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Nokia grabs Psion's Symbian stake
News Symbian was meant to drive the smartphone market through the creation of operating systems based on Psion's EPOC software that could be used by any mobile phone maker. The agreement, announced on Monday morning, will give the Finnish mobile phone...
[February 9, 2004, 12:35]
Mobile giants battle for next generation
News Microsoft, which barely made a showing at last year's conference, appears this year with three different wireless products: a microbrowser for ordinary mobile phones such as Sony's CMD-Z5, a platform for wireless-enabled handhelds, already on the...
[February 21, 2001, 11:16]
Symbian rallies developers against Microsoft
News Symbian has been around for four years as a joint venture between the UK's Psion, which supplied the EPOC operating system on which Symbian is based, and major mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and most recently...
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Mobile Biometrics: The Future of Mobile Law Enforcement
Blog With regard to the mobile industry, this seems to be the first market ready biometric device introduced for a cellular handset. The day may come where a biometric scan will become the standard for unlocking ones mobile phone for use.
[September 23, 2008, 19:19]
Homes shelter more mobile devices
News The mobile device users surveyed by IDC said 36 percent of their personal calls from home are made from a cellphone and their monthly expenditure on mobile phone service is higher than spending on either broadband, cable or satellite TV, or...
[December 17, 2003, 10:00]
Intel restructures for the digital future
News Intel has sold different chip bundles for mobile phones for about four years but has yet to seriously challenge Texas Instruments in the market for mobile phone processors. Potentially, the reorganisation around platforms will give Intel an...
[January 18, 2005, 8:10]
Sun steps up phone ambitions with JavaFX Mobile
News We see growth in the feature-phone segment in emerging market. Sun is also announcing a few partners it has lined up to endorse the technology: mobile-phone makers Sony Ericsson and LG Electronics, mobile-phone network operators Sprint and Orange...
[February 12, 2009, 11:35]
Microsoft, Nokia in mobile Office alliance
News With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to expand its desktop hold on the productivity market into one that spans the PC, web and phone, and this deal is seen as a significant move in that last category.
[August 12, 2009, 9:53]
Wireless VoIP set to boom
News The rise of dual-mode handsets which switch between mobile phone and Wi-Fi networks is seen as a positive step for the voice over wireless LANs. Separate research from analyst house Frost and Sullivan said the new handsets could help mobile...
[August 23, 2005, 16:35]
Symbian signs on Samsung as it surges to No. 1 spot
News Microsoft's smartphone strategy emphasises Microsoft's own brand and that of network operator, treating the handset hardware as a commodity -- much as in the PC market -- and as such is less attractive to the large, established mobile phone makers.
[October 21, 2002, 15:57]
Intel to launch processor for handhelds
News To date, Intel has had far more success in the handheld business than the mobile phone market. These applications can also be performed on a mobile phone, but the experience may not be as impressive. Intel is pushing into the portable device market...
[February 19, 2003, 8:56]
Samsung developing 2cm hard drives
News But for small drives to make a big dent in the mobile phone market, they must overcome a number of hurdles, industry observers say. The massive cell phone market is seen as a potential new arena for hard drives.
[September 30, 2004, 11:05]
Uptake of solar-charged mobile devices 'limited'
News Solar-powered battery chargers for mobile phones and other devices are already available in the market, but they are expensive and their performance is "poor", Hines said in a recent research document.
[August 18, 2009, 8:39]
Vodafone seals UK audio-content deal with RealNetworks
News Mobile phone deals are critical for RealNetworks because it is vying for market share with archrival Microsoft. RealNetworks on Sunday announced an agreement to power audio and video playback on certain handsets offered by British mobile-phone...
[June 30, 2003, 8:03]
Mobile Payment: Potential and reality for Nigeria
Blog In a country where electricity and transportation are unreliable, the mobile phone is a driving force for change - and not just for voice calls. Nigeria’s seeming slow uptake of mobile payment presents a huge opportunity that can revolutionize the...
[January 15, 2009, 7:36]
Opera 7.60 set to offer faster browsing
News Opera has several deals with handset manufacturers including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, although Valdivia admits that it has had more success in Europe than in the US, where she claims the market for browsing the Web using a mobile phone...
[November 5, 2004, 16:03]
Handset delays could cripple 3G rollout
News If the financial markets suspected that 3G would not provide a powerful and immediate boost to the mobile market, mobile phone companies -- whose share prices have already fallen sharply over recent months -- could be in big trouble.
[August 29, 2001, 17:13]
Ballmer: Tablets will displace laptops
News Microsoft has so far been slow to convince big-name mobile phone makers to build smart phones, which double as handheld computers. Java is built into numerous new mobile phones on the market, though the available programs thus far generally are...
[November 18, 2002, 14:04]
The pros and cons of iPhone security
News You can look at it as a portable computing device, more so than any other mobile phone, in its traditional sense, so it is going to have to understand many different types of multimedia formats. ARM has the biggest share of the processor market for...
[June 29, 2007, 14:23]
Sony shrinks its Memory Stick
News The entrance into the mobile phone and digital audio player markets should help boost Memory Stick's share of the removable-flash-memory card market, according to Alan Niebel, analyst with research firm Web-Feet Research.
[July 15, 2002, 8:38]
