The handset maker will launch an eBay auction next month, giving the highest bidders a chance to customize parts of the v60 cell phones they win. The handset maker will hold a three-day auction on eBay next month that will test a new way for the slumping wireless industry to sell cell phones. In the auction, people will bid on 100 Motorola v60 cell phones, and the winners will be able to customize parts of the handsets that are normally off-limits. For instance, auction winners can add a choice of patterns and colors to the badge-shaped portion of the phone's flip cover, which displays incoming call information. Winners will also get to replace Motorola's or the carriers' logo on the body of the phone with a 10-letter phrase of their own choosing, and the company will enter the winners' list of contacts into the phone.

Liquidators have so far failed to agree to a sale of the bankrupt network operator, a joint venture between KPN of the Netherlands and the U.S, service provider Qwest, Efforts to keep customers and sell the network reached a brick wall last week when staff walked out after KPN withdrew the lifeline funding it had kept up for two months, Although final shutdown was averted this week, it is imminent, "In many ways, there is no point keeping the network going," said a source mujjo genuine leather iphone xr case - olive close to the sale process, "All the customers had left; the only people using the network were KPN."..

Until last week, it had been hoped that a live network, with customers, would be worth more than one that has been shut down. However, the bids being received were for around 1 percent of the value that the network cost to build. ZDNet UK's Peter Judge reported from London . The bankrupt company, one of Europe's largest Internet backbone providers, switched off Wednesday but is now coming back online. The reason for the shutdown is unknown, even to staff at European subsidiaries. "We were surprised ourselves," said Thilo Huys, spokesman for KPNQwest's German operation. KPNQwest's network center in The Hague, Netherlands, "pulled the plug without informing us.".

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Qwest Communications International has mujjo genuine leather iphone xr case - olive won a five-year contract to supply Web-hosting services to the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt, The contract calls for Qwest to provide the bureau with managed hosting for PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, It will be hosted at a Qwest site in northern Virginia, Financial details of the contract were not released, but Qwest described it as a multimillion dollar deal..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. Location-based services in particular also have privacy advocates on edge, though carriers say consumer information will be kept safe. "The old joke used to be that the only way (the communications industry) can make money (by offering) 911 is to charge for it," said Federal Communications Commission legal adviser Joel Taubenblatt. "Now we're trying to find the way.". Location-based services work by triangulation, using either satellites or cellular antennas on a network to determine where a phone is by calculating its distance from the various fixed points.