Meanwhile, it has signed agreements with Asian mobile-phone carriers outside of Japan to distribute its hot-selling iPhone in the past 12 months.

与此同时，苹果在过去一年里还与日本以外的亚洲手机运营商签署协议，销售其热卖的iPhone手机。

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It is getting harder to find good excuses for being offline: this week the European Union allowed airlines to offer in-flight mobile-phone service, and several carriers have Wi-Fi.

而找一个不在线的好理由变得越来越难：这周，欧盟允许航空公司提供空中移动电话服务，很多飞机上都有无线网络。

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By partnering directly with Google as well as with mobile carriers, HTC has leaped ahead of many other cell-phone makers in the Android market.

除了跟Google和一些移动运营商合作，HTC已经比许多传统手机制造商在Android市场上领先了。

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And Microsoft looms large as well, with its software on 140 phone models available from 160 mobile-phone carriers.

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It is getting harder to find good excuses for being offline: this week the European Union allowed airlines to offer in-flight mobile-phone service, and several carriers have Wi-Fi.

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As part of the agreement, wireless carriers will also roll out initiatives to encourage mobile-phone users to set up passwords on their devices to deter theft.

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