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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]

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. Wireless tech could also power smart pill boxes and bottles which sense whether they have...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package. Showing that BT's belief in convergence does not quite yet stretch to device convergence, Buckley said: "We think some customers will use...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch

Photo Peter Chou (pictured above), president and CEO of mobile maker HTC, has announced the latest smart phone in its Touch touchscreen series at a launch event in London. The multimedia device - called the HTC Touch Diamond - will be the first phone to...

Tags: touchscreen, iphone, htc

[07 May 2008]

Vodafone plugs iPhone gaps

News Mobile operator Vodafone has struck a deal with Apple to sell its iPhone smart phone in 10 markets around the world. Speaking at this year's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in February, CEO of Vodafone Arun Sarin made reference to the...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation" partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company's applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smart phone. Much in the same way that BlackBerry smart phones handle email, it...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

Credit crunch failing to hold tech back

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008.

Tags: growth, globalisation, intellect, credit crunch

[02 May 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo!

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[02 May 2008]

Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web

News Last month, BlackBerry-maker RIM announced more than a million downloads of a Facebook app for its smart phone in the five months since launch. The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK.

Tags: mobile internet, social networking, vodafone, facebook

[01 May 2008]

Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next...

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[01 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News A previous ChangeWave survey of enterprise smart phone users found the iPhone device beat the competition hands down on user satisfaction rates. He added: "The bottom line in this horse race is Apple and [RIM] are both giant winners, while the rest...

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an...

Tags: microsoft, google, yahoo

[29 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment That growth is partly because smart operating systems are filtering down from desktop computers and laptops into handheld middle-tier devices, as users demand that desktop and internet applications bridge the divide between computer and phone.

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing...

Tags: outsourcing, fifa, satyam

[23 Apr 2008]

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed.

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone South Korea's most powerful businessman said yesterday that he would step down after 20 years at the head of the giant Samsung Group, following...

Tags: ceo, samsung, tax

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone' Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Frank Prengel, a Microsoft Windows Embedded developer evangelist, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We are aiming to remove the...

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

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