Mobile & Wireless
05 January 2010
Google Moves to Keep Its Lead as Web Goes Mobile New York Times
Google's expected unveiling on Tuesday of a rival to the iPhone is part of its careful plan to try to do what few other technology companies have done before: retain its leadership as computing shifts from one generation to the next.
04 January 2010
American state pushes for cigarette-like warnings on mobiles Sydney Morning Herald
A move by legislators in the US state of Maine to require brain-cancer warnings on mobile phones is expected to trigger a worldwide response, the Australian industry has said.
03 January 2010
In just 25 years, the mobile phone has transformed the way we communicate The Guardian
In the early hours of New Year's Day 1985, Michael Harrison phoned his father Sir Ernest to wish him a happy new year. There may appear nothing remarkable in such a private show of filial affection, but Sir Ernest was chairman of Racal Electronics and his son was making the first-ever mobile phone call in the UK, using the network built by its newest investment, a company based round the corner from a curry house in Newbury, Berkshire.
Texting was never actually designed for the consumer market The Guardian
For a technology that has become so all-pervasive that texting has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary, SMS (short message service) was not designed as a mass market consumer communications service at all.
02 January 2010
2010: the year of the mobile with trend to smaller connected devices The Times
Desktop computers are so last decade. 2010 is shaping up to be the year when internet users move decisively away from bulky machines to the mobile web.
31 December 2009
Apple censors Dalai Lama iPhone apps in China Computerworld
Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China.
30 December 2009
Nokia says most Apple products violate its patents BBC News
Nokia has ramped up its legal fight against Apple, arguing that almost all of its products infringe Nokia patents.
Google phone could arrive next week The Guardian
Google could be preparing to launch its new mobile phone as early as next week, after the company called a press conference at its Californian headquarters.
28 December 2009
Editorial: US Court Says Police Need Warrant to Search Mobile Phones New York Times
The Ohio Supreme Court has struck an important blow for privacy rights, ruling that the police need a warrant to search a cellphone. The court rightly recognized that cellphones today are a lot more than just telephones, that they hold a wealth of personal information and that the privacy interest in them is considerable. This was the first such ruling from a state supreme court. It is a model for other courts to follow.
26 December 2009
The iPhone isn't perfect and Nokia launches its alternative, the N900 The Guardian
When hostages defend their kidnappers, it is known as "Stockholm syndrome". Something similar happens to iPhone users, according to the Danish analyst Strand Consult , when they fall so in love with the device that it blinds them to its defects such as a poor camera, lousy battery life for heavy users and no Bluetooth facility that can transmit photos.
24 December 2009
India's Mobile Subscriber Base Crosses 500 Million Mark PC World
India's mobile subscriber base crossed the 500 million mark in November, according to data released Wednesday by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
20 December 2009
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Device Sales on Pace for Flat Growth in 2009, Increase 9 Per Cent in 2010 Gartner
Stronger than expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the grey market in the third quarter of this year will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion units, a 0.67 per cent decline from 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. In September, Gartner had forecast sales to decline 3.7 per cent in 2009. Gartner now predicts sales in 2010 will show a 9 per cent increase from 2009.
Callers of all incomes ditching landlines for mobiles in America Washington Post
The number of households with cell phones but no landlines continues to grow, but the recession doesn't seem to be forcing poor cellular users to abandon their traditional wired phones any faster than higher-income people are.
18 December 2009
Mobile Internet to Dominate Within 5 Years -- Study PC World
The mobile Internet is growing faster than its desktop counterpart ever did, and more users may go online via mobile devices than desktop PCs within five years, according to a new study by investment firm Morgan Stanley.
14 December 2009
With a New Phone, Google May Challenge Apple New York Times
Two titans of the tech world, Google and Apple, may soon be engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Or, more precisely, handset-to-handset combat.
13 December 2009
Google Phone May Be in Works New York Times
Google appears to be preparing to market its own smartphone, a move that would intensify the company's rivalry with Apple, whose iPhone dominates the high-end smartphone market in the United States.
WiGig spec promises 7Gbps wireless streaming ZDNet
The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has completed its specification for a 60GHz technology that supports data transmission rates of up to 7Gbps, promising a wireless speed boost between mobile phones, PCs and televisions.
10 December 2009
Mobile phones will come of age in 2010 – and this time I mean it The Guardian
For decades, speech recognition has been a breakthrough waiting to happen. The other day I tried Google's voice search on my mobile after someone had recommended it. I spoke three search queries into my phone (by holding down the telephone icon) and it got all three correct. Being able to search on the move without typing in letters is a really useful facility - another indication of the coming of age of the mobile.
Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar New York Times
There is a question that has crossed the mind recently of anyone who has sent a cellphone text message while cheating on a spouse: What was I thinking?
08 December 2009
Research in Motion sets sights on China Financial Times
Research in Motion is launching a push to market its BlackBerry smartphones to millions of individual users in China with two new distribution deals in the largest mobile market by subscribers.
07 December 2009
Apple's Game Changer, Downloading Now New York Times
... As the App Store evolves from a kitschy catalog of novelty applications into what analysts and aficionados describe as a platform that is rapidly transforming mobile computing and telephony, it is changing the goals and testing the patience of developers, bolstering sales of the Apple motherships the applications ride upon -- the iPhone and iPod Touch -- and causing Apple's competitors to overhaul their product lines and business models. It even threatens to open chinks in Apple's own corporate armor.
04 December 2009
Danish study finds mobile phones 'have not increased brain cancers' BBC News
There has been no substantial change in the number of adult brain tumours since mobile phone usage sharply increased in the mid-1990s, Danish scientists say.
01 December 2009
India blocks millions of mobiles for security reasons BBC News
Millions of Indian mobile phones with no valid unique identification code have been blocked for security reasons.
26 November 2009
3G wireless still holds promise, despite 4G CNET
There's been a lot of talk in 2009 about the next generation of wireless technology, known as 4G wireless broadband, but the current generation of 3G wireless technology is far from dead.
24 November 2009
US mobile groups protest proposed net neutrality rules Computerworld
A month ago, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began a proceeding to create formal net neutrality rules for broadband providers, and the proposals have generated serious debate in the telecom community.
