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Android maker talks mashups and mobiles
News After years of rumours of a Google phone, the search giant finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android. One of the key differences in the Open Handset Alliance with some of the...
[November 22, 2007, 11:51]
Vodafone seals UK audio-content deal with RealNetworks
News Since the beginning of the year, the Seattle-based software maker has struck deals to provide media-playback technology to mobile-phone giant Ericsson and to deliver streaming media programming to Nokia 3650 phones used by subscribers of US...
[June 30, 2003, 8:03]
Nokia bets on mobile games
News The Finnish cellphone maker said it will acquire Sega.com and use Sega's Network Application Package in its mobile phone and online games products. Sega has eyed mobile gaming as a key growth area since the Japanese game maker left the hardware...
[August 20, 2003, 11:20]
Skype and Netgear join forces for Wi-Fi launch
News Networking products maker Netgear and Internet telephony provider Skype on Wednesday unveiled the first Wi-Fi phone designed to work on the internationally popular VoIP service. The so-called Wi-Fi phone, which will allow Skype users to access the...
[January 5, 2006, 9:35]
Handspring rings up new Treo
News About a year and a half ago, Handspring chief executive Donna Dubinsky said the device maker was changing its business to target wireless carriers. Phones can be held up in carrier tests for up to nine months, or indefinitely, so anything that cuts...
[June 18, 2003, 7:35]
Moody investors take Psion to task
News The news that Motorola had dropped its joint development project with Psion emerged in the midst of a wave of gloom across the telecoms industry, driven by fears of an economic slowdown and the possibility of handset saturation in Europe.
[January 30, 2001, 15:44]
Sun steps up phone ambitions with JavaFX Mobile
News Java has had a decade to get established on mobile phones and, despite problems such as the fragmentation that means a given Java program won't necessarily run on a given Java handset, it is widely available.
[February 12, 2009, 11:35]
How a handheld could help Dell compete
News The company has brought in a host of new executives, including Garriques, who found success reviving Motorola's handset business with its line of Razr phones. Smartphones' share of the handset market doubled from four percent to eight percent in...
[December 11, 2007, 10:24]
Motorola licenses Opera browser
News Motorola PCS also licensed the Opera Platform, which allows mobile phone network operators to customise the main screen of a handset and update the screen's content over the air. Opera Software has closed its second licensing deal with electronics...
[February 11, 2004, 10:30]
Opera: Firefox user figures 'inflated'
News Opera also produces a version of its browser for mobile phones, which has been downloaded over one million times and "many millions" of licences for this browser have been sold to handset manufacturers and operators, according to the Opera Web site.
[June 20, 2005, 14:15]
Symbian upbeat as shipments treble
News Although we are delighted by Symbian's H1 performance, shipments of Symbian OS phones remain small relative to the overall handset market. Symbian's strategic focus must remain on driving increased shipments through the adoption of Symbian OS for...
[August 19, 2005, 10:00]
BlackBerry maker must diversify to survive
News The analyst attributed RIM's success to focusing on email, as the single most important application for enterprises to mobilise, and providing all the components for an end-to-end solution, from the handset to the server.
[May 17, 2005, 17:15]
Nokia boosts comms platform with Oz purchase
News The company leads the market, in terms of handset sales, worldwide. Nokia is bulking up its communications platform with the acquisition of Oz Communications, a privately held, Montreal-based company that offers mobile email and instant messaging.
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
RIM has only won the battle
Leader Finnish handset giant Nokia is also gunning for a share following its acquisition last year of number two mobile email player Intellisync. As news that Research in Motion had settled its patent dispute with NTP was pushed around the Internet late...
[March 6, 2006, 14:15]
RIM wants clearer pricing for mobile data
News RIM is the manufacturer of the ubiquitous BlackBerry device, a very data-centric handset. Senior representatives at Research In Motion (RIM) and Sony Ericsson suggested on Wednesday that operators need to make data pricing simpler for users and IT...
[October 18, 2006, 17:20]
Nokia gets City thumbs-up
News Nokia predicted that global handset sales for 2001 will reach 380 million, down on its October estimate of 390 million. City analysts have reacted warmly to Nokia's announcement on Tuesday that it might exceed its projected earnings in the fourth...
[December 12, 2001, 11:14]
Microsoft backs mobile phone standards
News They are the MMS (Mixed Media Messaging) Interoperability Group, created in February, and Wireless Village, which three of the four world's major handset makers created last April to standardise ways of sending wireless instant messages.
[June 13, 2002, 9:19]
