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Comdex 2001: Ironing Out Mobile Web Wrinkles
News Openwave, a company formed through the merger of Phone.com and Software.com, makes wireless Web software that runs many of the features found on cell phones, such as wireless Net access. Internet access over mobile phones may be at best a clunky...
[November 14, 2001, 14:09]
Jane Wakefield: Waiting For The WAP Train
News And apparently, we have finally found something that we do better than the Yanks as, according to Hewitt, the US turns green with envy at our ability to put the Net on our phones. Plus the patience of a saint, if the number of times standard mobile...
[March 28, 2000, 12:16]
Britons Reject Mobile And Digital TV Internet Access
News Three in ten of those already online believe that they will start accessing the Net via digital TV or mobile phones at some point in the future, but only one in twenty expect this to be in the next six months.
[June 20, 2001, 8:42]
A Democratic Mobile Revolution
News Net on their phones. Committee, is one of the first in the United States to take the surge of political activity that has emerged around email and the Web and move it wholly to the mobile phones that are appearing in more and more pockets.
[October 20, 2005, 20:00]
Wireless Web Fails The Screen Test
News Analysts from Silicon Valley to Wall Street routinely point to Japan and Scandinavia, where average consumers have welcomed even the most rudimentary access to the Net over phones. In his research, Neilsen gave mobile phones with Net access to a...
[January 18, 2001, 12:15]
Gates Says .Net On Track
News In his speech, Gates said Microsoft is on track with its .Net strategy to make its Windows operating system and other software available over the Internet to traditional PCs and handheld devices, such as mobile phones and handheld computers.
[July 27, 2001, 10:13]
Scientists Investigate Water Power For Mobiles
News Canadian scientists have developed a method of generating electricity from water for use in small devices, paving the way for devices such as water-powered mobile phones. The power generated from a single channel is extremely small -- a 30cm column...
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're right back in the early days of mobile phones, where Joe Soak couldn't get a look in -- the only people who could afford such extravagance were wandering sales bods doing high-value deals. The perception of mobile phones that this engendered...
[March 19, 2004, 17:05]
Mobile Phones: Is The Party Over?
News The downturn then hit manufacturers of the chips used in mobile phones, hitting companies such as Cypress Semiconductor, Analog Devices and PMC-Sierra. While analysts acknowledged that Nokia's profit outlook is clouded, they looked to high-end...
[July 28, 2000, 11:01]
HP Stakes A Claim In "friendly" Internet
News Devices such as mobile phones, dashboard systems and watches will all soon be connected to the Internet, offering a wide variety of transactions, while at the same time making the network as transparent as the telephone system is today, she said.
[March 13, 2000, 10:44]
Sun Woos Fans For Open-source Jxta
News In an effort to whip up enthusiasm and win new disciples, the tousle-haired Joy spent much of his time sketching out a new vision of the Internet's evolution, a world where cell phones, handheld devices and ordinary PCs would wield the same power...
[June 7, 2001, 8:36]
Verizon To Launch 3G In US
News Most Verizon Wireless phones can surf the Internet now, but at a speed about five times slower than what's expected to debut next week. Verizon customers won't have to buy new phones to make calls using the network.
[January 25, 2002, 11:45]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week In The Life Of WAP
News With the arrival of 3G, the applications we can expect to see on our mobile phones will go way beyond the text based services offered by WAP. The race is now on to come up with a standard secure payment system to allow us to happily shop from our...
[February 8, 2000, 12:38]
Skype Heads For The Business VoIP Market
News It's trying to cash in on the fact that 22 million consumers downloaded the free Skype software since it first became available, and then made nearly 1.8 billion minutes of calls that would have normally been done across traditional phones.
[October 7, 2004, 11:40]
Intel Sees 76 Percent Drop In Income
News Executives blamed the drop largely on weak sales of communications chips and flash memory, used in devices such as handheld computers and cell phones. However, it's other businesses, which include sales of communications chips such as flash memory...
[July 18, 2001, 9:13]
Jane Wakefield: The Silly Season Of Surveys
News People who regard the cost of an airplane ticket as a small price to pay for getting away from the incessant ringing of mobile phones can wipe the smile off their faces too as Virgin announces you can now talk to your boss/mum/lover from the clouds.
[July 7, 2000, 15:12]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week In The Life Of WAP
News With the arrival of 3G, the applications we can expect to see on our mobile phones will go way beyond the text based services offered by WAP. Paragon develops software, aimed at corporates, that synchronises personal information manager (PIM) data...
[February 11, 2000, 14:51]
Skype Getting Nearer The Big Time
News Once we get a lot of people using Skype for free, some will buy value-added services, some will buy value-added products - cordless phones, headsets and so on. Finally, Skype is working with equipment makers to develop hardware that will connect...
[March 18, 2005, 13:20]
Interfering With The Revolution
News We're also adding more carrier partners in order to terminate more calls to traditional phones. Skype has indicated its next hardware effort involves essentially making mobile Skype phones. Your proprietary software has come under fire from those...
[May 26, 2005, 14:20]
Protect Your Network: Hide Your Servers
News However, the phones didn't ring much, and he started getting bored, so he turned his attention to the network. One of the departments had hired a guy to answer the phones. You can also make a server visible or invisible by using the Net Config...
[July 9, 2003, 15:10]
