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Yahoo! has broadened the mobile search service, ONESearch, to users in Europe and Canada, with the goal of providing locally relevant results.
The search was initially introduced to US customers in March 2007, now the service will be available in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.
The ONESearch service in addition to the search feature [...]

Navigation on mobile handsets will be the next big thing in mobile, following the camera craze.
According to some researchers, the navigation products market is set to grow in 2007 by about two thirds from 2006. Analysts are estimating the mobile navigation market at hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nokia already entered the market a [...]

New York City is the first city to upgrade its 911 and 311 call centers to handle picture messaging. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to bring the new technology to city’s call centers to enrich the information provided during the emergency and non-emergency calls. Everyone knows that a picture is worth [...]

Nimbuzz launched a voice enabled mobile client, designed to support more than 500 mobile phone models and all Internet capable mobile phones.
Internet capable phones do not require software downloads since calls can be made using a mobile browser.
The software needed for non-Internet mobile phones is free to download and users only pay the lowest local [...]

According to a post on Cleveland Leader, Google is planning to join the mobile phone market with its own device. Apparently, they are in talks with Orange, French mobile phone maker.
The expectations are that the phone will feature many Google applications or services like mobile gmail, map services, and not to forget mobile advertisement.
The [...]

According to Reuters, South Korea is trying to control mobile phone usage amongst teenagers. Up to this point teens were ringing up large phone bills and parents had no way to control them. “My daughter’s phone bill always causes me stress,” Cho said. “I scold her all the time over it and [...]

Korean inventor Seok Hong Jeong has developed a cellphone with dual LCD displays. The phone when not in use, looks just like any other candybar phone. The easily convertible phone can be transferred into a dual display unit. The cellphone design promises an enhanced web browsing experience and viewing mobile media content. The cellphone idea [...]

According to Brighthand, there are two different types of Windows Mobile used in Smarthphones. There are differences between them, so the end user purchasing a smartphone should understand which operating system he/she is buying.
It is hard to tell by just looking at the phone which version comes with the unit, since most smartphones have [...]

Vnunet.com reports that analysts predict that there will be more than two billion mobile subscribers by the end of 2005 with a swift increase of mobile users jumping to three million before 2009 ends.
As a result of the high number of subscribers, mobile operators are forced to absorb a lot of the cost to support [...]

Later this year BT will provide mobile TV offering. The BT Movio service will start a four-month trial with 1,000 participants in the M25 area to get ready for the prime time this summer.
BT Movio will initially only be available on Virgin Mobile - the pair are currently negotiating how long the period of [...]