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April 02, 2008

[CTIA Wireless] Asus Can't Ship Enough Eee PC, To Unveil New Models at Computex (video)

At the Pepcom event I chat with Asus' President of Personal Mobile Devices, H.C. Hung (pictured) who was unveiling his company's latest cell phones. The Taiwanese company has now grown up from being a PC component suppliers (motherboards et...

[CTIA Wireless] Kyocera Wireless Is Now #6 Handset Maker in the World, Unveils First GSM Phone Ever (video)

At Pepcom's MobileFocus event, I talked to Kyocera Wireless' Communications Director, John Chier, who gave me a roundup of the company's current line-up of CDMA phones as well as its first four GSM phones to be introduced exclusively in...

April 01, 2008

[CTIA Wireless] Mobivox Lets Users Send "Hands-Free" Text Messages Worldwide for 49 Cents (video)

We already met with Mobivox at CES last January when they launched their free calling service. The service lets its members call another member, anywhere in the world. You just call one of their 400 local access numbers, tell...

March 31, 2008

[CTIA Wireless] Opera mini coming on BREW, Google Android Phones. But Lacks Flash Support (video)

Opera mini has been around for about 2.5 years, passing the mark of 40 million users, a billion Web pages downloaded per month and 32 languages. The mini browser goal is to bring the full Web to virtually any...

[CTIA Wireless] invisibleSHIELD Calls Users to Send New Gadgets To Protect For Free, Plans For More Products This Year (video)

Zagg's flagship product is a thin transparent protective film that was developed by the military to protect the leading edge of helicopter blades from debris, etc. Over 1 million of these "invisible shields" were shipped for more than 2,000...

[CTIA Wireless] Flash Memory Prices Falling Inspite Mobile Business Boom, Kingston says

At Showstoppers, I met again with David Leong, PR manager at memory maker Kingston who was showing a 1 GB microSD kit (card+reader) with 2 songs, wallpapers and videos from latin singer Ricky Martin. The kit is exclusively available...

[CTIA Wireless] CTIA Begins At ShowStoppers

I finally arrived at the Wynn hotel (pictured) where ShowStoppers is hosted. You'll find here the list of the 50 or so companies exhibiting. We'll try our best to stop at most of them but my experience is that...

[CTIA Wireless] Welcome to Las Vegas... again!

Here we are again in Las Vegas... 4 months after CES. Actually, I could come every month here for a tech conference. Later this month is NAB for the broadcasting industry and networking show Interop. In April is the...

March 30, 2008

Sold Out CTIA Wireless Show Opens in Las Vegas Next Week

Like many of us in the Bay Area, next week we will be heading for CTIA Wireless, one of largest show for the wireless industry. The main one being Mobile World Congress that happened just last month in Barcelona,...