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Committee Calls For Mobile Phone Health Research
News The British Science and Technology Committee, not satisfied with the government's own investigations into the implications on health from mobile phone use, has called for more in-depth research. The House of Commons Report on Mobile Phones and...
[September 23, 1999, 11:09]
UK Mobile Phone Fee Cuts Will Hurt Operators
News Analytical sources: Sarah Randall and Ron Cowles, Gartner Research Recommended reading and related research On 1 June, 2004, Ofcom, the telecom regulator in the United Kingdom, ordered reductions in the fees mobile operators (Vodafone, O2, Orange...
[June 8, 2004, 12:10]
New Mobile Phone Java Holds Promise
News Among the dozens of partners in the group are Sun, mobile phone manufacturers, phone software companies and cell phone service providers. Companies such as Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless are now pushing news and sports scores to their...
[December 19, 2002, 8:00]
Asia, Africa Mobile-phone Boom Offsets Slowdown
News A continuing mobile-phone boom in emerging markets in Asia and Africa mostly offset a drop in demand for expensive models caused by global market turmoil, a survey showed on Monday. The world's fourth-largest mobile-phone vendor, Sony Ericsson...
[April 1, 2008, 9:48]
Mobile Phone Operators Show Off Their Figures
News For the first time all four major UK mobile phone players -- BTCellnet, One2One, Orange and Vodafone -- have worked together with the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) to produce surveys, released this month, of each individual companies...
[October 5, 1999, 11:48]
Mobile Phone Price Cuts Branded 'inadequate'
News Industry experts today reacted coolly to reports that mobile phone call charges could soon be cut by up to one fifth. According to the reports, industry regulator Oftel is about to announce the results of a six-month investigation into the price of...
[August 20, 2001, 11:43]
Mobile Phone Makers Hunt For 3G Solution
News Quicksilver Technology chairman Chris Wheddon, who headed BT's research and development arm until 1999, said on Monday that the problems facing 3G phone makers are so serious that they will require new ways of thinking about mobile phone processor...
[May 14, 2002, 13:37]
Mobile Phone Sales Soaring
News We expect some of them to be bought out, and a few will choose to leave the mobile-phone market completely. Strong first-quarter sales of mobile phones brighten the outlook for all of 2005, according to market research company Gartner.
[May 31, 2005, 10:00]
Mobile Phone Sales Hits 98 Million
News According to senior Dataquest analyst Bryan Prohn, the mobile phone market will continue to mature and become more competitive. Latest analyst research from Dataquest, a research arm of GartnerGroup, found that "Big Three" manufacturers dominated...
[September 18, 2000, 10:29]
Mobile Phone Manufacturers Work On Cancer Shields
News The research looked at mobile phone use of 1,617 patients diagnosed with brain tumours between 1997 and last June. The big three mobile phone makers have been working on technology for over eight years to limit the amount of radiation a user is...
[June 11, 2001, 9:41]
Mobile Phone Companies Slammed For Targeting Children
News Mobile phone companies have been strongly criticised by a leading UK scientist for encouraging children to buy their products. One mobile phone manufacturer, Ericsson, has already denied the accusations.
[September 5, 2001, 13:35]
Mobile Phone Users Back Kerry
News The young cell phone crowd backs Kerry for president, according to a novel poll taken exclusively over mobile phones. The findings may address the concern that traditional polling efforts don't reach young people who strictly use a mobile phone.
[November 2, 2004, 9:59]
A Year Ago: Mobile Phone Becomes A Universal Remote
News Soon, your mobile phone won't just make calls -- it will program your VCR, store your personal calendar and even let you buy things in the high street. Where Bluetooth might find a real niche, however, is in the most popular piece of high-tech...
[June 19, 2001, 6:28]
Mobile Phone Becomes A Universal Remote
News Soon, your mobile phone won't just make calls -- it will program your VCR, store your personal calendar and even let you buy things in the high street. Where Bluetooth might find a real niche, however, is in the most popular piece of high-tech...
[June 19, 2000, 9:15]
Microsoft Shows Off Mobile Phone-PC Prototype
News In addition to its phone-computing research efforts, Microsoft also has its pay-as-you-go FlexGo program for emerging countries. Microsoft on Thursday showed a prototype of a mobile phone-based computer that could one day find a use as a cheap PC...
[July 28, 2006, 10:40]
Can Your Mobile Phone Impair Your Vision?
News New research from the University of Utah has revealed a potentially lethal "tunnel vision" that drivers get while talking on a mobile phone. New York is the only US state with laws punishing those who drive while talking on a handheld mobile phone.
[January 28, 2003, 8:01]
Report Hints At Minimum Age For Mobile Phone Use
News A government-appointed commission could recommend urgent new guidelines on a minimum age limit for mobile phone users. Government officials were shown the report last week after the Treasury received £22.5bn from the auction of third-generation...
[May 11, 2000, 8:03]
Government To Investigate Mobile Phone Safety
News The announcement comes nearly two years after the Stewart Inquiry -- a government-backed investigation in the issue of mobile phone safely -- found no evidence of health dangers. Despite repeated assurances from mobile phone manufacturers that...
[January 25, 2002, 13:26]
IBM Report Cites Mobile Phone Hacking Risks
News However, the technique only works on the first-generation of global system for mobile communications (GSM) phones and requires that the attacker have physical access to the phone for at least a minute or two.
[May 8, 2002, 8:57]
Turn Your Mobile Phone Into A Web Server
News Researchers at Microsoft's laboratories in Cambridge have managed to squeeze a minuscule Web server into a GSM mobile phone SIM card. The main problem is that this relies on the underlying infrastructure of mobile phone companies," remarks John...
[April 5, 2001, 14:22]
