Articles tagged with: Mms and Smartphones

Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time

Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging.  more

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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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AOL to Enable Push Email and IM on BlackBerry Phones

AOL and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of AOL's AIM and ICQ instant messaging services as well as AOL Mail on BlackBerry smartphones. Users will also benefit from integration between AIM, ICQ and the BlackBerry Address Book. Users will be able to associate a contact in their IM contact list to the respective contact in their BlackBerry Address Book (and vice versa), which will allow the user to initiate an IM session from within their BlackBerry Address Book and initiate a phone call, email, SMS or mms from within their AIM or ICQ session.  more

Related Tags: microsoft, sms, rsa, blackberry, research-in-motion, instant-messaging, 3, aol


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: bluetooth, rcom, personal, ims-research, mobile-banking, ims, feature-phones


Symbian Virus-Worm Spreading in the Wild

A new virus-worm for Symbian OS smartphones has been detected and is actively spreading on various mobile phone networks, reports FortiGuard Global Security Research. The worm, deemed SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm is able to run on several Symbian S60 enabled devices.  more

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