One mobile phone industry source told BBC News that the new tax was "not a favourable approach" and could be "detrimental" to the industry, especially as it raises fears of customers being taxed for other short term projects.
He told the court that voicemail messages on the duchess's mobile phone "were intercepted for the News of the World over a considerable period of time".
The result, CGNet Swara (roughly, the "voice of Chhattisgarh") is a voice portal that allows anyone with a mobile phone to record or listen to news and items of interest.
From the promotional videos on its Web site, it's clear that Tapwave is gunning to compete against Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), whose N-Gage mobile-phone and gaming device should hit the market in early October.
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He reportedly took extreme care to ensure he was not a target for assassination, moving carefully through Gaza and never carrying a mobile phone, a friend told the AFP news agency.
CNN's breaking-news feed on Twitter was launched three years ago by James Cox, a British web developer, as a way to get CNN news alerts on his mobile phone, said CNN spokeswoman Jennifer Martin.
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Executives at News International, the UK arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, say they were unaware until today of allegations that the mobile phone of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler was hacked at the instigation of the News of the World.
It also had positive news to report in its "mobile phone" business, where it sold 77 million (up from 73 million last quarter) dumb, feature and Asha handsets, the latter comprising 6.5 million of the total figure.
Mr Cameron set up the Leveson Inquiry in July 2011 after it emerged journalists working for the Sunday tabloid the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Arun Sarin , the embattled chief executive of British mobile phone giant Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ), put on a brave face Monday as he responded to calls for his resignation.
On their heels is top global mobile phone provider Vodafone Airtouch (nyse: VOD - news - people ), held by three of the funds.
The U.K. government ordered the inquiry in July amid a public outcry over a scandal at News of the World involving interception of mobile-phone voice mails of crime victims, politicians and celebrities in pursuit of scoops.
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Nikhil Hutheesing , editor of the Forbes Wireless Stock Watch, has it on his "buy" list, along with mobile-phone distributor Cellstar (nasdaq: CLST - news - people ), which trades at 13 times forward earnings.
This is just slightly below the 44% annual gain for the iShares MSCI Mexico Index (amex: EWW), which is heavily concentrated in mobile phone monopoly America Movil (nyse: AMX - news - people ), which has soared 67% in the past year.
They've got to be better than the utterly unscientific "text-in" voter surveys, in which Fox News and MSNBC invited viewers to weigh in by mobile phone texting.
Though so far it has stayed away from the PDA-combo product class--it's leaving that to its mobile phone joint venture with Ericsson (nasda: ERICY - news - people )--Sony is playing the percentages by producing PDAs that will appeal across a pretty wide spectrum.
The Journal reported in October that Huawei made a pitch this year to Iranian government officials to sell equipment for a mobile news service on Iran's second-largest mobile-phone operator, MTN Irancell.
Mr. Leveson's inquiry, which began hearings last autumn, came in the wake of an uproar over illegal mobile-phone voice-mail hacking and alleged bribes-for-scoops at News Corp.
An image recognition service on a mobile phone looked a lot like something Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) demonstrated in the spring.
Industry insiders say Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) over the future of the mobile-phone market.
Its Bharti Airtel, in which SingTel and Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) hold stakes, nation's biggest mobile phone operator.
Apple's iPhone is the first reader-friendly mobile phone, and the latest update to its software, due shortly, will enable news providers that currently give away content on the iPhone to start charging for it.
Seybold is still bullish on the long-term prospects of Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which has made progress penetrating the European mobile phone market with its code division multiple access wireless technology.
Our tipster doesn't have information on how those invites are going to be determined, other than the fact that it's Google doing the inviting -- if we had to guess, current registered developers are a strong possibility -- but the good news, we suppose, is that T-Mobile will apparently sell the phone directly at some to-be-determined point in the future.
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This was great news for the taxpayer, but has had the opposite effect on the mobile-phone market.
It's no secret that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is keen to become a pivotal player in the mobile phone world.
The program notes that a mobile phone will be assigned to each participant, courtesy of America Movil (nyse: AMX - news - people ), a wireless-phone company controlled by Slim.
Called The Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs, its report calling for restrictions on mobile phone and WiFi usage was finalised over a week ago but is only just finding its way into the news media.
The hearing was the first time Mr Coulson, who was News of the World editor from 2003 to 2007, has been questioned about people's mobile phone voicemail being hacked into.
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