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Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour

News They are also nearly twice as likely than any other nation to watch video content this way   More people in Northern Ireland listen to the radio or MP3 downloads on their mobile than any other nation or region.

Tags: ofcom, digital divide, broadband

[22 May 2008]

Google Android - winning apps are location-based

News In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round of judging for Google's new mobile platform, in the Android Developer Challenge.

Tags: location based services, android, google

[20 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk, Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, said: "Every major mobile carrier in the world delivers Java-enabled phones to their customers. According to the company, Connected Life powers...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'

News Mobile devices are going to become the next big target for cyber criminals who will be helped by the greater availability of tools to develop software for them. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to the White House on...

Tags: criminals, schmidt, security, sdk

[24 Apr 2008]

Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving

News This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as social networking, online...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, femtocell

[23 Apr 2008]

Intel registers second-gen Classmate

News Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar You need local content providers to produce content for it that's relevant. Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai.

Tags: low cost laptop, classmate, intel

[04 Apr 2008]

Dongle mania to kill off wi-fi hotspots?

News The analyst believes cheaper mobile data plans will encourage consumers to use data cards to download MP3s, games and video clips to mobile devices and for transferring user-generated content such as photos.

Tags: data card, wi-fi, mobile broadband

[28 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News Coming soon after the company's recent bid for Yahoo, Microsoft says these product enhancements will bridge the developer-to-designer workflow gap and help to build more interactive applications for the desktop, the web and mobile devices.

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone

News Writing on the BBC blog this morning the BBC's head of digital media technologies, Anthony Rose, said today was a big day for iPlayer as it's the first time the service has been made available for a mobile device.

Tags: apple, edge, iplayer, bbc

[07 Mar 2008]

Ads popping up on US mobiles

News Mobile operators and content providers have been talking about the promise of mobile advertising for more than a year. Nearly a quarter of all mobile phone users in the US say they have seen an advertisement on their phones in the past 30 days...

Tags: ads, google, us, mobile

[05 Mar 2008]

Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia

News The rise of the luxury mobile A version of Silverlight for Windows Mobile will be available later this year, said John Case, a general manager in Microsoft's developer division. Microsoft chose to work with Nokia because it has the largest market...

Tags: nokia, adobe, silverlight, microsoft

[04 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of demand for mobile coverage on the big green cheese-wheel in the sky are not...

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Open source gains business credibility

Open source gains business credibility

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 He said: "There's no point spending gazillions on a complex proprietary content management system to run a website that may have to be completely changed in only a year of two after go-live.

Tags: cio jury, microsoft, linux, open source

[22 Feb 2008]

Orange and T-Mobile join forces on mobile TV

News T-Mobile UK's technical director Emin Gurdenli said the company is committed to broadening mobile TV's appeal through content and user experience. Orange and T-Mobile will jointly trial a mobile TV service in West London during the second half of...

Tags: t-mobile, umts, tdtv, mobile tv

[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]

Nokia launches 'mobile sat-nav' for walkers

News The Finnish mobile giant also announced four new handset models - including the replacement for the N95 smart phone - and a content sharing platform called Ovi. Nokia has launched the second generation of its mobile mapping technology which now...

Tags: mwc, nokia, mobile, sat nav

[11 Feb 2008]

Mobile malware: The threat exists

News The top three areas of concern for mobile users are receiving inappropriate content, fraudulent increases in phone bills and loss of important info stored on the handset, according to McAfee. Mobile operators are being warned to take security more...

Tags: malware, mcafee, mobile, consumers

[11 Feb 2008]

Google mobile mission: Not lifting off as expected?

News Google has also adapted some advertising products to mobile, including its AdSense program, which matches ads to a site's content, and AdWords, which matches key words in ads with search results. Bango, a company which facilitates billing for...

Tags: google, mobile, search, android

[11 Feb 2008]

What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?

News But social networking is just one part of the whole user-generated conversation which is fast spreading onto mobiles - with blogging and photo uploading other areas that are also gaining ground as tools for uploading content improve and the mobile...

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[07 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News Five mobile trends to watch in 2008 Next month sees the mobile industry's annual get together at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and silicon.com looked at the five mobile trends to watch in 2008, including femtocells, convergence and mobile...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

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