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1. Nokia’s profit down 90%

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... said it sold 93 million cellphones during the quarter, down 19% from 115 million in the same period last year. Revenue from handset sales fell 33% to $8.17 billion. Overall company sales dropped from $16.8 ...

2. 60 million U.S. consumers may cut down on their cellphone usage

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   The recessions may soon be impacting cellphone usage as a new survey suggests that two out of five Americans with contract-based cellphones are thinking about cutting down on their cellphone expenses. ...

3. Outsourcing wave to hit Hollywood actors

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... data will be transmitted and not video data anymore. Face data, animation data, voice, all done. If we think about GPGPU-accelerated iPhones, you could even do this on a cellphone, and pretty soon. The ...

4. Flash growth to slow, SSDs not selling as well as expected

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ...  The primary reasons for this scenario is the cellphone industry which is expected to post decline in shipments for 2008. Demand for digital cameras, MP3 players and USB memory sticks is still on the rise, ...

5. 3G iPhone to be available worldwide from day 1

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... The new sales policy is a logical step in the right direction. Gizmodo claims that the iPhone has clearly "solidified its position as the cellphone to beat during last twelve months," concluding that the ...

6. 10 things I have learned about the iPhone

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... out quickly I could drain the battery. The conclusion of the first week: The phone has serious flaws, but it is good enough to have changed the way I am using my cellphone and notebook. Opinion – ...

7. Citizen journalists get around Chinese censorship

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   ... beatings and government corruption.  But these reporters don’t tote around huge video cameras and fancy microphones – they post on blogs and snap pictures with their cellphone cameras. ...

8. Firm DRAM contract prices to persist through November

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

     Although sequential growth of DRAM contract prices weakened in the second half of October, DRAMeXchange said the firm pricing environment is likely to persist through November amid a worsening supply ...

9. Cell phone talking worse than driving drunk - study

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... the study. 40 test subjects drove a simulated highway while undistracted, drunk and talking on a cellphone. The cell phone using drivers crashed three times, while the drunk drivers surprisingly did OK. ...

10. Research group says 'quadruple play' the wave of the future

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ABI Research believes that a bundling of wireless broadband with traditional telephone, television and Internet services are about to arrive in the US. Dubbed in the telecommunications industry as the ...

11. How Spammers Are Targeting Mobile Phones in Asia

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      If you thought your spam problems couldn't get any worse, check your mobile phone. If you thought your spam problems couldn't get any worse, check your mobile phone. "Cellphones are becoming the ...