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Verizon Releases new Palm Treo 700wx

February 20th, 2007

Verizon Wireless announced today availability of the new Treo 700wx smartphone from Palm. The 700wx is powered by Microsoft’s powerful Windows Mobile 5.0 with built in Direct Push Technology and Verizon’s high-speed EV-DO networks. Palm 700wx features include: Intel XScale 312MHz processor 240 x 240 color TFT touchscreen display 16-bit color displays over 65,000 colors [...]

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AT&T Selects MediaFLO

February 13th, 2007

Cingular, the wireless division of AT&T, has announced a definitive agreement with Qualcomm’s MediaFLO USA to deliver mobile entertainment and information services. The two companies expect to make the service available to customers in late 2007. Using MediaFLO, AT&T will launch mobile TV services on select phones specifically designed with an intuitive user interface that [...]

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Cingular Introduces Pay-Per-Use Push to Talk Services

January 31st, 2007

Cingular Wireless, sorry, Wireless Service Powered by AT&T is now offering its powerful Push to Talk service on a pay-per-use basis; allowing customers to use the service with out the need of a additional monthly service charge. Business and consumer customers across the country have been enjoying the enhanced features of our Push To Talk [...]

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Retiree wins fight with cell phone company over $30,000 bill

January 29th, 2007

A Florida retiree has won a battle with Cingular Wireless over bills for about $31,000 in calls from Nicaragua he says he never made. The former bank executive says his bill is normally about 150 dollars and he says he hasn’t been to Nicaragua. Oliver DeSofi complained he was defrauded; the company disagreed, tried to [...]

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Cingular Q4 profit nearly quadruples on customer growth during winter holidays

January 25th, 2007

The wireless division of AT&T posted a net income of $782 million a 283% increase over 2005–and its best ever net subscriber additions. Low churn and strong gross additions of 5.5 million led to net subscriber growth of 2.4 million, a record for Cingular Wireless. Fifty-three percent growth in data ARPU helped overall ARPU increase [...]

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Alltel Releases Palm Treo 700p

January 25th, 2007

Alltel Wireless and Palm announced today availability of the Treo 700p smartphone. The Treo 700p adds another Palm OS Treo smartphone to our product portfolio, and joins the Windows Mobile based Treo 700wx. With its robust feature set and ease-of-use functionality, the Treo 700p will meet the demands of Alltel’s business customers who need to [...]