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Google lays out mobile future

News In addition to European and US giants such as Vodafone, Telefonica and Sprint, Google also has partnerships with Japanese operators NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, India's Airtel and China Mobile. The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Vodafone gets speedy with broadband

News Vodafone is extending its fast mobile broadband coverage to a further three million people this summer as part of a multimillion pound investment. Vodafone's high speed mobile broadband network has been in place in London and British airports since...

Tags: hsdpa, vodafone, broadband, mobile

[12 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. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

Sun Products and Consulting Services Enable In-House Administration of SAP

whitepaper mobilcom Communicationstechnik GmbH (mobilcom) markets mobile telephone contracts for network operators, T-Mobile, Vodafone, E-Plus and O2 through franchise stores and specialty dealers. The company wanted to replace outsourced J.D.

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web

News The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. Facebook is also the most visited site for Vodafone mobile broadband users, followed by Google and the BBC. Vodafone said it has seen growth in consumers' appetite...

Tags: mobile internet, social networking, vodafone, facebook

[01 May 2008]

Vodafone CEO: We will slash CO2 by 50 per cent

News Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient. The reduction is to be measured against Vodafone's emissions in the 2006/07 period, which came to 1.23 million tonnes of CO2...

Tags: co2, green it, vodafone, sharing

[22 Apr 2008]

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]

RIM-India: To meet again over security

News BlackBerry services are offered in India by four providers Bharti Airtel, BPL Mobile, Reliance Communications and Vodafone. The Indian government will hold its next meeting with BlackBerry-maker RIM next week, a government official has said, as the...

Tags: email, blackberry, rim

[17 Apr 2008]

Marconi Technology Lights the Way to 3G Services in Italy

whitepaper The operator's search for a technology partner who could help deliver a 3G-enabled network capable of handling a growing range of new mobile services led to three potential suppliers: Marconi and two American companies, each of whom had existing...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, cost effective, enabled, flexibility

[10 Apr 2008]

Atos Origin

whitepaper Clients include BP, Shell, Philips, L'Oreal, Philip Morris, Fiat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Unilever and Vodafone. The Netherlands-based company Atos Origin is a leading business and technology integrator that designs, builds and operates integrated...

Tags: storage management, sap, high performance, origin

[10 Apr 2008]

Virgin Trains passengers to chatter for longer

News The train operator has joined forced with Vodafone UK to boost mobile coverage within carriages so fewer calls are dropped. A survey of more than 2,000 mobile users commissioned by Vodafone has found more than 70 per cent of workers talk business...

Tags: security, vodafone, business traveller, virgin

[07 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News The disparity between HSDPA - part of the HSPA family - and EV-DO networks has led to a situation where, despite data-roaming agreements between companies such as Vodafone (in the UK) and Verizon (in the US), a subscriber to either operator is...

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival

News More than 30 mobile-phone companies are members of LiMo, including heavyweights Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Vodafone and newest member Texas Instruments. Google's Android may get all the attention, but there's more than one industry consortium...

Tags: android, google, linux, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…

News AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which is owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone, have already said they plan to use technology known as LTE (Long Term Evolution) for their 4G network. Wireless from A to Z

Tags: comcast, 4g, time warner, operator

[26 Mar 2008]

An Introduction to the Short Message Service

whitepaper The first short message is believed to have been sent in December 1992 from a Personal Computer (PC) to a mobile phone on the Vodafone GSM network in the UK. The Short Message Service (SMS) is the ability to send and receive text messages to and...

Tags: wap, message, gsm, phone

[24 Mar 2008]

New mobile masts to be drastically reduced

News Hartmut Kremling, the chief technology officer of Vodafone Germany, said: "Site acquisition [for deploying base stations] is more difficult these days. Leading mobile operators have said they want to drastically cut down on the number of new base...

Tags: mobile, base stations, femtocell, coverage

[07 Mar 2008]

Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...

News The new new thing in our industry is internet on the mobile…" So said Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, addressing delegates at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona last month. The Vodafone chief said despite years of talking...

Tags: social networking, mobile internet, mobile, mobile phones

[04 Mar 2008]

T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells

News Several operators, including T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone, are reportedly trialling femtocell technology with a view to launching it commercially by the end of this year. T-Mobile has invested in the UK-based femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys.

Tags: femtocell, mobile, t-mobile, coverage

[04 Mar 2008]

3G operators must learn to share

News Analysys said recent network sharing deals - for instance, between the likes of 3 and T-Mobile and Orange and Vodafone in the UK - indicate the mobile market is coming round to the benefits of pooling resources.

Tags: 3g, femtocell, network sharing, evolution

[29 Feb 2008]

Ofcom threatens O2 over 3G coverage failure

News The other four licence holders are H3G, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has threatened to shave months off O2's 3G licence term after the mobile operator failed to meet a coverage deadline.

Tags: 3g, coverage, ofcom, o2

[27 Feb 2008]

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