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FreedomPop Dangles Unlimited Mobile Plans At $5 A Month

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The venture-backed startup, which has the high profile backing of the same companies which backed free voice-over-IP service Skype (Mangrove Capital, DCM and Atomico) said it will also continue to offer up its free phone plans, which have specific minutes and data limits. freedompop mobile phone smartphone free voice text texting'

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Ixia Expands Mobile Backhaul Testing

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Calabasas-based IXia , a developer of IP network test equipment, said today that it has expanded its line of products to cover the full scope of mobile backhaul networks. Tags: ixia mobile backhaul testing ieee 1588v2 equipment hardware. READ MORE>>.

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D2 Boosts Android Effort

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Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of embedded IP communications and VoIP software, said today that it is linking into an effort to push Google Android as a platform for embedded IP and voice-over-IP. The group includes such firms as ARM, KDDI, Japan Laboratories, Alpine Electronics, and Fujitsu Software.

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D2 Technologies Adds Full Skype Support

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Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , which develops software development kits for the mobile communications market, said today that its mCUE product now has full support for Skype. The support allows Android mobile phone devices to connect directly into Skype's voice-over-IP services. READ MORE>>.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. We hired IP specialists to review prior art.

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Qualcomm Buys iSkoot

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iSkoot Technologies includes substantially all of the assets of San Francisco-based iSkoot, a developer of social networking and Skype-compatible voice-over-IP software for mobile phones. Tags: qualcomm iskoot merger acquisition mobile software skype social networking. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FreedomPop Offers Up Free Voice, Text, Data Service

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Los Angeles-based FreedomPop announced this morning that it has launched a free, mobile service which not only includes broadband data, but also includes free voice and texting. The new service comes as FreedomPop continues to try to disrupt the current model of high priced mobile phone service. READ MORE>>.

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