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The Mobile Commerce Technologies: Generations, Standards and Protocols
White Papers In addition to a general lack of customer demand for mobile, location-based, services, it suffered heavily under the technical deficiencies of end-devices, slow data transmission and unripe technological standards.
[March 2, 2009, 20:08]
Microsoft backs mobile phone standards
News Its absence created a "perceived fragmentation" between the worlds of personal computers, which Microsoft represents, and cell phones, said Mike Wehrs, director of technology and standards for Microsoft's mobility group.
[June 13, 2002, 9:19]
Texas Instruments backs open mobile standards
News TI has joined a string of other important companies in the mobile scene by offering its support for open industry standards. Several mobile phone manufacturers are planning to use TI's chipsets in future devices, so its support for the open...
[November 15, 2001, 16:48]
W3C plans push for mobile standards adoption
News After years of issuing Web standards for mobile devices, the W3C may try to get people to actually use them. Representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will descend on Barcelona on Thursday and Friday to plot a potential "Mobile Web...
[November 18, 2004, 8:40]
Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
News The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum was formed in November 2005...
[June 26, 2008, 17:38]
Kyocera bridges mobile standards divide
News Mobile phone maker Kyocera on Tuesday unveiled its first handset to use Qualcomm's GSM1x technology, which bridges two cellphone standards that are not interoperable. GSM and Qualcomm's "1x" cell phone standards are usually incompatible.
[August 13, 2003, 12:10]
Orange and T-Mobile to set Sun standards
News Major European cellphone carriers Orange and T-Mobile Europe will soon require that downloadable games and other data sold to their subscribers meet quality standards set by Sun Microsystems and several major handset makers.
[June 25, 2004, 9:20]
W3C to hold London mobile standards event
News The group's activities include advocacy, developing best practices and standards for use with mobile devices. While many standards needed to make the mobile Web work already exist, few site designers take advantage of them.
[November 3, 2005, 11:15]
Orange takes stance in mobile TV standards war
News Based on the 3G Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Standard (MBMS), TDtv is in competition with DVB-T and DAB-based standards for the nascent mobile TV market, but unlike them it uses radio spectrum that is already licensed by the majority of...
[February 16, 2006, 11:25]
Orange and T-Mobile to set Sun standards
Talkback If they're planning to do this for games they're pretty dumb. J2ME is not mature enough for developers to be able to write a single version of a game that runs on "all" phones. There are so many problems with different phones and their bad Java...
[June 25, 2004, 11:04]
PalmSource and Orange team up for mobile Linux standards
News PalmSource, Orange and several other companies plan on Monday to announce an effort to standardise aspects of Linux running on mobile phones. The Linux Phone Standard (Lips) Forum wants to standardise Linux interfaces so that higher-level software...
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
Mobile Web sites face stringent standards regulation
News mTLD, the operator of the .mobi domain space, has stipulated that anyone wanting to register for a domain must abide by a code of practice.mTLD announced today that it has joined the W3C and will be using many of the consortium's best practices...
[October 25, 2005, 11:00]
Measuring and Managing Intangibles in Mobile Commerce: The Potential of Mediation Standards
White Papers The 3G challenge for Digifone was to 'move up the value chain. As solution, the IT team at Digifone focused on mediation software and processes. Mediation refers to the processing and delivering of information between a telecommunications network...
[January 19, 2006, 23:00]
Managing the Next-Generation Cisco IP/MPLS Mobile Backbone
White Papers Mobile standards bodies, including the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP and 3GPP2), the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), and other groups recommend IP as a common standard for mobile data traffic to support emerging IP-based mobility...
[September 11, 2009, 1:59]
Qualcomm plans 'universal' mobile TV chip
News Qualcomm is developing a product that may help the nascent mobile TV market avoid a protracted battle over standards. It will support three rival mobile TV standards - DVB-H, ISDB-T and FLO. Our UBM solution addresses the industry's need by...
[May 30, 2006, 15:45]
Open standards 'are the mobile future'
News Market forces will lead to the widespread adoption of open standards for mobile devices, Intellisync said on Tuesday. Intellisync also argued that moving to open standards would have direct financial benefits for users: "Software has to work with...
[January 25, 2006, 11:25]
DAB-IP mobile TV standard approved
News The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) approved the revision on Tuesday, paving the way for services such as BT Movio, soon to see its first commercial launch by operator Virgin Mobile.
[July 11, 2006, 16:15]
China adopts global 3G standards
News China's Ministry of Information Industry approved on Wednesday the use of European and American standards for 3G mobile phones, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported today. Last year, China failed in an attempt to get international acceptance for...
[May 17, 2007, 16:37]
4G Mobile Networks - Technology Beyond 2.5G and 3G
White Papers Since 4G is still in the cloud of the sensible standards creation, ITU and IEEE form several task forces to work on the possible completion for the 4G mobile standards as well. Based on the study, 4G mobile technology is in a determining and...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Fireworks predicted over MS/Vodafone Web services deal
News The two firms announced on Monday that they are joining forces to extend Web services standards to mobile devices. But while they insist that the wider mobile community will be involved in the development of these new mobile Web services standards...
[October 14, 2003, 15:40]
