Rumors about the mythical GPhone or are alive once again. This time it's between computer maker Dell and obviously Google. According to , senior industry sources claim this scheming tandem will be revealed at the upcoming 3GSM conference in Barcelona, Spain.

You might have notice some cryptic 2-dimensional bar codes while browsing online. That's called Quick Response (QR) code. Compared to ordinary bar codes found in malls, it can store more information and character types while maintaining its small size.

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Stalinist North Korea has contracted with the Egyptian company Orascom Telecom to provide mobile phone service in the communist country. North Korea began mobile service in November 2002 but within 18 months banned the service for ordinary citizens and recalled handsets. It is believed the network is still available for government officials.

The deal will give Orascom Telecom a 25-year lease throughout the country, with an exclusivity period of four years.

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Comstar UTS, a Russian land-line operator, announced today that it has started building a mobile broadband network using WiMax technology in Armenia. Comstar will buy base station equipment from Airspan Networks.

“We intend to launch the network this year and, therefore, become the first and the largest wireless broadband Internet operator in Armenia,” Comstar’s president, Sergei Pridantsev, said in a statement.

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If you are too lazy to unlock your keypad and read your text messages, you will surely love - a new mobile application enabling Nokia Nseries users to read SMS just by shaking their mobile phones.

The video shows how it works. Just shake your phone to read the message even if the keypad is locked, read the message, shake it again to return to the main menu and lock the keypad.

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Analysis from growth consulting company Frost and Sullivan predicts that Africa’s demand for mobile Internet access will increase between 40% and 50% between 2006 and 2009. It is thought that this expansion is due to the continent’s lack of sufficient fixed line structure and the reduced cost of handset and mobile internet service prices.

“The poor state of fixed line infrastructure is creating the potential for the African …

Although the idea behind Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech is to develop cross-platform applications and complement Symbian OS, this could be damaging to Symbian over the long haul. According to an analyst at :Currently, Nokia only offers Linux based MIDs …

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Connectivity Scorecard, a system that ranks countries on around 30 indicators that measure how will a country boosts its social and economic prosperity through telecommunications technologies, puts the United States at the head of the list. The system was created by London Business School professor Leonard Waverman to examine how well countries utilize networks, cell phones and computers.

The study was paid for by Nokia Siemens Networks. …

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T-Mobile USA added 951,000 subscriptions between October and December of 2007. This gives the country’s fourth largest mobile phone company a subscription customer base of 28.7 million. T-Mobile’s sales were up 14.6% over 2006 numbers.

Shareholders of Deutsche Telekom AG, the T-Mobile parent company, were asking for the sale of T-Mobile USA last year. Chief Executive Rene Obermann fended off those demands last June, saying that …

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Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi thinks that over 25% of iPhones sold in the United States may have been unlocked. Sales numbers from Apple and AT&T revealed about 1.45 million phones were “missing in action” at the end of 2007.

AT&T is thought to hold 480,000 handsets as inventory, leaving another 1 million phones, or 27%, that Sacconaghi said were unlocked so they could work on non-AT&T networks. Apple has refused to say how many iPhones are unlocked but said the number is significant.