Mobile Tech

Many technology analysts and gadget lovers found themselves this week scratching their heads, rubbing their chins, squinting their eyes and exhibiting other signs of uncertainty about the need for, and future of Palm's latest device, the Foleo. Billed by Palm as a "smartphone companion product," the...

T-Mobile Tuesday became the first United States cellular carrier to introduce a device powered by Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft's latest operating system for mobile devices. The latest offering, called the "Wing," is an upgrade to the company's discontinued MVA smartphone. It is priced at $299 with a ...

Motorola announced a series of new phones Tuesday, and while all of them have interesting form factors and compelling features, only one -- the Razr 2 -- has the potential to compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone. The reasons? There are three: form, function and sex appeal. "People buy this class of ...

Microsoft will literally place its stamp on a new wave of qualified mobile phones that are designed to be compatible with its main communications products. The software giant unveiled 15 phones made by a variety of vendors including Samsung, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Asus, GN, Polycon, Tatung and...

Competition is pushing all types of businesses toward greater mobility as companies ready plans to adopt mobile applications for core business activities. Business mobility has gone mainstream, according to a global survey conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit in cooperation with th...

The success of Apple's iPod, sales of which recently surpassed 100 million units, not only changed the way digital audio player makers thought of and designed their devices. It also caught the eye of mobile phone manufacturers. After adding cameras, then video recorders, it was natural that cell pho...

Chip maker Intel is set to launch an overhaul of its Centrino laptop platform -- the first to use flash memory chips, which should mean faster performance and longer battery life. The latest Centrino, dubbed "Santa Rosa," is the fourth generation of the company's successful laptop platform brand tha...

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the second generation of an ultra mobile personal computer it introduced a year ago with partners Microsoft and Intel. The company unveiled the device, dubbed the "Q1 Ultra-V," at the Samsung Experience store in New York on Monday, touting it as a physical and functi...

Research In Motion has introduced a new model to its popular BlackBerry line -- the third addition in less then a year. The new mid-sized smartphone, dubbed "Curve," is geared toward consumers who prefer a full keyboard for typing text rather than the abridged version on the popular Pearl. AT&T ...

Industry analysts report that the mobile enterprise application market reached $1.2 billion in 2005 and is forecast to grow to $3.5 billion in 2010. Other industry studies predict that at least 40 percent the workforce will be mobile in 2007. "Integrating mobility into an enterprise is a proven way ...

Research in Motion has created a new smartphone for world travelers, a unit capable of operating on both CDMA and GSM wireless networks. The new BlackBerry 8830 World Edition will first be offered to Verizon Wireless customers then open to Sprint users. Also being offered is a new Global BlackBerry...

The data drip is here. Computer security experts are worried that corporate data leaking from networks onto small mobile storage devices will worsen into a flood of stolen customer and company information. Over half of all information leaks travel to personal data storage devices such as USB drives,...

Time Warner Cable has struck a deal with WiFi provider Fon that will let its home-based broadband customers turn their Internet connections into public wireless hotspots. The move is somewhat evolutionary for American service providers who have traditionally shied away from permitting customers from...

The maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, Research In Motion (RIM), plans to let Windows Mobile-based devices run virtual BlackBerry applications. RIM will offer the new software solution later this year for select devices that run on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software wi...

I've been spending a lot of time talking to folks who want to try the Dell Linux solution. I'm getting the sense that we have all been looking at Linux on the desktop wrong, and that products like Linspire are simply wrongheaded. Speaking of wrongheaded, last week, Research In Motion may have actual...

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