January 28, 2005 articles

Sanyo SCP-5600 approved by FCC

Jan 28 2005 - 03:44 PM ET | Sanyo, Sprint Nextel
The FCC today posted approval documents for the Sanyo SCP-5600 (FCC ID AEZSCP-56H). Sanyo requested short-term confidentiality because, "This design is a basis from which future technological products will evolve." Here's what's known about the Sanyo 5600: * CDMA *...

Yahoo! Local gains SMS feature

Jan 28 2005 - 01:28 PM ET | SMS
Yahoo! Local recently added a feature to its results page that allows computer users to send the search results to a mobile phone via SMS. No fee is imposed by Yahoo!, but standard text messaging fees will apply from mobile...

Cell phone shipments up 24% in Q4

Jan 28 2005 - 01:18 PM ET | In The News
Research firm IDC reported yesterday that fourth quarter mobile phone sales were up 24% over the same quarter last year. A total of 194.3 million units were sold in the quarter and 664.5 million were sold in all of 2004....