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BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity. RIM president Mike Lazaridis said: "The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smart phones and lives up to its...

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 May 2008]

Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The company has dropped its appeal against its conviction last July in a German court of failure to...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

SmartSiren: Virus Detection and Alert for Smartphones

whitepaper Smartphones have recently become increasingly popular because they provide "All-in-one" convenience by integrating traditional mobile phones with handheld computing devices. However, the flexibility of running third-party softwares also leaves the...

Tags: anti-virus

[11 May 2008]

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]

Symantec's Mobile Center of Excellence: Advanced Protection for Mobile Endpoints

whitepaper As a result, lost phones are a real problem for companies and consumers alike, exposing both to data disclosure on multiple levels. Mobile devices play an increasingly vital role in today's business, and they frequently contain a wealth of...

Tags: cellular equipment

[11 May 2008]

Smart Phone Software Developer Increases Download Speed and Revenue by 30 Percent

whitepaper With earlier versions of Quickoffice Premier, people using smart phones could easily open files that were attached to e-mail messages, but, due to the limited processing capacity of the smart-phone environment, the download speed could be an issue.

Tags: xml

[11 May 2008]

SQL Server Compact 3.5

whitepaper To meet the needs of this changing application landscape, Microsoft introduces its newest edition of the SQL Server database product line, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition - a maintenance-free, compact embedded database for single-user client...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users

News A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates are: people talking loudly on the phone; a person texting while talking to them; loud music being played on phones; using a phone in a restaurant; and swearing on the phone in public.

Tags: texting, in-flight, mobile

[09 May 2008]

Galileo phones home

News A test satellite for the European Galileo programme, Giove-B, has successfully transmitted radio signals which will one day be used as the basis for satellite navigation in Europe. Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News The new service - BT Total Broadband Anywhere - furnishes customers with one of a choice of two HTC smart phones, along with 50 any-network minutes, 50 texts and 10MB of data on the basic package - which will cost £29.99 per month after an initial...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 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. Sun officially started its JavaOne developer...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Employees at Middle East Construction Business Access E-Mails Round-the-Clock

whitepaper With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, they can reach inboxes using their mobile phones. United Arab Emirates-based ETA Star Group manages construction projects across the region. Many employees who travel extensively lacked e-mail access when...

Tags: application servers

[07 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News Much in the same way that BlackBerry smart phones handle email, it will be possible to use SAP's enterprise applications even without coverage, with updates queued on the handsets and back-end servers automatically transferring when the phone has...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up There go the phones again, pass the straws. A survey of more than 800 US smart phone users has shed light on the most-loved and least-liked functions of the two phones - and shown up key fronts on which the competition between the two might play out.

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Bryant University

whitepaper The centerpiece of the solution is Windows Live Hotmail that includes five gigabytes of storage space per account, as well as features like calendar sharing, contact management, access to e-mail through mobile phones and POP, and improved spam...

Tags: storage management

[02 May 2008]

O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News 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 Morphs into view...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News A survey of more than 800 US smart phone users has shed light on the most loved and least liked functions of the two phones - and shown up key fronts on which the competition between the two might play out.

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News 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 Morphs into view...

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Innovision, one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, has been showing off potential applications for NFC phones using its Topaz tag technology. Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News And finally, we reported a novel way to combat computer theft with a computer that phones home when it's been stolen. It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular first home computer by...

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

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