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Cingular Wireless on Thursday threw down the mobile music gauntlet with several digital media partnerships and the launch of Cingular Music. However, it may be too little too late when it comes to competing with the market leading iPod. Cingular Music, which teamed with Microsoft to incorporate Wind...
Wireless networking continues to make inroads in metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. as the development of 802.1x technologies and associated standards forges ahead. Wireless broadband and VoIP have both gained momentum and are moving inexorably forward. It's now possible to connect to the ...
Cingular will be the first carrier in the United States to offer Hewlett-Packard's new iPAQ handheld device, the companies announced Thursday. The phone features five wireless communications technologies including global satellite positioning. HP's iPAQ hw6920 series Mobile Messenger was designed wi...
Sling Media on Tuesday announced a partnership with smartphone operating system developer Symbian to bring mobile TV to consumers. Sling Media will deliver a version of its SlingPlayer Mobile software application for the Symbian OS in select European and Asian countries during the fourth quarter of ...
Home networks have become relatively commonplace and now are following a trend similar to one found in business networks: creating ways to fulfill a need for higher speed. Because users are now working with more high bandwidth video transmissions, they are on the lookout for new network options to s...
Palm took the wraps off its first entry-level smartphone at the DigitalLife trade show in New York on Thursday. The Treo 680's design aims to broaden the appeal of feature-rich smartphones beyond business clients to attract everyday users who like to listen to music, take pictures and surf the Web.
Browser maker Opera has released in Europe a specialized browser for the two-screen Nintendo DS handheld, touting features that let users comfortably browse the Web from either the DS or slimmer Nintendo DS Lite. Opera, which has decidedly set its sights on the mobile handset market with its Opera M...
Cell phones have been transformed from mere telephones into handheld computers capable of a variety of tasks, such as supporting e-mail, surfing the Web and transmitting video. Consequently, handset vendors have been focused on enhancing their products' software capabilities, which means adding more...
Nokia is hoping its new short-range wireless technology unveiled Tuesday will become the industry standard for small device applications. The new technology, dubbed "Wibree," uses less power than Bluetooth and works in smaller devices such as watches and toys. Wibree can integrate with Bluetooth, a...
Cell phone worms and VoIP fraud are among the top 10 security threats to watch next year, according to a panel of experts assembled by the SANS Institute. The panel's findings were released Sunday at the SANS Network Security 2006 conference in Las Vegas. Cell phone worms will infect at least 100,00...
A UK-based firm, Remote XT, on Monday launched a new service in Britain that is designed to help lower the alarming rise in cellular phone thefts. When a phone is stolen, the handset emits a loud, piercing sound, the phone's data is cleared, and it displays a message that reads, "This phone is stole...
A shift in how entertainment is delivered to the home will increase demand for consumer electronics products with wireless networking capabilities and ignite explosive growth for WiFi, according to a study released this week by ABI Research. In the report, ABI forecasted that shipments of WiFi-enabl...
Americans are using a controversial new microchip technology in some new credit and debit cards to make it easier and quicker to purchase groceries, cigarettes and gasoline. In addition, the cards tie those purchases into the supply chain more rapidly with a flick of the wrist. Backed by powerhouses...
Nokia on Tuesday announced new handheld devices that it said will blur the lines between the Internet world, mobility and the consumer electronics industry. Nokia's new Nseries multimedia phones combine connectivity with mobile technology, an approach that Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and...
The Internet, a ubiquitous and essential fixture in just about every developed nation, is slowly but surely reaching into some of the world's most remote outposts -- courtesy of such companies as Intel, Cisco and Embratel. As part of World Ahead, a new initiative established earlier this year to bri...
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