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CategorySony voices support for handset venture
Following Friday’s report in the Wall Street Journal that Ericsson may pull the plug on its handset venture with Sony, its fellow parent has stepped in to defend the new company. Kunitake Ando, president of the Japanese electronics firm said there…
Scan acquires Mobile Channel Network
Scan Mobile has acquired Mobile Channel Network (MCN), a provider of branded content services such as MTV ringtones.
MCN will operate as a separate business unit within Scan Mobile, continuing to provide its content services and OTA Manager, a …
Palm to deploy Pico Bluetooth network
Pico Communications is to construct the world’s largest corporate Bluetooth network for Palm’s Solutions Group and PalmSource.
PicoBlue access points will cover an area of over 160,000 square feet, spread across four buildings in two separate l…
Orange to launch own handsets
A report published in Total Telecom outlined that Orange is to become the first major operator to launch its own handsets. The handsets will be based on Microsoft’s OS.
Orange spokesperson in Denmark, Linda Juul Nielsen, told Total Telecom the …
CDMA2000 extends 3G dominance
According to figures published by the CDMA Development Group (CDG), 99% of all 3G subscribers worldwide are currently using CDMA2000. By the end of July there were 15 million CDMA2000 users around the world and, according to the CDG, 1.8 million n…
Voice technology
Controlling a computer with spoken commands was not too long ago in the realm of science fiction. In the last few years the ability to interact with your desktop PC using your voice has become a reality. Voice control is now here for your PDA or s…
Handspring Treo 90 review
Many years ago I started learning the breakthrough Graffiti system incorporated in the then new Tandy Zoomer. Jeff Hawkins, the brains behind Graffiti the Zoomer, and later, the original PalmPilot and Handspring, …
Mobile payments
As mobile markets continue to mature, being able to pay using the mobile handset will be key to the development of next generation services. Ever since the launch of DoCoMo’s i-Mode service in 1999, mobile operators the world over have rubbed the …