December 14, 2005 articles


Motorola PEBL launched by T-Mobile USA

Dec 14 2005 - 06:31 PM ET | Motorola, T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA launched the Motorola PEBL today, shortly after putting it up on the online store as "coming soon". The PEBL is a smoothly designed clamshell that was fashioned after pebbles found in streams (seriously). Feature wise, the PEBL stacks...

Visto inks licensing deal with NTP

Dec 14 2005 - 03:28 PM ET | Data
Wireless email upstart Visto today announced a patent licensing deal with NTP. NTP is of course in a viscous patent lawsuit with wireless email leader Research In Motion. Terms of the deal were not announced, but Visto will not be...

Amp'd inks major content deals

Dec 14 2005 - 02:32 PM ET | MVNO
Amp'd Mobile has announced content deals this week with MTV, CBS and UPN. MTV's addition is especially important considering the company also controls Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, MTV2, mtvU, TV Land, Spike TV, Logo and iFILM. CBS will bring clips...

South Korea to standardize ports

Dec 14 2005 - 02:18 PM ET | Accessories
In another sign that the Korean mobile phone industry is just showing off (as if satellite TV wasn't enough), the three major operators have decided to standardize sync and charge ports for every phone. That means one phone's charger will...