In a recent interview with Research in Motion’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, a comparison between lightweight netbook laptops and BlackBerrys was made. Would you consider Netbooks as your competitors? Lazaridis: No, I think I can put Netbooks in here [referring to the BlackBerry Storm]. These are Netbooks. They are just smaller. Huh. What a curious thing…
Archives for 2008
‘Curse of Silence’ Bug Does Nasty Things to Nokia S60 Devices
The ‘Curse of Silence’. You read it right… No, not the ‘Cone of Silence‘… The ‘Curse of Silence’! My pal John over at MobileSyrup shot this over to me in my email this morning, and I was quite intrigued. What a great way to ring in the New Year I thought… With news of such…
Motorola to Cut 400 More Jobs
In a saddening trend, I just read news that Motorola has plans to cut another 400 jobs on top of the 1,500 job cuts announced back in October. Not good. Back in October things didn’t look so rosy… The writing was on the wall: The company warned at the time (October) that further job cuts…
BlackBerry 8900 Coming to T-Mobile February 18th
More news regarding the wickedly awesome BlackBerry 8900. Seems as though a snapshot taken of a T-Mobile roadmap seems to confirm what Simon reported way back on Christmas Day! Word has it that the next generation BlackBerry Curve recently landed on Rogers will also make its way to the U.S. via T-Mobile for February 18th.…
Vodacom boosts HSUPA coverage to four more towns
I often like to write about news and the countries in which it happens, that are shall we say, not in the daily hotbed of news from Europe and the US. To that end, I’ve mentioned Vodacom before (here), who are busy making things happen in S.Africa. Previously Vodacom had enabled HSUPA on their network…
UK: Phones4U moves in on console games market
UK: Mobile phone retailer Phones 4U (and the sister company Dial-a-Phone) are moving in on the console games market – two new websites, Games4U, and Click-a-Game, will sell new and back-catalogue games on pretty much most home and portable games console platforms, and also for the PC. Free delivery is in the mix, and there…
Spatial View Introduces New Wazabee 3DeeShell for Vivid Stereoscopic 3D Graphics on the iPhone
Spatial View, a leader in manufacturing products for creating 3D effects, introduces its latest product, Wazabee 3DeeShell, a special protective skin with an integrated removable lens that can display 3D content on the Apple iPhone. The Wazabee 3DeeShell is tentatively scheduled to ship in early Q2 2009. Wazabee Mobile 3D Products The Wazabee 3DeeShell uniquely…
3GPP agrees on LTE spec for inclusion in to it’s own standards
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization has firmed up the specifications for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and extended the deadline for System Architecture Evolution (SAE) core network specifications, according to Unstrung. For those of you unfamiliar with the mass of three-letter-abbreviations in Mobile, then LTE is widely regarded as THE 4G technology, particularly since…
UK: BMI trials SMS on flights
More UK travel news, this time not trains, but planes – must see if I can find a story on cars to complete the “planes, trains, and automobiles” set…. 😉 Anyhoo, back to the story at hand. The Times Online is saying that BMI (a UK operator) is enabling SMS in-flight, using a system called…
UK Railways Adopt a Single Format for Mobile Ticket Barcodes
The various UK railway operators have settled on a single standard for mobile-based barcode tickets. The agreement means that a single, common, secure barcode system will be implemented, and also that a single mobile ticket will be able to be used across operators – a major step forward. The new standard, RSPS3001, means that there…