The News of the World phone-hacking scandal is a snowball that just keeps growing.
On the handset side, we are also seeing an uptick in world phone products.
Second, the QD sold here will only work in North America, it is not a world phone.
Can an ad sway Britons to forgive and forget the News of the World phone hacking scandal?
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Paul Gascoigne will be one of the four test cases for alleged victims of News of the World phone-hacking.
Samsung pushed past Nokia, and now holds 22.9% of the total world phone market, up from 18.7% a year ago.
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Verizon and Sprint customers have the option of buying a "world phone" that uses CDMA in the U.S. and GSM abroad.
BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850 also offer World Phone capability for international travel to nearly anywhere in the world.
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They also offer 1.2GHz processors, 5MP cameras and are World Phone capable.
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The Leveson Inquiry, which was held at the Royal Courts of Justice, was prompted by the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
James Murdoch has received the unanimous backing of the BSkyB board to remain as chairman following the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
The HTC Merge is also HTC's first Android-based CDMA world phone.
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Little is known about the iPhone 5S, but many expect it to be a world phone that will allow Apple to produce one unit for a multitude of carriers.
David Cameron's communications chief Andy Coulson "has no case to answer" over continuing allegations about his involvement in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, according to government minister Alan Duncan.
"Motorola PHOTON Q will be the first 4G LTE device with a QWERTY keyboard and world phone capabilities to join the Sprint line-up, " said David Owens, vice president - Product Development, Sprint.
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The iPhone 4S will be a world phone that can switch between different network standards, both CDMA and GSM, and will be available through all three major U.S. carriers as well as through Apple itself.
Business travelers that have generous corporate budgets and diverse destinations will probably want to rent a phone at the airport, or perhaps buy a world phone and ask their IT departments to ensure seamless use abroad.
The number of new phones with Google software announced so far at CES is far greater than those of any other platform, including RIM (one: the BlackBerry Curve 9370 world phone for Verizon Wireless) and Apple (none).
The News of the World phone hacking scandal, which cost the jobs of top level News Corporation (NWS) executives over the last 10 days, has lit a fire under the armchair and desktop activists in the media reform movement.
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Pearse and others dream of unifying the mess, with a box that blends both optics and electronics, fusing the circuit-switched world of phone calls and packet-switched world of Internet data.
The A840, their new world-phone which works on both CDMA and GSM networks.
Next month will see Microsoft show the world Windows Phone 8 and the smartphone operating system they hope will confirm them as the third platform.
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He may raise questions about the wisdom of Mr Cameron's decision to hire the editor who resigned from the News of the World when phone hacking was first revealed and to befriend Rupert Murdoch's right-hand woman.
Is the addition of another browser in the online world and another phone option essential or even helpful in making the world more connected?
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At CES, ION will also unveil an innovative Bluetooth Cordless Phone System, the world's first home phone system built specifically for smartphones.
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The report sheds some light on the growing ecosystems in the mobile phone world.
After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.
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It's no secret that Google is keen to become a pivotal player in the mobile phone world.
But in a multichannel, satellite TV, computer-and-cell phone world, the Jackson memorial could have an audience in the hundreds of millions.
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