Monday, September 27, 2004

FLASH: Vodafone's New 3G Cellys. WWJ Editors, 22 September 2004 With today's launch of the new 902/802/702-series of 3G cellys, No. 3 carrier Vodafone has upped the stakes significantly in a major (some would say desperate) bid to re-capture market share. The phones, from Sharp, Sony Ericcson, NEC, Motorola, and Nokia, are all (ex... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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DoCoMo's 3G Alliance with Cingular. Kyodo News, 23 September 2004 NTT DoCoMo Inc. will tie up with Cingular Wireless LLC, the second-largest U.S. cellphone service company, in a bid to unify the technical specifications of 3G cellphones and services, a Japanese business daily reported Thursday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said that DoCo... [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:57:24 AM    comment   

Wireless Developments Showcased at 3GSM World Congress Asia. Singapore, 23 September 2004 The 3GSM World Congress Asia looks set to be the most important congregation of industry leaders in the telecommunications industry. The congress will showcase the latest wireless developments from Singapore and around the world, while latest updates to the programme rev... [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:56:56 AM    comment   

Vodafone Prepares for Show Time. Reuters, 28 September 2004 Vodafone will call together analysts and investors today to showcase its top operations in a quest to restore shaken market faith in the world's largest international mobile phone operator. Earlier this week, the company unveiled plans for a broader 3G mobile phone launch... [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:49:30 AM    comment   

Mobile TV Rocks!. By Daniel Scuka, 26 September 2004 In his 14 September WWJ Viewpoint, Philip Sugai raised some valid criticisms of the new TV cell phones and points to both technological and end-user behavior limitations that he believes doom TV phones to "DOA" status. Of these, the behavioral problems ap... [Wireless Watch Japan]
11:47:14 AM    comment   

China's first 300mm chip plant starts production. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China's largest chip maker and also one of the world's biggest contract chip makers, Saturday formally began commercial production at a 300-millimeter semiconductor fabrication plant (fab) in Beijing called Fab 4, the first such facility to open in China. [InfoWorld: Top News]
11:46:22 AM    comment   

Nokia 7710 Strikes Again.

nokia_7710_ab1.jpg imageHere's another picture of that mystery "Nokia 7710," the Series 90 device that we basically know next to nothing about. I'm still hoping that it's a real device and not just some one-off prototype that Nokia forgot to incinerate.

A nice new big fat pic of the Nokia 7710 [GodMode via Mobile-Review]

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11:45:44 AM    comment   

RIM squashes BlackBerry. It was bound to happen at some point, and now, it finally has. The question is why did RIM make this move, and what impact will it have on the rest of the smartphone and mobile email markets? [IT-Director.com - Mobile and Wireless]
11:41:31 AM    comment   

Virgin to offer space flights. Hop aboard the 'VSS Virgin' - for £100k [The Register]
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Storage and the Third Wave world. Wireless technology -- not compliance -- is the engine driving the data explosion. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
11:00:51 AM    comment   

WiMax wings into the wild world of wireless. WiMax is winning over lots of followers while quickly gaining momentum on the standards front -- despite high-profile skeptics such as Texas Instruments, according to experts at this week's Broadband World Forum in Venice. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
11:00:09 AM    comment   

InfoWorld: Making old technologies new. Jon Udell. Perhaps quite the opposite. There's no shortage of foundation technologies, and latent within many of them are unanticipated uses. Discovering new ways to use existing technologies is arguably as important as inventing new ones. [Tomalak's Realm]
10:59:19 AM    comment   

What's in the Box? Radio Tags Know That, and More. I.B.M. plans to invest $250 million over the next five years and employ 1,000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks. By By BARNABY J. FEDER. [The New York Times > Technology]
10:54:54 AM    comment   

The In-Laws. The soon-to-be related by marriage Cingular Wireless and NTT DoCoMo have an agreement to share common technology, say reports. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
10:31:26 AM    comment   

MVNO on Aisle 3. Retail foodie 7-Eleven is not just the home of the Slurpee--it's a bona fide mobile virtual network operator. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
10:23:31 AM    comment   

SOS in OS. Symbian, today, has the lion's share of the mobile operating system market. But with Microsoft growing interested in the space, Symbian could lose its spot as the mane attraction, predicts ABI. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
10:21:35 AM    comment   

Virgin to use SpaceShipOne for tourist flights. Virgin Group, the conglomerate of businesses owned by billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, announced Monday that... [spacetoday.net]
10:10:54 AM    comment   

Airbus' Magic In-flight Cell Phone Technology May Be Make-Believe. Airbus makes it possible to make in-flight cell phone calls. Is it a real technology advancement, or does it work like my anti-lion powder? [eWEEK Technology News]
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