mobile phones

'Payphone Warriors' call on New York

News In this era of ubiquitous mobile phones, I never imagined I'd be so excited about making a call from a payphone. A few minutes later, I arrived at the corner of west Fourth Street and Broadway and I noticed that the two phones there were both being...

25 September 2006, 10:04

Landlines still beat Web for teenage chat

News Teenagers may be among the most voracious users of mobile phone text and instant messaging in the country, but most still prefer landline phones to communicate with friends, according to a new study. But why do teenagers, even those with mobile...

28 July 2005, 8:35

Podcasting goes mobile

News The podcasting craze will soon hit mobile phones. Melodeo, which makes peer-to-peer software that allows mobile users to listen to music on their mobile phones, announced on Friday that it now offers software for podcasting on mobiles.

22 August 2005, 9:48

Wi-Fi mobiles the next big thing?

News Sales of mobile phones with both GSM and Wi-Fi capability will be booming by 2010, according to a study by market research firm InStat. But until very recently Wi-Fi has been absent from the world of mobile phones.

28 June 2006, 9:15

Can Longhorn improve laptops?

News Microsoft's Bill Mitchell wants his company's new OS to make consumers as excited about buying laptops as they are about buying mobile phones. Mitchell, head of the company's mobile PC efforts, says there are good reasons 700 million mobile phones...

3 May 2005, 8:53

This week in iPod bashing

News Microsoft's chief said in an interview published on Thursday that he sees mobile phones overtaking standalone MP3 players and that he views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable.

16 May 2005, 11:07

Microsoft pushes ahead with mobile email

News Although there are a billion mobile phones and 400 million Outlook email users worldwide, only about 10 million people have their corporate email delivered to their phones. Windows Mobile on TI chipsetSeparately, Microsoft is announcing a deal at...

13 February 2006, 10:12

Microsoft invents new mobile keyboard

News The application, for mobile phones and handhelds, essentially lets consumers conduct queries with abbreviations and truncated spellings of words, said its developer Bo Thiesson. Mobile phones are one of the dominant themes of the Microsoft Research...

4 May 2006, 9:11

Mobility coming for the working masses

News Mobile devices, smart mobile phones and Pocket PCs will let workers on the road stay connected to the corporate network and use many of the applications they depend on at their desks. Even the dumbest phones will get smart as they get embedded with...

28 September 2005, 10:12

SanDisk stakes its future on TrustedFlash

News NAND flash memory is widely used in consumer devices like digital cameras, mobile phones, USB flash drives and portable music players. SanDisk on Tuesday introduced new mini storage card technology it says will let people play or view secured...

28 September 2005, 9:51

Revealed: the gadgets thieves love

News Around a third of these are mobile phones. The database can tell the user if the item is reported stolen and, in the case of mobile phones, whether it is barred in the UK or has been reprogrammed. All stolen phones reported to the UK mobile...

7 July 2006, 9:40

Broadband Britain loves to talk

News On average, Britons spend a total of 7 hours and 9 minutes per day surfing the Net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six minutes back in 2002.

Tags: cent, broadband, connections, communications

15 August 2008, 8:13

Tech university kicks off a multimedia Halloween

News Adventurous filmgoers are encouraged to dress up in Halloween costumes and bring mobile phones and laptops to play a part in the movie, which will take place at the University of California at San Diego and celebrate the opening of the California...

24 October 2005, 10:22

News.blog: Google buys Jaiku

News Jaiku identifies itself as an "activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones". And in 2005, Google acquired social-networking service Dodgeball, which enables people to link up using text messages sent to...

10 October 2007, 8:25

Is Kodak making a Bluetooth camera?

News From the documents, it's possible to infer that Kodak plans to release a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera that would let photographers sync up with their printers, viewers, computers and mobile phones.

4 April 2006, 9:42