The World Handset Forum in Review
21 November 2003 — PMN — The World Handset Forum represents something of a departure for IBC, the conference company best known for the huge industry gathering it hosts each year at the 3GSM Congress in Cannes. Instead of focusing on a large exh…
User-centred mobile design
07 April 2003 — Sofia Svanteson — Sofia Svanteson is CEO of Ocean Observations, a user-centred design consultancy. Ocean recently completed a project researching European design attitdues for Samsung and designing the GUI for a new Samsung hands…
Samsung selects Ocean for European project
13 February 2003 — PMN — Ocean Observations, a user-centred design consultancy based in Stockholm, has completed a 12 month project contributing to the design of a new Samsung handset interface. Samsung engaged Ocean to research European cultura…
Virgin hits 2m mark
Virgin Mobile, Virgin Group’s mobile phone arm, yesterday announced it had surpassed the 2m subscriber mark, confirming its position as the UK’s fastest growing mobile operator. Virgin said its customer numbers had grown 70 percent over the past 1…
Palm to split 1-for-20
Palm Inc. today announced that the Palm Board of Directors has approved a reverse stock split and established a ratio of 1-for-20. As a result of the reverse stock split, every 20 shares of Palm common stock will be combined into one share of Palm…
NEC invests in Hutchison
NEC’s USD 73m investment for a 5 percent stake in Hutchison’s mobile phone companies, announced yesterday, highlights the degree to which its is counting on the success of the Hong Kong group’s global third generation services. NEC has supplied Hu…
HP to introduce mid-range iPaq
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to take on Palm Inc. with a smaller and cheaper version of its iPaq handheld computer in time for the holiday season, an executive said on Wednesday.
ART ports voice technology to Qualcomm
Natural interface specialist Advanced Recognition Technologies (ART) has ported its smARTspeak XG voice recognition system to Qualcomm’s MSM chipset. smARTspeak is a speaker independent, phoneme-based embedded solution.
Qualcomm’s MSM chipsets …