PC World – At RIM’s annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium, the company revealed two new BlackBerry smartphones, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and the BlackBerry Bold 9650. The Bold 9650 is headed to Sprint on May 23 while the Pearl 3G will be available on multiple carriers in May. RIM also announced BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5, a voice-over-Wi-Fi service for business users.
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AP – Shaw Communications, which provides cable, high-speed Internet and phone services in Canada, said Monday that it plans to roll out a next-generation wireless service.
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PC World – County Executives of America (CEA), along with mobile broadband company M2Z Networks, has proposed to build a free wireless broadband network across the 700 counties that are members of the trade group.
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Ben Patterson – Zune users have been able to sync their music and videos over Wi-Fi for years now — not so for patrons of the iPhone or iPod Touch, which can only sync up files via USB tethering. That said, an enterprising developer is looking to change the game when it comes to wireless iPhone and/or iPod Touch syncing … if Apple will let him, that is.
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Macworld.com – Next Mobile Web’s free Craigsphone app, an iPhone interface for the popular online classifieds service Craigslist, has been updated to 2.0.
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NewsFactor – If you were hoping to get fixed up with Google’s Nexus One on the Verizon Wireless network this week, you’re in for some disappointment. But Google, which markets and sells the HTC-made Nexus One, wants you to get its “cousin.”
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AP – Authorities seized computers, digital cameras, a cell phone and other items from a technology blog editor who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype. -
PC World – Net neutrality rules proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could upset a complex mobile telecom marketplace and lead to fewer handset choices and fewer smartphone applications, a mobile trade group said Monday.
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Reuters – Google Inc said it no longer plans to offer a version of its Nexus One smartphone for the Verizon Wireless network and will change its distribution plans in Britain, underscoring the challenges facing the Internet search company as it expands into the mobile phone market. -
AP – Google has scrapped its plan to sell a Nexus One phone that works on Verizon Wireless’ network, the most widely used in the U.S.



