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Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet So combine QR codes with mobile phones and you have the potential for a world with a QR code reader in every pocket. However, not all phones are compatible with these apps - so be prepared to be disappointed. [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet In Google's words, it's a "complete software stack" for mobile phones, built on an open Linux kernel (Linux version 2.6) - so that's an operating system plus all the middleware and key apps you need to drive a mobile phone. [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet S is for Satellite phones Is this another one of those shiny Apple gadgets from Cupertino? Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. Tell me more… Well users can download or stream BBC content broadcast during the... [05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Since social-network-alites are more than likely to be owners of mobile phones, there's immediate potential to hook up hardware and software - provided, of course, the hardware in question is GPS-enabled - lending another dimension to social... [15 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile location-based services
Cheat Sheet Operators can find you judging how far away you are from each mobile base station (the masts that send and receive communications to your phones) and so get a decent idea where you are in the country. [29 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet While typically most users of this sort of technology carry it in the form of a smart card for public transport, various companies are getting mighty excited about integrating it into phones. NFC phones can be linked to bank accounts, so money can... [20 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Smart cards can use radio frequency identifiers (RFID), while mobile phones can use Near Field Communication - a similar technology that works on shorter ranges. Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? [11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Smart phone operating systems
Cheat Sheet The same goes for GSM versus CDMA versus anything else - smart phones will be sold for different network types. LG from South Korea was a major addition to its roster this year and the Japanese market, where 3G phones from vendors such as Fujitsu... [02 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: WiMax
Cheat Sheet The WiMax Forum, where the story begins, is a coalition of tech firms that got together in 2001 to promote the 802.16 wireless standard for broadband and push interoperability of phones and other technology based on the standard, which is now... [12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Push-to-talk
Cheat Sheet Smart phones such as that can have PoC client software loaded (it's the sort of thing that makes them smart phones) and that will also be the case with most Symbian- and Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handsets. [09 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: VoIP
Cheat Sheet Internet phones offer features standard phones can only dream of. You can also set up conference calls easily and cheaply and have calls to a main number ring on several different phones (a handy feature for businesses). [15 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: MMS
Cheat Sheet MMS allows you to send pictures and sound to other mobile phones or even computers, as well as text, of course. Yes, afraid so. MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Service. Which is. It is simply a jump up from your standard text message. [09 Aug 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Bluetooth
Cheat Sheet Ericsson kicked off a study in 1994 to see whether a low power, cheap radio interface between mobile phones and their accessories could be developed. It's a protocol that allows devices such as mobile phones, laptop computers, desktop PCs... [12 Mar 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Location-based services
Cheat Sheet Without being GPS, it's the most accurate location tech but operators need to spend a packet on buying new networks and handing out new phones, so it's a bit of a no-go when all the money is being pumped into 3G licences, networks and handsets. [02 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: GPRS
Cheat Sheet It's basically a souped-up version of the GSM standard that normal phones use to make them carry data more effectively. GPRS uses the same frequency as today's GSM phones, so there was no need to bankrupt the industry with a spectrum auction. [25 Apr 2001]
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