Imagine you’re a thief and you’ve just nabbed the latest in mobile gorgeousness from your unsuspecting victim, when all of a sudden, the afore-mentioned mobile starts screaming… loudly. This is the latest in anti-phone theft technology and has been introduced by device management company Synchronica. Its system can remotely lock and wipe data from mobile […]
Worldwide shipments of PDAs reached a record 3.7 million units during the second quarter, up 2.7 per cent from the same period a year ago, according to industry analyst Gartner. Interestingly, much of the growth in the PDA market was generated by vendors that were not among the first-tier one year ago, while market leaders […]
Israeli developer Radvision has announced an advanced 3G system that, in theory, will allow users to make video calls for the same cost as an ordinary call. The firm is taking a different view on advanced 3G applications which are usually focused on the prospects for packet-switched data services and the mobile internet. It aims […]
Sales of handheld devices worldwide in Q2 of 2006 saw the market decline for the tenth consecutive quarter according to a leading analyst group this week. According to analyst IDC, a total of 2.9 million units were shipped during the period, compared to 3.7 million devices for the same period in 2005. In its Worldwide […]
The now legal peer to peer file sharing network, Napster, on Thursday announced its first deployment of Napster Mobile. US regional operator SunCom Wireless, which operates a GSM network in the Southeast US, will offer over the air downloads of music to handsets and PCs from next week. “Wireless continues to be a very significant […]
Chinese manufacturer ZTE has taken the wraps off what it claims to be the world’s first TD-SCDMA/GSM dual mode handset. TD-SCDMA is China’s homegrown 3G standard and is widely expected to be deployed by at least one operator when the country issues 3G licenses. The ZTE U350 not only allow users to make calls across […]
Ericsson has upped the pressure on Samsung by filing a complaint with a US court for alleged infringement of 11 mobile phone patents. The Swedish mobile giant said the action was a continuation of the legal spat that began in February. Ericsson claims Samsung continues to use disputed Ericsson technology after the expiration of a […]
The Khronos Group, an industry consortium focused on the creation of open standards, has announced that Apple, Dell and Google are amongst the latest companies to join the group. Khronos aims to define open standards for the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on a range of platforms including embedded systems and mobile phones. Jon […]
US operator Cingular Wireless is to start charging its 4.7 million users still using very early mobile phone models an extra $5 per month. The additional charge will begin in September and is seen as a move to drive mobile phone subscribers still using analogue and TDMA technologies to migrate to its GSM network. Around […]
The UK’s mobile network operators, a number of high street retailers and a handful of handset manufacturers, on Friday agreed to a charter holding themselves accountable for tackling mobile phone theft in the country. Under the banner of the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum (MICAF), the industry players are working in partnership with the government […]
The controversial French copyright bill, locally known as the DADVSI (droit d’auteur et droits voisins dans la societe de l’information), faces further dilution after the country’s constitutional council took issue with some points of the legislation Thursday. The French parliament voted in an already watered down version of the copyright bill on June 30, potentially […]
The world’s largest mobile manufacturer, Nokia, has begun testing the performance of its fixed-mobile convergence technologies, using the 6136 handset and UMA over WLAN. The company has fifty families in its native Finland, testing the technology over the next two months, it said on Thursday. The company chose Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) because users are […]
Mobile behemoth Motorola has announced its intention to sell its thinnest phone yet, the Motofone, in emerging markets where the promise of new revenues is attracting big name investors. The world’s second-largest mobile manufacturer will manufacture the new phones which the company says are even thinner than its Razr line at just 9mm and form […]
Former search company, Google, on Tuesday announced it has begun offering US mobile users “live” traffic data. Google Maps for Mobile, part of a slew of new products aimed at the desktop and mobile user, will allow users to chose a destination and show traffic in that area, live. Traffic data is sent to the […]
Leading Russian cellco Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has reportedly stalled development of its i-mode service, following lower than expected uptake. Local press reports that a shortage of compatible handsets has stunted growth of the NTT DoCoMo developed technology. MTS is understood to be planning to monitor the situation until September before deciding on how to proceed […]
Internet telephony provider Skype has partnered with mobile transaction firm mBlox to deliver an SMS service over the Skype network. Skype SMS allows subscribers to send text messages from their computer to mobile phones worldwide. Jeff Clark, chief executive of mBlox, said: “With billions of text messages sent in 2005, it’s clear SMS is a […]
VoIP firm Skype, has announced a collaboration with four manufacturers to launch Skype-enabled wifi handsets. The phones by Belkin, Edge-Core, Netgear, and SMC (Standard Microsystems), will give consumers access to the Skype network from any hotspot and will be available on the firm’s website later this quarter. Each model will have the familiar desktop interface […]
According to reports, a major Vodafone shareholder is planning to vote against the re-election of the firm’s beleagured chief executive Arun Sarin to the board of the mobile company. The AFX news agency reports that Morley Fund Management, which owns a 2.1 per cent stake in Vodafone, said “its patience with Sarin had run out”. […]
Handset maker Motorola has chosen Yahoo’s mobile services to embed into millions of its phones. In a deal that binds the two for several years, Moto will host Yahoo’s Go for Mobile applications on its mid to high-end phones. Similar to Microsoft’s range of ‘Live’ products, the Go applications include Yahoo e-mail, search and address […]
The ongoing rumour that Research in Motion (RIM) is working with Apple to create a mobile phone/iPod hybrid – dubbed ‘AppleBerry’ by hopeful fans – was dealt a blow on Tuesday as RIM refused to answer any questions on the subject. Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive at RIM would not be drawn on the issue when […]
