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South Korea’s SK Telecom ( NYSE: SKM ) is ceasing further investment in its Vietnamese subsidiary due to lower than anticipated profits and subscriber growth. However, the company says that it doesn’t plan to withdraw from its S-Fone partnership with Saigon Post and Telecommunication Corporation (SPT), only that it will wait with the 3G network rollout. Korea Times newspaper interviewed a high-ranking SK Telecom, who said: “Since 2003, it has been investing over $150 million in Vietnam attracted by higher growth potential in Vietnam’s telecom market

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SK Telecom to stop investing in its Vietnamese subsidiary

We did expect to see India moving the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) launch date and that’s happening now. The country’s Department of Telecom agreed to delay the launch to March 31st, after carriers said they were not ready with their networks.

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India moves Mobile Number Portability launch date to April

Though we have absolutely no idea about the new Palm Pre Plus, we can guess it will be slightly better than the original Palm Pre. Sometimes the phone will differ on the internal memory or it will feature a better camera. Whatever be it, for those ignorant of the Palm Pre; it has support for Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera with LED flash, 3.5mm headset jack, and a microSD card slot.

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Palm Pre Plus: Pre Launch Talk

After Buzzd , we have another similar service “going Android.” It’s Citysearch, an online local guide, which allows users to browse, search and share local information for over 15 million local business listings, and post reviews to Citysearch directly from their smartphone. Here are the Mobile by Citysearch key features: Submit reviews on the go Share merchant details, reviews and tips via text, e-mail or Twitter Search and sort your city, by location, keywords, category, cost, etc. Access Citysearch content such as user and editorial reviews, editor’s picks and featured merchants Bookmark favorite or view recently viewed destinations Additional tools include Wish Lists and Tip Calculator Finally, it’s worth adding that in addition to Android, Citysearch also works on other platforms such as the iPhone, Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) WebOS, and Blackberry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) devices

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Citysearch goes Android

Hewlett-Packard ( NYSE: HPQ ) has registered the trademark for two terms, explicitly related to mobile handsets and computing: “Zeen” and “Airlife”. While I can’t defend or explain their choice of monikers, they’re certainly intriguing. HP’s been making a little bit more noise on the mobile front lately, with the iPAQ Glisten coming to AT&T last month, and talk about a new social networking app at last spring’s WES, but they’re still not a big deal in the cell phone circle.

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HP Trademarks “Zeen” and “Airlife”

An alpha application for Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s N900 allows the handset to operate as a mouse, keyboard, gamepad, media remote, or PlayStation 3 controller via Bluetooth. As you can see, after a relatively painless pairing process, BlueMaemo enables the N900 to operate as a directional pad

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N900 Rigged As PlayStation 3 Controller

Image credit: New York Times The holy grail of touchscreen technology, a display that allows both capacitive and resistive touch inputs, may soon be a reality. Startup company Touchco has developed their own touchscreen technology that’s not only cheaper than current capacitive touchscreens but also supports pressure-based inputs. Touchco today unveiled their Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance (IFSR) technology that melds the strengths of resistive and capacitive touchscreen into a single display

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Pressure-sensitive capacitive touchscreens with multi-touch coming in 2010!

In a world where 1 out of every 5 US homes have shunned landline phones in favor of a wireless-only lifestyle, it’s clear that wireline phone service is dying a slow death. Every year, more and more Americans are opting to use their mobile phones as their only means of communications. AT&T ( NYSE: T ) apparently wants to hasten the death of the wireline telecom infrastructure that, for decades, was its core business

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AT&T petitions FCC to abandon landline phone connections

Zombies will soon be walking all over our virtual lawns as PopCap Games announced Plants vs. Zombies will be making its way to the iPhone / iPod Touch in late January. The news came from an unlikely source, namely a follow-up comment on PopCap’s Facebook page

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Plants vs. Zombies for iPhone Releasing Late January; Zombies Beware!

Sending text messages while behind the wheel of a two-ton rolling death machine isn’t just dangerously distracting , it’s downright irresponsible. President Obama realized this back in October when he issued an executive order that would ban all federal employees from texting while driving

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Obama’s ban on federal workers’ texting and driving starts today

The new Samsung Corby Pop is believed to be the cheaper version of the Corby S3650, which has been officially launched in India, early this month. This affordable Corby Pop will feature a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 pixels touchscreen display, a 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, music playback, multi instant messaging, and 22MB of internal memory. The price tag of the affordable version of the S3650 is said to be about 7000INR or $150.

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Samsung Corby Pop: Affordable Version of Samsung Corby S3650

HTC’s new HD2 has already shipped into Asia and Europe back in November. The latest update is that it will soon arrive to T-Mobile early next year and will be the T-Mobile’s first smartphone to flaunt 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. This new phone has actually appeared in a leaked YouTube video which shows a new ROM version 2.01 and also a completely new feature of the Sense UI, which is the document tabs

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HTC HD2 for T-Mobile Leaked

When Nokia acquired Trolltech in January 2008 they outlined a clear strategy that they would build a Qt layer on top of both Maemo and Symbian so that developers could create applications that would be cross platform compatible: The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business.

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Maemo, Symbian and Qt are facing internal strife; what was supposed to bind them is tearing them apart

If there’s one card Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) could play to make Windows Mobile relevant again, it’s the Xbox card. A recent job posting pretty much spells out the plans for Windows phones in black and white: “We need a Principle Program Manager who can help drive the platform and bring Xbox LIVE enabled games to Windows Mobile

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Xbox LIVE to Integrate with Windows Mobile

Yesterday I touched on the rumored ‘ Palm Pre Plus ‘ which was spotted in the WiFi Certification Database . Rumors have been making the rounds about said device for some time now, due to launch on Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) in the new year.

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Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus Coming to Verizon in the New Year?

It seems Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) or its carrier partners are not super enthused about the Pixi prospects. The once famous Treo maker has revised its order from Compal Communications, bringing the total number of units ordered from 800,000 to 600,000

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Compal to ship 600,000 Palm Pixi phones in Q4 2009

LG has just announced the launch of its new LG Pastel SU410 handset in Korea. This new LG is sports a simple clamshell design that is sure to attract a majority fashionable individuals. Features of the SU410 are nothing to boast of as it comes with just regular goodies like a 2.8-inch WVGA internal display, an external LED display for notifications, a 2-megapixel camera, DMB TV tuner support , motion sensor, 2GB of internal memory, and an expandable microSD card slot that can hold up to 16GB

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Celebrate Christmas with LG Pastel SU410

There’s an interesting post on Nielsen’s blog , showing which phones, sites and brands U.S. mobile users prefer. And the big winners are… (drums please)… Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) (along with YouTube), Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) and Yahoo

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Nielsen ranks top phones, sites and brands in the U.S. for 2009

Distimo and Skyhook Wireless have teamed up for a new report to show how location-based apps perform across mobile application stores. Without further ado, here are the highlights for November: Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s AppStore has the largest proportion of paid location-based applications (57%) with Blackberry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) second (49%) and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s Android Market third (21%).

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Distimo partners with Skyhook Wireless for location-based apps report; Launches appstores.info

junaio augmented reality client for the iPhone 3GS recently got a major update. Version 1.5 brings tons of improvements, including: Enhanced live overlay and local search features, relying on Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Local Search to display POIs around you. New social features: rating and commenting on scenes generated by other users; scene sorting by popularity; share to Twitter via Twitpic; tagging of links, messages and notes; ability to publish content to multiple social networks.

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junaio 1.5 for iPhone brings better data search and overlay, new social capabilities and improved UI

The Samsung M5650 Lindy is actually a music-centric device, and there’s absolutely no doubt about it especially when you notice the music dedicated keys just below its display. The phone will also feature 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen display, 3-megapixel camera, front video calling camera, FM radio, music player, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, and 50MB of internal storage memory with a microSD card expansion

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Samsung M5650 Lindy

Sony Ericsson’s Elm is now officially a part of the Greenheart line, which popularly is the company’s “project to make handsets from recycled plastics and free from hazardous chemicals to help reduce CO2 emissions.” On the green side the Elm will have E-manuals, and EP300 Greenheart wall charger, a WalkMate application that allows its users to “compare the steps they take with the equivalent journey by car”, and also a Green calculator, which calculates how much CO2 they save through walking. As a phone the Elm is a candybar device and has a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, Google Maps, social networking integration for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, push e-mail, and 280MB of internal memory with microSD card support

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Go Green With Sony Ericsson Elm