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Skype unveils iPhone and BlackBerry services
News CCS's Wood said that if Skype can replicate the popularity of its desktop video feature on the cellphone it would help a mobile category that has been slow to take off, as well as boost its own status in cellphones. [30 Mar 2009]
Airborne mobile - Airbus-SITA tie-up gets EU approval
News Jens Heitmann, head of systems and equipment standardisation at Airbus, said: "In two years' time, we'll be ready to let you use your cellphone on board. Plane manufacturer Airbus and communications company SITA are to... [31 Jan 2005]
Firefox readies next moves
News Now that it has the Firefox 1.0 milestone under its belt, the Mozilla Foundation has identified three areas for future growth and development: cellphone and small device browsing, desktop search integration, and OEM... [10 Nov 2004]
CSR goes for Wi-Fi with chip launch
News The cellphone is already a converged device. Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) has launched a range of chips that support the three most popular Wi-Fi standards. The products, called UniFi, are designed to be embedded in a... [09 Nov 2004]
Leader: US Election 2004 verdict
Leader Film critic David Thomson - of all people - reckons that because opinion polls in the US this time generally use fixed lines to call Joe and Jane Public, they miss the 'cellphone vote'. Bush or Kerry? [01 Nov 2004]
Google vs Yahoo: Battle moves to the mobile
News The two companies took their most significant steps yet into the cellphone market within a few weeks of each other, showing just how eager the web search industry is to expand its reach. But the... [28 Oct 2004]
Nokia planning RFID in phones
News Nokia is at work on a cellphone that uses microchips used to store product information and signal their location, the company announced on Sunday. So-called radio frequency identification (RFID) is a favourite of... [25 Oct 2004]
Woman arrested for talking too loudly on mobile
News He recalled an occasion when he was in an airport waiting room, where a woman carried on a heated argument with her husband, via cellphone, over his picking her up. LetsTalk, which reviews cellphones and service plans,... [29 Sep 2004]
GSM outpacing CDMA in US
News A cellphone technology that dominates Europe is now the fastest-growing standard in North America, according to a trade group. He cited new cellphone market data from EMC, which publishes the EMC World... [10 Oct 2003]
Mobiles jammed by profit-hungry hoteliers
News Canny hoteliers are using Taiwanese technology to block cellphone signals, fooling guests into thinking there is no coverage in the area and forcing them to use the hotel's phone services. Cellphone... [01 Sep 2003]
Re:Viewing 2002 - Mobile and wireless (Part 1)
News Novel uses for the increasingly ubiquitous mobile handset varied from the useful - contraception/fertility advice in Poland (http://www.silicon.com/a51131) and biblical quotes in the Philippines (http://www.silicon.com/a53282) - to the... [18 Dec 2002]
Model Management: Mobile phones - only trust them as far as you can throw them
Comment A Motorola arcs gracefully through the air, its 'battery low' sign flashing happily. It is followed by a Nokia, tunelessly spewing the opening bars of the William Tell Overture as it passes overhead. And then an Ericsson whistles by,... [28 Aug 2001]
Transatlantic Cable: Farewell to Ricochet
Comment While wireless internet over a cellphone was still in its infancy here, its service was relatively fast (at 28kbps), came with unlimited use and worked. According to the industry website webmergers.com, July was a... [15 Aug 2001]
US wireless auction tipped to flop
News Mobile, or cellphone, use is bounding ahead in the US with 107 million customers now signed up. The 422 licences that go on the auction block later today cover much of the East Coast of the US and large parts of Texas,... [12 Dec 2000]
Iridium satellites to fall from the sky
News Experts have stressed the company's reliance on voice in an increasingly data-centric market, and the ability for cellphone handsets to now roam around the world - a situation that wasn't foreseen when Iridium was... [17 Mar 2000]
