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Full news stories today included wireless and app-propriate gifts for Mother’s Day, Motorola XPRT, HTC Bliss and Sony Xperia Play security.

Here’s the news that is too short to report:

Motorola Headquarters in Libertyville in Pursuit of Investments - Motorola Mobility, Inc. (MMI) corporate headquarters will remain located in Libertyville, Illinois.  The state is providing a business investment package to leverage private investment and to help keep approximately 3,000 jobs in Illinois.

Meffy Deadline Extended to Tuesday, May 10 - There is very little time left to submit your entries for the eighth annual Meffys Awards.  Judged by leading journalists, analysts and VCs, the Meffys span the entire mobile content & commerce spectrum, from games and apps to technology innovation and ad campaigns.

Windows Phone Market Reopens for Business – Windows Phone Marketplace was closed for technical problems on Thursday and is now reopened for downloading.

Samsung Infuse Doesn’t Lock Out Non-Market Apps – Samsung announced yesterday that the Galaxy S: Samsung Infuse 4G will have a May 15 release date, has a new feature not seen previously on AT&T Android smartphones, and you can load non-Android Market apps.

Spring 2011 Tablet Season In Japan – Wireless Watch Japan reported that spring is busting out all over with tablets from Apple, Motorola, Sony and Toshiba in Japan.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Verizon, spokesTwitterer, Sheldon Leonard in Philadelphia, tweeted that “V CAST Video
coming to our Android devices beginning June 7…”

The V CAST service brings the Verizon video service to the Droid Incredible, Droid Eris, Droid, Moto Devour, and LG Ally on-demand TV shows and other
video content over 3G.

V CAST offers exclusive content, television shows  Fox, NBC, Nickelodeon and other networks. They also offer special events such as sports and concerts. Verizon will V CAST  through exclusive rights to stream live Univision
Interactive Media’s
Spanish-language broadcasts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer matches
from South Africa later this year.

Rates are per
day, while monthly use costs to a month. V Cast offers parental
controls. When you watch programming on V CAST Mobile TV, you do not
incur airtime
charges during usage.

 
If you would like to try the V CAST service. Verizon is offering a Free Trial, you can get 1 month
of V CAST Video On Demand free when
you subscribe

now.

You can receive calls while watching V CAST . You will be prompted of an
incoming call and will have the option
to accept or ignore the call. If you take the call, the application will
be suspended and will resume once the call has ended. However, you will
rejoin your program already in progress. If you ignore the call, the
application will resume and rejoin the program still in progress. The
program being watched will not pause or suspend.

WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS