After having a successful partnerships with two of the leading mobile services providers, AirTel and Vodafone, Blackberry has now teamed up with Mumbai’s MTNL. MTNL will now be offering, Blackberry solutions to its customers. Smart phones, services and softwares are a part of this complete solution. MTNL will provide smart phones like, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve 8310 and Blackberry 8700g to its customers under this plan. Apart from the devices, Blackberry will also provide Blackberry Enterprise Server and Blackberry Internet Services. This partnership will certainly help Blackberry to grow its footprint in Mumbai given MTNL’s strong presence. On the top of that, MTNL launched 3G services last year. These can be a good complement for 3G enabled Blackberry devices. Both BSNL and MTNL are making a point to get noticed by mainstream mobile phone users and enthusiasts. BSNL recently teamed up with Nokia to offer it’s 3G services on select Nokia devices.

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Noah gets the new HTC Touch Cruise, a Windows Mobile smartphone with TouchFlo 3D and turn-by-turn GPS navigation. It even comes with a car mount! Read the rest of this entry »

Can You Hold On Honey? I Have to Climb This Mountain Real Quick.

For all you cell phone users out there planning on climbing Mt. Everest, you can breathe a little easier now. Earlier this week Nepal Telecom, Nepals largest telecom company, announced that they plan to build a cell phone tower that will provide coverage for up to 3,000 calls at a time. One can only assume that limit will never be reached.

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Trent Reznor, presumably Rob Sheridan, and possibly a few other folks involved in getting the NIN: access app designed, executed, and approved for the Apple App store are none-too-happy right now. Apparently, Apple suddenly realized that the program offers the end-user *access* to content from the Internet - the place we all recognize as a shady, disgusting realm of profanity and the penultimate sign of the end times.

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