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RSS handsets in newsQualcomm Brews up an SDK for mobile OS
News Brew MP is comparable with mobile operating systems such as Symbian, Google's Android and Apple's iPhone, but is intended for handsets with smaller screens and lower price points, according to Qualcomm. [18 Nov 2008]
Nokia lowers handset sales predictions
News On Friday, the Finnish communications giant said it expects to ship 330 million handsets in the quarter. Nokia has downgraded its outlook for the fourth quarter of the year, blaming a "sharp pull-back in global consumer... [17 Nov 2008]
3 does facebook phone for Generation Data
News Frank Meehan, CEO of INQ - and previously director and general manager of 3G handsets and products for 3's parent group Hutchison Whampoa - said the vast majority of existing mobile internet customers use their phones... [13 Nov 2008]
Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News Mobile workforce management company Cognito has inked a five-year, £1.16m contract with GSH Group that will see UK field service engineers at the mechanical and electrical engineering services company swap BlackBerrys for ruggedised... [12 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News Business users were also a focus in VMware's announcement, which suggested MVP would let IT departments roll out a "corporate phone personality" across employees' personal handsets, leading to enhanced security while... [11 Nov 2008]
BlackBerry twice as likely to fail as an iPhone
News The SquareTrade study, released on Saturday, looked at more than 15,000 handsets that were covered by the company's policies. The equivalent failure rate for BlackBerry handsets was 14.3 per cent, with... [11 Nov 2008]
Apple storms past RIM in smartphone race
News Despite the Apple juggernaut, Microsoft also posted solid gains during the quarter, increasing the number of Windows Mobile handsets shipped by 42 per cent. Apple's blowout quarter for iPhone 3G sales lifted it into... [07 Nov 2008]
Motorola to slash 3,000 jobs
News The communications company has also confirmed it is dropping the Symbian-based UIQ platform in favour of a focus on just three platforms: Android, Windows Mobile and the homegrown P2K platform that Motorola puts into very low-end... [04 Nov 2008]
Motorola delays split into two
News Since coming on board, Jha has launched an initiative to reduce the number of operating systems that the company uses in its handsets. Motorola has reported losses for the third quarter. And as the economy worsens, the... [31 Oct 2008]
Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News In the next few years, the Mobile Payments Markets: Strategies & Forecasts 2008-2013 report from analyst house Juniper Research predicts mobile payments will be driven by mobile money transfers and NFC-enabled handsets... [30 Oct 2008]
Four types of tech in demand during a downturn
News Other areas that could potentially do well in a downturn are transactions via mobile phones, electronic billing services and self-service systems such as branchless banking, according to the consultancy, along with traditional and... [28 Oct 2008]
Google working on browser patch for Android flaw
News A Google spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Monday that the company was "working on a browser software patch for Android" and "co-ordinating with T-Mobile on a plan to soon deliver this update over-the-air to... [28 Oct 2008]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News For the Games, BT is charged with delivering 4,500km of cabling, 14,000 mobile phones, 16,000 fixed line handsets, and 40 Olympic TV channels. The London 2012 Olympic Games is set to turn the capital into a high-speed... [23 Oct 2008]
Who will win the LTE vs WiMax grudge match?
News Handset manufacturers are likely to build handsets that support 2G/3G and LTE. But, beyond mobile handsets, WiMax has its own set of advantages, giving it an edge when it comes to web-browsing laptop users. [23 Oct 2008]
O2 speeds up handset repairs processing
News However, the paper method proved unusable after a significant rise in handsets coming back to the shops. Mobile operator O2's stores division has reduced the processing time for customer claims from 25 minutes to 10,... [15 Oct 2008]
