mobile phones

TfL to bring high-tech travel advice to mobile phones

News Transport for London is testing the potential for near field technology to transmit travel advice to mobile phones. When a passenger places their NFC-enabled mobile against a poster, it will pinpoint their exact location and transmit detailed...

Tags: field, trial, travel, london

29 August 2007, 11:11

Skype reveals Wi-Fi mobile phones

News These phones will link to a Wi-Fi network in the home and use a standard SIM chip to link to mobile networks elsewhere. I think this is really, for us and for the manufacturers, the first step towards producing dual-purpose mobile phones with...

24 July 2006, 11:06

VoIP cozies up to mobile phones

News Jayson Jepson pays 29 cents a minute to call London on his mobile phone. Now it is, courtesy of Mint and a growing corporate coterie selling mobile versions of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software, which is used to transform Internet...

24 June 2005, 10:31

MySpace top for snap-happy mobile users

News Bebo is pulling the teenage crowds with 40 per cent of British 15- to 17-year-olds who partake in mobile social networking using the site. Across the pond, MySpace also topped the US charts as the most popular mobile social-networking site, with...

Tags: myspace, mobiles, youtube, networking

17 January 2007, 9:51

Mobile music worth third of $1.1bn digital market

News Digital music continues to go from strength to strength, fuelled by leagues of new MP3 player converts and mobile music buyers. Mobile music also saw mushrooming revenues, with $400m sold during 2005 -- around 40 per cent of overall sales.

23 January 2006, 11:14

Mobile networks bid for larger spectrum

News Delegates from 164 countries agreed on Friday to earmark new sections of the finite spectrum for mobile phones and other wireless products at the end of a month-long diplomatic meeting in Geneva, also attended by observer companies, including...

20 November 2007, 8:39

YouTube goes mobile with upload service

News As it tries to expand the ways people can post videos online, YouTube launched on Wednesday a service that allows users to upload homemade clips via their mobile phones or PDAs. But everybody carries their mobile phone.

11 May 2006, 11:20

EC backs DVB-H as mobile TV standard

News UK operators have this week been announcing the new rates they will be charging customers for using mobile phones in other European countries, after Viviane Reding, the commissioner for information society and media, won her crusade for lower-cost...

20 July 2007, 10:02

News.blog: Microsoft plans new Windows Mobile

News Earlier this month, however, Microsoft received its largest Windows Mobile OS deal, when the US Census Bureau contracted with the software giant to equip 500,000 workers with smart phones running Windows Mobile 5.0.

26 April 2006, 10:23

O2 proposes indoor mobile network

News It is also lobbying handset manufacturers to introduce 3G phones which will work at a lower frequency. Patchy indoor mobile coverage could be consigned to history by O2, which is evaluating two new ways of extending its mobile network.

17 November 2006, 9:10

Report: Apple wants more mobile music

News Here's what the music labels are looking at: Apple is not only the country's biggest music retailer but is also becoming a force in mobile phones. In addition to beefing up ringtones, Apple is also looking for rights to deliver songs from iTunes to...

Tags: labels, industry, companies, itunes

20 May 2008, 10:41

Eden Project moves to mobile ticketing

News The Cornish attraction has implemented a system from Swiftpass that will allow visitors to The Eden Project to get tickets delivered on their phones and jump the queues of traditional, paper ticket holders.

1 August 2006, 9:58

Nokia and Visa test mobile payment

News A similar technology is already in use in Japan, where local mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has launched its own credit card brand, iD, which enables consumers to pay for items with their 'wallet phones'.

2 May 2006, 10:53

BBC zooms in on mobile content

News Among those factors, Highfield believes, are better pricing, operators' decision to ditch their 'walled garden' approach to content and improvements in phones themselves including the addition of GPS.

16 May 2007, 10:55

Teens have a full-time job in media

News According to a study released in the US this week, Americans aged 13 to 18 spend more than 72 hours a week using electronic media -- defined as the Internet, mobile phones, television, music and videogames.

8 December 2006, 9:51