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By focusing on e-mail devices for corporate clients, Research In Motion (RIM) has been able to carve out a small but lucrative niche in the wireless handset market. As competition among wireless device suppliers intensifies, large companies such as Nokia, Motorola and Microsoft have set their sights...
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is the latest in the industry to jump on the fast-moving streaming video bandwagon. DoCoMo said on Friday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Real Networks to jointly deploy software to bring video streaming capabilities to its mobile phones....
European cellular network provider Virgin Mobile is the first company in Europe to offer its customers the latest in wireless content: digital TV and radio services. Virgin Mobile will begin selling smartphones that can receive the service later this year, it said. Users can see and hear the content...
Handset heavy Motorola and software giant Microsoft will team to integrate Windows Media technology into Motorola music handsets, the companies announced at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain this week. A number of new Motorola "music handsets" will add support for Windows Digital Medi...
Satellite voice service providers have been on a roller coaster ride. In the late 1990s, the industry was abuzz with grandiose expansion plans designed to take advantage of the dot-com explosion. When that boom went bust, providers had to scale back their plans dramatically and some were even forced...
Microsoft is aggressively promoting its push e-mail service as a slew of partner carriers announce its availability at an industry trade show. Microsoft has been honing its wireless messaging strategy at least since last fall, when it released its Exchange Server Service Pack 2, according to Gerald ...
Nvidia hopes to bring console-quality graphics and fluid, digital video to mobile phones with its multimedia-minded GoForce 5500 graphics processing unit (GPU), announced this week at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain. The graphics giant said the new processor architecture would deliver improv...
Nokia on Monday introduced three new mobile phones with an emphasis on connectivity. The Nokia 6131, 6070 and 6136 handsets seek to converge style with the latest in wireless technology. While the 6131 and 6070 are mid-range phones targeting consumers, the 6136 may pique the interest of enterprise c...
In yet another step toward mobile TV mainstreaming, British Telecom Group, Virgin Mobile and Microsoft are expected to announce a partnership on Tuesday at 3GSM in Barcelona, the largest mobile phone industry conference of the year. While other companies will be launching new mobile handsets, this t...
Sony Ericsson has taken direct aim at the handheld business solutions market -- which BlackBerry once owned -- with the release Monday of its new M600 phone and messaging device, the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson product line. Features designed to entice corpor...
IBM has introduced a chipset technology that will take close-in wireless connectivity to the next stage, it claims, by leveraging higher-frequency radio spectrum to digitally transmit and receive 10 times faster than today's WiFi. The new silicon germanium technology allows the chipset to send and r...
Tech heavyweight Google and Skype, a subsidiary of eBay, have invested in a Europe-based startup that hopes to revolutionize the WiFi business, though it has yet to roll out a key part of its technology. Google and Skype joined venture investors in pouring some US$21.6 million into Fon, a startup th...
Cambridge, Mass., is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered by WiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living i...
More and more consumers -- not just twenty-somethings -- are interested in giving up their conventional landline telephone for a mobile phone. According to the latest research from Boston-based Strategy Analytics, one in five mobile phone users in Western Europe would consider disconnecting their la...
A new report indicates that worldwide mobile phone shipments grew 19 percent year-to-year in the fourth quarter of 2005, reaching a record 810 million units for the year. What is more, this sales boom happened despite "moderate" industry-wide component shortages. Fourth-quarter volume reached an "...
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