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Motorola showed off a sleek, new smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard and announced it had designed, in partnership with fashion sunglass maker Oakley, eyewear that includes a Bluetooth-enabled headset. The new products were revealed this week at Motorola's analyst conference, dubbed Motonow, ...
Mobile phones are supposed to make it easy for individuals to move from place to place while staying connected to important people and information. Sometimes, however, cellular networks do not deliver on that promise, especially when a user walks inside a building. Alleviating that problem is one re...
Supporters of e911 think that the work going into the system now will prove to be worthwhile because the new services will be able to take advantage of new multimedia capabilities. In the future, callers may have the ability to send video from emergency scenes -- picture a cameraphone sending pictur...
Wireless provider T-Mobile announced it will deliver High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HDSPA) connectivity to mobile phone users in Germany, delivering the DSL-type speed and bandwidth required for content including video television on mobile phones. While the service will not be launched for comme...
Analysts indicated the idea of standardization was critical to future wireless applications. However, other steps may prolong the wait for the interoperability envisioned with mesh, starting with establishing standards for WiMax. Still, there is probably room for both Wi-Mesh, which can deliver impr...
Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype and wireless hot spot operator Boingo Wireless have announced a new service that combines each company's technologies. Currently a beta service, Skype Zones is a custom version of Boingo software that will allow Skype's 45 million-plus users to access Inte...
Authentication has become a principal concern for IT managers. With identity theft becoming a popular crime, and hackers constantly honing their attack mechanisms, companies are constantly looking for ways to ensure that only authorized users access important data. The Remote Authentication Dial In ...
Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype and wireless hotspot operator Boingo Wireless today announced a new service that combines each company's technologies. Currently a beta service, Skype Zones is a custom version of Boingo software that will allow Skype's 45 million-plus users to access Int...
In a move to grab market share in the BlackBerry segment, Good Technology today announced partnerships with Sprint, Microsoft and IBM. Good Technology provides wireless hand-held computing software and services in competition with Research in Motion. Good peddles GoodLink wireless corporate e-mail s...
A Florida man may face probation or as much as five years in prison for allegedly accessing someone's residential WiFi Internet connection while parked on the street outside. Wireless experts said the case highlighted how insecure most home wireless networks are, as well as the significance of poten...
Yahoo today added the ability to query its search engine through a short text message on a mobile phone in the United States. Yahoo SMS Search can be used to get weather, local listings, stock quotes and other short bits of information, which analysts say is the way we will gather much data in the f...
Backers of a narrow-band wireless technology claim better reach than next-generation WiMax wireless. Florida-based xGTM Technology said that the latest wireless services have been limited to higher frequencies, which carry a price/performance penalty. However, their technology, xMax, requires only a...
Communication security experts do not all agree that cell phone and mobile device viruses pose imminent threats to U.S. consumers. Whether virus attacks become a problem in six months or five years might depend on how cell phone carriers react now to the threat potential. A Gartner report by securit...
Sprint continued its push toward next-generation WiMax technology this week, announcing an agreement with Motorola to conduct joint testing on wireless broadband to lay the groundwork for future infrastructure and services. WiMax has not yet been standardized, but is nevertheless viewed as the WiFi ...
It's been a busy week at Opera Software. The Norwegian browser maker said yesterday it has inked a three-year deal with Motorola. The contract is an expansion of an existing deal with the mobile mammoth and assures that the Opera Web browser will be available on all Motorola mobile phones. Jupiter R...
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