PC World (the news site, not the shop…) is carrying a story that’s questioning who is going to make money from Mobile TV. A lack of business models, and the fact that consumers are moving away from broadcast are key reasons it cites. It goes on to say that equipment vendors (infrastructure and handsets) are…
Archives for March 2008
MWg to start selling re-branded UBiQUiOS Windows Mobile 6.0 handsets
If the MWg handset you see here rings a proverbial bell, that’s probably because you’ve seen it before. This particular MWg-branded handset is basically a TechFaith Wireless-sourced UBiQUiOS 503G with an MWg logo slapped on the front. Coming off parent company O2 Asia’s demise, MWg is prepping to offer a new pair of QWERTY-toting Windows…
India threatens to shut down RIM’s BlackBerry network again
Again with the network-shutdown threats. Indian government officials have again threatened to flip the off-switch on RIM’s BlackBerry network in India if RIM doesn’t hand over backdoor access to its encrypted email network. India’s Department of Telecom has given RIM a 15-day ultimatum – “open up your encrypted network to our spooks or say bye-bye…
Employees quitting left and right from Nokia’s Maemo
There’s nothing we like more than an open-source platform. A community of like-minded individuals working to make a platform work for them, the way they want, is just cool. So, what’s up with the recent spate of employee desertions? We’re hearing that, over the past few weeks, Nokia’s Maemo group has seen four employees involved…
Pictures: T-Mobile’s Nokia 6550 in red
The Nokia 6650, a T-Mobile exclusive, which was announced at CeBIT earlier this month has cropped up in red; recap of the specifications: 16.2 mm thin, 112 grams, 1500 mAh battery, S60 3.2 and a 2 megapixel camera. She is a pretty good looking device, no clue on when the rest of the world will…
Windows Mobile 6.1 to be released on April 1st; A joke or what?
According to sources close to Microsoft, the official Windows Mobile 6.1 launch is set to coincide with the April Fools’ day. However, you should know April 1st is also significant in other sense as the first day of CTIA Wireless, so this may happen after all. Knowing this, it will be hard to differentiate between…
Samsung teases with Anycall Haptic phone video; Cry if you’re not in Korea
What we have here is Samsung’s short teaser video made only for one purpose – to annoy us. Well guys you succeeded, you’re showing us a cool device which we still can’t have. That’s at least those of us not living in South Korea. Apparently, the device filmed on a video bellow wears the SCH-W420/W4200…
VCs bullish on WiMAX in Russia?
There’s no surprise in a fact that a large country like Russia is looking into wireless technologies like WiMAX. On a paper, WiMAX seems promising, but apparently real-life experience for some folks was painful, to say the least. However, that doesn’t stop VCs into pouring out cash into the local WiMAX providers. In the past…
Samsung T229, T339 heading to T-Mobile?
T-Mobile USA is preparing to launch two entry-level phones from Samsung – SGH-T229 and SGH-T339. The bare notion of entry-level doesn’t make us much horny, but at the same time, we’re aware of the non geeks living out there. And it’s our job to provide them with the information as well. Anyway, both devices have…
Video: 60 Minutes interviews Carl Icahn, the guy who wants to break up Motorola
This is the guy who strikes fears into the hearts of corporations: