Category: Mobile News
A couple of weird stories I've picked up on today which I can't make sense of. Firstly, Liam Billington told me about this rather strange Inquirer article, which talks about ... "(Orange) will release a version of its SPV C550 smartphone featuring Wi...
According to several stories today, kids are spending more than £1bn a year on mobile phones and mobile services. Yes, read it and weep - £1,000,000,000,000 spent on phones and crappy-arse ringtones. Jamster is one of the chief money-grabbers, who a...
Yet again Smartphones have helped people to win awards. This time it's the Microsoft Imagine Cup, which is intended to encourage student creativity. In fact it's the second year that Smartphones have helped win the prize. Last year the guys from Team ...
I mentioned happy slapping some weeks back and how it had been picked up by the media. Known as "Happy Slapping", it is in fact just bullying at best, or mugging at worst. The Crazy Frog generation appear to have started this (yes, he's at number 1 ag...
That annoying thing, commonly known as the crazy frog. That sound was on a website, www.studentfreestuff.co.uk long before som muppet decided it sounded like a crazy frog, and a very lucrative frog too. If anyone is prepared to pay up to
Over at MoDaCo today there's an interview with the developer of top shoot-em-up Eclipse (available here). If you wanna have a read of the transcript with head honcho "Muff" just click here. While we're on the subject of Muff, here's an intreresting st...
Greenlight Wireless today announced that its Skweezer service, which optimizes Web content for handheld devices, has been incorporated into the "Toyota Hub" mobile computing portal created by Toyota France. Skweezer's content reformatting technology...
Seagate recently announced that it is shipping the highest capacity one inch hard drive available, with a capacity of 6 gigabytes. The drive is projected to be able to store 150 hours of music, or about 3 000 songs at 128kbps. Expect a 6GB iPod mini ...
A tiny little outfit calling themselves "Nokia" (never heard of them, have you?) may well be getting the mobile Windows Media Player on their devices very soon, according to this Nokia press release. In it, music delivery solution "Loudeye" is used in...
In this Register story there's plenty of info about the way things are developing in the Smartphone arena. While some, like the Microsoft Smartphones (C500 / SMT 5600) are getting smaller and smaller by the day, other smartphones are in fact getting l...
Today, DAT Group plc and Dangaard Telecom announced they would form a new company, Tabella LP, to develop and market a new mobile email solution. The service has been specifically designed to match the market demand for managed mobile messaging soluti...
Marc Wintle has been emailing me for a few days now about a new service from BonusPrint which prints your Smartphone photos or puts them into an online gallery. I've been a little slow to pick up on it and it's now been mentioned elsewhere (see this M...
At CES (Consumer Electronics Show, it's a gadget show in Las Vegas), Bill Gates made his keynote speech. It heavily emphasised the Windows Media experience and the wide range of devices and places that support it. For the Smartphone section, Bill used...
Doah! Think you're having a bad day ? Well, at least you're not as stupid as David Kelly, who decided to rob a local estate agents. Driving down to the estate agents, in his OWN car, he proceeded to wave a hammer at staff and claim that it …
This Register story reports on a new breed of smartphones which will, in the future, predict where you're going and who you'll meet. The original news release comes from the New Scientist and details of "what could be" are quite interesting... "The Ne...
Silicon.com and many other news sites are reporting today on the news that the Queens speech is to include Government proposals to double the existing £30 and include 3 penalty points on your licence if you're driving with your phone held to your e...
Wll satellite navigators used in automobiles be banned in Norway? Yes, if the norwegian police have their way.According to a newsreport on TV2 the police in Norway are looking to ways to ban the use of satellite navigators and GPS's in automobiles. Bo...
I've always respected Guy Kewney - he's well known in the Smartphone world, writing stories for several websites, newpapers, IT rags and newfeeds all around the web. However, there's still yet another Microsoft attack in his latest coverage of the Ora...
It would appear that the worst kind of spam, the spam that we HATE the most, is SMS-Spam. I'm sure you all know the kind. It doesn't matter how careful you think you're being, you seem to get it. Have you called up for a competition recently on …
Over in France Orange are holding a Code Camp, where all types of mobile-coders (those dudes who make Java / non Java games and apps for your mobile phone) learn about what they can and can't do. You may have noticed that the dudes at MSMobileNews.com...
MSMobiles.com are reporting here about the departure of Shira Silverman from Waggener Edstrom. She was the PR guru for (amongst other things) Windows Mobile and I've had the pleasure of meeting her a few times. Shira is probably the most energetic, li...
Blimey - some good and rather bad news today. Whaddya want first ? Well, lets do the good news eh? It seems that there's a distinct possibility of a fierce price war on SMS (text) messages here in the UK soon, following a similar battle in the Netherl...
Vodaphone have conducted research which shows that eight out of ten British business people are armed with Mobile devices or laptops. In this Register article there's a clear sign that being able to work anywhere is an ever growing necessity for busi...
I'm sure we've all seen those friggin' irritating text messages that pop up on the phone. Y'know the type, "You've got a TCS answer phone message, dial XXXX to collect" - you call it, then there's some woman telling you you've won hundreds of thousand...
I've lost count of the amount of times that this has been forwarded to me recently. It's rubbish, ignore it - for more info click here to visit Symantec.com.If you get any mails like this, please bin them and stop forwarding them!!! :) "ALL MOBILE PHO...
Crazy it might sound, but yes - it appears to be going that way. The US have now approved the "Video Voyeurism Prevention Act", and since passing the Senate last year, it's now also gone through the House Judiciary Committee. It's well on it's way to ...
Another surprising email from the guys at Motorola UK today, following the email sent to MoDaCo.com here earlier. John Naylor picked up this email after asking Moto about the MPx220... I'll let John take up the story himself... :) Having emailed moto...
An interesting news story here at Silicon.com, about a company called Simeda.com who offer services which will allow you to lie about where you are. These services range from playing false background noise (such as a train station, car noise etc when...
Some exciting news: Microsoft and AT&T Wireless today announced a new resource that will empower US customers of the Motorola MPx200 with a 1-stop mobile-optimized site to get wireless data services, applications, ring tones and more. &...
Got a camera smartphone? Why not send an MMS to Lycos and get your pictures posted on t'internet? These guys did and.. well, there's some naughty ones there too! Don't forget that you can take a picture with your MS Smartphone and email it in to us...
We've already reported on "BlueJacking" here but now it looks like being a spammers paradise - at least for people using handsets that can have "Discoverable" Bluetooth turned on (the E200 MS Smartphone tends to die after about 4 hours with this turne...
The new legislation kicks in on December 1st 2003 in the UK which makes it illegal to use a hand-held phone whilst driving. Already though, we have confusion. Some police forces have said that wired personal hands-free kits are also illegal, whilst t...
In this silicon.com article, silicon.com caught up with PalmSource CEO David Nagel at ITU Telecom 2003. PalmSource produce a large number of applications for the Palm. However, as silicon.com says - he feels like the underdog, and went on the attack ...
As seen by this photo, taken by MSMobiles whilst Bill Gates was giving his presentation, it's clear that the Microsoft Smartphone gives a higher return to the network operator. Whilst this means bigger bills for us lot, it does also mean that the high...
MSMobiles.com are reporting live from Geneva, Switzerland. They're armed with a laptop and a digital camera and are bringing the latest gossip from ITU World Telecom 2003. (See my earlier story for maps and where the various companies are). Jacek has...
silicon.com reports today on an interesting new method of catching criminals by my local police force - Staffordshire Police. Several Mobile Devices have been trialled, howevere officers have chosen tough GPRS-enabled laptops to access police systems...
Stuff magazine, the UK gadget magazine, reports that the MiTAC Mio 8380 is coming out in here in the UK in December 2003!!? It also has an article on how to get TV on your Smartphone! Yes - proper TV - all you need is a TV Pack …
Another embarrassing and unfortunate problem for 3G network "3". Here in the UK they're struggling to increase their userbase. Although new slimmer handsets are on the way for 3G networks, current subscribers are becoming annoyed at the big chunky han...
"Connected" PDA's will continue to soar above Smartphone devices, claims ABI research. Kenil Vora, from ABI, said that Smartphones will continue to represent only a small portion of the mobile phone market. PDA's will get their boost from innovations...
IDC.com has reported a slow quarter for renewals and new subscribers in the mobile sector. Networks have been trying different products, however the industry is now realising that replacements and upgrades are harder to compete in that a new subscribe...
