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News Roundup: GSM World 2001 In Cannes
News Companies like Palm, Ericsson and HP all used GSM World 2001 to unveil their latest hot products while mobile bigwigs used the Congress as an opportunity to debate what the next generation of mobile phones and PDAs will mean to consumers and to...
[February 22, 2001, 10:41]
GSM Association Pushes 3G To Developing World
News More details of the initiative, which is sponsored by the Hutchison Group, will be announced at the 3GSM World Congress Asia in Singapore in October. But members of the GSM Association (GSMA) said on Monday that they want to see this number grow...
[June 14, 2006, 10:00]
GSM World Forum: Wireless Future Discussed
News The first Bluetooth products have emerged since last year's Congress, but the standard seems caught in an endless beta-testing phase. The question of how third-generation, or 3G, services will pay for themselves will be foremost at this year's GSM...
[February 19, 2001, 9:36]
Palm Plays It Safe With Wireless
News The company said today that this is part of the reason it did not attend last week's GSM World Congress, the biggest international mobile event of the year. Handspring meanwhile debuted its European VisorPhone at GSM World Congress, claiming the...
[February 27, 2001, 15:43]
RIP 3GSM
Blog Rising like a phoenix from 3GSM's ashes are.the Mobile World Congress (Barcelona) and the Mobile Asia Congress (Macau). Of course, "Mobile World Congress" doesn't have the same potential for slightly off-colour pronunciation as "3GSM" (mull that...
[June 13, 2007, 10:15]
Emerging Mobile Tech To Watch Out For
News The Mobile World Congress isn't just about an infinite number of similar handsets, operators trying to get anyone interested in mobile TV, and platform wars. One of the best bits of the Mobile World Congress is finding small companies doing smart...
[February 12, 2008, 11:31]
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]
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]
Mobile Offers Dual WAP, HTML Browsing
News The world's first mobile phone to support both WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HTML browsing debuted at this week's GSM World Congress in Cannes. Although the data transfer speeds on today's GSM network make HTML browsing unworkable, the...
[February 2, 2000, 13:25]
Intel Tells GSM Bosses: Build The Wireless Net
News Stephen Nachtsheim, vice president and general manager for the mobile and handheld products group at Intel, made the comments in a keynote speech at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France today. A senior Intel executive today urged the GSM...
[February 19, 1997, 14:17]
Five Years Ago: Intel Tells GSM Bosses: Build The Wireless Net
News Stephen Nachtsheim, vice president and general manager for the mobile and handheld products group at Intel, made the comments in a keynote speech at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France today. A senior Intel executive today urged the GSM...
[February 18, 2002, 6:01]
Palm Begins Shipping New PDA
News While Microsoft and the Symbian consortium used the recent GSM World Congress in Cannes to show off their prototypes, Palm was a notable absentee. HandPhone SMS is an SMS utility that makes it easier to send text messages to GSM handsets, while the...
[March 6, 2001, 11:31]
Microsoft Targets Mass-market Smartphones
News The announcement was made during the first day of the 16th annual 3GSM World Congress, a mobile industry gathering in Cannes, France. Peabody runs on GSM networks -- the world's most widespread wireless standard -- and GPRS, the data delivery arm...
[February 14, 2005, 7:40]
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]
Q&A: Ericsson GPRS Chief On Security And Roaming
News ZDNet France caught up with him at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, and talked to him about GPRS roaming and security issues. Q: Mobile email and intranet access is one of the services being heavily promoted at 3GSM World Congress this year.
[February 22, 2002, 12:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Subject: Craig David Sets The Flava For 3GSM World Congress Craig David is to perform at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next week; details below. For those that care, my total email count of GSM-related PR requests is now standing at around 250...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
VeriSign Wants A Piece Of Wireless Mobile
News On Tuesday, it announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, a suite of new and upgraded products and services designed to help telecommunications carriers tie their networks together while providing the necessary security.
[February 25, 2004, 9:15]
Nuggets: Wappy Days For Alcatel
News The telecomms industry has decamped en masse and headed down to Cannes for the GSM World Congress this week. The dual band GSM phone has a four line display and comes in four 'glossy' colours. When not swanning around on yachts several companies...
[February 2, 2000, 11:22]
Mobile Giants Battle For Next Generation
News Microsoft showed off prototypes of its "smartphone" platform, codenamed Stinger, for the first time in public at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, which started Tuesday. It wasn't unusual to see delegates at the Congress this week with...
[February 21, 2001, 11:16]
Operators Want 3G Handset For The Masses
News The winning design, which will be dubbed the "3G for All" phone, will be announced at the 3GSM World Congress in February next year, and will later become available to all GSMA operator members. The GSM Association (GSMA) announced on Monday that...
[October 16, 2006, 11:55]
