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Photo HP is targeting the mini laptop market with this sub-£300 offering aimed at mobile workers and school children. Innovision, one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, has been showing off potential...
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo HP is bringing a sub-£300 laptop to Blighty - with an eye on mobile workers and kids in classrooms. There is a choice of operating system on the Mini-Note: Windows Vista Business or Novell SuSE Linux.
[11 Apr 2008]
Photo Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low-cost stick-on NFC tags can turn any object into a 'smart object' - allowing mobile users to 'physically browse' their environment...
[04 Apr 2008]
Photo Google's much discussed mobile phone operating system, Android, made its debut on devices from several companies at Mobile World Congress. The biggest mobile trade show in the world, aptly called Mobile World Congress 2008, took place in Barcelona...
[28 Feb 2008]
Photo In space no one can hear your ringtone - something that could be a blessing from 2012 when Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) trial a mobile phone network on the moon. Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a...
[25 Feb 2008]
Photo Passengers can choose to link the details on their luggage's RFID chip to their mobile phone number. The system is designed to greatly reduce the amount of luggage that ends up in a general tin due to the tag being unreadable, usually because the...
[14 Feb 2008]
Photo At that rate, when the energy is stored in a battery, one minute of walking time could provide enough electricity to sustain 30 minutes of talk-time on a mobile phone. The Biomechanical Energy Harvester uses sensors and a real-time control system...
[11 Feb 2008]
Photo Mobile applications for shift briefing, crime tasking and intelligence reporting currently allow officers to access up-to-date intelligence in real-time, quickly identify suspects and update back-end systems directly.
[08 Feb 2008]
Photo Mastercard has trialled and implemented its PayPass system in 20 countries, allowing users with an NFC-equipped mobile phone to make payments by tapping their phone on a reader. Here Accenture is showing off a widget system for mobile phones that...
[31 Jan 2008]
Photo Picture credit: T-Mobile And finally, T-Mobile launched its MDA Touch Plus - a rebranded HTV Touch Dual smart phone - this month. Among the things on show was a system which warns drivers of oncoming obstacles.
[30 Jan 2008]
Photo Police forces and other emergency services are being equipped with mobile devices to keep officers in contact with HQ and enable dispatchers to more efficiently allocate resources. Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service is using a mobile process for...
[27 Nov 2007]
Photo Dubbed the Serenata, the 3.5G mobile phone offers a built-in stereo loudspeaker system which its manufacturer claims delivers 'outstanding sound quality without distortion' - so no more tinny tunes on the Tube.
[10 Oct 2007]
Photo Surface is also wi-fi and Bluetooth capable so will be able to react in a similar way to mobile phone commands and RFID chips. This shows an application developed for T-Mobile. A mobile phone with a domino tag (left) is placed on the Surface top...
[02 Oct 2007]
Photo When the GrIDsure system is launched in October this year, it could be used on computers, mobile phones, ATMs and to redesign the existing chip and PIN system, according to its inventors. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile...
[07 Sep 2007]
Photo The system also interacts with Second Life and provides users with in-store mobile services. DIY shopper can also work over mobile phone by using in-store Bluetooth connectivity. For example, when a certain shopper walks into a store, they could...
[07 Aug 2007]
Photo Innovative ideas include this mash-up (above) where a giant typewriter is connected to an account on mobile blogging site Twitter. Pictured is Cisco's TelePresence system, being demoed at the company's annual Networkers conference in Anaheim...
[27 Jul 2007]
Photo T5 has a fully integrated IP building management environment, as well as mobile and wireless networks. In the bowels of the new building is the baggage handling system which BAA and British Airways are both extremely proud of.
[13 Jul 2007]
Photo Mobile and wireless technology will be in widespread use across the venue with 320 wireless access points - including 100 in the concert arena itself - and GSM boosters to ensure there are no problems getting a mobile signal.
[22 Jun 2007]
Photo Messages calling out lifeboat volunteers can also be sent automatically through Arqiva's central monitoring system to predefined mobile phones as SMS texts. Pagers are used because while someone might ignore a mobile going off, with a pager they...
[02 May 2007]
Photo It is envisaged that crew-to-crew comms will combine wireless communication systems with VoIP, and the crew-to-system contact would be via speech synthesis and voice recognition software. Another upcoming application is the Inventory Management...
[29 Jan 2007]
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