Offering mobile data to prepaid users was never a popular move among mobile operators. Sure, there are quite a few companies that provide such a service, but they are still in minority. That said today we bring you the story involving a small UK operator, Vectone Mobile, and their mobile data offering for PAYG (Pay…
Your iPhone and iPad Make Me Sick!
Your iPhone or iPad can get me sick around this time of year. That’s because it’s flu season, and every time you sneeze into your hands and wipe it all over your touch screen device, you could be passing on a virus when you decide to share it with someone else. So unless you’re immunized…
US Teens Cause ‘Fourfold Increase’ In Mobile Data Usage
U.S. teens seem to be permanently glued to their cell phones – even in class, inevitably getting themselves in trouble. On average, they send and receive 3,339 text messages or SMS each month. Nielsen has compiled data from 60,000 phone bills and compared usage during Q2 2010 versus the same quarter the year prior. Data…
Turkcell MVNO to launch in Germany in early next year
Turkish mobile operator Turkcell is launching an MVNO in Germany early next year, obviously targeting the country’s large Turkish community. The company has agreed a 5-year wholesale deal to use Deutsche Telekom’s 3G network with services due to start in Q1 2011. In an interview with Turkish television, Turkcell’s CEO Sureyya Ciliv said the new…
Apple iPhone maker Foxconn denies reports of worker abuse
Foxconn, the manufacturer of devices like the Apple iPhone and products for Nintendo, Dell and others, is publicly responding to reports which say many of its employees face physical abuse while at work. A government study leaked to the press and found that the abuse rates were up to 50% in some Foxconn facilities and…
Adobe AIR for Android Officially Announced
Adobe AIR for Android has just been announced, and it looks like users will have a lot of new apps and features to look forward to. Android devs can now use ActionScript 3, or AS3, to create apps that run as native Android apps. Naturally, all of these apps can be made available to the…
Windows Phone 7 Is Doomed to Fail
Windows Phone 7 has yet to inspire much confidence in anyone, but it’s probably unfair to judge so quickly since it won’t be officially unveiled until Monday. Still, there have been plenty of previews and demos of the platform that some have felt confident enough to say that WP7 will “flounder.” As a matter of…
UK’s Vectone Mobile unveils 40 GBP unlimited PAYG plan
We don’t usually hear (and write) about unlimited plans from the other side of the pond. This is especially true when we’re talking about PAYG (Pay as You Go) plans. Today we present you one such offering coming from a smaller operator – Vectone Mobile. The company unveiled a new Smart Bundle monthly plan, offering…
Steve Ballmer Jabs Android for Fragmentation Issues
Steve Ballmer is hilarious. At a UK Tech Days event, the Microsoft chief hyped up Windows Phone 7, a platform that has yet to prove itself in the market, by basically back-handing Android for its fragmentation issues. While it’s great that Ballmer is looking to the future, he’s quickly forgetting that Windows Mobile was plagued…
Microsoft Says Slate Computer Will be Seen by Christmas
Do you remember Steve Ballmer showing off Microsoft goodies during this year’s CES where we saw some slate tablet computers? Whatever happened to those? According to Steve Ballmer, we’ll see the first glimpses of a Windows slate — presumably ones that will actually hit the market — by Christmas. However, Ballmer didn’t specify whether we’d…