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Articles tagged with: Mms and Bluetooth
Viral epidemics poised to go mobile
If you own a computer, chances are you have experienced the aftermath of a nasty virus at some point. In contrast, there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection, despite the fact that over 80 percent of Americans now use these devices. A team headed by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, set out to explain why this is true. more
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Samsung Shows Off Touch Screen WiMAX Phone for the US Market
Samsung Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of its WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the Samsung Mondi. The touch screen Mondi, which takes its name from the Latin word for "world," is designed for use with the Clearwire WiMAX network. more
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T-Mobile Starts Selling ZTE Touch-Screen Phone
T-Mobile UK is to start selling its first handset from Chinese manufacturer, ZTE. The company has revealed the Vairy Touch, a touch-screen phone will be made available by the operator as a PrePay handset. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, prepay, sms, ict, tim, zte, t-mobile-uk, gartner, touch-screen, gsm, gprs, UK
Apple Adds MMS and Copy/Paste to the iPhone
Apple has previewed an upgrade of its operating system for the iPhone handsets, along with the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers. The iPhone OS 3.0 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including In-App Purchases; Peer-to-Peer connections; an app interface for accessories; access to the iPod music library; a new Maps API and Push Notifications. more
Related Tags: google, wi-fi, iphone, apple, ipod, iden, parental-controls, operating-system
Toshiba Offers Up Details of Snapdragon Smartphone
Toshiba has announced the details of its much heralded Snapdragon based smartphone - the Toshiba TG01. The Toshiba TG01 will be available across Europe in Summer 2009. more
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Market is Ready to Make Money Mobile
The time is right for services such as banking, money transfers and on-line payments to make the move to mobile handsets and services concludes IMS Research in a new report. Improved coverage, greater uptake of feature phones and smartphones, higher mobile penetration and service availability have all contributed to this. As much as anything, greater demand from consumers, operators and financial stakeholders has seen the number of application developers and platform providers all multiply in numbers in recent years. more
Related Tags: smartphones, rcom, personal, ims-research, mobile-banking, ims
Four New Mobile Phones from Samsung America
Samsung Electronics has shown off four new mobile phones at the CES 2008 show today. more
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Multimedia Mobile Phone Shipments Surpass TV Shipments in 2008
MultiMedia Intelligence reports the worldwide unit shipments of multimedia feature rich mobile phones will exceed 300 million units in 2008, outnumbering shipments of TV sets. For the purposes of the report - multimedia phones have at least 1 megapixal image capture, MP3 audio, video Playback, Java, USB, Bluetooth, 16-bit screen color, QVGA resolution, WAP and mms. more
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Mobile Anti-Malware Vendors Target Mobile Operators in Bid to Boost Sales
The mobile malware threat is becoming stronger every day due to the increased sophistication of mobile phones. Yet, mobile anti-malware vendors have not seen a high return on investment, because of lack of awareness in the market. Despite this, it is important for vendors to set up technology and distribution partnerships with other members in the industry value chain, in order to be fully prepared when the market accelerates. more
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Telstra Launches "Rugged" 3G Handset
Australia's Telstra has launched a new ruggedised 3G handset, the Telstra 158, designed for people who work outdoors or tradespeople who need a robust phone with the features and capability of a 3G wireless device. more
Related Tags: hands-free, telstra, battery, mp3