Mobile Tech

Intel unveiled its mobile strategy Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. Personalization and content are key drivers behind the increased demand for notebook PCs and mobile Internet devices, according to Intel executives David Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher. "The Internet is one of ...

CEOs and CIOs are quick to tell their corporate superiors that today's mobile workforce is changing. Workers are younger and nearly always on the move. This new trend toward mobility disperses a company's workers geographically. These mobile workers are armed with the latest arsenal of communication...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Lots of Features Lend Appeal to the Motorola Q

Personal Data Assistants have become dinosaurs, and after taking the Motorola Q for a test drive, it's easy to understand why. Just about anything you'd want to do with a PDA you can do with a smartphone like the Q -- and a lot more. The Q is about the size of a PDA -- 2.5 by 0.5 by 4.6 inches -- an...

Flash memory maker Sandisk has partnered with Yahoo to help provide music services for its Sansa Connect digital audio player. Unlike other players in an increasingly crowded music player market, Sansa Connect is a WiFi-enabled portable MP3 player that allows users to listen to Internet radio, downl...

Mountain View, Calif.-based Dash Navigation is recruiting 2,000 drivers to "road test" the company's Dash Express automotive GPS, a unit that automatically connects to the Internet to provide real-time traffic conditions and other information for motorists. Dash just finished a six-month field trial...

A December 2006 geomagnetic storm from the sun wreaked havoc on the Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigational system used widely by the U.S. military, scientists and civilians, researchers reported Wednesday. The solar storm interfered with a variety of technologies including wireles...

Microsoft unveiled a new mobile Web browser designed to make navigating the Internet on wireless devices as easy and clear as surfing on a PC. The new browser, dubbed Deepfish, is the latest entry in the growing mobile browser wars designed for delivering content such as Web pages to Windows Mobile ...

LG Electronics and Google are teaming up to offer the search giant's services on some of LG's mobile phones. The Korean electronics maker announced that it will ship select handsets preinstalled with Google products and services -- including Google Maps, Blogger Mobile and Gmail -- during the seco...

Seattle-based start-up ZenZui, which is funded by Microsoft's technology research arm IP Ventures, has started licensing a new "zoomable user interface" aimed at improving Web access via mobile devices. When running on a mobile phone screen, ZenZui displays Web content as tiles, initially showing on...

Researchers at St. Louis University in Missouri announced the development of a fuel cell battery powered by liquid sugar Sunday at the American Chemistry Society's 233rd national meeting. Using nearly anything from natural substances such as tree sap to man-made beverages including soda, the new tec...

Helio, the mobile communication joint venture of SK Telecom and Earthlink, has introduced a new device called "Ocean," asserting it is the world's first dual-slider with both a numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY keyboard. The unit is being billed by Helio as "the ultimate social networking to...

Nokia has started shipping its first phone with built-in GPS capabilities and a host of other applications. The Finnish company said the N95 mobile phone, now available in Europe and Asia, is a slider-type device with a 5 megapixel camera for shooting photos and 30 frames-per-second video. However, ...

Rumors may abound about a tantalizing Google phone in the works, but Yahoo Tuesday made its own, definitive bid for the hearts of mobile Web users by bringing the oneSearch service to mobile phone users. Yahoo oneSearch, which was first launched on Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, now delivers locally relev...

If there's anything more exciting than the barely-seen Apple iPhone, it's got to be a possible Google-made mobile phone. While rumors have been all over the Web lately, the search engine giant is closed for discussion. "This is all we plan to say," Erin Fors, a spokesperson from Google's press team,...

Cell phones are increasingly becoming miniature PCs. In keeping with that trend, major mobile carriers throughout the world have been enhancing their services to support IM functions, further blurring distinctions between the two devices. While the change should enable users to exchange information ...

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