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Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet It's not in the mobile phone business though - and it's mobiles that have brought QR codes to mainstream attention. If the QR code contains a URL you should automatically be taken to that website on your phone (which surely beats typing in long URLs). [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet But in recent years rumour had it the search behemoth was eyeing up the mobile space with a view to making a mobile phone - or 'Gphone' as journos dubbed it. In Google's words, it's a "complete software stack" for mobile phones, built on an open... [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV
Cheat Sheet Mobile TV means video content that's either streamed or broadcast direct to your mobile phone - rather than video content that is downloaded and saved onto your phone for later viewing. Is that when I download clips onto my phone? [22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile location-based services
Cheat Sheet Nokia for one is starting to do just that, with its latest N-Series phone and, having recently bought mobile mapping company gate5, it's looking quite serious about LBS. Some European operators are already doing this by giving customers cheap calls... [29 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet: FMC
Cheat Sheet But once you leave the environs of your home, the phone switches the call from VoIP to mobile, without dropping the call. When you're on the move, the phone acts as a normal mobile, then once you're in range of the bridging technology - Bluetooth... [23 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Three manufacturers are the front-runners when it comes to getting NFC off the drawing board and into our pockets: Samsung has committed to the tech and has prototypes in the offing; Nokia has produced an NFC shell for one model of phone; and... [20 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Rather than hand over cash, sign your name or even do the chip and PIN thing when you buy something, the wondrous gift of technology has made it possible to make a purchase by tapping a teller's till with your wallet or mobile phone. [11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Smart phone operating systems
Cheat Sheet A smart phone differs from what you might consider a fairly fancy mobile phone - what some experts might even call a feature phone if it includes a camera, high-quality screen and some other functionality such as a diary - in that it allows... [02 Nov 2004]
Cheat sheet: The mini iPod
Cheat Sheet It's a very stylish 4GB MP3 player capable of storing around 1,000 tracks - all on a device the size of a small mobile phone. So what's this 'mini iPod' that everybody is talking about? It's the 'must have' item of 2004. [08 Apr 2004]
Cheat sheet: Difference between mm02 and 02
Cheat Sheet You don't need to care, really, but you may sound a bit stupid if you don't know that mm02 is the publicly traded holding company for the mm02 group of network operators.is the name of the UK and European networks and retail outlets, which is why... [24 Jun 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Micropayments
Cheat Sheet On 22 March News Corporation will file a patent for its system which uses mobile phone numbers to let visitors unlock certain pieces of content on Times Online and then add that cost to their monthly bill. [21 Mar 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Bluetooth
Cheat Sheet Harald united Denmark and Norway by particularly bloody means and it is this ability to tie things together that compelled mobile phone company Ericsson to name the technology after him. Excellent - so I can connect up my mobile phone, headset... [12 Mar 2002]
Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security
Cheat Sheet You could be using your WAP mobile phone/PDA hybrid to connect to the corporate network remotely. I mean there's very little I can do with my phone at the moment except call my wife to record the football. [14 Feb 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Location-based services
Cheat Sheet Just imagine your mobile phone contains software that works like a tracking device, so if you want to know where the nearest cinema is the information can be sent to you right after your phone has been located. [02 Jan 2002]
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