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Rumor: iPhone Will Allow Tethering

Friday, August 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

An apparently legitimate e-mail from Steve Jobs says that Apple is in discussion with AT&T about allowing computers to use a "tethered" iPhone to get wireless Internet access.

Source(s): Gizmodo

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Google Android Phones Get App Market

Thursday, August 28, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Customers for upcoming Google Android-based mobile devices will be able to download applications for it from the Android Market.

Source(s): CNET

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AT&T Rolls Out New International iPhone Data Plans

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

AT&T has added two new iPhone data plans that should make using Apple's smartphone outside the U.S. cheaper.

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More Airlines About To Add WiFi

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The CEO of Aircell, the company that started providing Internet service on some American Airlines flights, said that up to four other airlines are moving forward with the service.

Source(s): InformationWeek

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QuickBooks Comes To iPhone, BlackBerry

Monday, August 25, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Intuit announced that its its QuickBooks Online application will now work with both Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones.

Source(s): Intuit press release

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Google, Verizon Getting Cozy?

Friday, August 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google and Verizon could become partners should their reported mobile pact go through.

Source(s): The Wall Street Journal

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American Airlines Launches In-Flight Internet

Thursday, August 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

American Airlines will make broadband Internet service available on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft during nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami.

Source(s): The Inquirer, InformationWeek

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Treo Pro Photos Leaked, Palm May Announce Today

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Photos and a video of the Palm Treo Pro briefly made it onto the Palm Web site, while one of its media agencies indicated that the new smartphone may be officially announced today.

Source(s): The Register, CNET

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Apple Extends MobileMe Accounts 60 Days

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Apple is tacking on 60 days of free service to MobileMe accounts to thank users for their patience since the service's shaky start in July.

Source(s): Macworld

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Mozilla, Others to Develop Smartphone/Laptop Hybrid

Monday, August 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Seven companies, including Mozilla, are working on a Linux-based mobile device that would fall somewhere in between a smartphone and a laptop.

Source(s): InfoWorld

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Lenovo Takes on MacBook Air (Again) With ThinkPad X301

Monday, August 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Six months after Lenovo unveiled the ThinkPad X300 laptop, its first challenge to Apple's MacBook Air, expect an ultraportable follow-up from the vendor: the ThinkPad X301.

Source(s): The Tech Herald, DailyTech

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Sun Open Sources Java ME Tools

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Sun Microsystems has open-sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications under the "GPLv2 with Classpath Exception" license.

Source(s): CNET, The Register

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Google Readies Smartphone for Mid-September Release

Friday, August 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Rumors appear to be solidifying that Google's Android-based smartphone will hit market next month.

Source(s): Wired, VentureBeat

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Banking Giant Considering Switch to iPhone

Thursday, August 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Worldwide banking presence HSBC is considering moving from the BlackBerry to the iPhone as its standard mobile device for its hundreds of thousands of staff.

Source(s): ZDNet

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Sony Ericsson Touchscreen Smartphone Due in October

Thursday, August 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Reports are that the Sony Ericsson Experia X1, the company's first Windows Mobile-based smartphone, featuring a touchscreen and slideout keyboard, will hit the market in early October.

Source(s): The Register, IntoMobile

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Best Buy to Sell iPhones

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Starting some time after Labor Day, Best Buy will begin retail sales of the Apple iPhone.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Dell Updates Latitude Laptop Line

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Dell has added the E series to its Latitude line of laptops, one of which put the computer maker head to head with Apple's MacBook Air.

Source(s): PC Magazine, Forbes

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HP Announces EliteBook Mobile Workstations

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Hewlett-Packard has announced a trio of EliteBook laptops equipped with professional graphics capabilities.

Source(s): VNUnet, Laptop Logic

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HP Bolsters ProCurve Arm With Colubris Acquisition

Monday, August 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

HP is expanding its presence in the wireless space with a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of wireless networks.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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IBM Unfolds Its Mobile Hand With Raft of Announcements

Friday, August 8, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

IBM is throwing more weight behind its mobile efforts with new software and services designed to make users' smartphones more like their PCs.

Source(s): Network World, Computerworld

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Sybase Launches Unwired Enterprise Platform

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

At its annual users conference, Sybase demonstrated the Sybase Unwired Platform, a new architecture for deploying mobile applications throughout a business.

Source(s): InformationWeek, BusinessWire via Forbes

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Delta Airlines to Offer WiFi

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Delta Air Lines has announced plans to offer passengers fee-based WiFi on all domestic flights.

Source(s): Engadget, Associated Press

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LiMo Foundation Signs Up New Partners, Devices

Monday, August 4, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

The open-source mobile consortium, a rival to Google Android and Nokia's Symbian Foundation, announced eleven new company members and several new devices.

Source(s): ChannelWeb

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Location-Based Mobile Social Networking Poised for Growth: Report

Friday, August 1, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Revenue from location-based mobile social networking services will reach $3.3 billion by 2013, according to new research from ABI.

Source(s): Social Media Portal

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Apple: We Fixed MobileMe

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Apple's rocky transition from .Mac to MobileMe has been well-documented since the online service's official launch July 12. Now the company says it has fully restored its e-mail service, including historical messages.

Source(s): AppleInsider

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Samsung Hooks Up With GyPSii for Location-Based Mobile Services

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Samsung has signed a multiyear deal with GyPSii, creator of a location-based social networking service that will initially come embedded on Samsung's touchscreen Omnia and SGH-i780 handsets.

Source(s): Tech.Blorge, ChannelWeb

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BlackBerry Gets Security Patch

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Research in Motion (RIM) has issued a patch for for BlackBerry software that addresses a "highly critical" security flaw in the system's handling of PDF files.

Source(s): The Register

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Still in Limbo: AT&T's Free Wi-Fi Promise for iPhone Users

Friday, July 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Reports that AT&T has finally made good on its promise to offer iPhone users free access to 17,000-plus Wi-Fi hotspots are not true. Or, more accurately, no longer true.

Source(s): Ars Technica, MacNN

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Palm Introduces Treo 800w Smartphone

Monday, July 14, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Sprint and Palm unveiled the Treo 800w Windows Mobile-based smartphone with integrated GPS and EV-DO wireless broadband.

Source(s): PC World, Gizmodo

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Apptix Intros Hosted Exchange Service for Apple's iPhone 3G

Friday, July 11, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

This morning brought with it Apple's iPhone 3G; this afternoon, Apptix is targeting SMBs with a hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 service via ActiveSync for the new phone.

Source(s): InformationWeek, TMCnet

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