Yearly Archives: 2008

AP to offer upgrade to mobile news service on iPhone

The Associated Press on Monday unveiled an iPhone program for accessing its newly launched service that delivers news, photos and video to mobile phones.

Bonnaroo Mobile: Buzzd Brings Mobile Social Networking to Music Festival

Back in February we reported that Buzzd , a Mobile Web social networking service used at bars, clubs and restaurants, had won a bunch...

Monitise Adds UK Bank to Mobile Banking Platform

Monitise has announced that MONILINK, its UK joint venture with VocaLink, has signed a contract with an unnamed UK retail bank to offer mobile...

WiMAX Patent Pool Is Planned

Six big technology companies are spearheading a plan to jointly license patents that cover the wireless technology called WiMAX hoping to limit royalty rates...

Will the iPhone 2.0 be enough for the US?

Boston's business community is filled with bloggers who offer opinions, speculate and - sometimes - even make news. Globe columnist Scott Kirsner compiles excerpts...

Samsung launches iPhone lookalike Omnia

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Korean technology group Samsung launched a new touchscreen smartphone on Monday, hours before Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs to unveil new and improved iPhone

Will the next iPhone be thinner, cheaper, perhaps cooler? Will it come with new features such as video chat and a global positioning system?...

Faster-web iPhone expected to be introduced today

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is widely expected to introduce iPhone 2.0 at the start of the tech firm's Worldwide Developers Conference today.

Vendor punts coin-operated Wi-Fi base-station

People rarely need coins to make a call these days, but don’t ditch your coppers just yet because manufacturer Handlink has designed a coin-operated...

Putting mobile search trends in context

We all love the concept of mobile search. For today's busy mobile professional, it is reassuring and convenient to have all the information the...

Gemalto Wins Mobile Transactions Contract with Italian MVNO

Gemalto says that it has provided Italian MVNO, PosteMobile with a software solution that allows BancoPosta customers to securely carry out payment transactions with...

New sunglasses with built-in camera and MP3-player

Today accessory maker Otas unveiled its newest product, the so-called aigo Camera sunglasses MP3 F566+ .

Ad Track: ‘Sex’ and ‘porno’ rule mobile search engines

You'd think a cellphone's screen is too tiny for any, uh, "intimate" viewing. Apparently not.

VZW+Alltel: Content challenges ahead

The sparse, rural areas that AlltelCommunications L.L.C.'s network covers and the demographics it serves lead some to assume Alltel would have relatively little data...

Wirelessly networking cows

US researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows .

Dell Adds 3G HSPA Technology to Laptops

Dell teamed up with Ericsson to support the latter company’s favorite 3G technology: High Speed Packet Access (HSPA).

Sling unveils concept SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone

One of the first of many native third-party apps to show at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference will be an iPhone version of Sling Media's...

Battle Cylons via your Cell Phone

'Battlestar Galactica' is headed for a handheld galaxy, through a new mobile phone extension deal.<img src="http://feeds.pcworld.com/~a/pcworld/latestnews?

4G Technologies Should Merge, Not Compete, Says Intel

Intel is known for its support of WiMax technology but sales and marketing exec Sean Maloney says that there should be more of an...

Etc.

Disaster reliefVerizon Wireless launched a program designed to make it easy for its customers to donate to disaster relief efforts targeted at China and...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

Chip provider, and thorn in Qualcomm's side, Broadcom saw its co-founder Henry Nicholas III indicted last week on fraud, conspiracy and . wait for...

Game over?

Smaller entrepreneurial wireless developers could lose a friend with Verizon Wireless' acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. Alltel supports a number of cool applications on...

Martin to plow forward with free broadband plan: Auction could happen in December

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN APPEARS DETERMINED to win approval for a free, family-friendly national wireless broadband plan, despite being forced to delay...
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