Wireless networking and Mobile Phones

Japan’s KDDI to offer Google-based PC, phone e-mail(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Japan’s number two cellphone carrier will launch an e-mail service based on Google’s Gmail in September, it said Monday.

Verizon Wireless To Acquire Rural Cellular For$2.67 Billion(TechWeb)
TechWeb - The transaction illustrates the latest trend of major mobile phone service providers trying to grow their subscriber rolls.

AMD Road Map Spans Servers To Mobile Phones(TechWeb)
TechWeb - With no intention of making major cuts in operations, the company’s strategy is to break even by the fourth quarter starting with the release of its quad-core chip, code-named Barcelona.

Romanians lighten up Harry Potter game(Reuters)

Reuters - In the mobile phone version of the”Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” video game, thetorches hanging along the dark walls of Hogwarts glow in aneerily realistic fashion.