mobile internet in news
Generation Y setting tech agenda
News Generation Y consists of 18- to 28-year-olds who are leading the way in technology adoption with nine out of 10 owning a PC and 82 per cent a mobile phone. Meanwhile 72 per cent of Generation Y mobile phone users send or receive SMS messages. [25 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News Mesh networking is an integral part of Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project, with each $100 laptop acting as a wireless node to form a mobile ad hoc network (or Manet). But today it plays host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it and... [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News In a fight between an iPhone smart phone and an Eee PC netbook, which chunk of mobile hardware would win? Mobile operator Orange UK is hoping the Eee has the edge over Apple's touchscreen mobile as it has stepped up to iPhone-wielding rival O2... [23 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News ICM Research and the LSE said 3G has been oiling the wheels of mobile internet services as it makes on-the-fly web access easier. Other factors helping to drive mobile internet consumption in Blighty include operators signing contracts with free... [17 Jul 2008]
PCs and mobiles combine at LG
News LG intends to increase its focus on smart phones, ultra-mobile PCs and "network infotainment", the statement said, adding: "These have emerged as important sectors to keep pace with in this era of mobile internet, in which users have come to rely... [16 Jul 2008]
C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News Telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) has inked an £8m, 15-year contract with telecoms operator Outremer Telecom for a high speed network to Réunion Island - a small French territory off the coast of Madagascar - providing faster access to internet, mobile... [14 Jul 2008]
3 jumps on board Symbian Foundation
News The original members of the Symbian Foundation are Nokia, Symbian, Motorola, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.s director of products, Fergal Walker, said yesterday: "3 is pleased to... [11 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News Rollouts of the mobile variant of WiMax are dependent on the results of an Ofcom spectrum auction due later this year. WiMax really is 'the intelligent pipe' right into the enterprise, which will be a real boon to UK plc's need for high speed... [10 Jul 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News PC World's trading director, Jeremy Fennell, said: "Netbooks are heralding a new era of mobile computing. The accessibility to the internet and portability of netbooks has seen extremely strong pre-sales through PC World online. [08 Jul 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News He also said Purple Labs would "invest in the next-generation Surfer browser and other advanced mobile-internet technologies". Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, says telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will guarantee operators who... [04 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more…
News Those holding off upgrading their mobile have an even greater treat in store according to Indian tech giant Infosys, which revealed its holographic handset that it hopes to launch on the unsuspecting public in just two years.silicon.com also went... [02 Jul 2008]
Skype calls on ex-Motorola exec
News Durchslag spent more than five years at Motorola where he was most recently corporate vice president of global product and experience invention for the mobile devices business unit. and Kodak to bring new services to Motorola's mobile devices. [02 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News I think they can see the rise of both unmanaged - the internet - and managed -mobile phones, BlackBerrys - networks, and through investment and licensing schemes favour one over the other. The mobile revolution will be a new opportunity to refight... [30 Jun 2008]
Zittrain: Android holds the key to free future
News Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, said the success of Google's open source mobile platform will be a deciding factor in whether our technologies are free and open or restricted and closed. [30 Jun 2008]
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