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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 World Forum: Wireless Future Discussed
News The question of how third-generation, or 3G, services will pay for themselves will be foremost at this year's GSM World Forum, starting Monday. The forum is centred on issues related to GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), the wireless...
[February 19, 2001, 9:36]
Nuggets: World's First GSM Tri-band Mobile
News Motorola has launched the world's first triple-band GSM phone, the L7089. The phone can operate on GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 bands in Europe, America and Asia, though of course this doesn't mean that you'll be able to call home from anywhere in the...
[September 22, 1999, 16:49]
Ericsson Delivers The World's First Co-Existent TDMA, GSM And GPRS Networks For Rogers AT&T Wireless
White Papers The result is the world's first coexistent TDMA, GSM and GPRS networks. When Rogers AT&T wireless made the strategic decision to launch state-of-the-art GSM and GPRS networks and an IP backbone in addition to their existing TDMA network, it chose...
[July 29, 2004, 0:00]
GSM Association Pushes 3G To Developing World
News But members of the GSM Association (GSMA) said on Monday that they want to see this number grow and include people in poor regions of the world. Already more than 72 million people use third-generation, or 3G, GSM technology.
[June 14, 2006, 10:00]
GSM Group Declares Victory In Standards War
News In a few years, most people in the world using a phone to watch streaming video or for any high-speed mobile data service will be doing it on a GSM phone, said the head of the group championing the standard.
[September 25, 2003, 8:55]
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]
GPRS: Step Inside The World Of Mobile Multimedia Services
White Papers General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) - the next evolution of GSM - has arrived, opening the door to a new generation of mobile data services that brings about dramatic changes in the way the world lives and works.
[March 15, 2005, 23:00]
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 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]
Microsoft Targets Mass-market Smartphones
News Peabody runs on GSM networks -- the world's most widespread wireless standard -- and GPRS, the data delivery arm of GSM networks. The announcement was made during the first day of the 16th annual 3GSM World Congress, a mobile industry gathering in...
[February 14, 2005, 7:40]
J2ME Programming In A Mobile World
White Papers According to the GSM Association 1 in 10 people in the world own a GSM phone (October 2001) and they hold 70% of the wireless market. Wireless devices keep their owners connected to the outside world at anytime from anywhere, and are thus much more...
[September 30, 2003, 0:00]
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]
CeBIT: Motorola Promises Internet On A Mobile In 2000
News The company claims it has the world's smallest and lightest dual-band GSM mobile phone as well as the world's first tri-band GSM phone, a new mobile organiser for the company's StarTAC range and the first two-way radio product for European consumers.
[March 18, 1999, 11:25]
Happy 20th Birthday, GSM
Leader Over a third of the world's population now have GSM-compatible phones — nearly 90 percent of the mobile-phone market — and there is good reason to believe the next third will join them before long. Most importantly, GSM took over the world through...
[September 7, 2007, 16:43]
Mobile World Congress Preview: The Year Of Linux
News Perhaps because the industry is now looking beyond traditional 3G and GSM, the Barcelona show will henceforth be known simply as Mobile World Congress (MWC). The wireless technology WiMax — one of the new technologies that is not 3G- or GSM-based...
[February 7, 2008, 13:52]
Motorola To Suspend Mobile Phone Production
News Bathgate is a key mobile phone manufacturing plant and led the worldwide introduction of what at the time was the world's smallest and lightest dualband GSM phone, the V3688, and the world's first truly global phone, the GSM triband L7089.
[March 5, 2001, 9:15]
Can You Spell CDMA20001xEV-DO?
News About 60 percent to 65 percent of the world's phone networks use GSM. Carriers that want to build a 3G network must first choose between CDMA and its chief rival GSM. Meanwhile, only portions of the 3G networks based on the rival standard GSM have...
[August 16, 2001, 11:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a wide-ranging discussion over the pasta and salad nicoise, covering stuff like the Israeli hack of the GSM encryption standard, which has proved a durable headache. It'll take two years to get a hackproof version of GSM flushed through the...
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
