Japan’s J-Phone and Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd said on Friday they would stand by plans to launch third-generation (3G) mobile services this year, despite a sluggish start to the high-speed service by industry leader NTT DoCoMo Inc. DoC…

Sony and Philips have announced they will work together to develop near field radio-frequency communication (NFC).

The technology will be embedded in mobile telephones, games consoles, smartcards and point-of-sales solutions, enabling transmiss…

Psion has announced an updated version of its netBook sub-notebook device for enterprise markets.

The netBook uses the Symbian OS and provides a near full-size keyboard, colour screen and a full suite of PIM, productivity and communications app…

Orange has announced plans to introduce a simplified tariff for UK customers under the ‘Your Plan’ brand.

Customers will be able to choose a certain number of inclusive minutes each month and add bundles of text messages, picture messages and i…

The President of NTT DoCoMo has stated that the company may miss its end of fiscal year 3G subscriber target for the second year running. DoCoMo had expected to have signed up 1.38 million FOMA subscribers by 31 March 2003. However with just 127,4…

Rumours of an entry-level picture messaging handset have emerged ahead of Nokia’s major launch event tomorrow. Nokia will host a press conference to discuss new models, including the 3650, a less expensive version of its innovative 7650 smartphone…

The telecom press continued to bombard NTT DoCoMo with articles arguing the technical superiority of CDMA2000 (Qualcomm) over W-CDMA (DoCoMo) with repeated mention of low subscriber numbers for DoCoMo’s W-CDMA-based FOMA service. But amid the stor…

Handango, the mobile applications retailer, has announced that it will work with WideRay to deliver a point-of-sales solution to retail outlets.

WideRay has developed an infrared access point for downloading content to Palm OS and Pocket PC dev…