TMobile USA, announces what Sidekick fans have been craving - the next evolutions of the T-Mobile Sidekick family. Two newly designed devices - T-Mobile Sidekick LX and T-Mobile Sidekick Slide - will hit the streets this fall and both feature the must-have assets that make Sidekick the ultimate messaging device, including the newly launched, custom-designed MySpace application. While Sidekick enthusiasts await the new devices, T-Mobile kicks off Sidekick Nation, a user-generated video contest hosted by MySpace where fans have the chance to show their creativity and win a grand prize that includes $10,000 and a trip to Hollywood to see his/her video highlights aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

There are already plenty of websites where you can download tracks by current music stars at a price. Grundig is charting a different path: The online platform mp3community offers a wide range of music by young artists - free and totally legal. An English version of the platform will be available shortly to handle the increasing amount of hits from outside Germany. In another development, from October artists will be able to upload MPEG4 files, which will then be offered for download along with the MP3 files.

As European deals for Apple's iPhone are announced, the chosen operators will be well advised to learn from the experiences of AT&T Wireless in the US when it comes to billing users, says Analysys the global advisers on telecoms, IT and media. The kick to mobile data usage given by the iPhone in the US market resulted in some subscribers receiving bills that were very large physically - in extreme cases running to hundreds of pages - detailing every mobile data event. AT&T quickly changed the way bills were provided - issuing summaries rather than full details by default - but the issue highlights the mismatch that often exists between users' requirements of bills and operators' perceptions of what users want.

An unprecedented gathering of leading operator CEOs will debate the future of the mobile industry at the GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress at the new Venetian Macau Resort on November 12-15. The chief executives of China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest operator, MTS, Russia’s largest operator, the Chairman and Group Managing Director of Bharti Airtel, India’s largest operator, and the CEO of Mobilink, Pakistan’s largest operator, the Chairman of Smart, the Philippines’ largest operator, Grameenphone, Bangladesh’s largest operator, and Telstra, Australia’s largest operator, will be among the keynote speakers.

Your Electronic Warehouse has announced the start of its iPod Earphone Trade-In Program. This program allows customers who own iPods to trade in their factory earphones for $20 towards a future purchase at Your Electronic Warehouse or Discount Golf World. This promotion allows new iPod owners to maximize their iPod’s potential by getting a pair of high-end headphones from Bose, Shure or Monster. These high-end headphones produce high quality sound and provide excellent comfort that will give the customer the ultimate iPod experience.

At an Enterprise Mobility Day event, Nokia further executed on its commitment to drive the adoption of business mobility by addressing the needs of business users and business managers. The company introduced the Nokia E51, a business smartphone, the latest addition in the Nokia Eseries portfolio, and also showcased it within the context of Nokia mobile unified communications, its strategy for extending mobility to unified communications.

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced it will invest Euro 42 million in its Sound Solutions innovation and manufacturing activities in Vienna, Austria in 2007. This investment will enable NXP to expand fully automated mass production of its unique rectangular speaker generation for mobile phones and develop more innovative products to strengthen its market leadership position in a rapidly expanding sector that is predicted to be up to two billion units in 2008.

PixSense announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian smartphones, by extending the PixSense PSP (Preserve, Share, Publish) Platform to the Symbian 7.x, 8.x, 9.x OS. PixSense’s PSP Platform streamlines and simplifies mobile media management, enabling monetization of user-generated content on smartphones. It will give Symbian smartphone end users the power to easily preserve, share, publish, and manage their digital mobile media and data.

THQ Wireless Inc., a subsidiary of THQ Inc., announced that NFL Gridiron is scheduled to be available for wireless download this September, in conjunction with the commencement of the 2007 NFL season. Featuring all 32 NFL teams, NFL Gridiron will allow football fans around the nation to enjoy adrenaline-charged NFL action anywhere, anytime. NFL Gridiron’s unique 8-on-8 format is designed to allow for a streamlined pick up and play experience. Featuring the hottest names in the NFL, including Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, LaDainian Tomlinson, Brian Urlacher, Reggie Bush, and Matt Leinart, players will control multiple positions including quarterback, running back, kicker and wide receiver with the use of intuitive one press sticky keys.

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