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New CEO for Research In Motion (RIM)

Canada's mobile giant Research In Motion (RIM) known for the BlackBerry resigned earlier this week after a year of lows for the company.

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Smart phones exceeded sales PCs for Q4 2011

Vendors shipped 158.5 million smart phones in Q4 2011, up 57% on the 101.2 million units shipped in Q4 2010. This quarter took total global shipments for the whole of 2011 to 488.0 million units, up 63% on the 299.7 million smart phones shipped throughout 2010.

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Payphones A New Option for Resellers

With the explosion in mobile phone technology dealers could be forgiven for thinking the days of traditional payphones are numbered, but not according to Jeff Wilkes who says when times are tough businesses are always looking for ways to save money, control costs and create a revenue stream.

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Microsoft to buy Skype

Confounding expectations that it would be Facebook that eventually went for Skype, it has emerged yesterday that Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for US$8.5bn.

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Machine to Machine (M2M) focused mobile network operator announces

Enterprise quality connection over 3G keeps businesses connected in an emergency. Stream Communications offers small business to large enterprise easy, robust insurance against a range of disaster scenarios Instant failover for Internet access and digital communications Provide temporary connectivity to remote sites.

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