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• Samsung says Galaxy Note sales have topped 5 million
• UK and European Kindle Touch on sale April 27, pre-orders open now
• MetroPCS has 500,000 LTE customers, wants cheap LTE phones
• U.S. government encouraged to share spectrum holdings with private companies
• Apple, Sony, others sued by Graphics Properties Holdings over alleged patent infringement
• Quickoffice launches Connect cloud-based syncing service
• Press Release: Scout for Apps, Telenav's HTML5 Voice-Guided GPS Navigation Service, Now Open to All Developers
• Press Release: Good Technology Announces the Industry's First Secure Browser for Android Devices: Good Mobile Access
• North Carolina town bans all use of mobile phones while driving
• Verizon launches LG Lucid smartphone with 4G LTE for under $80
• T-Mobile slapped with NFC-related lawsuit
• Sprint shuttering Picture Mail service by end of April
• Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 ICS update now available from O2
• FTC outlines privacy guidelines for mobile websites

Samsung says Galaxy Note sales have topped 5 million Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT Samsung has revealed that sales of the Galaxy Note, its smartphone-cum-tablet with S Pen powers, have topped 5 million units world wide. The company reached this mark in five months since the Note's debut in South Korea. It had previously hit 1 million sales in December and then 2 million at the beginning of March, so launches in other markets, especially the U.S. with AT&T's LTE edition of the Note, have accelerated sales. Speaking of the LTE Note, Samsung also plans to launch the LTE version of the Galaxy Note in Japan on April 6 with NTT DoCoMo. Read the full story here.

UK and European Kindle Touch on sale April 27, pre-orders open now Posted: 28 Mar 2012 01:18 AM PDT Amazon has opened up its pre-orders for its Kindle Touch e-reader in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. The Kindle Touch features a traditional e-ink display and offers a buttonless form factor for simple reading. The Kindle Touch is being offered in both Wi-Fi and 3G variants from Amazon and will go on sale starting April 27. Read the full story here.

MetroPCS has 500,000 LTE customers, wants cheap LTE phones Posted: 27 Mar 2012 01:50 PM PDT MetroPCS has revealed that it now has over 500,000 users of its 4G LTE service. The carrier currently has about 9.34 million customers in total. MetroPCS also says that it is talking to manufacturers about developing 4G LTE phones that will be priced between $99 and $149 and that looks to launch such low-cost devices by the end of the year. MetroPCS's most recent LTE device is the LG Connect 4G, which sells for about $319. Read the full story here.

U.S. government encouraged to share spectrum holdings with private companies Posted: 27 Mar 2012 01:12 PM PDT The administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has proposed a new plan for the government to give up some of its current spectrum holdings for use in the private sector. Read the full story here.

Apple, Sony, others sued by Graphics Properties Holdings over alleged patent infringement Posted: 27 Mar 2012 12:19 PM PDT Apple, Sony, HTC, LG, Samsung, and RIM are being sued by Graphics Properties Holdings over alleged patent infringement with each company's respective mobile devices. This is the second time that Graphic Properties (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.) has brought a lawsuit against Apple and the others. Last October, Graphics Properties filed a suit claiming that its patents covering mobile displays were infringed upon by a number of companies. It appears that the goal of the lawsuits is to coerce the phone makers into signing licensing agreements that would generate revenue for Graphics Properties. The most recent suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. Read the full story here.

Quickoffice launches Connect cloud-based syncing service Posted: 27 Mar 2012 09:31 AM PDT Quickoffice, a popular mobile document editing app for a variety of platforms, has launched Connect, a cloud-based syncing service. Connect lets users access their documents and files stored on various devices and cloud services, as well as sync the files across all of their devices with Quickoffice. Read the full story here.

Press Release: Scout for Apps, Telenav's HTML5 Voice-Guided GPS Navigation Service, Now Open to All Developers Posted: 27 Mar 2012 08:24 AM PDT Read the full story here.

Press Release: Good Technology Announces the Industry's First Secure Browser for Android Devices: Good Mobile Access Posted: 27 Mar 2012 07:37 AM PDT New Offering Allows Enterprises to Embrace Android BYOD Environments with Good for Enterprise Read the full story here.

North Carolina town bans all use of mobile phones while driving Posted: 27 Mar 2012 07:32 AM PDT Chapel Hill, North Carolina has become the first town in the U.S. to completely ban the use of a mobile phone while driving, including when the phone is used with a Bluetooth headset or hands-free device. Read the full story here.

Verizon launches LG Lucid smartphone with 4G LTE for under $80 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 07:01 AM PDT Verizon Wireless has announced the LG Lucid, a new 4G LTE-capable smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Read the full story here.

T-Mobile slapped with NFC-related lawsuit Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:45 AM PDT A lawsuit brought against T-Mobile by On Track Innovations (OTI) claims that the carrier infringed upon OTI's Near Field Communications (NFC) patents with a number of devices. The announcement of the suit did not specify which devices carried by T-Mobile were allegedly infringing upon the patents. OTI has partnered with companies such as MasterCard and Visa to develop NFC-based contactless payment systems in the past. The company produces a device that adds NFC capabilities to devices that don't otherwise have them. The demands of the lawsuit were not revealed, though OTI indicated that it would be willing to "leverage its IP assets" for monetary gain. Read the full story here.

Sprint shuttering Picture Mail service by end of April Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PDT Sprint has announced that it is shutting down its oft-forgotten Picture Mail service at the end of April. Picture Mail is, as you might have guessed, a service for sending images from one Sprint user to another. With the proliferation of MMS, email, and other image sharing tools on mobile devices today, Picture Mail has become an antiquated service that many people no longer utilized. Users that have images stored in the Picture Mail service have until April 30 to download their pictures to their computers. Read the full story here.

Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 ICS update now available from O2 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 06:00 AM PDT O2 UK customers that own Samsung's Galaxy S II smartphone can now get the upgrade to Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Users will have utilize Samsung's KIES software on their desktop computer to install the upgrade. Read the full story here.

FTC outlines privacy guidelines for mobile websites Posted: 27 Mar 2012 05:38 AM PDT As part of its "Do Not Track" privacy initiative, the Federal Trade Commission has provided guidelines to mobile website developers on creating privacy statements and disclosures that are easy to read on mobile devices. Read the full story here.

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