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Mobile industry in RFID payment push
News The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kickstart the mobile-payment industry. Conway added that an industry-wide NFC push would ensure "significant" economies of scale...
[November 18, 2008, 11:42]
Mobile industry vows to fight roaming cuts
News The mobile industry has hit back at the European Commission's move to slash roaming charges, as the details of the finalised proposals start to sink in. A major industry body has already vowed to lobby the European Parliament into a change of heart.
[July 13, 2006, 12:15]
Mobile industry admits failing businesses
News Speaking on Tuesday, the second day of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, chief executives from leading mobile companies have acknowledged the industry is not doing enough to meet the needs of enterprise customers, especially when it comes to...
[February 15, 2005, 13:25]
Mobile industry awaits roaming verdict
News The telecoms industry is on tenterhooks ahead of the publication of the European Commission's proposals for cutting roaming tariffs. Reports in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal suggested that Reding's opponents — specifically trade...
[July 11, 2006, 12:35]
Mobile industry looks beyond 3G
News Third-generation networks and services are still in their infancy but industry experts claim there is already a real need for faster technologies. Speaking on the Monday, the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Neil Ransom...
[February 14, 2005, 15:10]
Mobile industry decides on LTE voice standard
News By following the jointly defined technical profile, the industry can help guarantee international roaming and interoperability for LTE voice and SMS services, ensuring subscribers continuity of these vital services — all while offering service...
[November 6, 2009, 14:47]
Mobile industry targets 'tween' market
News Nearly half of children aged eight to 12 years old own mobile phones in the US, in what could be the next big mobile-phone demographic for the mobile industry, according to a Nielsen report released on Wednesday at the CTIA Fall 2008 trade show in...
[September 11, 2008, 9:55]
Mobile industry 'back on track'
News The mobile phone industry, along with the rest of the IT sector, has seen growth fall off since the boom of the late 1990s, but the market is now on track to achieve "strong growth" for 2003, Gartner said.
[September 5, 2003, 12:15]
Mobile-phone industry to boom, despite downturn
News The mobile-phone industry is expected to boom, despite the global financial crisis, thanks to growth in emerging markets, according to Portio Research. The mobile industry continues to confound expectations with spectacular accelerating growth...
[September 30, 2008, 9:17]
Mobile-phone industry: Tumour study 'very selective'
News The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. Noting in his own work that Interphone has been partly funded by the mobile industry...
[April 1, 2008, 14:22]
Mobile industry issues handset-security guidelines
News The mobile-phone industry has come up with a set of recommendations for improving handset security. The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) — a group including handset makers and mobile-network operators — has published two documents setting out...
[May 23, 2008, 8:35]
Mobile industry gets 4G buzz
News A new company called Clearwire, started by mobile-industry billionaire Craig McCaw, is already using a flavour of WiMax to deliver its wireless broadband service. Sprint currently uses EV-DO to deliver its mobile broadband service today.
[August 14, 2006, 9:00]
Mobile industry still waiting for upswing
News We don't expect them to suddenly reverse their position and become more positive on their second-half outlook for the entire industry. Although a few companies are reporting signs that business is improving, most makers of mobile phones and related...
[July 15, 2003, 11:23]
Mobile industry gets the teamwork buzz
News The mobile industry is as tough and competitive as any IT sector, but there were signs on Tuesday that co-operation could be the new way forward. It has teamed up with BT, HTC and The Technology Company to create a smartphone that can handle mobile...
[February 15, 2006, 11:20]
Mobile industry faces flood of lawsuits
News The personal injury case will be heard at the District of Columbia Superior Court, and will seek to prove that mobile phones cause brain tumours -- a claim consistently denied by the mobile industry. A lawsuit is due to be filed in America on...
[November 14, 2001, 12:15]
Mobile industry defends roaming pricing
News While we believe that competition is the best way to meet the needs of customers across the whole range of mobile services, the GSMA membership will continually explore ways in which further industry action might address particular concerns of...
[March 27, 2006, 17:25]
The Mobile Industry’s Growing DoS Risk
Blog The Mobile Industry’s Growing DoS Risk As a mobile security expert and founder of MyMobiSafe.com, the unwillingness of most wireless service providers to adopt handset level security solutions perplexes me.
[April 10, 2008, 1:16]
Who will Lead Mobile Music Industry in Asia?
White Papers This white paper focuses on Korean mobile Internet music industry copyrights. The main issues in the Korean online music industry are introduced with a comparison to the Japanese mobile music industry.
[September 20, 2007, 10:34]
HP: How the mobile industry can do better
News A man with many years of experience in the mobile industry, McKinney has no shortage of opinions about what's going well — and not so well — in the business. Mobile phones have the 80-20 rule, where you use 20 percent of the functions 80 percent of...
[February 13, 2007, 15:54]
Business Benefits of Industry-Specific Mobile Applications
White Papers Another driver of industry-specific mobile application adoption is the evolution of the technology, including the development of platforms such as the Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server, whose Mobile Data Service (MDS) feature...
[July 25, 2006, 3:16]
