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Morning has broken on Mobile World Congress...
Blog The wi-fi in the press room is as good as always, so I´m on the wired computers. You might care that Qualcomm, Huawei and Telefonica have successfully tested HSDPA on 900 MHz - the original GSM frequencies, which provide better in-building and...
[February 11, 2008, 7:51]
Accenture launches mobile-service framework
News The consultancy, services and outsourcing company Accenture announced on Tuesday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it is establishing a business to help companies and mobile operators develop and deploy their own mobile applications.
[February 18, 2009, 14:42]
Nokia announces Ovi application store
News On Monday, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, which has been losing market share at the high end to devices such as Apple's iPhone, announced in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2009 that it will follow Apple and a few other handset makers...
[February 16, 2009, 12:36]
WITC opens debate through online forum
News In a world first, the upcoming World IT Congress (WITC), to be held in Adelaide in late February, will invite members of the public to participate in discussions traditionally limited to congress delegates.
[January 7, 2002, 11:59]
LG shows off Watch Phone
News The Watch Phone's SIM card slot is at the back of the device, according to LG's demonstrator on the Mobile World Congress show floor. One of the most talked-about gadgets at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was LG's touchscreen Watch...
[February 19, 2009, 17:10]
Emerging mobile tech to watch out for
News The Mobile World Congress isn't just about an infinite number of similar handsets, operators trying to get anyone interested in mobile TV, and platform wars. One of the best bits of the Mobile World Congress is finding small companies doing smart...
[February 12, 2008, 11:31]
Mobile giants battle for next generation
News Microsoft showed off prototypes of its "smartphone" platform, codenamed Stinger, for the first time in public at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, which started Tuesday. It wasn't unusual to see delegates at the Congress this week with...
[February 21, 2001, 11:16]
Mobile World Congress: The final analysis
News The real story of Mobile World Congress 2008 was the politics of a mobile industry standing on the brink of a probable recession. According to the organisers, this year's Mobile World Congress was the most successful so far, with more than 55,000...
[February 15, 2008, 14:46]
What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2009
News On 16 February, the world's mobile-phone industry will gather in Barcelona to show off its latest products, announce roadmaps and debate the pressing issues of the day at the Mobile World Congress. Android has also been installed, mostly on an...
[February 13, 2009, 14:35]
Verizon's CTO looks to a 4G future
News But seriously, the more important question is, what do we see in Mobile World Congress now? As a result, Verizon Wireless, the largest carrier in the US and one of the largest CDMA operators in the world, made its first official appearance at...
[February 23, 2009, 12:45]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week in the life of WAP
News The GSM World Congress in Cannes last week saw a lot of talk from hardware manufacturers about the possibilities of WAP, but little focus on the content side of the equation. Hoping to hasten WAP's takeoff, four of the world's largest smart card...
[February 8, 2000, 12:38]
Microsoft seeks to regain lost ground in mobile
News You are going to see a bunch of announcements at Mobile World Congress but also it is going to be the beginning of a 12-month, 18-month period where you are going to see a whole bunch of different stuff," Lees said.
[January 27, 2009, 12:38]
ZDNet Roundup: A Week in the life of WAP
News The GSM World Congress in Cannes last week saw a lot of talk from hardware manufacturers about the possibilities of WAP, but little focus on the content side of the equation. The GSM Congress in Cannes last week saw the launch of the world's first...
[February 11, 2000, 14:51]
Palm plays it safe with wireless
News The company said today that this is part of the reason it did not attend last week's GSM World Congress, the biggest international mobile event of the year. Handspring meanwhile debuted its European VisorPhone at GSM World Congress, claiming the...
[February 27, 2001, 15:43]
Battle for the mobile space heats up
News Tues 19 Feb: The Finnish mobile phone maker has announced a high-end titanium GPRS phone at the 3GSM World Congress See image Wed 20 Feb: 3GSM World Congress: Nokia aims to accelerate the growth of new technology by sharing some of its mobile...
[February 19, 2002, 13:28]
Carnivore raises new concerns
News The assistant director told Congress that they didn't have the ability to store unfiltered data, but now they have a successful test of saving raw, unfiltered data on the hard drive. Krent and his team may have quite an earful from the public and...
[November 20, 2000, 8:39]
Q&A: Ericsson GPRS chief on security and roaming
News ZDNet France caught up with him at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, and talked to him about GPRS roaming and security issues. Q: Mobile email and intranet access is one of the services being heavily promoted at 3GSM World Congress this year.
[February 22, 2002, 12:43]
AOL axes staff over privacy breach
News Whatever staff changes AOL chooses to make does not reduce the need for Congress and the FTC to step in," Kevin Bankston, staff attorney for the EFF, said in a telephone interview. Schwartz said he was not convinced of the need for new action by...
[August 22, 2006, 8:40]
Europe and Japan sprint ahead in 3G race
News European and Japanese cellphone carriers have retaken the lead over the rest of the world in the race to offer next-generation cellphone technology, say executives gathering in Cannes for next week's 3GSM World Congress 2004.
[February 23, 2004, 13:20]
Skype stakes a place on Nokia smartphones
News The company, owned by eBay, announced its partnership with Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, on Tuesday at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. Nokia is not the only handset maker to announce a deal with Skype at Mobile World...
[February 17, 2009, 15:45]
