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Toshiba Introduces Windows Mobile Handsets
News Toshiba is entering the UK's smartphone/PDA market with two Windows Mobile devices promising close integration with the company's laptops, the manufacturer revealed at the 3GSM World Congress on Monday morning.
[February 12, 2007, 8:00]
Microsoft To Announce Windows Mobile 6
News The next version of Windows Mobile, expected to be based on Windows CE 6, aims to create a common code base, potentially simplifying the process for application developers. But the operating system isn't Vista — it's Windows Mobile 6, the latest...
[February 8, 2007, 8:02]
Ballmer Reveals Mobile TV Smartphone
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off a Windows Mobile smartphone that's designed to display mobile TV at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday. It runs on Windows Mobile 5.0. Ballmer cited this mobile TV smartphone as...
[February 14, 2006, 12:00]
BT Moves Into Smartphone Market
News BT has announced it will be launching Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones from HTC and HP, based on Windows Mobile 6, for its business mobile VoIP services. We are very excited about Windows Mobile 6 and the range of HTC devices, as it will enable us to...
[February 13, 2007, 12:22]
Motorola: Microsoft DRM Will Boost Mobile Music
News Mobile handset manufacturer Motorola has announced that it is integrating Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology into a number of its handsets. Our relationship with Microsoft is about making the mobile world seamless with the...
[February 13, 2006, 16:30]
Windows Mobile 6 'unveiled'
Blog We all know it's impossible to keep a secret on the InterWeb these days, and sure enough one of the worst-kept secrets is the imminent appearance of Windows Mobile 6, codenamed 'Crossbow'. Windows Live for Mobile: services include mail, messenger...
[February 8, 2007, 8:32]
Orange Planning SPV Successor
News Orange is to launch a second mobile phone handset based on Microsoft's Windows Powered Smartphone software in April in an effort to appeal to consumers and gamers. On Monday, Microsoft said that T-Mobile would become the second European customer...
[February 18, 2003, 11:15]
Symbian Backers Lure Developers
News Microsoft also announced that T-Mobile will be rolling out a Windows smartphone in Europe later this year, joining carrier Orange. T-Mobile will also be offering Pocket MSN, a subscription-based service for Pocket PC and Windows smartphones that...
[February 17, 2003, 16:21]
Microsoft Makes Waves At 3GSM
News Even before 3GSM had kicked off, Microsoft was making headlines with a deal with Flextronics to push a low-cost platform for feature phones running Windows Mobile. As the world's mobile phone industry gathered for the annual 3GSM shindig, Microsoft...
[February 16, 2005, 14:35]
3GSM 2007 Preview: The IP Invasion
News A big one, the introduction of Windows Mobile 6, has prematurely flown the coop, but fresh devices from companies such as i-mate will already be sporting the new operating system, so look forward to hands-on reports.
[February 9, 2007, 11:22]
Microsoft Wants Nokia "to Go All The Way"
Blog Asked whether Nokia, the only major manufacturer to now not be making Windows Mobile handsets, had expressed any interest in doing so, (Microsoft's) Starkweather said discussions had taken place on the issue.
[February 11, 2008, 10:25]
Mobile Email: When Push Comes To Shoving
News The software giant is hoping to use its size to undercut much of the competition and is offering its Messaging and Security Feature Pack free to customers who already have Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0.
[February 14, 2006, 13:00]
Microsoft Gives Exchange A Push
News Under the plan, companies who have deployed devices running on Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft's latest mobile operating system, will be able to push new messages straight to them. The service relies on Microsoft's Direct Push technology, which runs...
[February 13, 2006, 8:25]
3GSM World Congress: Day One Roundup
News Microsoft says it will even work on mobile devices that aren't running Windows, and onboard already are several companies including Verizon and O2. Its chief executive admitted that the mobile industry had overhyped technologies such as 3G, and...
[February 12, 2007, 16:38]
Big Plans For Linux On Mobile Phones
News Embedded Linux specialist Trolltech has claimed that Linux will soon be a major competitor to Symbian and Windows Mobile. We believe that in two to three years the main software platforms for phones will be Symbian Series 60, [Windows] Mobile and...
[February 25, 2005, 14:05]
Microsoft Launches 'PlayReady' DRM System
News PlayReady is not integrated with Windows Mobile 6 [launched this month]," explained Knowlton. When asked whether this meant that PlayReady could be used on a Symbian phone, a main rival for Windows Mobile, Knowlton replied that it could be used on...
[February 12, 2007, 16:00]
Battle For The Mobile Space Heats Up
News Tues 19 Feb: RealSystem Mobile will open the floodgates for media to be streamed to mobile devices. Symbian adds security, Java to mobile mix Wed 20 Feb: RealNetworks may be preparing RealOne for mobile devices, but Finnish developer Oplayo reckons...
[February 19, 2002, 13:28]
Opera Raises Curtain On Mobile Browsing
News That rewritten engine forms the basis of Opera 7, which includes in the Windows version the new small-screen rendering technology so that Web page authors can see how the mobile phone will display pages.
[February 11, 2003, 12:28]
3G Fades From Conference Radar
News Samsung bought a 5 percent stake in Symbian earlier this week, strengthening its ties to the software company, while Microsoft announced that T-Mobile would begin carrying its Windows-powered smartphones.
[February 19, 2003, 12:52]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog The company is adept at making Wi-Fi and Bluetooth work together, which is exactly what mobile phone companies are slowly realising they want. It does indeed do IP, but purely in the service of delivering mobile TV - still, it's a good story.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
