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3GSM World Congress: Day one roundup
News The 3GSM World Congress began in Barcelona on Monday with Microsoft making an early bid for the limelight with its new PlayReady DRM system. PlayReady aims to make digital rights management (DRM) more attractive to users, by allowing them to easily...
[February 12, 2007, 16:38]
3GSM 2007 preview: The IP invasion
News Next week, 12-15 February, will see the global mobile industry descend upon the Catalan city of Barcelona for what will be the largest 3GSM conference yet. With as many as 60,000 people expected to attend, and around 1,000 companies exhibiting...
[February 9, 2007, 11:22]
3GSM Preview: On with the show
News With around 40,000 attendees expected, this year's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona is set to be the biggest in the show's history. Keynote speakers will include Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, who will doubtless be pushing his...
[February 10, 2006, 16:30]
Photos: Mobile mania at 3GSM
News 3GSM tends to focus on the more traditional cellular technologies, but this year WiMax has been making quite a buzz. We're finally seeing handsets, data cards and all the other necessary bits and pieces.
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
Convergence is king at 3GSM
News Convergence has been one of the hottest buzzwords in the mobile industry for several years. This week, the 3GSM World Congress saw compelling evidence that once-rival technologies can work together, and that the world is moving fast towards an all...
[February 16, 2006, 10:10]
Microsoft dominates first day of 3GSM
News The 3GSM World Congress kicked off in Barcelona on Monday with a swathe of announcements and product launches across the mobile space. Microsoft, which has been striving for several years to replicate its dominance on the desktop in the mobile...
[February 14, 2006, 12:10]
Microsoft makes waves at 3GSM
News As the world's mobile phone industry gathered for the annual 3GSM shindig, Microsoft's latest deals dominated conversations on the show floor and in the bars and hotels of Cannes. Even before 3GSM had kicked off, Microsoft was making headlines with...
[February 16, 2005, 14:35]
3GSM World Congress: Day two roundup
News 3GSM was in full swing on Tuesday as BT strengthened its hand in the mobile space. Two new smartphone deals with HP and HTC could help the telco regain the dominant position it lost when it sold its Cellnet division earlier this decade.
[February 13, 2007, 16:17]
Thrills and spills at 3GSM
News NEWS: Orange planning SPV successor The network operator is to launch the 'SPVx', aimed at consumers and gamers, next month G gets closer to EDGE Although 3G networks are beginning to spring up in Europe, reports indicate that some networks will...
[February 21, 2003, 17:08]
Intel powers up smartphone chip
News Intel is expected to formally introduce its long-awaited chip for smartphones this week, ahead of the 3GSM Congress wireless trade show which begins on Tuesday in Cannes. The chip, code-named Manitoba, will offer enough processing power for...
[February 12, 2003, 11:07]
Seagate unveils 12GB minidrive
News Seagate and Cornice both launched new compact hard drives on Monday that offer contrasting approaches to storage on mobile phones of the future. Seagate offered the device with the highest capacity, while Cornice has opted for a trade-off between...
[February 13, 2006, 17:20]
Imagination updates mobile 3D chip
News UK-based Imagination Technologies is to support the OpenGL ES standard in its graphics-acceleration hardware for mobile phones, making it easier for developers to create 3D applications and games for mobile devices, the company said on Monday.
[February 25, 2004, 13:50]
BT 'to launch mobile TV service'
News Microsoft, BT and Virgin Mobile are thought to be close to launching a mobile TV service in the UK, according to reports on Monday. The Financial Times claimed that the three companies will announce Europe's first nationwide mobile digital...
[February 13, 2006, 16:45]
It's the mobile enterprise, stupid
Leader The most influential device at 3GSM this week was a product launched in 2001 by a company that to this day has never sold a phone or a second of airtime. Such is the power of the iPod and the revolution in digital content it has created.
[February 16, 2005, 15:05]
Symbian vows to win mid-market battle
News Mobile operating system developer Symbian insisted on Tuesday that it will succeed in expanding its market share beyond high-end smartphones. We want to take our apps and software into what is currently called the feature phone market," Symbian...
[February 15, 2006, 12:30]
Linux paves way for cheaper smartphones
News Several leading mobile technology players have cooperated on a project to explore Linux's potential as the major software component in future smartphones. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, Infineon Technologies, Samsung and embedded Linux...
[February 15, 2005, 16:30]
Mobile email: When push comes to shoving
News In one of a slew of announcements made on Monday at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed that it is stepping up its campaign to seize a chunk of the mobile email market. This increased focus includes the release of four new...
[February 14, 2006, 13:00]
BT moves into smartphone market
News BT has announced it will be launching Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones from HTC and HP, based on Windows Mobile 6, for its business mobile VoIP services. The move marks BT's first foray into the smartphone market.
[February 13, 2007, 12:22]
Java-based streaming '10 times faster than MPEG-4'
News Finnish developer Oplayo has been demonstrating a compression technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes which, says the company, is up to ten times faster for delivering audio and video to mobile devices than MPEG-4.
[February 20, 2002, 12:36]
O2 seeks 2G solution to rural 3G
News O2 is seeking permission to run 3G services in spectrum dedicated to 2G, Dave Williams, the operator's chief technical officer, revealed on Monday. Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Williams claimed that the only way to deliver cost-effective...
[February 13, 2006, 11:35]
