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Data Center Sustainability

whitepaper It's not only on the computers, but the mobile phones, televisions and portable music players. The internet is everywhere. Very few users of digital content consider how data arrives on these devices.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

SQL Server Compact 3.5

whitepaper This is driven by market changes such as a growing mobile workforce and its need for productivity even when not "Connected" and an explosive growth of new devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), portable music players, and gaming...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users

News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates...

Tags: texting, in-flight, mobile

[09 May 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News In this respect, Jones said cyber crime can be a barometer of social dissatisfaction - pointing to illegal music downloads as an example of younger generations' mass dissatisfaction with restrictive digital distribution models.

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

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

Comment The device has managed to invigorate the market with its core value proposition of mail, phone, music player and mobile internet but little else. The Mac, and more recently the iPod, have had an undeniable influence on both the hardware and...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Under the Yankee Group Microscope: NTT DoCoMo's Experience With Flash Lite

whitepaper The next mobile revolution will see wireless phones used as music players, cameras and payment instruments. Flash Lite can play a crucial role in this transformation of mobile phones into multifunctional handheld terminals.

Tags: japan, phones, flash, lite

[10 Apr 2008]

Optimizing Cellular Backhaul Networks With Optical Multiservice Platforms

whitepaper As mobile users increasingly adopt IP-based music, video, and data services, cellular bandwidth requirements are growing exponentially - especially in the cellular backhaul network. Mobile carriers are incorporating more packet-based services than...

Tags: ip technologies

[03 Apr 2008]

Mobile market kept afloat by Africa and Asia

News The world's fourth-largest mobile phone vendor, Sony Ericsson, whose forte is its strongly branded and relatively expensive Walkman music and Cybershot camera phones, warned on first-quarter profits earlier this month.

Tags: mobile, nokia, motorola

[01 Apr 2008]

'iPhone effect' ripples through smart phone market

News The company predicts that by 2011, more than half of all mobile phones could be considered music phones as they will feature music codec functionality (such as MP3 or AAC) and a memory slot which allows users to carry a personal music library.

Tags: iphone, ipod, mobile, smartphone

[25 Mar 2008]

EC lays down standard for mobile TV

News Most countries have seen trials of mobile TV, such as sports, news and music videos although Italy is one of the rare EU states with a commercial-type service running, Biggam said. The European Commission moved to simplify the nascent mobile phone...

Tags: mobile tv, eu, ec, association

[18 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News If they're playing with an online music application, they need to be able to unplug and be mobile. Coming soon after the company's recent bid for Yahoo, Microsoft says these product enhancements will bridge the developer-to-designer workflow gap...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…

Comment From the list of options, music has been happening on mobiles for years, just took the manufacturers a while to cotton on and provide decent headphones. Internet on mobile - rubbish. Perhaps the technology should be referred to as something other...

Tags: mobile, data, vista, views

[06 Mar 2008]

Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...

News Surprisingly the poll stuck a pin in the bubble that has been swelling around mobile music. The other options listed in the poll were: video/TV, music, games, email, access to corporate IT apps and social networking.

Tags: social networking, mobile internet, mobile, mobile phones

[04 Mar 2008]

Nokia New Year's Eve Event Uses Windows Live and MSN to Create a Deep Online Consumer Connection

whitepaper Nokia combined forces with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions to bring five major New Year's Eve celebration concerts to life through creating the first multi-platform Global digital live music experience.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[28 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ silicon.com Classics: The Peeping Tom phone filter ¦ How fans can grab a slice of the music pie ¦ The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story ...

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

Photos: Google Android comes out to play

Photo A music player was also shown off. Texas Instruments drew the crowds to their booth at Mobile World Congress by demonstrating a prototype phone running Google's Android software platform. But this was not the only booth at Mobile World Congress...

Tags: mwc, android, google, handset

[15 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up The body representing ISPs says they would prefer a voluntary agreement, but the music industry argues it has been forced to demand legal action after rampant file-sharing rocked its traditional revenue model.

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment After a while Wang got our attention back by screening a rousing China Mobile promo video with an American voiceover, thrusting music and a lot of sweeping vistas. Arun Sarin of Vodafone and Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo are heading up the GSMA's...

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat

News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music...

Tags: arun sarin, vodafone, advertising, operating systems

[12 Feb 2008]

Poll: MP3 player king of commuter gadgets

News The latest silicon.com poll found 31 per cent of respondents feel listening to their music MP3s is the best way to get though the journey to work. Less surprisingly was that 18 per cent of people said they use their mobile phone on the commute...

Tags: gadget, mp3, mobile, pdas

[08 Feb 2008]

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