Archive for August, 2008

3,200 Laptops and Mobile Phones Lost From Whitehall - Whatever Next?

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

According to an article in today’s Daily Mail, more than 3,200 laptops and mobile phones containing sensitive information have been lost or stolen from Government departments, it was revealed on Monday.
An astonishing 468 devices a year - more than one every day - have vanished since 2001.
The revelation cast grave doubts [...]

Mobile phones keeping elections honest in Africa?

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

The humble mobile phone is driving a new revolution which some experts hope could bring fairer elections and democracy to some African states.
During the 2006 local government elections in Senegal, Radio Sud used reporters and correspondents with cell phones to call in what they saw.
Many African countries have struggled against rigged elections and authoritarian rule [...]

GSM Mobile Programming

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

I need a solution to track the location of GSM/ CDMA mobile phones. The idea is to create a software that will reside on a handset which will respond to a call from some Stations (S) when it needs to be tracked. The following explains the procedure desired.
1. A software is loaded onto the mobile [...]

The touchy-feely mobile phone

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

On the one hand, you have phones such as the Razr 2 that try to give good old button-interface phones a shot in the arm, with slick design, intuitive interface and a premium feel. On the other, you have the iPhone and all those iPhone clones that have done away with buttons altogether (well, almost), [...]

Real Minigolf - Free Golf Games for Mobile

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

It is one of the the most extraordinary golf simulator mobile games! Here you will find ice areas where the ball does not retard the speed, rail passages which connect areas of different levels, various obstacles and accelerating tracks, 15 golf courses, several types of clubs in one game and more! Different types of [...]

Nortel and LG Electronics demonstrate mobile LTE handover

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Nortel today announced that the company, in collaboration with LG Electronics, have successfully demonstrated high speed LTE handover at Nortel’s Research and Development Centre of Excellence in Ottawa.
The demonstration involved streaming HD video over a network consisting of multiple cell sites and sectors served by Nortel’s eNodeB LTE base station and ATCA-based Access Gateway. [...]

PDAs & Phones Team

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Products Tested: PDAs, Mobile Phones, Smart Phones
Team Members:
Senior Editor: Wendy Sheehan Donnell
Reviews Editor: Dan Evans
Associate Editor: Molly McLaughlin
Lead Analyst: Sascha Segan
How We Test PDAs & Phones
As the PDA & Phones team, we test cell phones, PDAs, and smart phones which combine both kinds of device. Read more
Courtesy:www.pcmag.com

Sony Ericsson launches some new mobile phone accessories

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Sony Ericsson has recently added some more mobile phone accessories on its website. There are five new accessories in total but the images of three have not been added on Sony Ericsson as of yet.
Following are the links of the accessories: Read more
Courtesy:www.realgeek.com

Sony Ericsson W980 review

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The Sony Ericsson W980 is an astoundingly good consumer phone that is beautifully finished, offers that all-important haptic interface to give it a real edge, a full 8GB of onboard memory and some well designed features.
Although primarily a music phone - hence the Walkman branding - the Sony Ericsson W980 comes laden with a none-too-shabby [...]

U.S. Cell Phones Sales Decline

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

An economic slowdown and increased competition affected U.S. mobile phone sales in the second quarter, according to a report by NPD Research.
The report said mobile handset sales to consumers totaled 28 million units in the quarter, a 13% decline from the same period last year. Overall, the sales totaled about $2.4 billion, down 2% [...]

CallWave’s WebMessenger Named to 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

CALL , a leading provider of Internet and mobile-based unified communications solutions, today announced that Nokia has selected CallWave’s WebMessenger Mobile for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) solution as one of the first participants in the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series. This series is a new program that acknowledges excellence and provides global marketing [...]

Apple issues software update for iPhone

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Apple has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers, a European mobile service provider said Tuesday.
T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom, said the software was available for users to download to their iPhones on Tuesday, but that it was not [...]