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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]
Windows Mobile 6.1 Spotted
Blog As to why I didn't spot this myself, in my defence we only flew into Barcelona as the Sony Ericsson launch party was underway. They just didn't have much to say, which was really annoying given that everyone was expecting something about an update...
[February 18, 2008, 15:22]
Microsoft To Announce Windows Mobile 6
News Microsoft plans on Monday to officially announce Windows Mobile 6, formerly code-named Crossbow, at the 3GSM trade show in Barcelona. The next version of Windows Mobile, expected to be based on Windows CE 6, aims to create a common code base...
[February 8, 2007, 8:02]
Microsoft: Mobiles Are For Life, Not Just For Business
News The device — the Xperia X1, Sony Ericsson's first and only handset to run Windows Mobile — was being shown off in Barcelona. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of entertainment and...
[February 12, 2008, 11:07]
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 Speaking at the 3GSM mobile event in Barcelona, Seiche told ZDNet UK that BT will be integrating additional VoIP capabilities into the handset before it is rolled out in the second quarter of 2007. BT has announced it will be launching Wi-Fi...
[February 13, 2007, 12:22]
Microsoft Gives Exchange A Push
News The software giant has formed partnerships with Vodafone and Cingular Wireless, which are expected to be announced at the 3GSM World Summit in Barcelona. Under the plan, companies who have deployed devices running on Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft's...
[February 13, 2006, 8:25]
Microsoft Wants All Your Mobile Life
News Delivering a keynote address on the second day of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Ballmer said that the mobile market is an increasingly vital one to Microsoft's future. This year we are really ramping up the energy with a new ad campaign...
[February 14, 2006, 16:05]
Motorola: Microsoft DRM Will Boost Mobile Music
News Announced on Monday, the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, the deal will see Motorola add support for Windows DRM, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Audio Professional, and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) to a range of its handsets.
[February 13, 2006, 16:30]
3GSM 2007 Preview: The IP Invasion
News Next week, 12-15 February, will see the global mobile industry descend upon the Catalan city of Barcelona for what will be the largest 3GSM conference yet. A big one, the introduction of Windows Mobile 6, has prematurely flown the coop, but fresh...
[February 9, 2007, 11:22]
Microsoft Launches 'PlayReady' DRM System
News Microsoft PlayReady was unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. 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...
[February 12, 2007, 16:00]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog Fortunately, the punk rocker inside me is sleeping off an encounter with last night's major discovery - in Barcelona, happy hour lasts from 2200 to 0200 - and all the good people from Cantab have to cope with is the internal engineer wireless geek.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Nokia-Palm Merger Rumours Get Cool Reception
News At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona he said: "In the US, the Palm OS is so well established Symbian never got any traction. The world's number-two handset maker recently acquired Symbol — which, like Palm, also runs OSes from Palm and Windows...
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
Liveblogging From Microsoft's Press Gig
Blog Oh yes, we're in Barcelona, aren't we? Last year's equivalent event proved very useful for liveblogging, what with a bunch of announcements like Windows Mobile 6 and, er, DRM. UPDATE 3: Windows Mobile momentum: more units sold than iPhone AND (not...
[February 11, 2008, 13:14]
Symbian Vows To Win Mid-market Battle
News We want to take our apps and software into what is currently called the feature phone market," Symbian chief executive Nigel Clifford told delegates at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Jo Best reported from Barcelona for silicon.com.
[February 15, 2006, 12:30]
The Reality Of Mobile Linux: Part One
News At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ZDNet.co.uk took a look at how mobile Linux is already a reality. In the first of a two-part series, we looked at how Trolltech is putting Linux apps on a Windows Mobile phone, how Access plans to port...
[February 19, 2008, 11:00]
Microsoft Wants Nokia "to Go All The Way"
Blog Our very own Rupert Goodwins and David Meyer are out in Barcelona for the next few days trying to keep up with a flood of announcements at the mobile industry's annual shin-dig Mobile World Congress (previously 3GSM).
[February 11, 2008, 10:25]
Mobile Email: When Push Comes To Shoving
News In one of a slew of announcements made on Monday at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed that it is stepping up its campaign to seize a chunk of the mobile email market. The software giant is hoping to use its size to undercut...
[February 14, 2006, 13:00]
More Heavyweights Join Mobile Linux Group
News The companies announced their LiMo memberships on Monday, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That strategy dates back six years to the release of its first Windows Mobile SPV handset, but the new programme now also takes in the Series 60...
[February 11, 2008, 9:36]
Time For Microsoft To Pay Up And Move On
Leader During a Valentine's Day keynote at this week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, did his best to woo the mobile industry with his warm and fluffy side. If it is to succeed in the mobile space, an arena...
[February 16, 2006, 12:10]
