Thursday, November 11, 2004

For a long time, the world's leading communications technology developer and solution provider Qualcomm of the US had been making efforts in developing CDMA2000 technology. But now, they turned to push the development of WCDMA technology.
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Qualcomm has always been a company of extreme audacity. Having taken on the prevailing GSM world to establish its own de facto standard in CDMA, it has created a business around its vast store of intellectual property that, if its new results are anything to go by, has far more life left in it than naysayers would have predicted even a year ago.
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Vodafone Blackberry 7100v. Review Will it charm European emailers? [The Register]
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Telstra Launches i-Mode. WWJ Editors, 11 November 2004 Genuine mobile internet services became reality for Telstra mobile customers with the launch of i-mode, built on NEC's mobile internet platform and handsets. Telstra in partnership with NEC, will, via NEC's mobile internet platform technology and handsets, provide the ... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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PC World: Skype Calls on Siemens Phones. Skype's partnership with Siemens pushes it into a new direction, off of the desktop and into more traditional telecom areas. The Siemens adaptor was developed using Skype's recently released API, and is expected to be the beginning of a wave of applications built to integrate Skype. [Tomalak's Realm]
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NY Times: Wanted by the Police: A Good Interface. Since June, the police department has been using a new mobile dispatch system that includes a Windows-based touch-screen computer in every patrol car. But officers have said the system is so complex and difficult to use that it is jeopardizing their ability to do their jobs. [Tomalak's Realm]
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EE Times: FCC commissioners agree on inter-state nature of VoIP. However, Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps cautioned not to read too much into this finding, as fundamental issues of universal service under a VoIP environment have yet to be addressed. Nevertheless, FCC Chairman Michael Powell made clear that the ability to personalize service and get far cheaper voice service in a VoIP environment will be a revolutionary advance in voice telephony. [Tomalak's Realm]
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The phone-y music business. Vodafone, the biggest cell phone company in the world, has launched a music download service for mobile phones. [Broadband Blog] [CNET News.com]
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Vodafone Launches 3G Services in Europe. Cell phone giant Vodafone Group PLC, which has spent years struggling to recoup billions spent on 3G licences, finally launched the cutting-edge service Wednesday in much of Europe and introduced or beefed up its operation in a dozen other countries. [eWEEK Technology News]
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Sizing Up GPRS. Opinion: GPRS in the U.S.? A few lessons can be learned from Europe. [eWEEK Technology News]
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Metro Mobilizes RFID. European retailer organization The Metro Group is forging ahead with radio frequency identification deployment. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
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Vodafone Launches Worldwide 3G Network.

sharp_902_voda.jpg imageVodafone has lit-up its 3G wireless network in a variety of markets (none of them which are the US, just in case you were a bit confused). To go along with the launch, they've introduced 10 new phones, including the Sharp 902, the first 2-megapixel cameraphone in Europe [pictured]. We'll have more details later if any of the phones end up being interesting, but for now I thought our worldwide readers might like an English language roundup.

Vodafone launches 3G network [MobileTracker]
Music, games, porn - Vodafone launches 3G [Silicon]
Vodafone launches mass-market 3G mobile [AFP]
Vodafone begins 3G mobile service [BBC]
New Phones Page [Vodafone]
Vodafone launch 3G in UK [PocketLint]

[Gizmodo]
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Samsung OneNAND Hits 1Gb.

samsung_onenand.jpg imageSamsung's OneNAND flash memory, previously only available in densities up to 512Mb (that's megabits), has now doubled and will be availble in 1Gb (that's right, gigabit) shortly. This high-speed flash, for use in all kinds of mobile devices from cameras to PDAs, can be read at over 100MB (yes, megabytes) per second, which is four times faster than their previous NAND offerings and downright slaughters just about every other flash card around. Write speed is slower, just 10MBps, but that's still three times faster than the fastest xD[~]fast enough to do rapidfire multi-shot at 5-megapixels or continuous VGA video. Samsung is still working to get NAND in more devices, and if they keep putting up numbers like that, they might just be successful.

Samsung Super Fast 1GB OneNAND [MobileMag]

[Gizmodo]
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Siemens' cordless phones gain access to Skype [IDG InfoWorld]
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Mobile Phone Makers Rush To 3G. KoreaITnews, 8 November 2004 Foreseeing global demand for new WCDMA phones will be worth more than 30 million units next year, world leading mobile phone makers, including Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Siemens as well as domestic manufacturers began making a big push into the 3G handset marke... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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NEC's 128MB for Mobile. WWJ Editors, 11 November 2004 NEC Electronics Corporation and its subsidiaries in the United States and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc., and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today introduced the industry's first Pseudo Static Random Access Memory (PSRAM) device [.jpg] designed in accordance... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Halo 2 Rakes in $100 Million. It's the hottest ticket in town, as dedicated fans flock to retailers to grab copies of Microsoft's new video game. The opening-day sales figures catapult the sequel to the top of the entertainment heap. [Wired News]
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Video Games: The Ultimate Tech Influencer?. From driving graphics platforms for cell phones to inspiring "SimCity"-style professional simulations, gaming technology can help enterprises learn to "push the envelope of computing needs." [eWEEK Technology News]
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China Said Wary on Issuing 3G Phone Licenses. China remains cautious on issuing licenses for next-generation mobile phone services before the best technologies can be selected, state media reported Wednesday, as officials denied that recent market trials showed a homegrown version lags behind. [eWEEK Technology News]
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