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Java phones take centre stage at JavaOne
News Tues 26 Mar: Sun is making a definite move into the Web services market with announcements about software designed for mobile phones and handhelds On Web services board - 'Political shenanigans' Sun chief executive Scott McNealy talks about the...
[March 26, 2002, 12:50]
News Roundup: 3G, a year on
News The European Commission is so worried about the possibility that the growth of mobile Internet services will be crippled by financial woes that it has suggested operators share networks, a suggestion that has so far been rejected by national...
[May 1, 2001, 12:13]
Microsoft adds voicemail alert to .Net
News Although the Comverse deal includes distribution onto mobile devices and PCs, the primary vehicle for .Net Alerts is through Microsoft's two instant messaging services: Window Messenger and MSN Messenger, which themselves have mobile functions.
[March 17, 2003, 16:22]
BT to offer cheaper Wi-Fi to its mobile users
News BT is still keen to be a major player in the mobile space, and on Friday it launched a new range of mobile business services based on Vodafone's mobile network. BT already offered some mobile services through a tie-in with O2, but Friday was the...
[November 19, 2004, 16:05]
EU throws support behind wireless-broadband rollout
News The European parliament has backed a package of telecoms measures designed to simplify the rollout of EU-wide services, such as wireless internet and mobile TV, using the spectrum previously taken up by analogue TV and radio broadcasts.
[September 25, 2008, 9:24]
Regulating Mobile Money in Nigeria
Blog While the Tagattitude model is more of providing mobile authentication solutions to the Financial Institutions and Non financial Institutions, others like, recently licensed MoneyBoxAfrica, will actually engage the end user and provision services...
[March 13, 2009, 8:34]
Sun CEO: Volume will drive value
News Sun chief executive and president Jonathan Schwartz believes volume is being driven by the increasing number of people connecting to the internet from across the globe, and the resulting demand for new media content and services such as social...
[August 30, 2007, 15:03]
MSDN Webcast: How to Build Speech-Enabled Mobile Device Solutions Using Microsoft Speech Server (Level 300)
White Papers Adding speech technologies to the mobile device solutions enables utilizing the power of mobile devices, which in turn gives employees, customers, and partners the ability to interact quickly and naturally with the applications or services.
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
3 warms to business services
News Cisco's Mobile Exchange framework, including switches, routers and software, links radio networks to IP networks and enables billing for data-based services; it is used by providers of 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi services.
[February 23, 2004, 12:15]
Web Service Development Guidelines for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Mobile Service (Beta2)
White Papers This paper will show how to build and host Web Services for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Mobile Service (Beta 2). It introduces OMS architecture and message flow, and describes the communication protocols between OMS clients and Web services, as...
[December 6, 2006, 9:32]
Vodafone and iPass fall out over remote access
News You've got to bring costs down, and a single supplier can provide all [mobile services] — we are unique in that position. Telecoms giant Vodafone has criticised remote access company iPass, claiming that the iPass client is inferior to its own in...
[June 29, 2007, 13:57]
Mobile subscribers surge worldwide
News Third-generation wireless networks are expected to deliver an array of new products and services to mobile phone users such as games, streaming media and cameras. Mobile phones continue to become a more important part of daily life, and as users...
[September 5, 2003, 9:05]
Sony Music sets sights on mobile market
News Start-up Run Tones and its executives will form the core of Sony's new Mobile Products group, which will manage products such as ring tones and online listening services aimed at users of mobile phones and other mobile devices.
[November 21, 2002, 9:37]
Europe not ready for WAP
News One of the main inhibitors according to the report is the growth of Short Messaging Services (SMS), which allows mobile phone users to send text messages. But far from cannibalising WAP's market, Sheedy reckons SMS services could eventually act as...
[August 27, 1999, 17:07]
WAP usage doubles in 12 months
News Figures released by the Mobile Data Association (MDA) show that use of the most popular mobile data services, including SMS, MMS and WAP, have all doubled over the past year and it expects WAP traffic to reach eight billion impressions by the end...
[August 9, 2004, 16:40]
Branson steps into mobile phone market
News From today Virgin Mobile subscribers can access the following services: Through its range of branded handsets Virgin is offering a range of e-commerce and information services called 'xtras'. In the meantime phones are equipped with a powerful 32K...
[November 11, 1999, 12:46]
Look Out! Mobile Content Explosion!
White Papers As the revenues from voice services keep declining, mobile operators seem to become more focused on new data services and value added services. Mobile content market, which dates back to 1998, is one of the youngest and rapidly expanding not only...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Countdown to the iPhone
Blog O2 seems to have seen sense regarding its miserly interpretation of the term "unlimited use of mobile data services" (200MB/month) in regard to the Jesusphone. Astonishingly, this may now actually mean unlimited use of mobile data services.
[November 5, 2007, 9:48]
Nat West banking - on a mobile...
News Specialised services such as foreign exchange rates and economic forecasts will also be made available. Richard Brennan, Group Director of Commercial Activities at Orange, says, "Orange is committed to trialling and introducing simple, content-rich...
[July 27, 1999, 9:24]
BT launches managed WAN optimisation service
News The two services, both targeted at companies with branch offices and practising mobile working, were announced on Monday. Both are cases of BT reselling existing services as part of its managed-IT-services portfolio — the wide-area-network (WAN...
[November 24, 2008, 13:28]
