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MX Telecom acquired by Amdocs for $104 million

Amdocs, which describes itself as a leading provider of customer experience systems, has acquired UK-based mobile payments and messaging aggregator MX Telecom for approximately $104 million (£69 million)

MX Telecom will become part of Amdocs' OpenMarket business, extending the organisation's global footprint.

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New Guinness World Record for fastest-ever text message

A new Guinness World Record has been set for the fastest text message on a touchscreen mobile phone. It's a new category – previous attempts have used a physical keypad – and was set using Swype technology on the Samsung Omnia II smartphone.

The record was set by Franklin Page, who's previously worked for Swype. He wrote the official world record phrase in 35.54 seconds: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human".

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New 'quantum dot' technology promises better cameraphones

New image sensors from California-based InVisage Technologies could deliver up to four times higher performance than today's mobile phone cameras. The company says its new QuantumFilm sensors outperform silicon-based image sensors by capturing between 90% and 95% of available light, as opposed to the 25% captured by the average digital camera.

Its QuantumFilm sensors are the world’s first commercial image sensors to use quantum dots; tiny nanometre-sized semiconductors that capture light.

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International CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show starts today

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Admit your mobile phone mistakes... and pay for them

Mark Bridge writes:

“Take some responsibility for your own actions”. There’s probably not a parent in the world who hasn’t said or thought something similar. But that’s not the message coming from regulators in the USA.

We’ve laughed in the past about coffee cups from the United States that warn about the coffee they contain. Now there seems to be a similar movement against mobile phones that connect to the internet.

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