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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]

Will internet chat be forced to pay the tax man?

Will internet chat be forced to pay the tax man?

Comment Jason Talley, CEO of Nuvio, which sells voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service, says: "[Congress is] asking us to tax email to support the US Postal Service. Two bills in Congress take this chronologically backward approach.

Tags: voip, instant messaging, taxes, internet chat

[27 Jul 2004]

Leader: <strong>Apple</strong> work with Microsoft? Let the people decide

Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let the people decide

Leader That is the question to which Apple said 'no' and which the US Congress is now debating. A mandate is under discussion across the pond which would oblige Apple to ensure iTunes and its other digtal music products worked with offerings from...

Tags: microsoft, drm, apple

[07 Apr 2005]

Vodafone plugs iPhone gaps

News Speaking at this year's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in February, CEO of Vodafone Arun Sarin made reference to the impact of the iPhone on the mobile phone market: "Apple has raised the bar to the iPhone and we all now know how...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

Hackers claim to use iTunes for music sharing

Hackers claim to use iTunes for music sharing

News Long and bitter battles over the cost of those licences, even for hobbyist webcasters, have been fought in front of Congress and federal copyright regulators. Apple Computer's iTunes software has apparently opened up a new way for Macintosh owners...

Tags: itunes, apple

[13 May 2003]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment At this year's Mobile World Congress Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin admitted the rest of the industry was now playing catch-up with Apple following the widespread adulation of touchscreen display and feature integration.

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

Microsoft mobile - king of open world?

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: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art...

Tags: mobile, linux, iphone, microsoft

[20 Mar 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

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: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News 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 social networking.

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Law to make iTunes compatible with Microsoft?

Law to make iTunes compatible with Microsoft?

News The Congress have been considering a plan that would outlaw music protected by proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology, such as Apple's FairPlay, which stops iTunes downloads being played on Microsoft digital music players and vice...

Tags: interoperable, music, napster, apple

[07 Apr 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators, developers and journalists descended on Barcelona for a state of the nation address this week at the Mobile World...

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Top of the class for online ads? Search and social networks

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? For online advertising, the word is portals are out but search, entertainment and social network sites are in.

Tags: ads, search, social networking, microsoft

[25 Feb 2008]

Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? Microsoft has announced changes in its business practices to work better with software from other providers, including open-source...

Tags: microsoft, sue, open source, licence

[22 Feb 2008]

Specsavers eyes up savings with Vanco deal

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? High street optician Specsavers has signed a £4.5m deal with network operator Vanco for the management of its global wide area network...

Tags: network, deal, dsl, vanco

[19 Feb 2008]

IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes - strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity - into...

Tags: ibm, chip, dna, grid

[21 Feb 2008]

EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine

EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? Competition commissioner for the EC, Neelie Kroes, has issued a stern warning to any company planning to blow off the regulatory agency...

Tags: microsoft, antitrust, ec, compliance

[28 Feb 2008]

Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? A company that has developed a CCTV system which counts people in cars by detecting human skin claims the London Congestion Charge could...

Tags: congestion, cars, cctv, schemes

[26 Feb 2008]

What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?

News The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday 11 February and silicon.com's Natasha Lomas will be heading out there to see what's floating the mobile industry's boat this year. And the Congress programme has a whole section...

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

[07 Feb 2008]

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? Microsoft's newly-launched Windows Server 2008 has been given a cautious welcome by customers.

Tags: microsoft, cio jury, windows server 2008, cio

[28 Feb 2008]

Steve Ballmer: Yahoo! bid still 'makes sense'

News Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool? Microsoft still considers its takeover offer for Yahoo! currently valued at about $40.9bn, to be reasonable despite Yahoo!

Tags: steve ballmer, yahoo, bid, microsoft

[04 Mar 2008]

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