Mobile

Wed, April 18, 2007 - RIM officials advised people who use Blackberry as a major way of communications to make backup plans.

Sat, March 24, 2007 - Rumors abound that Google plans to launch a mobile phone, reportedly code-named "Switch," with the look and feel of a BlackBerry but with better Internet capabilities. But in all the commentary from observers, there havent been many compelling reasons given as to why the search giant would enter the mobile phone market.

Thu, March 01, 2007 - Do your employees have a “Crackberry” problem? Their compulsive BlackBerry monitoring could backfire on you: Checking e-mail via BlackBerry gives employees a sense of control but leads to more stress, according to a recent study from the MIT Sloan School of Management that examined BlackBerry use and organizational behavior. And this problem starts at the top.Ninety percent of individuals at ...

Wed, February 28, 2007 - The IM component will be available as part of Information Anywhere Suite as soon as April 2007.

Mon, February 26, 2007 - Attempts to find an investor for bankrupt German mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile have failed, after the last potential buyer ended negotiations, the company’s insolvency administrator said Sunday."I now see no realistic chance to sell the entire company in one piece and enable a new start," Martin Prager said in an e-mailed statement. "We have to acknowledge that the market ...

Thu, February 22, 2007 - The Chinese government will not issue licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile services until the first quarter of 2008, according to a Chinese report.China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) will not issue the licenses until a new round of tests involving the homegrown TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous code division multiple access) 3G technology ends next year, reported Caijing magazine in its ...

Fri, February 16, 2007 - Uncertainty about how to secure mobile phones in the face of increasing threats is slowing enterprise adoption of mobile applications, experts exhibiting at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona this week said.More than two-thirds of mobile operators in Europe that took part in a survey said they detected more than 100 incidents involving mobile viruses or mobile spyware in 2006, according ...

Mon, February 12, 2007 - Yahoo has reached a deal with LG Electronics Inc. to put its "Go" mobile platform on the screens of tens of millions of LG cell phone handsets this year.

Mon, February 12, 2007 - At Washington University in St. Louis, computer scientists have navigated a robot safely through a simulated fire and spotted a simulated fire by seeking out heat, using wireless sensor networks that employ software agents.

Fri, February 09, 2007 - Alcatel-Lucent’s revenue fell for the fourth quarter, and the company plunged into loss. The performance was disappointing, but the long-term prospects of the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies remain positive, the company said.Fourth-quarter revenue dropped 16 percent year on year on a comparable basis, to 4.42 billion euros (US$5.83 billion as of Dec. 31, the last day of the period ...