mobile
Vodafone drops plans to carry Xperia X2
(ZD NET) - The operator was lined up to have UK exclusivity on the Xperia X2, which runs Windows Mobile 6.5. The handset was originally supposed to have gone on sale at the end of October 2009, but failed to do so.
In a statement on Wednesday, Vodafone UK said it would “not be ranging the [...]
Mobile Augmented Reality App Downloads to Pass 400 Million Annually by 2014 as Apps Stores and AR-enabled Smartphones Surge
The annual number of mobile downloads featuring augmented reality (AR) content is expected to rise from less than 1 million in 2009 to more than 400 million by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
Hampshire, UK (PRWEB) January 5, 2010 — The annual number of mobile downloads featuring augmented reality (AR) content [...]
Morphie To Release iPhone Credit Card Reader At CES 2010
(IT PRO PORTAL) - Morphie, the popular iPhone and iPod accessory and battery add-on maker, is all set to unveil its iPhone credit card reader and third-party app at the Consumer Electronic Show to be held in Las Vegas this month. This is the accessory maker’s first attempt to enter the lucrative mobile payment systems [...]
Mobile operators square off in network envy
(FT) - The paralysingly dull subject of mobile network infrastructure became a hot consumer topic in 2009. It is likely to become even bigger news in 2010, as mobile operators slug it out over which has the best network.
Infrastructure became a talking point when O2’s network started to fail in London last summer because data-hungry [...]
Secret mobile phone code cracked
(FT.com) - Computer hackers this week said they had cracked and published the secret code that protects 80 per cent of the world’s mobile phones. The move will leave more than 3bn people vulnerable to having their calls intercepted, and could force mobile phone operators into a costly upgrade of their networks.
Karsten Nohl, a German [...]
Power Brain Connects Bikes to iPhone, Web
(WIRED) - Pedal Brain is a kind of Nike+ for cyclists, an iPhone accessory and application that, despite looking quite excellent, could possibly nickel and dime itself out of existence.
Pedal brain comes in three parts: a handlebar-mounted iPhone (or iPod Touch) case (called the Pedal Brain Synapse), an iPhone application and a web-app. The case [...]
Apps explosion provides hope for the British economy
(GUARDIAN) - Previous troubled economic climates have spawned technology bellwethers from Hewlett Packard and Cisco to Google and the current downturn is already creating a new breed of technology entrepreneur – with British geeks right in the thick of it – going into 2010.
The new “digerati” are taking advantage of two recent and connected changes [...]
28 September: the two billionth iPhone App is downloaded
(GUARDIAN) - I was hugely excited by the potential of the iPhone when it was first revealed in 2007, and even more so when the App Store was announced last year. I expected it to be successful, but could never have predicted the sort of numbers that Apple have achieved. There are now over 100,000 [...]
Apple shares rocket to record on iSlate hopes
(TIMESONLINE) - APPLE is poised to kick off the new year with the launch of a trailblazing gadget designed to bridge the gap between a mobile phone and a laptop computer.
Its long-awaited “tablet” is expected to be unveiled late next month. Technology websites reported that Apple is preparing to call the device the iSlate and [...]
Motorola Milestone mobile phone review Can this build and improve on the Droid?
(POCKET LINK) - The Motorola Milestone has finally hit the shores of Great Britain thanks to Expansys, but has the Droid - as it is called in the US - simply become the Milestone, or is there more beneath the surface? Having played extensively with the Motorola Droid we’ve turned our attention to the Milestone.
When [...]
