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Enabling Mobility With HP Innovation and the HP Integrity Platform

whitepaper Device convergence is happening with handsets, PDAs, PCs and even television. The ability and willingness to move or change is about mobility. Mobility is a catalyst for these changes as traditional ways of doing business and divisions across...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[16 May 2008]

BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News Here [Europe], 2G is quickly becoming a discount graveyard - far from the place RIM should position its market-leading handsets. RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity.

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News But, unlike the SME offering, the handsets on Anywhere - known as BT ToGo devices - have been reskinned with a BT-branded user-interface. BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package.

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News Much in the same way that BlackBerry smart phones handle email, it will be possible to use SAP's enterprise applications even without coverage, with updates queued on the handsets and back-end servers automatically transferring when the phone has...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

Multiple network access becoming mobile norm

News Analyst In-Stat is predicting a cocktail of network access technologies will become a defining feature as handsets continue to evolve from linear voice and text devices, to more complex multimedia beasts.

Tags: networks, mobile, wi-fi

[02 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo Furthest right are handsets for satellite phone and RF comms. The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year.

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News The test software is available worldwide and supports 50 Java-enabled handsets from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Skype said. Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices, a move which the company said...

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

Is It the Network? Solving VoIP Problems on a Wireless LAN

whitepaper The paper combines a deep knowledge of 802.11 protocols, quality of service (QoS) mechanisms and VoIP handsets with the feedback aggregated from training hundreds of IT professionals each year to identify potential problems and solutions when...

Tags: wi fi, learning, fi, voip

[30 Apr 2008]

Motorola suffers a Q1 loss

News During the quarter, the company shipped 27.4 million handsets. Motorola on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of $194m, or 9 cents per share, up from a loss of $181m, or 8 cents a share, in the same period last year.

Tags: profit, motorola

[25 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment It's estimated that 31 per cent of all handsets sold in 2013 will be smart phones. Last month's launch of iPhone developer software passed unnoticed by the general public. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a significant milestone in the...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Nokia to release NFC phone this year

News NFC can also be used to share content between the 6212 and other compatible handsets. Using NFC] people can swap items like business cards or calendar notes by simply tapping their handsets together. Nokia has announced its upcoming handset, the...

Tags: bluetooth, nfc, nokia

[16 Apr 2008]

O2 slashes £100 off iPhone price

News Both Apple and O2 remain tight-lipped on the 3G iPhone speculation but analysts at the Bank of America predict Apple will launch the high-speed wireless version of the device in the second quarter of this year and produce up to eight million...

Tags: apple, o2, iphone

[15 Apr 2008]

Design Considerations for an Ultra-Compact GSM Radio Solution

whitepaper The design of modern cellular handsets places even more stringent requirements on the transceiver portion. Although the radio part of the handset is divorced from the user interface by sophisticated software, it is nonetheless absolutely essential...

Tags: handset, gsm gprs, transceiver, user interface

[10 Apr 2008]

HIPAA Compliance for SpectraLink Wireless Telephones

whitepaper SpectraLink Wireless Telephones are not mandated under HIPAA regulations because they function as oral communication devices, and even though the handsets are capable of displaying text information, the information is only displayed and not stored...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, health, insurance, hipaa

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'

Photo Once 50 to 60 per cent of handsets have NFC the possibilities for smart tagging are huge, it added. Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low-cost stick-on NFC tags can turn...

Tags: touch, rfid, nfc

[04 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News has said over the next few months it will be compatible with more handsets. announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more relevant and easier to use...

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

Generic Access Network Dual-Mode Services: Architectural and Security Implications

whitepaper The introduction of dual-mode handsets, which support both Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Wi-Fi, provides mobile operators with a new opportunity to accelerate their customers' adoption of mobile services.

Tags: access technologies

[03 Apr 2008]

Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits

News In the same week as new warnings emerged of a potential link between mobile use and cancer research has found Brits have a pathological fear of mobile 'radio silence' - so much so the majority can't contemplate switching off their handsets in case...

Tags: crackberry, always-on, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

EC examines Nokia bid for Navteq

News The investigation will focus on assessing whether the transaction would increase the costs of navigable digital maps for other companies providing navigation services on mobile handsets or limit their access to these maps and, as a consequence...

Tags: eu, ec, navteq, nokia

[31 Mar 2008]

Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'

News It does, however, envision the white spaces as a "unique opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless access for all Americans" and a prime spot for use of mobile handsets running its open-source Android platform.

Tags: google, fcc, mobile, wi-fi

[25 Mar 2008]

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