mms

Mobile phone virus claims first corporate victim

News Commwarrior targets mobile phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, and the bug spreads using Bluetooth and multimedia messaging technology, or MMS. The operator at the company disabled MMS temporarily, and Bluetooth was also...

1 September 2005, 9:05

3 gets rid of roaming charges

News Effectively the first provider to ditch such charges, 3 will from this month also allow its customers to use their existing voice and data bundles in any of its networks -- SMS and MMS included. Mobile operator 3 has removed the surcharge for...

17 January 2007, 10:17

Nokia working on its sensor-tive side

News Just using a simple camera phone, for example, a subscriber could let the world know their exact location using GPS or cellular signals and how the weather is looking where they are with an MMS. Nokia wants to make your mobile phone as much a part...

9 October 2006, 8:40

Just the texts please say mobile users

News Text messaging unsurprisingly remains the most accepted data service with 79 per cent adoption, while -- despite the increasing penetration of higher resolution camera phones -- MMS trails a long way behind, with 28 per cent take-up by European...

4 July 2006, 9:08

Mobile check-in set for arrival

News The Iata hopes airlines will soon be able to send the barcodes containing check-in details direct to travellers' phones using MMS or via a link contained in an SMS. Paper boarding cards could soon be a thing of the past: checking in with mobile...

Tags: phones, industry, cards, check

16 October 2007, 9:29

Vodafone: cheaper bills can ad up

News In return for agreeing to accept sales messages, punters will typically get discounts on media services such as MMS and TV. Vodafone has revealed that it will partner with Yahoo to offer its subscribers the chance to swap cheaper phone bills for...

15 November 2006, 9:12

Ancient Bath goes high-tech in Wi-Fi trial

News Among the applications volunteers will be able to try out will be an image-recognition service, where users can send an MMS of a building to a central server, which will determine their location and reply with details about the place and its history.

21 February 2006, 9:47

Vodafone unveils own-brand phone

News Data services have become the next great white hope for the operators to boost their ARPU (average revenue per user), although UK networks continue to struggle with encouraging users to take up services beyond SMS and MMS.

29 September 2006, 9:35

Mobile users want longer battery life, not music

News High resolution cameras and video phones were also ranked as an "important" feature for more than half of those questioned, with 46 per cent saying they now use MMS and 23 per cent revealing they send audio or video clips.

22 September 2005, 9:30

Clock's ticking on phone virus outbreak, experts say

News Commwarrior is spreading quite effectively via MMS (Multimedia Message Service) already. A large-scale virus outbreak targeting smart phones is unlikely to break out for another 18 months, security experts have predicted.

22 June 2005, 10:00

Ring tones -- the new protest songs

News MMS essentially lets phone subscribers send files to one another, in much the same way that Short Messaging Service, or SMS, technology lets them send short text messages. But instead of the commonplace digital bleeping or buzzing, it plays a...

21 October 2005, 10:11