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Saturday, March 17
Wireless Napster? Swedish software maker Pocit Labs says it has created the world's first Napster-like file-swapping software for mobile devices that communicate using so-called Bluetooth technology. Read more...
Nextel Won't Sell IPO On Thursday, the wireless carrier, which was hoping to raise more than $600 million on an offering on Nasdaq this week, announced that it was dropping plans to go public. Read more... Friday, March 16
ZDNetUK : Disposable phone craze hits the US Proponents of the so-called "chat 'n' chuck" phone say it will do for wireless communication what the disposable camera did for photography, making it cheap, easy and accessible enough for school children, older people and low income earners to join the mobile phone revolution. read more...
ZDNetUK : PDA Travel Applications Here we review a mix of both route-planning and database-style applications designed with the traveller in mind across the three most popular handheld platforms: EPOC, Palm OS and Windows CE/Pocket PC. read more...
ZDNetUK : Industry pressed to deliver mobile Web "WAP is dead, it was too slow. This is the next step. It has to be a mass-market seller," read more...
E&P Online : NTT TO OFFER WIRELESS WEB IN U.S. "Cellphones in the United States and Europe are still like 13-inch black-and- white TV sets," he said, showing his folding i-mode phone. "There's a huge gap in technology. People see these color displays and are stunned." read more...
MforMobile : J2ME WAP Browser the early access edition of the WAR(tm) WAP browser is available for an initial period as a download under a restricted license for registered users of www.midletcentral.com - the world`s first repository of `MIDlets` for wireless Java devices. read more... Thursday, March 15
The thinnest PDA Handspring is trimming the size of its Visor handheld. Read more... Wednesday, March 14
Smartphones too early to adopt? Verizon is the first carrier to market the Palm phone - Kyocera 6035. The question is who will use this phone. Read more...
TheRegister : We've got the solution. Where's the problem? Walton argues that rival antivirus developers are jumping the gun in developing a cure for handheld viruses before there's any sign of a disease. read more...
ZDNet : High-tech titans put the squeeze on privacy regs Aiming to halt the advance of dozens of privacy bills in Congress and in state legislatures across the country, the group Monday went public with four industry-funded studies asserting that privacy legislation would cost consumers billions of dollars annually. read more... Tuesday, March 13
NTT DoCoMo warns of slow take-up for 3G NTT DoCoMo has warned that the service will not be widely used by consumers for some years. Read more...
JapanTimes : One in every four Tokyo elementary, junior high students has a cellphone When asked the reasons for having them, 47.6 percent responded that a mobile phone had become a necessity, while 41.5 percent said their parents forced them to carry one. read more... Monday, March 12
Sprint, Compuware take on wireless Web "If you look at the usability that exists within [Wireless Application Protocol] today, it's horrible," said Paul Toenjes, director of professional services at Compuware, in Farmington Hills, Mich. Read more...
The Economist : Gadget Wars Any fans of Sony’s Walkman who try the digital version will be sorely disappointed. Because Sony is also a music publisher, it has saddled its MP3 players with fiendishly complicated anti-piracy software that makes them hard to use. These are signs of a consumer-electronics firm that does not fully understand the culture of computing. read more... |
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