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There could be a new player in the mobile phone search space to challenge the dominance of Google and Yahoo, according to reports released Sunday. Top names in Europe's telecommunications industry are said to be planning meetings next week during the 3GSM World Congress for "secret, high-level" talk...
Verizon Wireless this week pushed out its first deployments of a speedier mobile broadband service that increases Internet upload speeds by up to six times faster than the company's existing broadband network. The New York-based telecom is upgrading its third-generation wireless network using a CDMA...
Microsoft unveiled a new secure sockets layer virtual private networking solution Thursday. Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 is the fruit of its July 2006 acquisition of Whale Communications. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker also announced that it has partnered with Celestix Networks and ...
The first portable hard drives for mobile phones will soon be on the market, promising to spark a "multimedia revolution" by meeting increasing storage demands of smartphone users. Seagate this week announced the Digital Audio Video Experience, or DAVE, a portable drive that connects wirelessly to m...
Sony Ericsson announced on Wednesday it will begin manufacturing low-end color screen and music playing mobile handsets in India through an agreement with its global outsourcing manufacturing partners, Flextronics and Foxconn. The phones, intended for local distribution, will not only offer a compet...
With the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone, smartphones are becoming one of the most hyped categories of consumer technology today. The combination of telephone technology with e-mail, Internet access and multimedia -- among other features -- serves many consumer needs in one tidy, sleek little pa...
Intel has unveiled the next generation of wireless chips for its Centrino Duo mobile line used in many Intel-based laptops, which are designed to improve their ability to download music and stream high-definition video. The Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection, an upgrade to the wireless com...
In announcing Thursday the release of its new Prada phone, LG Electronics didn't claim it was competing with the heavily-hyped Apple iPhone scheduled to be released in June. It didn't have to. The media did it on its own with headlines boldly suggesting the iPhone already had a competitor. Indeed, t...
The good news, according to a new recording industry report, is that record labels around the world registered $2 billion in digital sales last year -- either through music online or mobile phones -- nearly doubling the market in the previous year. The bad news is that these sales have not totally c...
Research In Motion and T-Mobile on Monday rolled out a new, "pearl white" version of the popular BlackBerry Pearl smartphone. Previously available only in "piano black" from T-Mobile and Cingular, the white version is available exclusively from T-Mobile. Discounted pricing is $149 with a two-year co...
A Northern California man was badly burned when his cell phone spontaneously combusted. The man was sleeping with the phone in his front pants pocket when it exploded and caused his clothes to ignite, according to reports, and he awoke in flames. He reportedly has second- and third-degree burns on a...
If Henry Ford were alive today, his jaw might very well drop to the floor. Though Ford's cars were innovative for the time, the automaker probably never could have imagined that the company that bears his name would one day ink a deal with Microsoft for hands-free Bluetooth technology in-vehicle ope...
Consumers -- at least those that own either Motorola's new MotoRazr maxx V6 and MotoRazr V3xx devices -- are starting to download Yahoo's beta version of its Go For Mobile 2.0, which launched this week at the International CES. Key among the new features in this version is Yahoo's oneSearch search e...
The average person spends nearly an hour a day driving to and from work, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So-called "extreme commuters" spend four hours or more -- that's the equivalent of spending over a month per year sitting in a car. Long commute times are one factor driving the demand for t...
Appearing to hedge its search bets, electronics giant Samsung on Monday announced partnerships with competing search engines Google and Yahoo. Samsung will preload Yahoo services, including a content personalization feature called Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, and Yahoo oneSe...
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