Mobile

Fri, January 26, 2007 - Blockbuster mobile phone sales during the holiday season last year propelled shipments to more than 1 billion for all of 2006, market researcher IDC said Thursday.Handset vendors shipped a record-high 294.9 million mobile phones in the last three months of 2006, propelling the full year total to 1.02 billion, according to IDC.The fourth-quarter figure was 20 percent higher than the same period in 2005, ...

Thu, January 25, 2007 - Technology to transfer data at 480Mbit/s should reach users’ handsets in 2008.

Thu, January 25, 2007 - Nokia reported strong sales and profits for the fourth quarter and year end but had a couple of dark spots, namely continued declines in North America and a slipping average selling price of phones. Net profit for the quarter was 1.3 billion euros (US$1.7 billion as of Dec. 31, the last day of the reported period), up 19 percent from the ...

Tue, January 23, 2007 - Mobile networks will take the lead in establishing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)-based next-generation networks (NGNs) and introducing next-generation applications, reports In-Stat. Wireline operators will continue to operate NGN overlays over the next five years, focused on revenue-generating independent point solutions, the high-tech market research firm says."There is no debate over whether IMS will be deployed," says Keith Nissen, ...

Mon, January 15, 2007 - Think you’ve got prima donna users and high-touch customers? At Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the powerful Hollywood talent agency that serves larger-than-life celebrities including Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, customer relationship management takes on a whole new meaning—and importance. And whereas lunch at Spago and tons of phone calls used to be how business got done, CAA now ...

Mon, January 15, 2007 - Early adopters of mobile devices have identified three components for a successful mobile management strategy. Here’s the lowdown from Tastykake CIO Brendan O’Malley:1. Get ahead of your users. Develop a management strategy before user demand surges, covering device standards, personal usage (and any reimbursements for it), security and access controls, and cellular providers. O’Malley advocates allowing reasonable personal usage of ...

Mon, January 15, 2007 - The applications to manage your connected devices depend on your mix of handheld PCs.BlackBerry Enterprise Server: Research in Motion’s server and management software acts as a proxy between your e-mail server and BlackBerrys, using the carrier networks to wirelessly manage the devices. GoodLink: Good Technology’s connected-handheld service includes the GoodLink Server to act as a proxy to the enterprise e-mail ...

Wed, January 10, 2007 - U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez Tuesday criticized China for delaying the creation of a third-generation (3G) wireless network in that country, saying it is thwarting global technology innovation by not embracing standards.Speaking in a session at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Gutierrez said companies around the world must support common standards to promote ...

Mon, January 08, 2007 - Samsung Electronics will launch the latest addition to its family of ultramobile PCs on Monday, a device that uses a 32GB solid-state flash memory-based hard drive (SSD) to store data instead of a conventional hard-disk drive (HDD).The Q1P SSD is designed for users requiring speedier access to data. It also takes a beating better than devices using HDDs, Samsung said ...

Fri, December 22, 2006 - Toshiba is confident that it will beat Sony to market with consumer electronics devices packing the powerful Cell microprocessor.