Hoping to give Linux a boost on mobile devices, several hardware and software vendors including Verizon Wireless and the Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday signed on to join the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation. In addition to Verizon Wireless and Mozilla, new members joining LiMo include Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, and SK Telecom. "Verizon Wireless...
Sabtu, 31 Mei 2008
The train was on time, but the commercial launch of Wi-Fi Internet access service on high-speed trains between Brussels and Paris was marred by a technical glitch that kept many travelers offline for much of the inaugural journey. Train operator Thalys is installing Wi-Fi access points on its high-speed trains running between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and the German city of Cologne to connect travelers...
Apple is continuing to expand on its newfound variable pricing policy for TV shows, an announcement for the UK reveals. The region's iTunes Store has added a variety of shows under the Sony Pictures label (iTunes link), including episodes of Damages, NewsRadio and The Larry Sanders Show, as well as the kids' programs Spiderman and Jackie Chan Adventures. Pricing is staggered at three different levels,...
Online vendor Koyono has introduced two notebook cases by BUILT to its lineup, the Cargo Laptop Sleeve and the Laptop BackPack. The sleeve uses a thick neoprene layer, which stretches to accommodate the shape of different notebooks; there are additionally three external pockets, sized to fit gear such as iPods,...
Morodo on Friday unveiled an iPhone-compatible web app version of its MO-Call low-cost calling service, allowing iPhone users to place international calls at low per-minute rates. The service requires an account signup at the company's mobile website, and Morodo is currently offering a free trial of the service...
Analyst firm Piper Jaffray on Friday offered analysis of the recent additions of many new carriers and countries to the iPhone fold, pointing out that Apple could quadruple its total addressable market share from 153 million potential subscribers to 575 million in 42 countries. In a note to investors, senior...
By Marie-France Han SEOUL, May 26 - LG Electronics, the worlds No.4 handset maker, is closely watching rival Nokia amid talk the top-ranked mobile phone maker may cut its prices and re-enter the South Korean market later this year. Shares in LG Electronics tumbled more than 8 percent on Monday as investors...
Virgin Mobile USA is in talks with SK Telecom over a possible deal involving Helio, the U.S. mobile operator that gears itself toward affluent youngsters but has struggled to make a profit since its launch. The talks, which could potentially lead to an acquisition or an investment, are in the early stages, and Virgin said Wednesday that it didnt expect to comment further unless an agreement is reached....
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer on Tuesday unveiled a small preview of the company's next operating system � tentatively referred to as Windows 7 � at the All Things Digital executive conference. The preview demonstrated the integration of multi-touch directly into all application layers, allowing users to use multiple fingers in Paint, resize and rotate photographs, and performing...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Reliance Communications (RLCM.BO), Indias No.2 mobile operator, has started exclusive talks with South Africas MTN Group (MTNJ.J) that could create a 63 billion telecoms giant, knocking shares in both companies down sharply. Reliance Communications was quick to fill a void left after its bigger domestic rival, Bharti Airtel (BRTI.BO), pulled out of talks at the weekend aimed...
A Microsoft official on Tuesday said that the company expects sales of its Windows Mobile operating system to grow by at least 50% annually through fiscal years 2008 and 2009. "Fifty percent growth is the minimum," said Eddie Wu, Microsofts managing director for embedded devices in Asia, in an interview with Reuters. Wus remarks are consistent with previous Microsoft statements about the state...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed a defeat to T-Mobile USA Inc. Tuesday, rejecting the company's appeal in three cases involving the legal remedies available in millions of cell phone contracts. The issue in the three cases is the same: whether state laws that limit the ability of companies to prohibit consumers from banding together to pursue class action lawsuits are preempted by federal law....
As iPhone aficionados await the unveiling of new and faster models, they can look to the deals signed in recent days in Europe for hints of Apples new attitude toward service providers. Apple has signed agreements with service providers in Italy and Austria as well in a handful of smaller countries show that the company can deviate from its insistence on exclusivity. Orange on Friday said it will...
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Merger talks between Indias biggest mobile phone services firm, Bharti Airtel, and South Africas flagship MTN Group could wind up this weekend, a report said on Saturday. Bharti and MTN, Africas biggest cellular operator, were putting finishing touches to a funding structure for the proposed merger, Indias Mint newspaper reported, quoting unnamed people who it said were close...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Embarq Corp. will hold onto its wireless customer base for the time being, but could hand it over to another carrier next year, the company's chief financial officer said Wednesday. Speaking in Washington, D.C., at an analyst conference broadcast on the Web, Gene Betts said the company would continue serving those customers until at least 2009. "After that, we may decide to transition...
Apple may be seeking to use solar cells to power future devices, a newly-published patent application suggests. Solar power may offer a means of greatly extending the battery life of Apple devices, including both MacBooks and handhelds like the iPod and iPhone; the difficulty, according to MacRumors, is that...
LG this morning said it has started shipping a quintet of home theater systems that are tailored equally to traditional home theater and audio setups as well as portable digital audio. The flagship LHT888 is tuned by Mark Levinson and puts out 5.1-channel surround through a 700-watt speaker system with wireless rear channels. Its host receiver can both play DVDs as well as play media from USB devices,...
More frequently a target in legal disputes, Apple has filed a lawsuit of its own against general manufacturer Atico International. Atico is accused of a variety of patent infringements related to iPods, including ones for remote controls, the Universal Dock and three dock adapters; it is additionally accused...
Sprint today gave the Samsung Instinct its official ship date. The phone is now due to launch on June 20 and will represent Sprint's first attempt at a direct competitor to the iPhone, with a custom-designed interface that emphasizes media playback. Sprint also touts the device as its first non-business phone...
iPods and iPhones are now supported on some flights out of the US, Singapore Airlines has announced. The company says that beginning today, business-class, non-stop A345 flights from Newark to Singapore will offer special 30-to-9-pin adapter cables to go along with its KrisWorld in-flight entertainment technology....
SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics (066570.KS), the worlds No.4 handset maker, is closely watching rival Nokia (NOK1V.HE) amid talk the top-ranked mobile phone maker may cut its prices and re-enter the South Korean market later this year. Shares in LG Electronics tumbled more than 8 percent on Monday as investors gauged the impact of potential price cuts by Nokia. But an LG executive said the firm...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The worlds top cellphone maker Nokia said on Wednesday it would sell its line fit automotive business to Germanys Novero GmbH. Nokia did not disclose the value of the deal, but said it expected to complete the transaction by June. Novero is owned by the former head of Nokias enhancements unit, Razvan Olosu, and German private equity firm Equity Partners. Some 240 employees...
Belch Co. is offering users a Memorial Day discount on its new carbon fiber iPhone case, which normally costs $80, available until midnight on Monday for $65. The new case offers almost complete chassis protection for the iPhone, leaving access to the dock connector, volume switches, and ring mute. Belch Co....
On Monday, Swedish designer and manufacturer of digital media accessories, Jays, announced the release of its m-Jays Music Adapter to allow its earphone range to be used with Apple's iPhone. The 3.5mm mini-plug is skinny enough to allow connection to the iPhone's recessed headphone port at one end, and any standard...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer on Tuesday unveiled a small preview of the company's next operating system � tentatively referred to as Windows 7 � at the All Things Digital executive conference. The preview demonstrated the integration of multi-touch directly into all application layers, allowing users to use multiple fingers in Paint, resize and rotate photographs, and performing...
Microsoft expects its Windows Mobile software to grow by at least 50 percent worldwide in this and the next fiscal years. According to a report by Reuters news service, Eddie Wu, Microsofts managing director of OEM embedded devices in Asia, projected the software giant will sell 20 million units with Windows Mobile in the fiscal year ending in June. In the last fiscal year, it sold more than 11 million...
ROME (AFP) - Italian authorities are probing fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana,creators of luxury items ranging from clothes to beachwear, sunglasses, jewelry and mobile phones, for alleged tax evasion, a report said Saturday. Milan tax officials claim Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana set up two front companies in Luxembourg to conceal earnings of 260 million euros (404 million dollars) and...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Tecom Investments, a telecom investor owned by the ruler of Dubai, is mulling a joint venture with Dell Inc. (DELL.O) and said it expects to make up to three acquisitions in the Middle East and Africa this year, including in a mobile phone firm. At least one of the purchases is likely to be in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a member, Abdullatif al-Mulla,...
TouchTunes is giving away iTunes material as part of a multi-pronged promotional strategy, according to an announcement. Visitors to bars and other public places can now queue Usher's "Love in This Club Part II," from one of TouchTunes' digital jukeboxes; by agreeing to submit an e-mail address, they can pre-order Usher's new album on iTunes with three bonus tracks, and meanwhile download the single,...
Apple has released a new firmware update for third-generation (video) iPod nanos, bringing the software up to v1.1.2, as on the iPod classic. The update is available only through iTunes, and is not described on Apple's support pages; accompanying release information, however, indicates that it is a minor update, addressing miscellaneous "bug fixes." Installing the update simply requires synching a...
iPod accessory manufacturer Mophie today unveiled the Ratchet 360� Belt Clip Swivel case for the iPhone, iPod touch, 3G Nano and Classic. The case includes a Base Case silicone sleeve, which the Ratchet then tightly grips from the sides, and pivots to store the device at any angle. Mophie offers the Ratchet...
Kamis, 29 Mei 2008
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese government panel called on parents and schools Monday to help limit the use of mobile phones by children to prevent them from accessing "harmful" information on websites. The advisory council on education made the proposal to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda as children become more prone to crimes involving dating websites and bullying on Internet school bulletin boards. The...
LONDON (AFP) - Mobile phone giant Vodafone unveiled a 5.7-percent rise in operating profits on Tuesday and announced that chief executive Arun Sarin would step down at the end of July. Sarin leaves after five years at the helm and will hand over the reins to deputy chief executive Vittorio Colao. Vodafone chairman John Bond said Sarin had done a "tremendous" job during his time in charge. The...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) expects global unit sales of its Windows Mobile software for cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 as demand for smartphones rises rapidly. "Fifty percent growth is the minimum," Eddie Wu, the software companys managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia, told Reuters on the sidelines of a news conference on Tuesday....
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israels Altair Semiconductor, which develops chips for fourth generation (4G) mobile services, said on Tuesday it will supply the chipsets for wireless devices operating on Willcom Incs Personal Handyphone System in Japan. The companies did not disclose financial details. Willcom, which is controlled by Carlyle (CYL.UL), held 4 percent of Japans mobile market at the end of...
TOKYO - Japanese youngsters are getting so addicted to Internet-linking cell phones that the government is starting a program warning parents and schools to limit their use among children. The government is worried about how elementary and junior high school students are getting sucked into cyberspace crimes, spending long hours exchanging mobile e-mail and suffering other negative effects of cell...
BOSTON - The market for software to protect mobile devices such as smartphones has yet to take off despite brisk sales of devices such as Research in Motions BlackBerry and Apples iPhone. Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem estimates that it is currently worth a few hundred million dollars a...
New legislation prohibiting drivers from talking while behind the wheel, combined with a demand for more fashionable and advanced devices and more sophisticated phones, is driving Bluetooth headset makers to innovate. The latest addition to the wireless world is Aliphs Jawbone with NoiseAssassin technology. Aliph set out to blend science with beauty in a new design thats 50 percent smaller than...
In late 2004, the idea of city-wide Wi-Fi networks was electric. These metro-scale Wi-Fi networks would cross the chasm of the digital divide by bringing affordable broadband to low-income parts of major cities, and broadband of any kind to marginal neighborhoods, small towns, and largely rural counties. In mid-2008, the juice has drained out; yesterday, the last of the three major independent city-wide...
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. mobile navigation device company Garmin Ltd (GRMN.O) is the mystery bidder behind a takeover approach for Britains Raymarine Plc (RAY.L), the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing sources close to the deal. Garmins approach could be worth as much as 200 million pounds (389 million), it said. Raymarine, which makes navigation equipment for the marine market, said last month...
BOSTON - A new service named Foneshow offers a quick and easy way to access the downloadable radio shows known as podcasts. Instead of synching your music player to a PC to get audio clips that interest you, Foneshow lets you listen to podcasts on demand from your cell phone. In a way Foneshow is an update of old-fashioned telephone information lines, those 1-900 numbers offering sports scores or...
EarthLink has notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that the broadband service provider will soon be terminating its metropolitan Wi-Fi service in the city. The company, which stopped accepting new customers to the network in early May, said it would provide its Philly customers with a 30-day grace period through June 12 to transfer to another provider. EarthLink incoming CEO Rolla Huff...
Apple has been working towards increasing the portability of user data, a newly-published application at the US Patent and Trademark Office reveals. While Mac OS X already supports multiple user accounts, guests on a machine must either create their own account, or rely on someone else's. The proposed Apple scheme would let users carry their user settings from one computer to another on a portable...
Apple is resisting a blank media levy imposed by the Swiss government, according to local newspaper Basler Zeitung. The levy is managed by SUISA, the Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works, and is intended to compensate labels and musicians for the effect of piracy. It applies to all media players sold in the country, but Apple is said to be arguing for exemption, on the basis that...
Ecamm has announced the release of PhoneView 2.0, a new edition of a program formerly known as MegaPhone. The software lets iPhone and iPod touch owners manage the contents of their devices, beyond just music, videos and photos to include notes, contacts and SMS messages, as well as call histories. Notes can...
Accessory maker H20 has introduced a new product for iPods, the iSH2 headset. The unit is designed explicitly for second-generation Shuffles, and waterproofs them to a depth of 10 feet. The Shuffle is safeguarded in a case on the back of the head, which still has controls for playing, pausing and skipping tracks;...
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