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Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way

News Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone TfL is preparing to trial a more advanced system that slows speeding vehicles by reducing the throttle, the Intelligent Speed Adaption (ISA) system will be tested on 10 TfL cars and vans.

Tags: sat-nav

[15 May 2008]

RIM reveals BlacBerry roadmap

News Mobile in pictures Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here…  Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008   Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone...

Tags: rim, touchscreen, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year. Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by focusing on web-based applications, super...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News The healthcare sector could also make use of wearable on-body monitors, which would communicate with a home hub or mobile phone via Bluetooth or the like. Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News According to the company, Connected Life powers RIAs across the "multiple screens of your life" by delivering an application across a web browser, social network, desktop operating system and mobile phone.

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News The system - supplied by Fidelity National Information services, IBM, Smart Technology solutions and VeriFone - is an integrated mobile chip and PIN payments system that allows the company to channel all payments from its Beefeater, Brewers Fayre...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News The number of mobile network connections used for M2M comms will grow from 37.5 million in 2007 to 186 million in 2012, says the analyst. Europe is well on the way to introducing the eCall automatic emergency call system and several Latin American...

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News Dash - the Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware - is a web services-based industry standard for system inventory, diagnostics and control. Although no details were released of integral system management features, the company has said...

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[29 Apr 2008]

Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive

News Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone completed a two-week test of Google's system for selling ads alongside Yahoo! said two weeks ago it had begun testing Google's AdSense system, it drew outcry from critics who see Google's...

Tags: microsoft, google, yahoo

[29 Apr 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News The system uses so-called 'QR' barcodes printed on posters which, when photographed using mobile phone cameras, are scanned and generate a text message. Harrods is using cutting-edge mobile technology to promote a new exhibition at its famous...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Asked about a privacy and security flaw that had been identified in Facebook's mobile variant last year - in which the user's contacts had their email addresses listed, regardless of whether...

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone The study states: "In many cases, especially in infrastructure software, the baseline is a fully developed and working system. Other applications and components provide a firm baseline around...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone This qualification guarantees compatibility with the Microsoft's designated Windows Embedded CE operating system requirements. Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software...

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News LTE is touted as the successor to the existing UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) 3G technology, capable of supporting significantly faster data rates. Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss

News Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar which has invested extensively in its own search ad system, Panama. Yahoo! will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies have said, a move that raises the...

Tags: yahoo, google

[10 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar In a bid to make web development easier and more scalable, the company says the Google App Engine allows access to the power of the company's own Bigtable compressed database and the Google File System.

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Bill Gates: Windows 7 coming 'in the next year or so'

News Gates said new versions of Windows would help revolutionise mobile phones and run the desk of the future, which would have a touch surface display allowing users to call up items using their hands. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he...

Tags: microsoft, bill gates, windows, vista

[07 Apr 2008]

Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line

News Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar The system can even chide or reward drivers on the fly with red, yellow or green LEDs in the vehicle. The UK's armed forces are to get an electronic backseat driver aimed at saving lives on the road.

Tags: road, mod, army

[04 Apr 2008]

Intel registers second-gen Classmate

News Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar The upgraded system can also have an optional 30GB hard disk instead of 1GB, 2GB or 4GB flash drives, and the 802.11b/g wireless networking now has a mesh mode to connect Classmates where there's no...

Tags: low cost laptop, classmate, intel

[04 Apr 2008]

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