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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a wide-ranging discussion over the pasta and salad nicoise, covering stuff like the Israeli hack of the GSM encryption standard, which has proved a durable headache. It'll take two years to get a hackproof version of GSM flushed through the...
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week in the life of WAP
News The GSM Congress in Cannes last week saw the launch of the world's first dual browser handset. Hoping to hasten WAP's takeoff, four of the world's largest smart card makers formed the SIMalliance at the GSM Congress Wednesday.
[February 8, 2000, 12:38]
RIP 3GSM
Blog The name 3GSM was of course an earth-shatteringly witty conflagration of 3G and GSM, and while those technologies are still major players they are no longer the sole focus of the exhibition. This year there were scads of WiMax vendors and their ilk...
[June 13, 2007, 10:15]
US legislator lobbies against GSM in Iraq
News Issa introduced a bill this week to bar Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) -- a cellular technology used in most countries around the world, including European nations, and to a lesser extent in the United States -- from being...
[March 28, 2003, 8:04]
Symbian chief blasts Microsoft
News Microsoft] can remain proprietary if they wish, but customers are going to want to access their data from [competitors'] products," Myers told ZDNet UK at the GSM World Congress this week in Cannes, France.
[February 22, 2001, 14:53]
Qualcomm provides Super 3G's missing uplink
News However, Delaney cautioned that, as Qualcomm is "not part of the GSM camp… the real impact of testing HSUPA will be when it comes from one of the more mainstream GSM vendors". If Qualcomm is using this as a kind of wedge to drive GSM operators...
[July 20, 2006, 11:15]
A billion internet users can be wrong
Leader In the history of the world, the only technology to spread faster is GSM, the digital mobile-phone standard. But that two billion disparity between GSM and the web highlights why the web is not, and never will be, all of the net.
[January 26, 2009, 16:53]
Kyocera bridges mobile standards divide
News Qualcomm created GSM1x so that cellphone carriers using the world's most popular standard, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), could also install Qualcomm's cellphone technology in their networks.
[August 13, 2003, 12:10]
Palm and Motorola release plans for new smart phones
News A tri-band GSM smart phone with GPRS capability and a colour screen will be in the shops by early 2002, according to an announcement Monday from Palm and Motorola. We made the announcement today to give Palm developers time to get applications...
[September 26, 2000, 7:13]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week in the life of WAP
News The GSM Congress in Cannes last week saw the launch of the world's first dual browser handset. Hoping to hasten WAP's takeoff, four of the world's largest smart card makers formed the SIMalliance at the GSM Congress Wednesday.
[February 11, 2000, 14:51]
Verizon expects 4G launch next year
News Several GSM operators around the world have also announced plans to use LTE, including NTT DoCoMo in Japan and TeliaSonera in Sweden and Norway, although mostly on 2.6 GHz. As with existing GSM and 3G networks, LTE subscribers are likely to be able...
[February 20, 2009, 9:42]
Emerging mobile tech to watch out for
News At the show, they were getting around 10-nanosecond accuracy, or 10 billionths of a second.eGPS doesn't need any specialist hardware beyond the ordinary GPS and GSM/3G radios; it takes between 20 and 100 MIPS of processor power, depending on what...
[February 12, 2008, 11:31]
Airlines ban mobile phones -- but why?
Talkback In 2003 the CAA (That’s the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK) released a report specifically documenting the effects of GSM Cellular telephones to aircraft navigation equipment in a closed environment, particularly the VHF and VOR/ILS (the...
[August 3, 2005, 0:51]
Ericsson T68i review
Reviews Since the T68i works on GPRS and all flavours of GSM networks, it's considered a world phone. In the final analysis, although the T68i may not be the easiest phone to use, the combination of slick cosmetics, features, good battery life and a...
[August 15, 2002, 8:58]
3G: It's a standards thing
News I think that the activity of 3G builds on the success of GSM which proved that it is possible to take a particular technology and apply it around the world," he says. Handsets are going to need to support multiple standards, so an average handset...
[August 23, 2000, 13:28]
Microsoft backs mobile phone standards
News GSM equipment is used in about 70 percent to 75 percent of the world's cellular telephone networks, including AT&T Wireless, which has joined the Open Mobile Alliance. The leading cell phone equipment standard is GSM (Global System For Mobile...
[June 13, 2002, 9:19]
Java allies brew wireless riposte to MS
News About 75 percent of the world's carriers use GSM. All these carriers use a cell phone network based on a standard called GSM, or global system for mobile communications. The initiative is focusing on GSM carriers for now, Stahl said, but he didn't...
[December 19, 2001, 10:19]
Qualcomm adds Wi-Fi to mobile phones
News The makers of cell phones using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), an open standard in about 70 percent of the world's phones, including Europe, have already created some hybrid products. All the GSM guys are going to do it," Waryas said.
[July 30, 2002, 8:07]
Nokia, Ericsson reach mobile milestone
News With some 85 percent of mobile operators across the globe expected to choose it over the alternative cdma2000 standard, it is particularly suitable for networks currently running GSM and GPRS systems -- which includes all of Europe, most of Asia...
[September 25, 2002, 10:43]
Nokia vs Apple: no easy answers in GSM wars
Blog But whatever the details - and GSM is more gruesomely complex than many - there are fairly standard way to get the IP you need to make the goods that follow the rules. Around $25 of the cost of a mid-range phone goes on GSM licensing, which means...
[October 22, 2009, 19:01]
