Mobile Platforms/communications
153 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.
S'pore gets location-based mobile ad service
News Local carrier StarHub debuts Singapore's first nation-wide location-based mobile advertising service, which it says, will allow targeted marketing.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Mobile platforms/communications, Location-based services, Mobile commerce, Starhub, Mobile, Google Inc., Advertising Service, Advertisement, phone
Why Samsung and LG scare Motorola
News With a slew of multimedia cell phone models, the Koreans are grabbing market share in both the United States and emerging markets.
Tags: Acquisitions, Mobile platforms/communications, Apple Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Hyundai, Security, Motorola Inc., Google Inc., Sales, Touch Screen
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
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
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
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, adjustment, Mozilla Firefox, API
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
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, IMP, Bebo, Government, Internet Service
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.
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
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
Telstra's CDMA shutdown: No gain without pain?
News Customers have to bear the pain as Telstra closes its CDMA and moves to Next G network.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Australia, Telstra Corp., job, network, revenue, CDMA, principal analyst, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., president
EU launches second test satellite for Galileo
News Giove-B, the second and last test satellite, will test the atomic clock and signal transmission of Europe's troubled satellite navigation program.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, GPS, Satellite, Mobile, European Union, Europe, phone, financial, partnership, U.S.
Skype tests mobile Java client
News The company has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices and plans to make a public release soon.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Java, Skype Technologies S.A., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, phone, telephony, software, Sweden, Nokia Corp.
