Nextel's iDEN technologies are not being wasted by Sprint, as the company has expanded the Push-to-Talk (PTT) service to include many new features.
Sprint has expanded its Nextel Direct Connect to allow customers that have a compatible device to engage in new features mapped to the direct connect button.
AT&T is now offering Palm's budget-priced Centro, but is a small price tag enough to break through in what is becoming the preferred carrier for smartphone users?
Palm has been struggling lately, recently settling a class action lawsuit filed by Treo owners faced with repeatedly failing hardware, closing down its retail stores, and seeing an overall unfavorable 2007.
In light of the recent string of outages of RIM's e-mail system for BlackBerry users, Vodafone UK has announced that it will be using a third party's solution to prevent future BlackBerry outages, and package it as a premium service.
Vodafone UK has reached a deal with Neverfail -- a company which provides data protection and recovery solutions with such clients as Microsoft and VMware -- to deliver "guaranteed coverage" for BlackBerry users.
According to a decision set forth in 2002, mobile telecommunications companies are allowed to shut down their 1G Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) starting today.
AMPS was introduced in 1983, and operated in the 800 MHz Cellular FM band. With the explosive growth of cellular traffic, it was expanded to the upper 800s frequency range in 1989. It was at this time that analog cellular communication began to impinge upon analog television, as this frequency was occupied by UHF TV channels 77-83 (849-869 MHz.)
Everex's Cloudbook ultra mobile PC has seen another delay in widespread availability.
The company's site previously had an announcement to customers that the 9-inch, 2 pound laptop would be available at Walmart.com and ZaReason.com on February 15. Today, that date was pushed back just under a week to February 21.
Nvidia has announced its APX 2500 processor, taking the multimedia handset processor into its second generation, and in a game-changing prototype design.
The effort began more than a year ago with Texas Instruments' introduction of the OMAP3430 mobile architecture. Then, Broadcom answered by showing off its VideoCore III multimedia processor. They promised sophisticated graphical processing with low power consumption.
Gesturetek, the company whose technology was licensed to make the mildly successful PlayStation EyeToy, as well as the Xbox 360 Live Camera, is expanding its controller vision (no pun intended) beyond console-based games.
The company's FunCam doesn't venture too far from territory it's covered before. Gesturetek couples a camera with a projector, resulting in a portable dedicated game which can be re-purposed to behave as an interactive advertising solution.
What originally appeared to be a move by Macrovision to build a rights protection empire surprisingly appears to have lost an essential element: its PC software.
Today, private equity firm Thoma Cressey Bravo has announced that it will be purchasing Macrovision's Software Business unit for approximately $200 million cash. The group owns more than 10 software companies, which specialize in enterprise management and planning solutions, supply chain software and business data systems.
Quickly following up the announcement made earlier this month that AT&T would be expanding its 3G network by 80 cities to nearly 350 US Markets, Alcatel-Lucent announced today that it will be in charge of supplying it.
To facilitate AT&T's network growth, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its UMTS/HSDPA Distributed Node B solution, which allows less intrusive 3G radio deployments to be placed in more locations.
Monday's three-hour BlackBerry e-mail outage now has an official excuse from Research In Motion: a software upgrade in its main servers gone horribly wrong.
This explanation should be familiar, as it is the same one BlackBerry users received for a previous outage last April. Since RIM only issues public statements regarding outages upon specific request, according to the New York Times, details of this incident are characteristically vague.
Boise-based Micron today introduced a .2" system-on-a-chip with 2-megapixel imaging capabilities at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The MT9D113 system-on-a-chip (SoC) utilizes a 1.75-micron pixel design, with Micron's trademarked DigitalClarity light sensor technology, and surface fit lens correction to allow a camera measuring only 6.5 x 6.5 millimeters to be built upon it. A device of that size would yield video of 15 frames per second (fps) at full resolution, and 30 fps in viewfinder mode.
Continuing its meandering process of certifying as many devices in the "three screens" market (PC, TV, mobile) that it can, DivX has announced a partnership with Korea's Mtekvision semiconductor company, certifying one of that company's processors for mobile devices.
The MtekVision MV8722, part of the company's "Maple" family of processors will allow playback of DivX video at resolutions up to 720x400 pixels.
California-based Phoenix Technologies has announced its plan to develop an embedded Linux-based bypass system that will allow users to run some productivity applications even if the main OS has failed.
Linux is already gaining some ground as an embedded operating system. So now Phoenix, which made its name as the core provider of BIOS for PCs, is working with several partners to leverage embedded Linux as a bypass operating system.
Indian cellular carrier Spice Telecom is placing its bets on a phone that will use an optical disc drive in order to play movies. It's the first such device of its kind, combining next-generation miniaturized storage with Bollywood star power.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Boulder, Colorado-based Vmedia Research is showing off what is likely the world's first cellular handset with a blue laser optical disc drive. It'll make its premiere in India as the "Movie Phone" from Spice Telecom.