Qualcomm isn’t going to let the European Commission block them out of the mobile TV market just because the EU is officially backing DVB-H mobile TV standards. To that end, Qualcomm has just snatched up a 40Mhz swath of L-Band spectrum in the UK for $16.3 million. The purchase will apparently let Qualcomm test their…
Windows Mobile Live Search updated
Windows Mobile Live Search fans will be glad to hear that Microsoft has just updated their popular Live Search application with expanded features and Windows Mobile 6.1 support. Live Search should be installed on all Windows Mobile phones, in my opinion. So it’s good to see that WM6.1 is now fully compatible with the integrated…
South Korea allows corporate BlackBerry sales
While South Korean companies like Samsung enjoy all the good graces of the South Korean government, outsiders have typically had a hard time breaking into their market due to regulations governing the entry of foreign manufacturers. For example, RIM has been closed out from the South Korean market, leaving push-email junkies in the country unable…
New Apple patent application renews speculation for location-based iPhone data networks
Remember that Apple patent application that hinted at the Cupertino-based fruit-company working with Starbucks? Right, well it’s looking ever more likely that Apple will come through with a location-based solution allowing iPhone owners to interact with their surroundings. The previous patent application surfaced in December. The USPTO documentation outlined a method by which iPhone users…
Texas Instruments promises projectors in mobile phones by end of 2008
Pico projectors, as they’re called, promise to bring the convenience of projector technology into the mobile space. With miniaturization advances allowing projectors sizes to scale down to fit in cellphones, it won’t be long before we can all start projecting our most obnoxious images and videos across our co-worker’s cubicle wall.And, to make the prospect…
Alltel looking to launch LTE network
While Sprint is banking on WiMAX as the next-generation wireless data network of choice in the US, all other carriers are looking to bring on 4G LTE technology in the coming years. With AT&T and Verizon Wireless already planning LTE network roll outs for 2011 and on, the smaller guys risk falling behind in the…
AT&T limiting iPhone sales to one per person, credit card required
With iPhone stock dwindling to near-bare levels and completely unavailable in some places, AT&T has started to cut back on bulk iPhone purchases. AT&T has announced that customers can purchase a maximum of one iPhone per person – and all transactions will require a credit or debit card. According to an internal AT&T memo, “Effective…
iSlsk – Soulseek P2P sharing client goes native on iPhone
The iPhone is a veritable computer running Mac OS in your pocket. As such, the iPhone can now lay claim to having a natively installed P2P sharing application – iSlsk. Installing the iSlsk application opens up a whole world of peer-to-peer music-sharing on the hundreds of thousands strong Soulseek network. Nir Arbel, a former Napster…
Survey: Hyperconnected consumers see mobile phone as more important than wallet
We live in an age where the cellphone in our pockets are our vital link to our family, friends, worldly news, and business communications. So, it’s no wonder that the hyperconnected among us (if you’re reading this, chances are, you fall into that category) consider the mobile phone as their single most important possession. A…
iTunes transfers coming to BlackBerry – RIM working on BlackBerry Media Sync
With the increasing popularity of Apple’s computers and other hardware, the company’s media player and media library application iTunes has been gaining traction with consumers. So, to keep their BlackBerry customers on par with the music-playing handsets of today, RIM is working on bringing iTunes-based media transfers to BlackBerries around the world. The BlackBerry 9000…