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PalmSource Reaches Out To Cellphones
News Historically, Palm OS-based devices have been offered only in the most expensive class of cellphones, which cost several hundred dollars. Security is a major area of focus with the new OS, Nagel said, noting that devices like cellphones are easily...
[February 4, 2004, 8:50]
3G Chips Come Armed With Security
News Because cellphones are increasingly being used in the same ways as computers, chip designer ARM has moved toward increased security and scaled-down power consumption. Over half of the world's cellphones use chips that are based on designs from ARM.
[October 15, 2003, 15:00]
Keep Track Of Mobile Workers With .Net
News Microsoft and AT&T Wireless on Wednesday will show off a new service that will let businesses use cellphones to track the location of workers on the road, such as taxi drivers or express couriers, and more efficiently route them to customers.
[September 18, 2002, 14:18]
Packing Chips In Yields Slimmer Phones
News Toshiba has unveiled a chip package for cellphones that can hold up to nine chips, which the company says will give manufacturers greater flexibility when building handhelds. Cellphones are also memory hogs, which puts a premium on conserving space...
[January 22, 2004, 10:20]
Spring
Downloads Spring is a professional and friendly graphic software to create logos, wallpapers, and animations for cellphones. Most of all Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, and Alcatel cellphones are supported. Spring is a pure java application using Java 2D...
[November 20, 2005, 21:16]
Samsung Shows Off Wireless Olympics
News Samsung has distributed about 14,000 cellphones and created a special network at the Olympics this year to demonstrate how phones are often faster than feet. In cellphones, Samsung has risen from sixth place worldwide, with a market share 5 percent...
[August 19, 2004, 9:05]
Emerging Handsets Mimic IPods
News Jingles on cellphones are going beyond ring tones, calling up a day when wireless devices might double as mini MP3 players with the potential to replace stand-alone products such as Apple's iPod. This kind of device is still rare in the United...
[July 2, 2004, 15:40]
Kyocera Decrees Cellphone Safe
News Kyocera Wireless is once again shipping Phantom model cellphones, after an investigation concluded that the phone did not explode as a Nebraska family had reported about two weeks ago. The others involved Nokia cellphones.
[October 17, 2003, 8:35]
Sun Sees Automotive Side To Java
News Having secured a niche for Java in cellphones, Sun is setting its sights and server ambitions on a new client device: cars. Java has become the leading platform for games on cellphones, and Sun is looking to repeat that success in in-car computers.
[June 29, 2004, 8:50]
Kyocera To Push Talk Button
News Kyocera Wireless said on Tuesday that it has joined the growing number of manufacturers producing cellphones with a walkie-talkie feature known informally as "push to talk. BREWChat is usually delivered over the air to cellphones compatible with...
[December 10, 2003, 10:20]
Japanese Telco Looks To Linux
News Japanese cellphone service provider NTT DoCoMo is urging its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cellphones, in a milestone for the operating system's acceptance by the wireless industry. DoCoMo and its reputation for introducing cutting-edge...
[December 4, 2003, 9:00]
Hackers Attack New Smartphones
News Microsoft and UK carrier Orange are investigating whether hackers are sending rogue software to cellphones using Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 operating system. To his knowledge, however, no one has accomplished on cellphones anything that even...
[January 16, 2003, 13:20]
Mobile User Arrested For 'disturbing The Peace'
News Can we talk about talking on cellphones? Post said that the problem isn't so much how loud people are, but rather people talking on cellphones in public settings about inappropriate topics, such as the qualifications of a job candidate or details...
[September 29, 2004, 14:15]
Mobile-chip Designers To Incorporate Better Security
News Chipmaker Texas Instruments and chip designer ARM are working together to beef up security for handhelds following the emergence of the first virus to target cellphones. Cellphones are typically secured by software that encrypts subscriber identity...
[June 30, 2004, 9:10]
Microsoft Builds Silicon Foundation For Windows CE
News Microsoft is working with chip designer ARM to increase the number of chip manufacturers tuning their products for Windows CE .Net as the software giant tries to move deeper into handhelds and cellphones.
[September 18, 2002, 13:42]
AMD Spurred On By Flash
News Spansion, the flash memory division of AMD, on Monday plans to announce a new generation of its MirrorBit flash memory chips for cellphones and networking equipment. AMD, by its own estimates, says it has passed Intel in market share for flash...
[June 14, 2004, 9:00]
Tuesday
Blog The experience isn't helped by the way that cellphones are considered second only to nailfiles as items likely to endanger the lives of millions aloft. The proximity of this would cause the cellphones to wind down their transmitters to fleapower...
[August 30, 2002, 17:27]
Mobile Makers Anticipate Record Year
News Handset shipments will be strong in parts of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, where a relatively small percentage of the population owns cellphones, while handset replacements are expected to "surge" this year in more saturated markets in...
[February 4, 2004, 9:50]
Nvidia Makes Play For Handhelds
News Nvidia also unveiled the flagship product in the family, the GoForce 2150, geared to make cellphones and handheld computers better at taking digital pictures and playing games. I believe the result of our efforts could result in Nvidia 2.0," he...
[September 23, 2003, 14:50]
US Gyms Place Blanket Bans On Mobiles
News The club chose an outright ban on all cellphones rather than just camera phones because "you can't really tell the two apart," Heckelman said. Although there are only an estimated 3 million people using camera phones in the United States, in June...
[December 3, 2003, 10:55]
