New York: "Jenny from the Block" wants the block to buy Verizon phones from her. Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez on Wednesday announced she's opening a chain of 15 cellphone stores and a website under the Viva Movil brand. The aim is to sell Verizon phones and services to Latinos.
The first store will open in New York on June 15, with others following in Los Angeles and Miami. The stores will have bilingual staff and provide a "culturally relevant shopping experience," Viva Movil said.
Viva Movil will be an authorised Verizon reseller, with the same prices and plans as regular Verizon stores.
Lopez is the majority owner and "chief creative officer" of Viva Movil. She said Viva Movil and its Facebook page will be a way for fans to connect with her....
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08:50 AM, May 23, 2013
London: The number of mobile phone subscriptions are set to outnumber the world's population by the end of 2014, a United Nations agency report has said. According to the International Telecoms Union's (ITU) prediction, mobile phone subscriptions will pass a whopping seven billion early in 2014. Currently, there are 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions while the world's population is 7.1 billion. More than a third of the global population are...
08:03 PM, May 12, 2013
San Francisco: Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials across the country are looking to the wireless industry to help find a cure. In San Francisco, where half the robberies were phone-related last year, District Attorney George Gascon is calling on major companies in nearby Silicon Valley to create new technology such as a "kill switch" to permanently and quickly disable stolen smart phones,...
10:38 AM, May 05, 2013
New York: Americans are saying CUL8TR to text messaging, a wireless industry group says, as Internet-based applications such as Apple's Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies. CTIA - The Wireless Association said Thursday that Americans sent 2.2 trillion text messages last year, down 5 per cent from 2011. That's still 19 text messages per person per day. Text messages vaulted...
12:45 PM, May 03, 2013
Mumbai: India's mobile services market is expected to grow eight per cent to Rs.1.2 trillion in 2013 but will account for only two per cent of the worldwide mobile services revenue as operators are struggling to increase profit margins, research firm Gartner today said. The revenues from mobile services stood at Rs. 1.1 trillion in 2012, Gartner said in a statement. According to Gartner, mobile connections in the country are...
02:14 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Shenzhen: China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No.2 telecom equipment maker, said on Monday it expects a compound growth rate of 10 per cent in annual sales over the next five years, lifted by cloud computing and smartphone sales. Rotating Chief Executive Officer Guo Ping was speaking at the company's headquarters in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen where he confirmed a 32 per cent rise in Huawei's 2012...
01:33 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Back in 1973 Motorola was very categorical in rejecting the assumption that mobile phones cold replace landlines. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Motorola DynaTAC is the world's first mobile phone - that Motorola termed as a portable radio telephone. ...
04:14 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Exactly 40 years ago, on April 3, 1973, Motorola demonstrated the world's first portable cellular telephone and system. ...
03:35 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Sports utility vehicles, imported cars and motorcycles, mobile phones, eating out at air-conditioned restaurants and cigarettes will become costlier with Finance Minister P Chidambaram deciding to impose higher taxes on these items. On the other hand, there is good news for ladies as far as jewellery is concerned as they will be allowed to bring more duty free gold items provided they have stayed out of India for more than...
02:25 PM, Feb 28, 2013
In the 2013 Union Budget presented on Thursday, Finance Mininter P Chidambaram has proposed an increase in excise duty on mobile phones priced above Rs 2,000 from the existing 1 per cent to 6 per cent. ...
01:07 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Those expecting the hottest new phones to make their appearance at the show may be disappointed. ...
03:31 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron's book analyses how mobile phones have revolutionised business, politics and ordinary life in India. ...
07:38 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc's and Google Inc's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The secret to being happy lies in turning off your mobile and concentrating on your friends and family rather than text messages and emails, a leading expert on happiness has claimed. ...
06:22 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Khap Panchayats on Monday came in the firing line after the Supreme Court took serious note of their directives denying women the right to carry mobile phones. The apex court questioned the directive as going against the law. ...
01:32 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued an order banning its students from using mobile phones with cameras and seized 14 such devices from the hostel. ...
12:48 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Zync has announced the expansion of its portfolio with the launch of six new dual SIM phones - Zync C18, Zync C21, Zync C22, Zync C24, Zync C27 and Zync C30. ...
04:13 PM, Dec 24, 2012
