He also got a peek at the NASA engine shop, shuttle landing facility and control tower, vehicle assembly building, and mobile launch platforms, as well as several other difficult-to-remember locales.
With the strong support of his board and an another supposedly positive earnings call coming later today, it's hard to call Steve's position as "shaky" at the company, but with whispers of infighting, a symbolic battle with Apple over market capitalization, and a do-or-die mobile launch coming up, it's clear that he's under a lot of pressure to deliver.
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And that the very idea of a mobile phone launch has now jumped the shark with this latest bizarre spectacle.
We believe China Unicom is well positioned to benefit from a continued delay by China Mobile to launch the iPhone 5.
It's this kind of marketing prowess, this access to the retail channel that makes this mobile phone launch so important not just for Nokia but Microsoft as well.
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We'll know soon enough if there's truth to these rumblings, but we'd imagine the iOS update would need to be pushed out ahead of the official T-Mobile iPhone launch.
Samsung established its mobile application ecosystem through the launch of Samsung Mobile Innovator in 2008 and the Samsung Application Seller Site followed by Samsung Application Store as another key element of this offering.
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London, UK: 1st August 2011 T-Mobile today announces the launch of You Fix, a unique new mobile phone plan that combines the benefits of pay monthly with the flexibility and spend control of pay as you go.
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According to reports, it is planning to launch mobile applications for Apple and Android products this month.
Worse, he says, was the failure to launch mobile- and tablet-optimized sites simultaneously.
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O2 is making customers' mobile phone numbers truly mobile with the launch of TU Go, a new service that is open to Pay Monthly customers.
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Samsung has chosen to launch its new Galaxy S smartphone on March 14 in New York, after apparently being bombarded with requests from US mobile carriers to launch it on American soil.
Most people launch mobile boutiques as faster and cheaper alternatives to traditional brick and mortar retail, said Jeanine Romo, who launched Le Fashion Truck with business partner Stacey Steffe in Los Angeles in 2010.
This summer, Go Daddy acquired Outright.com, a cloud-based financial management application and the company also formed a partnership with DudaMobile to launch mobile Website Builder, a service that automates the integration of Web and mobile sites to save businesses time and expand their customer reach.
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Meanwhile Phones4U, which has to date focused on selling mobile phones, has announced that it will launch its own mobile service, running on EE's network.
With our limited development and engineering resources, we decided to launch Clio Mobile without BlackBerry support.
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It has made savvy investments in mobile content with the launch of its online services home, Ovi.
Many think that Facebook may launch a mobile device business, and Amazon has already, with the Kindle.
Within the next two months it also plans to launch a mobile-account service that features savings and withdrawals.
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Recently DeNA teamed up with the National Football League and NFL Players Inc. to launch a mobile social card game.
According to a tip we've received, the Shack is gearing up to launch RadioShack Mobile, a no-contract MVNO based on Cricket Wireless.
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For example, fashion brand Burberry made news this past fall when it opted for HTML5 to launch a mobile app based on its new watch.
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Panama is scheduled to launch on mobile devices in early 2008.
Visa plans to launch a mobile application, V.me, later this year.
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Earlier this week, the Virgin Group announced it was in talks with several Chinese phone operators to launch a mobile phone joint venture within the next 12 to 18 months.
All three of those Chinese Internet titans are expanding internationally: Just this week, Baidu teamed up with France Telecom to launch a mobile browser service in Africa and the Middle East.
They spoke on the same day a U.S. official first told CNN that communications intercepts indicated North Korea may be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile in the coming days or weeks.
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