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 …
Vodafone to launch Italian 3G next year
According to reports in Corriere della Sera, mobile operator Omnitel does not expect to launch 3G services in Italy until May 2003. The Italian daily paper claims that the Vodafone-owned company will conduct a full test of its next generation mobi…
TI launches low power Wi-Fi chip
Texas Instruments has announced a new wireless LAN (WLAN) chip which requires up to ten times less power than existing solutions.
TNETW1100B is an integrated 802.11b (Wi-Fi) Medium Access Controller (MAC) and baseband processor (BBP). It uses j…
Psion sees operating profit amid falling revenues
Psion has reported a small operating profit for the first half of 2002 despite falling revenues and difficult conditions in its core Teklogix business.
Revenues for the first six months of the year fell 29.6% to GBP 70.8m. Profit at the operati…
PacketVideo to support Microsoft Media
PacketVideo, the pioneering wireless media platform provider, has announced that it will support Microsoft’s Windows Media 9.
PacketVideo provides an end-to-end solution for streaming interactive media to mobile devices over virtually any wirel…
First Hop launches Message Router
First Hop has announced Message Router 3.0, a server product for connecting mobile messaging applications with message centres.
Message Router sits between back-end applications which generate message alerts and an operator’s short or multimedi…