Mobile & Wireless
08 September 2010
Aid groups using mobile phones to reach the world's poor Washington Post
For the world's poorest, cellphone technology carries opportunity, aid groups say, as text messages and other mobile applications have created a new platform to reach the most remote farms and crowded urban slums of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
06 September 2010
Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's quiet challenger Stuff
East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp, a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
03 September 2010
BlackBerry should share data: UN The Australian
Blackberry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies access to customer data, the United Nations telecommunications chief said.
More U.S. Adults Embrace Texting, Pew Survey Finds Tech Daily Dose
A survey released Thursday found that U.S. adults are following teens in embracing text messaging, with 72 percent of adults saying they have sent or received text messages compared with 65 percent in a September 2009 survey. Adults, however, still have a ways to go to catch up to the 87 percent of teens who reported using their mobile phones for texting.
02 September 2010
China Will Require ID for Mobile Phone Numbers; Noncompliance Means No Service New York Times
The Chinese government on Wednesday began to require cellphone users to furnish identification when buying SIM cards, a move officials cast as an effort to rein in burgeoning cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.
Blackberry loses more ground to Apple and Android Computerworld
In a continuing trend, more businesses are shifting loyalties from Blackberry to iPhones and Android devices as the relative newcomers make inroads into the corporate world. Three-quarters of the 200 businesses surveyed in the United States and the U.K in the study reported that their employees are choosing other than Blackberry, Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. reported to Bloomberg. The number was 83 percent for U.S. companies.
01 September 2010
Sony Ericsson Says China Is Embracing Smartphones Wall Street Journal
Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said Tuesday that he expects smartphone use in China to expand to half of all mobile-phone users in the country within five years, as the company joins other global handset makers in shifting its focus to higher-end devices.
31 August 2010
iPod hits a sour note as apps take over The Guardian
The invitation to Apple's event on Wednesday at the Yerba Buena centre in San Francisco shows an acoustic guitar, with a soundhole in the shape of the Apple logo. Seasoned watchers of the company know that this is the time of year when the iPod gets a refresh, yet there's a shadow over the digital music player that turned Apple from an also-ran computer company into a force in the technology world.
Blackberry gets 60-day India ban reprieve BBC News
India has said it will delay a ban on Blackberry devices for 60 days while it reviews proposals from the gadget's maker, Research in Motion.
Android-based Galaxy S may be taking advantage of an Apple backlash Computerworld
Shipments of Samsung Mobile's Galaxy S Android smartphone reached 1 million units in the U.S. 45 days after it first became available, the company announced Monday.
30 August 2010
Bahrain to World: BlackBerrys Welcome Newsweek
A full-page ad in The Economist this week features a photo of an actual-size BlackBerry, smack in the middle of the sheet. But the advertisement wasn't taken out by RIM for its business-minded smart phone. Instead, it is promoting the Middle Eastern nation of Bahrain. The BlackBerry's screen declares: "Bahrain has the most liberal telecoms market in the Gulf."
28 August 2010
RIM refuses to back down in India while other challenges loom Financial Times
Research in Motion and the Indian government were on Friday set for an impasse over New Delhi's demand for access to BlackBerry e-mails and messaging services after the Canadian company said this was technically impossible.
27 August 2010
Blackberry makes offer to India ahead of ban deadline BBC News
Blackberry-maker Research in Motion has said it is willing to work with India to support the country's need for "lawful access" to encrypted services.
26 August 2010
Apple blocks iPhones from O2's UK Eco mobile phone rating scheme The Guardian
Apple has refused to allow its iPhones to be included in the UK's first-ever green ranking scheme for mobile phones.
25 August 2010
Technology industry faces chip shortage The Guardian
The technology industry faces a growing shortage of semiconductors and other high-tech components following a failure to invest in new manufacturing facilities during the recession, experts have warned.
Final India decision on BlackBerry on Aug 30: source Reuters
India will take a final decision on August 30 on whether to block some BlackBerry services over which the country has security concerns, a senior government source said on Tuesday.
23 August 2010
Mobile operators predict app sales boom: Apps expected to outstrip voice services by 2013 Financial Times
Mobile operators expect app downloads to become their biggest source of income in developed markets within three years and want to charge content providers for preferential access to their networks, raising further questions about net neutrality.
Mobile phones in South-East Asia: In a saturated market, firms need customers to buy bells and whistles The Economist
Take a taxi in Bangkok and the driver's mobile phone is sure to chirp. A long conversation ensues, usually by speakerphone, since few cabbies bother with headsets. It is not just that cabbies are chatty; it is also that talk is cheap. Once reserved for the rich, mobile phones are now ubiquitous in South-East Asia.
22 August 2010
Opinion: Are phone Apps killing the web's original spirit of fresh discovery? The Observer
According to the latest cover story in tech bible Wired, "The web is dead, long live the internet." The headline is attached to a feature by the magazine's editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson, outlining what he calls the abandonment of "the open, unfettered web... for simpler, sleeker services". It has generated a huge reaction online.
21 August 2010
India sees solution on BlackBerry emails next week: source Reuters
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion may provide some solution next week to help Indian security agencies access corporate email by obtaining encrypted data in readable format, a government source said on Friday.
19 August 2010
Fears smartphone game apps could get the chop in Australia Sydney Morning Herald
The games industry has slammed federal government moves to censor mobile game apps, with developers saying they will stop selling their apps to Australians due to the prohibitive costs.
'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century The Guardian
If u really r annoyed by the vocabulary of the text generation, then a new exhibition at the British Library should calm you down. It turns out they were doing it in the 19th century - only then they called it emblematic poetry, and it was considered terribly clever.
18 August 2010
India sets Blackberry monitoring deadline BBC News
India has sent formal notices to the country's mobile operators telling them they must have equipment to monitor Blackberry services by 31 August.
Explosion of Australian mobile phone spam Sydney Morning Herald
Nuisance SMS texts are of growing concern for the industry's watchdog, which says you can act.
16 August 2010
RIM Offered Security Fixes: In India Talks, BlackBerry Maker Said It Could Share Metadata, Notes Show Wall Street Journal
Research In Motion Ltd. has offered information and tools to help India conduct surveillance of wireless email and messaging services on RIM's popular BlackBerry, say people familiar with the negotiations, illuminating RIM's dealings as it seeks to balance sovereign security concerns with its customers' privacy.
