Mobility

MWC: Android And Smartphones Power Mobile Market

IDC believes that the mobile market is benefiting from a number of trends, including the growth of smartphones and new…

15 years ago

MWC: Home Office Unveils Tech To Combat Phone Theft

The Home Office has unveiled several technologies to combat phone theft, including a system that uses contactless communication to authenticate…

15 years ago

Virgin Media To Challenge BT In Business Market

Virgin Media has unveiled plans to undercut BT, with a fibre optic broadband offering for small and medium business customers

15 years ago

UK Company Brings £63 Smartphone To Developing Countries

A British company has developed a low-cost smartphone, which could bring mobile Internet to emerging economies, ahead of the Mobile…

15 years ago

Apple iPad Profit Margins Dissected

Apple's iPad tablet PC underwent a virtual teardown by research firm iSuppli, which surmises that the device will offer a…

15 years ago

MWC: Microsoft’s Slice of Mobile OS Sector Shrinks

New figures have shown that Microsoft's share of the mobile operating system market in the US has fallen by nearly…

15 years ago

MWC: Opera To Preview Mini Browser for Apple iPhone

Opera is to offer delegates at the upcoming Mobile World Congress a sneak preview of the Opera Mini browser for…

15 years ago

Space-Based Internet Could Slash Carbon Emissions

Report claims that broadband delivered from space could cut carbon emissions and plug holes in rural Internet provision

15 years ago

MWC: ST-Ericsson Launches Low-Cost Android Platform

Geneva-based joint venture ST-Ericsson will promise smartphones for all with a low-cost Android-ready Linux phone platform at Mobile World Congress…

15 years ago

Cisco Develops Faster Mobile Network Technology

Cisco introduces the ASR 5000, a platform dedicated to the mobile network to create an end-to-end Internet IP Protocol next-generation…

15 years ago

Apple May Drop iPad Pricing, Suggests Analyst

An analyst has suggested that Apple executives could be "nimble" on pricing for the iPad tablet PC if it fails…

15 years ago

MWC: Ericsson And Netgear To Showcase 3G Mobile Broadband Router

Netgear and Ericsson will use the Mobile World Congress to showcase a 3G mobile broadband router for locations with no…

15 years ago

MWC: Samsung And LG Announce New Smartphones

With the Mobile World Conference looming, both Samsung and LG Electronics have broken cover after announcing two new smartphones

15 years ago

LTE Rollout Hampered By 3G Migration Costs

LTE is being hampered because mobile operators have been bogged down with the costs associated with moving from 2G to…

15 years ago

Quantum Material ‘Could Replace All Switches’

All switches could one day be replaced with an ultra-thin quantum material which adds pressure sensitivity, says Philip Taysom, CEO…

15 years ago

Quantum Effect Will Make Phones Pressure-Sensitive

MWC: British firm Peratech's novel quantum material will give a pressure-sensitive dimension to phone screens and navigation keys

15 years ago

Linux Founder Endorses Nexus One Smartphone

The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has backed the Nexus One after he used the device for…

15 years ago

Nokia Investor Hits Phone Maker With Class Action Suit

Nokia has been slapped with a fresh lawsuit, although this time the class action complaint was filed by an investor…

15 years ago

British iTablet Device To Rival Apple’s iPad

UK-based firm X2 Computing has unveiled its iTablet device, designed to compete directly with Apple's much-heralded iPad tablet

15 years ago

Google’s Translation Phone Not Imminent

Although it is working hard on the problems of translation and speech recognition, Google says it won't have a translating…

15 years ago

Review: BlackBerry Presenter Links PowerPoint to Projector

Research In Motion's BlackBerry Presenter lets smartphone users stream PowerPoint presentations from their BlackBerry to a projector via a wireless…

15 years ago

Apple Blocks iPhone Ad GPS Development

Apple announced that it would prevent third-party iPhone developers using its Core Location framework from designing apps that deliver targeted…

15 years ago

Skype To Offer iPhone Users VoIP Calls Via 3G

iPhone users are soon to get a Skype app that will allow them to make VoIP calls, not just over…

15 years ago

Lenovo Looks At Mobile Push After PC Shipment Rise

On the back of a healthy set of financial results, Lenovo said it is looking to expand in the mobile…

15 years ago

Amazon Reacts To iPad Challenge With Touchco Acquisition

Amazon has reacted to the arrival of the Apple iPad, and has reportedly made an acquisition of a multitouch technology…

15 years ago

Next Gen Smartphones Driving Noise Cancellation Market

Next generation smartphones such as Google's Nexus One and the Motorola Droid, are boosting the noise cancellation market

15 years ago

Google Offers Admin Control For Smartphone Apps

In an effort to broaden its appeal to the business community, Google is to allow administrators to control staff access…

15 years ago

Symbian Seeks To Win Developer Mindshare

Following the news today that Symbian has gone open source, eWEEK Europe questions its strategy group leader John Forsyth about…

15 years ago

Symbian OS Confirmed As Fully Open Source

Fours months ahead of schedule, the Symbian Foundation has made the source code of its mobile operating system freely available…

15 years ago

Google’s Nexus One Gets Multitouch Upgrade, 3G Fix

Google is adding a multitouch mechanism, allowing users to pinch-to-zoom, and a software fix to improve 3G connectivity on its…

15 years ago