Mobile/Wireless

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 ...

Tue, February 20, 2007 - Sharp has developed a widescreen Windows Mobile-based PDA for a new Japanese cellular carrier that will begin service next month.The EM-One is compatible with EMobile’s high-speed third-generation data service that will launch on March 31 and offer download speeds of up to 3.6Mbps. Also packed into the device is 802.11b/g wireless LAN, Bluetooth and a tuner for Japan’s mobile digital ...

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 - Sony Ericsson plans to announce on Wednesday its strategy for the UIQ interface that runs on the Symbian mobile phone operating system.

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 ...

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 ...