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Fake virus texts send Evil message
News Game producers CE Europe are rewarding users for sending text messages and emails to friends telling them they have been infected by a virus. A spokesman at CE Europe was unapologetic about the campaign.
[August 18, 2004, 14:55]
Phone users hang up on m-commerce
News Kearney surveyed 5,600 mobile phone users in Asia, the United States and Europe, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge. Twenty-five percent of respondents in Europe said they used "texting" more than once a day, as did 24 percent of...
[March 21, 2002, 11:53]
Microsoft hooks up with CDMA
News The software giant has been competing in the cell phone operating system market with what amounts to one hand tied behind its back; the company's cell phone operating system worked with only one major cell phone standard, GSM (Global System for...
[January 6, 2003, 7:45]
Will Oyster follow Octopus?
News Even though the technology is ready, there are two important questions to be answered: Will the micropayment trend catch on in America and Europe, as it has in some Asian markets, and will the banking industry welcome or resist it?
[August 8, 2005, 18:40]
Government denies allegations of secret 3G talks
News UMTS will be remembered as the trigger that imploded Europe's mobile industry, We expect that consolidation will leave only five groups serving all mobile users in Europe by 2008," he said in the report.
[March 19, 2001, 11:53]
Baltimore secures wireless deal in Japan
News The Baltimore Telepathy Registration System provides wireless encryption security for organisations with mobile users and promises to secure communications in Europe. In Europe, the next generation of WAP is expected to offer more content over GPRS...
[February 21, 2001, 6:31]
Mobile subscribers surge worldwide
News However, that growth should be overshadowed by demand from existing mobile phone users in established markets such as North America and Western Europe that are upgrading to new technologies, according to the analyst.
[September 5, 2003, 9:05]
Philips brings texting to fixed-line phone
News This service is currently available in a various parts of Europe. We are working to authorities in Europe to finalise the standard for EMS and MMS on the fixed line," said Philippe Deflandre, Philips' DECT product manager.
[June 16, 2003, 9:32]
M-commerce not winning over consumers
News Kearney surveyed 5,600 cell phone users in Asia, the United States and Europe. Some carriers in Europe make more money hosting SMS (Short Message Service), brief notes exchanged between mobile phones, than they do from phone calls.
[September 9, 2002, 13:09]
Ads heading toward your mobile phone
News But he and other advertisers, ad agencies and content providers agree that the next wave of digital advertising will hit in 2000, in the United States as well as Europe, and it will be on handheld wireless devices, the most popular of which is...
[February 8, 2000, 10:26]
Mobile future under fire
News The Asia/Pacific and Japan regions will surpass Europe this year as the largest mobile phone market and will keep the top position through 2005, with Western Europe in the number two spot. The mobile phone industry's vision of a future founded on...
[March 20, 2001, 12:36]
First look at MS 'Stinger'-based phone
News Sony and Samsung have feature phone models available in Europe. So-called feature phones are not yet available in the United States, but they are selling in Europe and, according to Microsoft, one million phones with its technology are in use in...
[August 10, 2000, 10:15]
Symbian smartphones get email, photo services
News On the consumer side, Kodak has struck a deal with Nokia allowing its smartphone users in Europe to upload images to Kodak's Picture Center Online Web site, where they can be stored, shared or turned into prints.
[June 16, 2003, 15:39]
Motorola GPRS phones have licensed games onboard
News All the devices should be on sale in Europe by mid-2001. Dominic Stowbridge, director of communications for Motorola, refuted claims that the rollout of third-generation (3G) networks, which are expected to take place in 2003 in Europe, would mean...
[March 23, 2001, 11:43]
Wireless to spark handheld boom
News The biggest growth [in handhelds] remains to be seen," says Emmanuel Klotz, operations manager for Hewlett-Packard's Jornada handheld in Europe. Handspring began selling the VisorPhone clip-on wireless device for its products last year and plans to...
[January 19, 2001, 6:18]
Sony launches a feast of musical delights
News This is a huge revenue opportunity for mobile operators," said Chris Deering, president of Sony Europe, adding that the music service will only work with Symbian-based phones such as the Sony P800 and P900 and Siemens's SX1.
[March 17, 2004, 15:00]
Push-to-talk faces European challenge
News The service last year got its first deployment in the Europe, Middle-East and Africa region through Jordanian telco Fastlink, but push-to-talk won't be rolled out in Western Europe until the second half of this year at the earliest, IDC said in a...
[January 19, 2004, 12:15]
Nokia holds on to smartphone crown
News But while Nokia leads in Europe by some way, at 48 percent, with terminals such as its 6600, it accounts for only a quarter of shipped devices in North America and Asia Pacific. In contrast, PalmOne, with devices such as its Treo 600 smartphone...
[June 1, 2004, 16:35]
EU approves cap on text and data roaming
News The price caps are"great news for mobile users travelling in Europe", James Parker, mobile manager at price-comparison site Moneysupermarket.com, said in a statement on Wednesday. Today's vote marks the definite end of the roaming rip-off in Europe...
[April 22, 2009, 16:49]
Mac mobile links on the way
News Apple Europe senior manager of mobile products, Willem Poterman, said Apple has been working with mobile phone giants Nokia and Ericsson for a year, and predicted the first products will ship in April.
[March 14, 2000, 10:12]
