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Ovum: Let OS-makers run app stores
News Operators should leave running of mobile app stores to platform makers, advise analysts, who identify Orange and China Mobile as players that will succeed.
Tags: Mobile applications, Mobile platforms, Outsourcing, Ovum, Mobile, China Mobile Ltd., Microsoft Windows Mobile, T-Mobile, partnership, Nokia Corp.
Vulnerability hits Java for cell phones
News Researcher finds two flaws that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious hacker read private data or render a phone unusable.
Tags: Cellular phones, Java
Mobile threat still low, but will grow
News Experts believe incidents of virus attacks on mobile phone will increase with the proliferation of smart phones and increased Internet mobile use.
Tags: CommunicAsia 2008, Viruses and worms, Business security, Security, Mobile, intellectual property, phone, software, virus, McAfee Inc.
Thailand's I-Mobile focuses on network services
News Samart I-Mobile will provide mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services in provincial markets instead of overseas under its strategy to create a new domestic fixed-revenue stream.
Tags: Network infrastructure, 3G (Third Generation), Wireless LANs, Business broadband, Personal broadband, Mobile, Thailand, Sales, I-Mobile, Samart I-Mobile
Samart to invest in high-tech systems
News The Thai communications-equipment company plans to provide mobile virtual network operator services in countries where its strategic partner Telekom Malaysia operates.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Network infrastructure
Telekom Malaysia keen to re-enter Thai mobile carrier market
News Telekom Malaysia will look to expand its activities in Thailand this year, despite the uncertain political and business environment.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless
Student nurses get realistic training
Insight A Singapore polytechnic hopes the use of PDAs will help foster a new generation of tech-savvy nurses.
Tags: Handhelds, Wireless e-mail devices, Mobile/Wireless
The art of competition
Blogs weekly roundup Over lunch the other day, I listened as the owner of a local service provider described the challenges he...
Thai telco pledges to launch 3G this year
News TOT Plc will spend US$83 million to upgrade its 2G network to 3G and roll the new service out by year end.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Thailand, Bangkok, 2G network, consortium, TOT Plc., 3G, chairman, network, brand
Study: Mobile-broadband speeds are below 1Mbps
News Subscribers in the United Kingdom are getting mobile-broadband download speeds that are just a quarter of those advertised, according to a new report.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology, Mobile Broadband, Mobile, Supplier, Broadband, performance, broadband provider, Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology
McAfee warns of mobile-malware threat
News A survey by the security company reveals that over half of mobile users expect operators to take responsibility for protecting their devices.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Banking, Operations
Nokia throws BlackBerry Connect off new handsets
News The Finnish manufacturer's new E-series business handsets will not work with the BlackBerry e-mail client, as Nokia wants to give users a 'proper choice' of e-mail software.
Tags: E-mail clients, BlackBerry, Smart phones, Palm Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, RIM BlackBerry, Mobile, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., handset company
Mobile payments to hit US$300B by 2013
News The annual gross transaction value of payments made via mobile phones to buy digital and physical goods is set to grow more than five-fold over the next five years, an analyst house predicts .
Tags: Mobile, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile applications, Mobile commerce, Mobile/Wireless, Next-generation technology/networks, RFID, Japan, phone, payment
Mobile broadband going mainstream
News The mobile broadband market is hotting up with data card sales set to jump four-fold in the next three years as prices come down--possibly threatening the Wi-Fi hotspot market.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Mobile/Wireless
In the ring: We have WAP, I-mode and...
News No one will argue that WAP (or Wireless Application Protocol) is--in theory, at least--a nice wireless standard. But its implementation has been very slow, even in the US and Europe. Has WAP missed the boat?
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