Mobile Platforms/communications
157 Stories
Is there life in Google’s Android?
Insight Last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Android, software, LiMo Foundation, brand name, Apple iPhone, U.S.
MMS, video calls still going steady in S'pore
News Use of multimedia messaging service and video calls remain stable in Singapore, and expected to continue growing, say local telcos.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Telecommunications Company, tariff, multimedia, network, mobile, Video Call, video, Mobile platforms/communications
Mobile broadband still lagging in Philippines
News Sector has surpassed fixed broadband in country but mobile broadband adoption still lower than other markets in region, say industry watchers.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, WiMax, 3G (Third Generation), Frost & Sullivan, Globe Telecom Inc., GSMA, mobile, Wireless, Philippines, Mobile platforms/communications
Google Wave ready for wider testing
News Google's Internet communications concept project is ready for wider use, which will test the stability and scalability of one of the company's most important projects.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Web 2.0, SAP AG, Web Application, Environment, I/O, IM, collaboration, Google Apps, Web Developer
Skype retiring third-party Extras
News Developers and users will have some adjustment time. Skype won't certify any new submissions, but it won't yank support for existing Extras until their certificates expire.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Backup, Developer, Mozilla Firefox, API, adjustment
URL shortener Trim reopens 'indefinitely'
News Company announced just days ago it was going to shut down, but a new company blog post says it will continue to run until it's sold--whenever that happens.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Web 2.0, Web services, Twitter, network, blog, built-In, Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Web services
Betting on the real-time Web
News No one knows how the microblogging site and similar online social networks will make money, but investors see a new Web revolution.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Web services, Web sites, Twitter, Site, America Online Inc., Stock, social networking, Facebook, blog
Google carves an Android path through open source world
News Company is committed to many open source tenets with its Android mobile phone software--but it's willing to step on a few open source toes, too.
Tags: Open source, Mobile platforms/communications, Business development/management, Innovation, Google Inc., Android, GPL, Wind River Systems Inc., phone, software
Report: Problems stymie US cyberspy protection
News Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Federal Government, Server platforms, File servers, Hacking, Mobile platforms/communications, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Department Of Justice, Attack, Pentagon
Nokia confirms flaws in Series 40 handsets
News The company says the flaws, revealed by a Polish researcher, do not pose a significant risk to handsets using the operating system.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile platforms, Mobile platforms/communications, Java, Security, Mobile, J2ME, operating system, Flaw, Sun Microsystems Inc.
UK to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
News The U.K. government's proposed Interception Modernisation Programme would enforce tracking and retention of all U.K. citizens' Web communications, including IM conversations.
Tags: Privacy, Mobile platforms/communications, MySpace, Traffic Data, data retention, Tim Berners-Lee, Bebo, Government, Internet Service, IMP
Siemens deal lets accountants feel presence
News Siemens lands five-year deal with U.K. accountancy firm to replace an ageing PBX system with a 200-seat Siemens OpenScape suite.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, Siemens HiPath OpenScape, Alcatel, Siemens AG, Supplier, PBX, accountancy, phone, unified communications
Roaming caps legal, advises EU advocate general
News The EC's imposition of roaming caps on Vodafone and other mobile operators did not stifle competition, according to the European Court of Justice's advocate general.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Commission, Cap, European Commission, mobile, Miguel Poiares Maduro, Telecommunications, European Court, European Union, economic activity
Vodafone launches unified comms for SMBs
News The One Net platform will target small businesses with a hosted service that brings together fixed-line and mobile communications, with the help of partner BT Wholesale.
Tags: Mobile, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms/communications, Communications, British Telecommunications, Small And Medium Business, Gartner Inc., tariff, unified communications, Vodafone Group Plc.
HTC Android handset not coming until 2009
News One of the most prominent supporters of Google's Android mobile phone software is reportedly having trouble putting a phone together, and may have to delay the project.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms/communications, Linux, Open source, Symbian, Google Inc., phone, software, Google Android
