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U.S. mobile-phone sales take a hit (CNET via Yahoo! News)
Mobile-phone makers are already feeling the pinch in the U.S. market of an economic slowdown amid tough competition.
U.S. Mobile Phone Sales Decline 13 Percent (PC Magazine)
Television may be flying off the shelves, but U.S. sales of mobile phone handsets declined about 13 percent over the last year, according to a Tuesday report from The NPD Group.
Contest begins for best mobile phone application (The MetroWest Daily News)
AT&T Inc. is billing it as a “high-tech version of ‘American Idol’ ”: a competition to find the best mobile phone application in New England.
The NPD Group: U.S. Consumer Mobile Phone Unit-Sales Declined 13 Percent Year-over-Year in Q2 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.----According to The NPD Group, the leader in market research for the wireless industry, mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the U.S. totaled 28 million units in the second quarter of 2008, which is a 13 percent decline since the same period a year ago.
Nokia Shows off Carbon Fibre Mobile Phone (Cellular-News.com)
Nokia has shown off a new "premium" mobile phone - the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte, which the company says has been engineered from carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel.
Visa, Banks In Mobile Alert Pilot Eight North American banks to participate in pilot around mobile phone alerts for ... (Finance Technology Network)
Visa is launching a pilot program with eight banks in North America in which it will test a new mobile phone alert program.
NTC: 70% of Pinoys use mobile phone (Sun Star)
ABOUT 70 percent of Filipinos are using mobile phone, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said.
ZTE Aims to Be Top-5 Mobile Phone Manufacturer Within 3 Years (Cellular-News.com)
China's ZTE has set itself the daunting target of becoming on of the world's top five mobile phone vendors within the next three years. The company is currently ranked 6th in the world.
Middle East fuels Samsung mobile phone growth (Mena Report)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone and telecommunication equipment provider, announced that it has posted its fifth consecutive quarter, selling 45.7 million handsets in the quarter, 22 per cent higher than the same period in the previous year thanks to strong demand in emerging markets.
Mobile phone groups lag in broadband market (Financial Times)
Mobile phone operators look set to be second-tier players in the fixed-line broadband market. Orange is the mobile operator with the largest number of fixed-line broadband customers, at 1.1m, but it has been suffering significant problems.
