a small amount of free data, or it could be that they just slow your connection to the point that you can't even use your device for data. Read The Full Story